The forums don't allow phrase searching, and admittedly I am too lazy to search through 33 pages of the word "access" (EA too short, ignored by search) to look for the topic that probably already exists about this.
ANYWAY, I'm curious as to how many people have EA Access or have considered EA Access. As evil of a company that EA is, we can't deny that we all love and play many games that have been published by EA. At first, I ignored it because at $5 month, I would have to buy 6 EA games (not including any DLC) for it to pay for itself (Save 10% on EA purchases), not considering the free vault games (many of which I already own).
I was looking more into it this afternoon though, and now I've also found out that EA Access can be purchased as an annual membership instead, which will save you 50% on membership ($30/year). This cuts it to 3 games a year to pay for itself, not including any DLC that is purchased. In addition, EA has said on multiple occasions that it doesn't plan to ever remove games from the Vault, but should they ever have a need to do so, we'd get 30 days notice. Honestly, I'm OK with this since they are free anyway.
Personally, I feel like this is actually a pretty solid deal. For the price of half of a new release a year, I get access to a lot of free games and discounts on games I'd probably buy anyway.
It also has early access betas and stuff, which I don't care so much about but is an added perk! The only gripe I have is that I wish it were cross-platform with PC. Unfortunately, it looks like separate memberships.