The answer is yes, they’re high- high on subscription service bullshit. These games that used to regularly sell for a few dollars now have their prices permanently inflated to make owning them outright seem unattractive next to the “incredible value” of subbing to EA Play for a month or two.
If you’ve fallen for this nonsense, you’re a mook, goober and a palooka
There were a couple of other multiplatform games in that generation that also only released story DLC on consoles, like that one Prince of Persia game