Nope, I have it pre-ordered too. I'd have gone with Steam if the price for the standard version was comparable, but it was €20 more expensive. Spent the saving on riddick for the xbox
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Nope, I have it pre-ordered too. I'd have gone with Steam if the price for the standard version was comparable, but it was €20 more expensive. Spent the saving on riddick for the xbox
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Just ordered the collectors edition through Steam. Can't wait 
. Will tide me over to Mass Effect 2 and Star Trek Online
. Will tide me over to Mass Effect 2 and Star Trek Online 
nope , I'll be buying the boxed version too
I don't think it will be. Say you buy the game and register it to Steam, whats stopping you from returning it or selling it second hand in order to reduce the cost of the game?
Think Bioware are handling that.
True but I bought the retail copy of Football Manager and registered it on steam etc. I think most retail stores won't accept PC returns these days, when i worked at a high street store we had to ask every customer to double check the specs to make sure it would run, it was tedious and felt a little patronizing towards the customer sometimes. One of the downsides to PC gaming these days is while the games are cheaper than on console a lot have zero resale/trade value due to registration.
I noticed a few people showing their distaste of EA downloader. Now im very wary of peoples opinions on things like this. People tend to get so very angry for very minor things, i guess thats just the way the consumer market of computer games works (probably a lot of keyboard warriors and young people).
Id still like to know what peoples problems were, no one seems to have said exactly what problems they have encountered. Ive done a bit of googling but couldnt really find anything to steer me away form EA.
Is it just the age old case of out of the millions of happy customers the only ones you hear about are the few unhappy ones?
Of course i wouldnt want to get bitten, ive never downloaded games from EA.
Id still like to know what peoples problems were, no one seems to have said exactly what problems they have encountered. Ive done a bit of googling but couldnt really find anything to steer me away form EA.
Is it just the age old case of out of the millions of happy customers the only ones you hear about are the few unhappy ones?
Of course i wouldnt want to get bitten, ive never downloaded games from EA.
I think the problem is that when you have umpteen examples of digital distribution working flawlessly and efficiently, people find it baffling and irritating when companies continue to get it wrong or deliver poor results.
No. Only packages delivered by Steam allow auto updates. You can register the game with Steam to access it from your Steam games menu, but it wont auto-update or otherwise be managed by Steam.
Well, they initially tried to limit the time after purchase that you could download the game for. If you wanted to re-download it more than a year after you bought it, they wanted to charge you a small fee. I believe they've gotten rid of that, but it got them a lot of bad press.
Putting that aside though, it's not a great app. It's all web based, there's no client like steam, and seemed quite buggy to me the few times I tried to use it. The "EA games for a fiver" thread has a significant number of people who can't actually buy games because they've run into bugs on the site. It also allowed people to buy games free if they chose certain combinations for a whole wonderful day the other week
I've also never heard anyone say anything good about their phone / email support.
Valve run steam because they believe in it, and it shows. EA run their downloader because they feel the need to compete, and it's quite obviously been designed by people who have no personal interest in seeing it succeed whatsoever.
Putting that aside though, it's not a great app. It's all web based, there's no client like steam, and seemed quite buggy to me the few times I tried to use it. The "EA games for a fiver" thread has a significant number of people who can't actually buy games because they've run into bugs on the site. It also allowed people to buy games free if they chose certain combinations for a whole wonderful day the other week
I've also never heard anyone say anything good about their phone / email support.
Valve run steam because they believe in it, and it shows. EA run their downloader because they feel the need to compete, and it's quite obviously been designed by people who have no personal interest in seeing it succeed whatsoever.
Ah right I see. So with games like Football Manager, i purchased the retail copy of that and it auto-updates on steam, is that because they (SI I assume) have some kind of deal with Valve? Appologies if I'm asking a silly question, still a bit of a Steam noob it seems even though I've been using it since 2003.
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The list of retail games which can be associated with Steam (and therefore you can download the game as if you'd bought it from Steam) are here - https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-wusf-3601
Ah right I see. So with games like Football Manager, i purchased the retail copy of that and it auto-updates on steam, is that because they (SI I assume) have some kind of deal with Valve? Appologies if I'm asking a silly question, still a bit of a Steam noob it seems even though I've been using it since 2003.
Oh, it does?
Then yes, i suppose so. Perhaps it's any game available on Steam, then. I have a few games routed through Steam that don't auto-update, but they're not available on Steam.
Perhaps we should wait for someone to clarify, then.
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Nothing really, the only issue most people had with it was limited time to download, it was 6 months or a year initially, but as it downloads not as installed games like steam, but files to install from, you can easily keep them on a drive or burnt to dvd to be installed from later. Quite a long time ago the time limit was removed and you can now download anything you had previously bought, which considering when you bought the games earlier you agreed to the time limit, isn't bad as they could have simply made all new purchases unlimited but older ones still unavailable(though not much reason).
Other than a slightly odd store where its really only a single area on the checkout you can log in and you can't seemingly log in and change details anywhere, it worked fine for me. Bought 7 games in total during the cheap game offer the other day, no issues, available immediately, downloaded maxing my connection in a very basic, lightweight app without tonnes of EA adverts or anything involved(cough, steam). Just does what it says on the tin, downloads the games. You don't need the EADM open to play games, you don't have to install through the EADM, you don't really need anything to do with it after the games are downloaded, though its small and gives you easy access to things and you can download updates and things through it aswell very easily.
The only thing that was irritating was if you use the log out option rather than just closing and reopening it, it wouldn't save my login info so had to type it in. Needed to relog to make it refresh games list after I bought new stuff.
Personally, I like it because its so basic and tries nothing more than being a download manager.
Steam, well, I don't need it to keep track of invites to groups by random people, tell me what the latest deal is, open up automatically to the store, send me lots of irritating alerts. I don't hate it by any means, I'd just prefer a lightweight game only part, with the option to open up the rest IF you want to.