EA to unveil Origin

anuraj · 3 Jun 2011 at 13:07

Wait so let me get this straight will they be selling non EA games?

Murray · 3 Jun 2011 at 13:17

Its EA won't be buying even if made to, Would rather go retail.

Deific · 3 Jun 2011 at 13:19

lol I don't trust EA at all. Terrible customer service, don't give a stuff about their consumers, and kill every IP they get their hands on. Why on earth would I choose them over steam or retail?!

'with EA saying players could rack up experience points on a mobile version of the game that will count towards unlocks on the PC edition.'

^
Point proven.

Murray · 3 Jun 2011 at 13:21

Deific said:
lol I don't trust EA at all. Terrible customer service, don't give a stuff about their consumers, and kill every IP they get their hands on. Why on earth would I choose them over steam or retail?!

'with EA saying players could rack up experience points on a mobile version of the game that will count towards unlocks on the PC edition.'

^
Point proven.

+1

ic1male · 3 Jun 2011 at 13:28

If they had any nouse they'd do what Microsoft have done with Fable III. Put a game up on each service and see where it sells the best.

BobbyBBB · 3 Jun 2011 at 13:30

Sounds like more EA fail to me.

ic1male · 3 Jun 2011 at 13:42

It seems games will still be offered on Steam but things like ME3 and BF3 will have exclusive content on Origin. Seems logical enough.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-03-origin-exclusive-me3-bf3-game-content

BigAndy87 · 3 Jun 2011 at 13:46

steam for me, couldnt trust EA to look after my games tbh

Tunney · 3 Jun 2011 at 13:54

This sounds bad. 60-80% of the time I play an EA game these days, a message pops up that the game can't contact the EA servers. I'd be properly annoyed if that meant that I couldn't download or plays games that I own!

ic1male · 3 Jun 2011 at 13:56

Tunney said:
This sounds bad. 60-80% of the time I play an EA game these days, a message pops up that the game can't contact the EA servers. I'd be properly annoyed if that meant that I couldn't download or plays games that I own!

LOL, I don't think EA is alone in that problem. Steam's always telling me "the servers are too busy to handle your request."

RavenXXX2 · 3 Jun 2011 at 14:05

Thanks EA but no thanks!

anuraj · 3 Jun 2011 at 14:17

Can anyone answer my earlier question please.

Komedy · 3 Jun 2011 at 14:19

anuraj said:
Can anyone answer my earlier question please.

I would doubt it very much but who knows, if they agree a contract with another publisher to sell their games.

AWPC · 3 Jun 2011 at 14:19

Steam is the Itunes of PC gaming no-one can ever beat it the lead is already too great. MS could buy it if they wanted but I doubt Gabe would sell he is a smart man so doubt he would want to become a corporate slave.

All these other companies will try as they know the margins on digital PC games are massive probably 60-70% vs 15-20% on retail PC games. That is why they keep trying.

Do the math......

Komedy · 3 Jun 2011 at 14:21

oh a "launch event" would be the only decent thing to do

Scougar · 3 Jun 2011 at 14:23

As long as I'm not forced to use Origin just to play BF3 online, I don't care.

Aedus · 3 Jun 2011 at 15:30

AWPC said:
Steam is the Itunes of PC gaming no-one can ever beat it the lead is already too great. MS could buy it if they wanted but I doubt Gabe would sell he is a smart man so doubt he would want to become a corporate slave.

Gabe used to work for Microsoft

anuraj · 3 Jun 2011 at 16:04

Komedy said:
I would doubt it very much but who knows, if they agree a contract with another publisher to sell their games.

Thanks for replying.

Margaret · 3 Jun 2011 at 16:06

AWPC said:
Steam is the Itunes of PC gaming no-one can ever beat it the lead is already too great. MS could buy it if they wanted but I doubt Gabe would sell he is a smart man so doubt he would want to become a corporate slave.

All these other companies will try as they know the margins on digital PC games are massive probably 60-70% vs 15-20% on retail PC games. That is why they keep trying.

Do the math......

Please don't compare Steam to the bloatware that is the Windows version of iTunes.

Evilsod · 3 Jun 2011 at 16:07

ic1male said:
LOL, I don't think EA is alone in that problem. Steam's always telling me "the servers are too busy to handle your request."

Always? Aside from when big name games are released I only recall it happening once and that was with Company of Heroes a few weeks back which might've had something to do with the patch.