EA Removes Recently Released Games from Steam
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Just means I won't buy EA games. I like all my games on Steam. In the long run they will realise this strategy does not work.
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maybe no more steam updates could be why
I just find it annoying, I like all my stuff to be done through one medium. Its why I dont have Chrome, Firefox and Opera all installed at once, or MS Office, Open Office and Lotus all installed. I just prefer things to be streamlined. Dont like clutter, even if its virtual clutter
Be interesting to see what people say if other big publishers start their own DL service & exclusively have their own titles on it or pull their own titles from Steam?
At the end of the day most consumers will buy a game from the cheapest place, but if the price difference is marginal then you'll go with convenience aspect aka Steam.
Doesn't bother me having multiple clients as you can run them all at the same time anyway & if memory is at a premium on your system & you hate to think you're system won't cope having 2 clients running, then I'd recommend not buying a game (probably an EA one by most peoples knee-jerk reaction) and adding some ram.
It's happening, Origin is here & it's a place to get games from. Even buying retail will probably eventually mean adding it into Origin, like we do with Steamworks anyway.
At the end of the day most consumers will buy a game from the cheapest place, but if the price difference is marginal then you'll go with convenience aspect aka Steam.
Doesn't bother me having multiple clients as you can run them all at the same time anyway & if memory is at a premium on your system & you hate to think you're system won't cope having 2 clients running, then I'd recommend not buying a game (probably an EA one by most peoples knee-jerk reaction) and adding some ram.
It's happening, Origin is here & it's a place to get games from. Even buying retail will probably eventually mean adding it into Origin, like we do with Steamworks anyway.
Won't make a difference, no other big companies are going to sell their games on origin. It'll be EA only more than likely, and since there won't be EA games on steam it won't change anything.
Seems silly that they cant just allow me to be able to download the game from Origin with the account that is registered to it.
The level 1 guys aren't that great I'm afraid. Sometimes you really need to spell it out to them.
What you should ask for is to have the account's linked. (Via a persona transfer)
Ie; the @live account has the DD, but the @gmail has the game.
Ask that they delete the @live account, and merge all the game persona's on it to the @gmail account.
That should transfer the game(s) and entitlements across. You may however lose some achievements and paid for items though, as I think they will/can only move across booster packs/expansions and games.
I know they can do this, as they did it for me with Red Alert. My old email address went offline (company went bust), so I had them move my account/games to the new address. They forgot to move the entitlement for online play though for Red Alert 3, so had to get that moved across too.
Their T1/chat support is largely based in India. A call center in Belfast is in the process of taking over their T2/T3 support I believe
where is the benefit for EA to make origin? why not just use steam. its there it works. everyone uses it. it has a vast userbase. origin doesnt, and i bet will be EA only games and a select few at that...
as long as someone writes a program that logs me into my steam, origin, etc accounts all at once and lets me keep everything in one tidy place ill live.
as long as someone writes a program that logs me into my steam, origin, etc accounts all at once and lets me keep everything in one tidy place ill live.
Ack forgot about ME3, if its not on steam I won't be buying it and I'll definitely be missing that one
Just wait til you need different clients for valve, EA, Activision, Codemasters, Microsoft, etc. etc. and they all want to start with your PC and need to be running to play the different games...
Origin has got Mass Effect 1 & 2 +DLC, Dragon Age 1 & 2+DLC, BF:BC2, BF 2142 and all of them I can add into Steam as a non-Steam game or run them without running Origin. (74mb according to task manager)
It's like the Rapture all over again,big fuss about nothing.
It's like the Rapture all over again,big fuss about nothing.
When I saw the "My name is Michael" bit, I immediately said to myself, "yeah, sure it is
"They're not going to say "hi my name is Mohammed" are they now?
Well no,but that's not really an Indian name is it. Prakesh and Sanjit are more likely ?
The level 1 guys aren't that great I'm afraid. Sometimes you really need to spell it out to them.
What you should ask for is to have the account's linked. (Via a persona transfer)
Ie; the @live account has the DD, but the @gmail has the game.
Ask that they delete the @live account, and merge all the game persona's on it to the @gmail account.
That should transfer the game(s) and entitlements across. You may however lose some achievements and paid for items though, as I think they will/can only move across booster packs/expansions and games.
I know they can do this, as they did it for me with Red Alert. My old email address went offline (company went bust), so I had them move my account/games to the new address. They forgot to move the entitlement for online play though for Red Alert 3, so had to get that moved across too.
Their T1/chat support is largely based in India. A call center in Belfast is in the process of taking over their T2/T3 support I believe
Cheers I will give that a go a bit later
Well no,but that's not really an Indian name is it. Prakesh and Sanjit are more likely ?
I only said that because it's the Asian equivalent, I.e. Starting with M and having around the same amount of letters. Didn't mean it to make any actual sense.
I agree fully, but you think they really care about the small retailers? It’s about numbers, profit and targets.