EA deleted someone’s origin account with $xxxx worth of games on and won’t fix it.

dan958 said:
Although 30% is a lot, it is not just a cut 'to list a game'. If you were to not go through Steam and instead do it yourself, you will need to plan for things such as the data transfer for everyone trying to download the game. Those costs add up. Large companies like Bethesda will be fine, but I'm just explaining that there is more to it than a fee for being listed.
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Yeah sorry I was being a little blunt to make the point, there is of course overheads with hosting the downloads and the transfer of that data and the setup to allow ease of revisions, the forums and workshop use and the launcher integration. Still 30% would be a lot for companies such as Bethesda but makes much more sense with smaller companies, start ups and similar where that overhead to revenue is not an issue but the support Steam offer is valuable then.

There is little incentive for larger companies to utilise Steam in today's age.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Problem is big developers are all trying to pull publishing of the new games from Steam and launch with their own platform.

There's a rumor going on about Bethesda not going to launch Fallout 76 on Steam but on their own launcher like EA.

Guess they want to be like EA and be anti-consumer for the sake of getting bigger cut of the pie...
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Having more than one platform to buy games on is not anti-consumer in my opinion. It would be far worse for consumers if Steam was the only option to purchase games.
 
Kreeeee said:
Having more than one platform to buy games on is not anti-consumer in my opinion. It would be far worse for consumers if Steam was the only option to purchase games.
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Agreed, I'm not really against the idea of multiple platforms as it would create a space for a library/launcher app that united all of them and all of the social interactions on them. I know a few are already pretty decent, so it's not exactly miles away. Then you have all your games and friends in one place, maybe some community stuff too, and you hedge your risk against multiple providers.
 
harry5522 said:
I’m convinced they’re going to start selling customer service as a DLC. Then offer it as a premium early access for a monthly fee so you get access to it two days before everyone else who needs it.
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Curlyriff said:
Yeah sorry I was being a little blunt to make the point, there is of course overheads with hosting the downloads and the transfer of that data and the setup to allow ease of revisions, the forums and workshop use and the launcher integration. Still 30% would be a lot for companies such as Bethesda but makes much more sense with smaller companies, start ups and similar where that overhead to revenue is not an issue but the support Steam offer is valuable then.

There is little incentive for larger companies to utilise Steam in today's age.
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There is little incentive for me to buy their games, so i guess it's a win win, cause their games actually are disgusting to me at this point, much like Ubisofts boring development and seemingly it's infecting Bethesda aswell.

Sigh, it's all corporate crap now, entirely about the abuse of service rather that actually making art.
 
Swifty55 said:
I’ve no idea, probably worth a try if all else fails.
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That and if they are flat out refusing to acknowledge it, go over the fine print, I very much doubt there is anything in there stating they can just out right delete your case without reason or provide a communication stating it should be deleted. If they fail. Surely the fraud team at the old bill would be able to take on a case. VERY unlikely they will do anything but it could scare EA enough into taking some proper action on it.

Specially in this case, CC transaction ID's, all the details needed. Proof of purchase for a load of stuff that's just been 'deleted' by the people you bought it from.
 
StriderX said:
There is little incentive for me to buy their games, so i guess it's a win win, cause their games actually are disgusting to me at this point, much like Ubisofts boring development and seemingly it's infecting Bethesda aswell.

Sigh, it's all corporate crap now, entirely about the abuse of service rather that actually making art.
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Indeed, completely agree with this. It is generally smaller teams making the more interesting games these days. The problem is still plot writing to the single players really are so shallow no matter what genre you play (where applicable). Relying all on graphical content without really building out a world or lore that is of interest for players to feel invested.
 
KillBoY_UK said:
I might be miss reading this but are saying single player games story's are shallow and simple ?
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From the larger studios EA, Ubi, Square Enix yep. At least in the last 5 years. There are a few notable exceptions of course but even those are from the medium sized studios whom are putting time into them. Even elements of the larger RPG styled games don't have the same story telling as say the older FF stuff.
 
All down to production values, not being in the industry i assume the tools used to create games are so powerful and complicated they have yet to be streamlined into something that is actually efficient in terms of complexity and workflow and when do get them we end up with repeats after repeat after repeat.
 
Curlyriff said:
From the larger studios EA, Ubi, Square Enix yep. At least in the last 5 years. There are a few notable exceptions of course but even those are from the medium sized studios whom are putting time into them. Even elements of the larger RPG styled games don't have the same story telling as say the older FF stuff.
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I guess your right to a point, I was more invested in the Banner saga...saga than I have with a most AAA games.

I hoping Valkyrie Chronicles 4 is as good on the story as the first game was so long ago.
 
Ubisoft and EA i blacklist i will not give them money even though EA never screwed me Ubisoft did. I had my account hacked and played basically someone did a season of progress etc and posted my login name email on a arabic hacking page. Anyways they told me after an investigation nothing happened and if it did there was certainly nothing they could do.

Well you could block repeated attempts at failed logins to stop password cracking tools you trash. Anyways i was just so worn down by this stance i closed the ticket and let them win.
 
Rofflay said:
Ubisoft and EA i blacklist i will not give them money even though EA never screwed me Ubisoft did. I had my account hacked and played basically someone did a season of progress etc and posted my login name email on a arabic hacking page. Anyways they told me after an investigation nothing happened and if it did there was certainly nothing they could do.

Well you could block repeated attempts at failed logins to stop password cracking tools you trash. Anyways i was just so worn down by this stance i closed the ticket and let them win.
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Ubisoft offer two step verification?
 
I don't use my Origin account much so I just looked in to make sure it's okay and I noticed that Battlefield 1 costs less than a fiver at the moment Yay!

Cheers for the indirect heads up. :D
 
I also just made a desktop video of me opening my Origin account and going through the account details and games list so that's now put away in a safe place, I feel better already. :cool:
 
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