EA Removes Recently Released Games from Steam
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What's the big deal with it not being on steam, even if you could buy it on steam it's not going to be a steam works title so it makes no difference getting it off steam, a shop or origin.
Regarding piracy, game like BF3 where the core game play is the multiplayer will need an authentic CD key to play ranked online, those that want to rank up online will buy the game.
Regarding piracy, game like BF3 where the core game play is the multiplayer will need an authentic CD key to play ranked online, those that want to rank up online will buy the game.
Probably advise you to take your key and activate it on Origin - lol
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I do think it's stupid, but it won't stop me buying the games I want because of EA, BF3 and ME3 are 2 games I've looked forward to for a long time, and a trivial decision to remove new games from Steam won't stop me playing them. You can add these on Steam as Non-Steam games regardless, and still get the benefits of the game overlay to communicate with your friends. All you'll miss is the time tracker and the Steam achievements, which don't actually matter, and besides, the latter never was going to be included in Steam anyway, so you just lose your time tracker.
However, forcing origin onto gamers, much like GFWL will most likely end up with me finding a work around to play the game with a legit CD-Key without the use of the client, which will be some form of ISO I'd imagine. The Steam sale EA games I would have picked up, like Crysis 2 which I didn't want to pay full price for, will be gained by other, completely legitimate and legal methods.
However, forcing origin onto gamers, much like GFWL will most likely end up with me finding a work around to play the game with a legit CD-Key without the use of the client, which will be some form of ISO I'd imagine. The Steam sale EA games I would have picked up, like Crysis 2 which I didn't want to pay full price for, will be gained by other, completely legitimate and legal methods.
I'm really not about to start dealing with 13745353 different digital download clients from different publishers, steam pretty much got their first and lately its been exactly what I'd ask for, rather than an extra layer of crap I don't need aka GFWL so I'm sticking with it, if its not on steam I don't buy it.
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This is how I feel, really. The games I have on non-steam, I just don't play.
EA stated a few weeks back that they wanted `a piece of that pie` in regards an online/download platform, hence the change from EA Download Manager which has been around for donkeys years to Origin.
All EA are doing is realising that retail/shop bought products are declining (not totally but getting less & less) and they see how popular Steam is so they want their own service to match/rival Steam.
With that in mind, you're hardly gonna pay the opposition to sell your own products are you?
I run both Origin & Steam side-by-side with no issues but yes it's more convenient to have everything in one place, but a monopoly is never good so in the long term it might help the end-users get better prices.
Think outside the box a bit folks.
All EA are doing is realising that retail/shop bought products are declining (not totally but getting less & less) and they see how popular Steam is so they want their own service to match/rival Steam.
With that in mind, you're hardly gonna pay the opposition to sell your own products are you?
I run both Origin & Steam side-by-side with no issues but yes it's more convenient to have everything in one place, but a monopoly is never good so in the long term it might help the end-users get better prices.
Think outside the box a bit folks.
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Ive been using origin for a little while now and never had any trouble with it. Dead space 2 and crysis 2 both on it as i bought the retail copys from an online site and used the codes to register them on there. seems like a decent client, doesnt bother me that much that it aint on steam but means ill have to add my friends to origin now. Defo not worth not buying the game for though and as long as registering it on origin is the only drm then im ok with that. perhaps with another big company offering a dds we can benifet as consumers right? Dont get me wrong i love steam and have not far off 100 games but its just not that big a deal.
Yeah cos thats what EA are getting hate for...
Steam lets me keep all my games in one place.
Honestly how do they think they'll keep retailers happy? They bitch enough as it is about games using Steam when Valve are a small developer who have no way of distributing retail copies. How exactly are they going to feel about EA trying to push things when they are 1 of the biggest publishers around?
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Agreed.
The other issue is the "trust factor".
You can kind of trust Valve, they dont have greedy shareholders to feed.
You trust them to do the right thing.
I personally cannot trust E.A with a gaming account with thousands of pounds worth of games on, NO WAY.
E.A can suck it then spin on it.
Personally I'd rather pay the extra to have it all in one place. I really don't need to deal with half a dozen different digital store clients, half of them probably badly coded, bloaty and overly complicated, trying to remember which email addy and password I used for which, swapping between them to play different games, etc.
Blizzard didn't release games on Steam, then remove them, that's the difference.
I'm guessing that will be BF3, ME3 and Star Wars: TOR all on the EA origin thing then.
Kind of annoying, I get most of my stuff from steam, I dont want to start having to have multiple different downloader clients and utilities installed on my pc just to get game x from company x.
Kind of annoying, I get most of my stuff from steam, I dont want to start having to have multiple different downloader clients and utilities installed on my pc just to get game x from company x.
