EA: We want to regain the trust of PC gamers

Less talk, more walk EA.

Stop churning out cash in sequels that take months of patches to get to a decent quality standard, that still lack original content with depth.

Oh and £85 for a game of the above quality? That'll have to change as well.
 
I have actively avoided all EA published games since Battlefield 3 and do not want anything to do with origin, they are a cancerous company.

Online passes, day 1 DLC, always online connected DRM, online only games, closing servers very quickly, buying game studios and shutting them down, micro transactions everywhere, it's like they are actively trying to remain the most hated company.
 
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Geekazoid said:
well I rather prefer to stick to one platform where all my titles are and willing to pay the premium so developers get there full share... If Steam was the only distribution platform we wouldn't have the monstrosity Uplay and even RockStar are on the bandwagon
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I'm happy to concede a little convenience to not have the PC gaming industry owned by one company....it's not healthy, not good for gamers ultimately.

Now hating on crap like SimCity, that's a bandwagon I can jump on. Murdered the name :(
 
For me they would need to stop forcing everyone to use mexican VPN's or other methods to get reasonably priced games on Origin/price fixing all their new games insanely high.

Stop trying to palm off endless DLC which should have been included anyway.

Also give me all the best players on Fifa for free.

Dont mind Origin as a platform.
 
The-Plethora said:
I have actively avoided all EA published games since Battlefield 3 and do not want anything to do with origin, they are a cancerous company.

Online passes, day 1 DLC, always online connected DRM, online only games, closing servers very quickly, buying game studios and shutting them down, micro transactions everywhere, it's like they are actively trying to remain the most hated company.
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I agree with this, EA has bought many studios that I really liked and squeezed them dry.

Until I actually see some proof that they have changed I won't usually buy EA games even if I think they look fairly good and review well. An example being DA inquisition, I will not install Origin again I had to use the beta for ages when it was compulsary for Battlefield 3 and uninstalled it when they started releasing all kinds of expensive DLC for the game. Leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth when you pay full price for a game and then the games publisher wants you to pay double for a small amount of extra content.
 
Origin access seems a good idea, given we live in these times without demos. However, the vast majority of EA games do not interest me as they are either full of bugs or have been dumbed-down so much that they are a shadow of their former selves. However, I am hoping the new Mirror's edge will be an exception and I will probably subscribe to EA access just before release to test it out
 
I don't dislike EA. They've done some great things and some bad things. I'm not really into their games though.

Can't fault origin for the great game guarantee, live support that fixes your issue then gives you a discount and EA access. The latter needs some more games but if they add new releases soon after they come out I can see it being very popular.
 
Origin Access is a great bang for buck, I don't know how anyone can complain about it. As for the platform, competition is good for us, Valve do not represent the second coming, they're squeezing as much cash as possible from its customers, just like EA.
 
People think steam is awesome; no they fought for years in courts so they didn't have to give refunds; even now their customer service is still crap compared to places like GOG or Origin. GOG and Origin been doing refunds a lot longer and actually help if you have issue with the game and if they can't get it working will refund.

If you go over 2 hours with steam.......you can get stuffed if the game doesn't work on trying to get a refund. Does EA have a ways to go? Yea; specially on dlc stuff; but they are at least working towards it.....

Hell Steam lately raises prices on things just before their sales and puts it back to where they were before.......
 
I do look on Origin every now and then but lol at the prices and lol at the people actually paying them. Since when has a "season pass" been needed for a AAA game (I know, as thin on the ground as they or on Origin)? And while I'm at it, these season passes are approaching the price of retail games? Madness.

I'll not cite Valve as saviours of PC gaming, their platform HAS helped but they too are going down the route of pile em high and sell em cheap. I don't care that Steam has seventy billion games when most of them are university project quality, Play Store worthy shovelware
 
If they stop producing generic **** that is released 50% complete at an insane price then drip feed the rest of the content out and charge for it, then I'll trust them.

But that will never happen so they can **** off
 
I'll believe these words when we get a good game that works perfectly at launch and is appropriately priced for the content, with no nonsense like micro-transactions and such. Otherwise, EA is in the same boat as Microsoft. I won't even look at them. Last EA game I played was Crysis 3 (Star Wars Battlefront beta doesn't count as I didn't buy it, plus it was terrible IMO). And I was sad that they didn't put it on Steam and made it Origin exclusive.
 
EA have been saying this for years, and each time their actions speak otherwise. It's just marketing lip service for a company that thinks they can make any old unfinished mess and then sell it with marketing and words like this that are never followed up with actions.
 
LOL!

They informed me for 2 weeks that my account had been hacked and stolen (Origin), and that 'They'd never seen anything like it' they passed me around the houses time after time, I supplied every bit of info they asked for times over etc

This was all after not being able to get a password reset on Xmas eve.

I supplied them with TWO email accounts that been account has been associated with for years, and despite me having their emails to those accounts in front of me they still denied it...

In the end after 2 weeks of being told my account was stolen and that I was a liar, I managed to fix it myself.

Worst customer service experience I have ever had, and I dealt with Love film before they were bought out...

My Origin experience was like something from Kafka, or my workplace...
 
If EA want to establish trust in the PC community again then they need to start focusing on making polished, content-rich games, not churning out hollow cash in sequels one after the other every 12-18 months.
 
meldarthx said:
People think steam is awesome; no they fought for years in courts so they didn't have to give refunds; even now their customer service is still crap compared to places like GOG or Origin. GOG and Origin been doing refunds a lot longer and actually help if you have issue with the game and if they can't get it working will refund.
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Steam is awesome. It's the best game delivery platform out there. People throw up comparisons with Apple but that doesn't work, because the PC gaming community had been waiting from the start of the internet to have their games delivered digitally and Valve got there first by a massive margin.
On the other hand, Apple customers knew no different and chewed down what they were given.

When the currently active generation of gamers, the ones who grew up with half-life, are phased out then maybe Steam will be knocked off it's perch. But no one else in the industry is trying to offer anything different/better other than "rights" so it won't happen soon.
How often does anyone on here buy a full price steam game anyway? To date, I have never, but 95% of my games are on it.
 
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