Why battlefield 3 is not on the steam ?

[MatTheCat]

Origin is actually fine. Not too intrusive, fairly lightweight and rarely has a problem. If you can remember back far enough to a couple of years after steam launched it was still buggy as hell with frequent loss of connection and other issues. Only thing I wish Origin would do is bin the 100 friends limit. Other than that I'm happy enough with it and I always max my download speed with it.

Never been locked out of my games by Origin in the absence of an internet connection whereas that happens to me with Steam all the time.

If it weren't for pirate cracks I wouldn't be able to play my Steam games (that I paid for) everytime I go offshore.

 

[bignev72]

I don't even have an Origin account and have no plans to make one, personally I'm happy using steam, so if you won't sell there then I won't buy your ****.

It's like bringing put a product then selling it exclusively out of some awful shop you'd never want to visit. Just alienates half their potential user base, which to be fair alienating customers is kinda EAs whole thing.

This is such a idiotic viewpoint.

It would be one thing to say "I tried Origin and it was so bad I couldn't put up with it" but to have decided you don't like it without trying it is just silly. Especially as you are missing out on some great games because of it.

 

[Jim99]

Thing is er.. i wish i could just buy a game and play it without having to install steam, origin or any other . somehow we all managed this for 20+ years.

My recollection is that it used to suck.

Have to have all my disks stacked up next to the PC, taking a while to swap them over, then discovering that I need to patch my game.

In my case that was usually Battlefield 2, and the patch was several hundred MB, so it took several hours to download. That's if you could find somewhere decent to download it from - so go through and check Multiplay for the big multiplayer games, then GameFront and all the others, probably at a pathetic speed.

Never mind that the patch had been released 2 months ago, and that my PC could have been downloading it in the background - I didn't know about it so I'd done nothing.

And of course, add to that the issue that the only place I could buy games was on the high street, and they cost a fortune.

Yeah, I'm OK with Steam.

 

[Ace Modder]

which games do you have issues with?

 

[Winky_The_Winking_Turtle]

And of course, add to that the issue that the only place I could buy games was on the high street, and they cost a fortune.

Yeah, I'm OK with Steam.

Most newly released games are actually cheaper in most high street stores compared to Steam nowadays for whatever reason (see Fallout 4, etc. being £50 pre-order on Steam).

Origin is actually really good; unobtrusive, fast downloads, customer support, etc. It may be a nuisance for some people to launch one extra program just for one other game. but can't blame EA for trying to capitalize on one of their most popular franchises.

 

[MrMarvelous]

Origin isn't anywhere near as bad as when it launched. Ubisofts 'UPlay' on the otehr hand...

If some people hate Origin here they'd have a heart attack using UPlay hahaha.

 

[stooeh]

Don't have a problem with Origin myself - does the job it is meant to as far as I can tell.

 

[Jim99]

Most newly released games are actually cheaper in most high street stores compared to Steam nowadays for whatever reason (see Fallout 4, etc. being £50 pre-order on Steam).

Origin is actually really good; unobtrusive, fast downloads, customer support, etc. It may be a nuisance for some people to launch one extra program just for one other game. but can't blame EA for trying to capitalize on one of their most popular franchises.

That's true, but I don't buy games new anyway. It's pretty easy to wait a while and pick up the big titles for £5-10 in a sale. That was much trickier to do from what I recall on the high-street.

 

[Doogles]

I don't even have an Origin account and have no plans to make one, personally I'm happy using steam, so if you won't sell there then I won't buy your ****.

It's like bringing put a product then selling it exclusively out of some awful shop you'd never want to visit. Just alienates half their potential user base, which to be fair alienating customers is kinda EAs whole thing.

By doing this and only having a Steam account you give valve 100% of your market share which allows them to bum rape anyone they please, I'd like some other platforms to be allowed access to all the games Valve have, if they did then Steam would actually improve and maybe we would get HL3.

 

[Vinno]

Origin is perfectly fine for me. Its Uplay I have a problem with grrrr.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Because it's an EA game and is therefore on Origin.

This.

 

[jubei]

Then you're as ignorant as you are blind.

Look up the definition of the words before you bandy them about. I have origin installed, due to having a couple of games on it that i play with friends on a LAN. So i have experience using the platform, however i simply prefer to keep my library in one place, and that is steam.

Nothing ignorant about having a preference, and as most EA games are atrocious these days i really don't feel like i am missing out. I certainly wont support EA by buying their regurgitated games annually.

 

[~>Dg<~]

no difference from steam to origin.

limiting yourself is just being retarded.

both sell games and launch games. just buy your game go and play them. no one is spying on your porn viewing.

 

[jubei]

no difference from steam to origin.

limiting yourself is just being retarded.

both sell games and launch games. just buy your game go and play them. no one is spying on your porn viewing.

The presentation is different for a start. Steam has a nice easy list of my games, origin has a bunch of cover art. Maybe this is customisable somewhere but i have not had to use origin enough for it to be worth looking for.

Likewise i have my steam friends list, which is how i tend to communicate with most of my friends these days.

Lastly, as i alluded to in the last post, origin only really has EA games on it, and they tend to be rubbish so i am not losing out. If something truly good came out and was origin exclusive then i am sure i would have to use it, but as it is i can simply ignore it and stick to steam.

There is nothing 'retarded' about having a preference, nor did anybody talk about their being any snooping software in either client. It's okay that you are too childlike to take a point of view rather than start talking about porn and such, but keep it to other mediums as this is kind of derailing the guys post which has already been answered a bunch of times.

aka. It's on origin because its an EA game, dont expect to see it on steam.

 

[MissChief]

The presentation is different for a start. Steam has a nice easy list of my games, origin has a bunch of cover art. Maybe this is customisable somewhere but i have not had to use origin enough for it to be worth looking for.

Likewise i have my steam friends list, which is how i tend to communicate with most of my friends these days.

Lastly, as i alluded to in the last post, origin only really has EA games on it, and they tend to be rubbish so i am not losing out. If something truly good came out and was origin exclusive then i am sure i would have to use it, but as it is i can simply ignore it and stick to steam.

There is nothing 'retarded' about having a preference, nor did anybody talk about their being any snooping software in either client. It's okay that you are too childlike to take a point of view rather than start talking about porn and such, but keep it to other mediums as this is kind of derailing the guys post which has already been answered a bunch of times.

aka. It's on origin because its an EA game, dont expect to see it on steam.

Of course it's customisable. A simple click will list all games or installed games. Perhaps I should have said 'metaphorically' blind, and yes I think you're ignorant because you said 'if it's not on steam I won't buy it', you're missing out on some great games.

 

[MrMarvelous]

Fuggin' 'ell ladz, calm d0wn.

 

[Mynight]

Jeebus a rather passionate thread .

I personally would prefer a single program to run all but I can get over using more than one easily.

I would quite like if steam would allow origin games to be added to the library like you can with optical disk installed ones.

 

[T4HO]

I don't even have an Origin account and have no plans to make one, personally I'm happy using steam, so if you won't sell there then I won't buy your ****.

It's like bringing put a product then selling it exclusively out of some awful shop you'd never want to visit. Just alienates half their potential user base, which to be fair alienating customers is kinda EAs whole thing.

Well I was planning on buying Battlefield 3 on steam but as it's not there, **** it, I not gonna make account on some stupid ass Orgin which has privacy issue and one game it's not worth it, tho I might get retail copy instead and if Orgin is still involved then well, FU EA.

 

[spoffle]

Well I was planning on buying Battlefield 3 on steam but as it's not there, **** it, I not gonna make account on some stupid ass Orgin which has privacy issue and one game it's not worth it, tho I might get retail copy instead and if Orgin is still involved then well, FU EA.

Do you realise that Valve does exactly the same thing you're complaining about here?

Their games are limited to Steam only, just like EA games on Origin. What's this privacy issue you speak of specifically?

If anyone wants to restrict themselves to Steam only, then they're going to miss out on some pretty good games, over something as petty as not wanting to have another program running on their PC, that uses less resources than Steam.

I'd prefer to have all my games in one place, but that isn't a reality, so whilst I've got 95% of my games on Steam, I really can't see how anyone is really bothered about having a few now more on another platform.

Origin actually works fine as well, unlike that U Play crap, I haven't used it in a while, so it might have genuinely improved, but with the effort Ubisoft put in to the PC, and the open disdain they have got PC users, I can't see it being any better than when I last tried it.

 

[Boycey0211]

just let him buy a retail copy if origin bothers him that much............. lol