EA Offers Free Origin Distribution For Crowd-Funded Games

[Syzygy23]

They stopped scanning private files they only scan hardware now your midget scat porn is safe.

Funny how your mind works, isn't it?

If they removed that scanning from Origin and the EULA, good. Too bad they took 3 months of people complaining about privacy to do it. So yeah, I'm sure EA put their customer's privacy first ...

But I'm sure your attempt to insult me as a poster painted EA in better light now.

He's just giving you a hard time dude, take a chill pill.

No, y'know what? You're too uptight for chill pills, we need something stronger, we need... a chillaxative!

 

[Scars Unseen]

I'm gonna bury my inner cynic, internally mock all the conspiracy theorists, and just say that this is a good thing for the developers. Maybe some of them will let the backers choose between Origin or Steam keys for their games? (That said, I'm going with Steam keys, personally.)

Also, I hope the Kickstarter games will be released on GOG.com as well. That seems like a good place for them to be.

I don't have to have a conspiracy theory. As I said, there's nothing really wrong with Origin as a client. Unfortunately, the client is hosted by a company that hires support personnel that are actively hostile to the customers(or worse, their customer policy actually demands such behavior of otherwise decent employees).

 

[The Random One]

Well, what do you know. After we screamed at EA for months for them to try to take on Steam by being better than them as opposed to shutting them out, they actually heard.

It's funny to see how everyone is hating what is obviously a very simple 'everybody wins' scenario, but this week I'll take it over people defending major corporations' indefensable screw-ups.

 

[Scars Unseen]

To be fair, they don't have 12 million actual users worldwide. They converted any existing EA associated accounts to Origin, which means that many people, myself included, have more than one Origin account. Since their customer service refuses to merge said accounts, and because it isn't feasible to close said accounts(since we have games tied to each account), EA gets to pad their head count by being the dicks we know them to be.

That's weird. All of my accounts (EA.com, Spore, BioWare, SWTOR, and probably something else) were automatically merged.

Were yours associated with different e-mail addresses?

Yes. I changed from Hotmail to Gmail at some point during my life, and at the time Bioware had their own thing going. Now EA won't merge them, and I can't go online with ME2 anymore because I accidently bought ME2 DLC for the wrong Origin account(why they let you buy DLC for a game you don't own is beyond me) and won't move that either. So I resorted to using a crack to use the content I paid for, because I'll be damned if I'm paying for it twice in order to actually use the shit.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Well, what do you know. After we screamed at EA for months for them to try to take on Steam by being better than them as opposed to shutting them out, they actually heard.

It's funny to see how everyone is hating what is obviously a very simple 'everybody wins' scenario, but this week I'll take it over people defending major corporations' indefensable screw-ups.

Nobody wins until EA fixes their customer support. Or, to quote a classic, "The only winning move is not to play."

 

[Rainboq]

Regardless of our personal feelings about Origin, can we not agree that this is (until we have actual evidence otherwise) that this is a very solid thing to do for indie devs? Origin has 12 million users worldwide, a number that's only going to grow. That's a huge potential audience for someone trying to get a small, niche project off the ground.

Doesn't steam not have or have extremely tiny publishing fees?

OT: cautiously optimistic, I'd need to see the legaleesee to make a judgement on this, anyone got a copy of it?

 

[V da Mighty Taco]

Great news ... Provided they stopped Origin from scanning all your files.
They did do that, right?

Oh no, never mind, it's EA. Lets see how editorial policy goes this time.

They stopped scanning private files they only scan hardware now your midget scat porn is safe.

I haven't checked since their first revision of that EULA in order to make it sound more friendly, but at that time the line that said they could still scan all your software was still fully intact and still didn't clarify what software they could and couldn't scan. I haven't heard of any revisions to it since, but until I see proof that said segment of that EULA was modified to clearly define what software can be scanned, I'm not taking any chances with that shit no matter what games come out for it.

 

[Bloodstain]

This is actually pretty great.

Come on, people, EA is by no means a good company, but it's not nearly as bad and evil as people make it out to be. Awarding EA the title of the 'Worst Company' is unjustified and nothing more than a petty First World problem.

I applaud EA for this move and I would get Origin, but I don't have any reason to.

 

[Kerboom]

can we not agree that this is (until we have actual evidence otherwise) that this is a very solid thing to do for indie devs?

Nice sentence structure you've got there.

OT: Well, it seems to be too good a thing for EA to do. But I'm going to hold off on my cynicism for today. Good game, EA.

 

[Cat of Doom]

I'm still not using the damn thing, if I wouldn't put it on for bf3 then I'm not putting it on for anything.

Why?

Whats wrong with it, I'v had it for about a year, and while I hardly use Origin, There isn't anything wrong with it.

 

[Worgen]

I'm still not using the damn thing, if I wouldn't put it on for bf3 then I'm not putting it on for anything.

Why?

Whats wrong with it, I'v had it for about a year, and while I hardly use Origin, There isn't anything wrong with it.

Well originally it had all sorts of data gathering functionality, just because they turn it off for a bit doesn't mean its gone and I fully expect them to turn it on as soon as they think people have forgotten about it, ea also has a rep for banning people from all their games on the list, and I don't trust ea with that much control over my games library. EA already has a habit of turning off the servers on games that don't see as much multi use as they want, I would not be surprised at all to see you suddenly lose access to older games on your list when ea feels like it can't milk them anymore.

 

[natster43]

First Capcom says they'll stop putting on disc DLC in their games, now EA actually helping smaller developers. Are these companies actually trying to improve their standing with their consumers? This is pretty good news, but I still bet this will fuck up somehow.

 

[Cat of Doom]

I'm going to look at this positively, because I'm not a cynical conspiracy theorist.

This seems like a pretty good deal to me for both parties involved, as long as it doesn't tie indie developers down to anything, (EA getting sequel rights for example). Don't think its a bad thing for big game companies to break into the indie market,in fact surely it can only improve the industry, convincing big publishers to take greater risks, improving the triple A buisness. The big working with the small. This is at no risk to indie devs who don't want to take up the offer either, devs who used kickstarter funds to avoid the "corporate machine" take this offer up, and others who used kickstarter purely because they had no other method for gathering funds have this option, which means they can put the money they save through this to good use elsewhere. So Notch has no reason to get on his high horse over this.

Also, this will greatly help improve origin. Origin can seriously do with some indie titles, the system is in desperate need for some more variety. I very rarely use it, only got it for SWTOR, and have only brought Gatling gears and warp through the system (a week before the EA indie bundle came out on steam -_-). More indie games at competitive prices would help sway me to using the thing more, perhaps they can allocate indie games their own tab on origin, and give them some front page advertisement.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

That's pretty fucking cool of them lets hope they don't fuck it up some how but I'm holding my breath for EA not to spoil it.

 

[TitanAura]

EA is... LEARNING?

*awaits inevitable rebuttal*

 

[Cryo84R]

So how is letting EA leech off games they had no part in creating a good thing?

I take that back. They helped make them by driving most of the life out of the industry. They still don't deserve these games on that unabashed piece of crapware Origin.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

I doubt many will apply for this. Aside from lack of exposure on Origin's store page and a smaller userbase compared to Steam, many Kickstarters make a point to either state their release will be "DRM free" or distributed via Steam.

 

[Lunar Templar]

yeah, um, no

there's nothing EA can do to get me to instal Origin, it just will not happen