EA Wants "To Be 90 Plus Metacritic at Everything"

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"There are better mousetraps that ultimately get built out of this innovation," he continued, "and the only way you get to the innovation is to have other people try and do a better version of what someone has previously done. And that's what we're attempting to do on Origin."
He needs to become a bit more familiar with the definition of innovation because he just described iteration. Sure iteration tends to mean some small level of innovation occurs, but when you're starting out 5 years behind the curve, all I can say is good luck with catching up.

Even better though is the fact that he expects innovation on the level of Facebook can come from EA despite plenty of evidence that corporate giants do not make giant leaps forward 90% of the time unless they happen to be complete management outliers like Valve or Google. EA as it exists today will never out-Valve Valve unless Valve stops running the way it does. Large bureaucratic companies like EA which value profit before innovation are too big, slow, and stifling to do anything creative, and those three things have been EA's personal slogan more than ever in the last few years.
 

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Grey Carter said:
"and the only way you get to the innovation is to have other people try and do a better version of what someone has previously done. And that's what we're attempting to do on Origin."
Would be nice if they could get their current services up to par then. Innovation isn't going to happen if what you're offering isn't even half comparable to what else is on the market. It's absolutely pitiful the state Origin was released in, especially from a company with so much money and personnel to throw around. Been months and I still don't consider it even passable.

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David DeMartini, claims the fact that Newell is even talking about Origin is a good sign.
I can't help but laugh at the desperation seeping from that statement.
 

Alex Baas

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Making any kind of snide comment now about EA is like making fun of a down syndrome kid in your class who wants to be your friend
 

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So you want to be Facebook to Myspace?
Well, you need to actually be better for that to happen.
And why the hell are you trying to be good at Metacritic? That's like winning an arm wrestling contest against the weakest kid in school, not very useful in the long run.
More and more I see them as the Spike TV of videogames, and that saddens me greatly.
 

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hensethe1 said:
Just bought a game through Origin today. Can't start downloading before 24 hours has passed because they need to verify the payment, though the payment has been drawn from my account. This never happened using steam, never will
To be fair if the money's not in your account Valve already gave you the game so they'll just permaban you for it.
 

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Kalezian said:
But, yea, in many ways GoG is better than Steam while Steam is better than GoG if that makes any sense, while both are better than Origin.

Steam has that whole "community" thing going on, while GOG has "we're nice", Thief, and no DRM in sight.

Long term, GOG looks like winning simply because being nice gets points. The community can switch. Like WoW which dominated the MMO area for years, it's starting to lose out and other games are coming to the fore. It is possible to topple giants, it just takes a bit of effort.
 

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Oh wow. EA really needs to learn a little something called humility and take the time to be critically observant. This is just getting them nowhere in the long run and it seems they'll realise too little too late.
 

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I'm laughing. I got battlefield 3 for cheap off a friend who didn't even want to open his PC copy. Using Origin proved to me that they have no idea what they're doing.

QQ moar, EA.
 

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Grey Carter said:
EA Wants "To Be 90 Plus Metacritic at Everything"
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"If MySpace had stayed the one answer in social networking and no one switched to Facebook, then we'd all be stuck on MySpace right now and we wouldn't have had the Facebook phenomenon," he said.
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