Mass Effect 3 Gives Steam a Miss at Launch

[Marcus Kehoe]

Ya, id bee fine with this if origin wasn't bugged severely. I have over 20 games on steam all have always worked. I have 2 games on orgin, which I bought a t a store. Neither work and I refuse to spend anymore time with their help service. I am done with Orgin, ill play it on console.

 

[ResonanceSD]

And yet another reason why I haven't bought any ea titles since DA2 came out. Ea, calling Valve the bad guys? Fail, so, hard.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

It isn't. The ToS for Origin clearly states that EA cannot sell any information gathered. It is for internal EA use only.

So? Who says they can't trade the info away or give it away for free on the promise of a returned service or favour later down the line?

 

[tmande2nd]

Oh poor widdle Electronic Arts.

The big mean Valve stole some of your profit off of DLC?
I feel so broken hearted for you.

However not enough to put your filthy spyware all over my PC.
SUCK IT.

 

[DeaconSawyer]

I am all for Origin. I don't like it as much as Steam, but I do like that fact that they are at least trying to get PC gamers money. At least they are showing attention to us and recognizing that the platform is not dead or dying.

But for the love of god can they just fess up already. It's not on Steam because they are competing with Steam and they don't want Valve to make money on their game. That's totally cool and fair. But just say that, it sounds so obvious an fair that I don't think anyone will say otherwise. It is the weird way that they are trying to hide something that make people angry and suspicious.

Honestly it is like if the police show up at a dudes house, and he wouldn't let them look inside, was trying to hide his hands, tried nervously to laugh things off, and blamed a bunch of shit on his neighbor across the street who always has nicer Christmas lights. The cops get suspicious pound down his door and find out he just really didn't want them to know he was making cookies for a bake sale.

No one is mad at you for making money EA, we are mad at you for being weird about it.

 

[Burst6]

*snip*

I think the biggest problem here is that Valve gives the feeling that they're not a bunch of businessmen trying to make money off of something they don't really care about.

EA hasn't done that very well.

Looking at what valve has done, and what games valve has released, and then comparing it to EA, you can see how some people may be distrusting of leaving their entire digital library in EA's hands.

Valve created what a lot of people consider as some of the best games of all time, like the half-life series and portal. They've always shown that they care about making good games. Look at TF2. It's deadline was like a decade ago, but they delayed it to make sure it was a good game. They took forever, but the result was amazing. Yeah sure they had their greedy moments (left 4 dead 2), but they generally show that they care about their games.

Then look at EA. While they do make good games, a lot of people remember them as that company that sells slightly upgraded sports games every year for full price.

And personally i still blame them for dragon age 2. The game screamed "i was going to be a good game, but they didn't give me enough time. I hope you don't mind all these cut corners".




I don't believe that EA would put spyware in their program, but that doesn't mean i can trust EA to handle my game for me. Especially after the little banning spree they had.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Well they've lost one customer.

 

[Seraj]

And this is why I have boycotted EA.

Seriously though, Someone needs to slap EA and tell them to grow up, they're missing out on a hell of profit from Steam sales...

 

[Yopaz]

Is anyone really surprised over this? EA wants to be in control of the sales of their PC games and choose to not share the market with their biggest competitor? From a financial point of view this makes perfect sense, they're trying to make their service more popular than Steam and that wont work unless they got exclusive titles. Saying that Steam is too restrictive is a load of crap though. If that was their problem they would never release it to Xbox since Microsoft makes companies pay to patch a game which is why the PC and the Xbox 360 version of Team Fortress 2 are so incredibly different.

 

[wintercoat]

EA has proven that they're not averse to removing your ability to play a game that you've payed for because you said something mean about them on the internet. Why would I want to give them control of my game library, when I can't trust them?

I'll be honest. It's annoying, and I'm disappointed. It isn't Bioware's fault, it's the buttmonkeys over at EA that are the problem. The only thing I want to know, is if I can uninstall Origin after activation. Still waiting priestly's answer on that. If so, great, no problem for me. If not... Ugh. I'm not gonna cancel my pre-order, but I'm going to be running origin in offline mode, and it's only going to get started up when I play ME3.

MisterShine has a quick easy answer for you:

While I obviously can't tell you if ME3 will be different, I own 3 games on Origin (Dead Space 2, Alice 2 and Bulletstorm), and for each one Origin doesn't have to be running in the background at all when the game starts, let alone be connected to the internet. Origin only needs to run to install the game, after that you can leave it off if you please.

However you can't uninstall it, otherwise the games won't run. Which is strange, considering when I boot up the game EXEs no other programs start, but it knows that Origin isn't there. I suppose Origin makes the game exe itself check to see if Origin is still installed..

 

[Sargonza]

Anyone else feel that their year would be made if GOG announced that they were selling it as one of their "new games"...? Oh well, I can dream

I would have bought it in a heartbeat on Steam as an absolute lover of the first two games, but to be frank I just don't want to sign up for any more processes than I have to. I trust Steam because of Steam Guard etc etc but Origin..? No.

So I guess that this, combined with finals and money, mean that I'll be giving ME3 a miss for a long long time. Maybe I'll get Jade Empire or a different Bioware game instead to tide me over. Because I have nothing against them, just recent EA policy.

 

[Lacsapix]

Required to have Origin? Screw that.

Sorry Bioware, You just lost a sale.

Make that two.

 

[aaronobst]

Well shit... Looks like I'll be picking up the PS3 Version

 

[Genericjim101]

There's an extremely large amount of petty people who are willing to miss out on the long awaited conclusion to Mass Effect over something as trivial as a different delivery platform.

 

[Anthony Wells]

There's an extremely large amount of petty people who are willing to miss out on the long awaited conclusion to Mass Effect over something as trivial as a different delivery platform.

meh. I dont like Origin at all but when i eventually get a pc that can run it i will be getting the mass effects on pc. I agree that a lot of people are being petty but i respect their decision. HOWEVER i agree that EA should just come out of the closet and say the truth rather than trying to blame one of my favorite video game companies of all time. As it is i cant afford a gaming rig to play it on so i will just get it for ps3.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

Mass Effect 2 is my favorite game, and hearing stuff like this just makes me sad. EA forcing some extra requirements to it.

I will get Origin anyways never heard of it but I want to freaking play Mass Effect 3.

 

[burhanr]

I think some guy mentioned that DLCs for Steam games HAVE to be distributed through Steam, but I believe I have to use BioWare points for my Mass Effect 2, and Steam is fine with that. They just want their service to be popular don't they? I kinda don't understand, isn't hosting your own server cost you money?

Well EA is an asshole, they have been for quite some time, but I really like the Mass Effect series. And I already paid the preorder deposit for the collectors edition, so in 2 months I will experience Origin. But I don't care, in the end, the fun we get from the game is what matters right? If Miranda's butts the game are is still awesome I can easily forgive them.

 

[Vigormortis]

Oh noes, EA is forcing us to do what Valve has been doing for years, and that was with a service that started out as a piece of shit, screwing over people who brought half life 2 early on. At least Origin worked at launch. I don't get how people are fine with something that has become the standard for steam, but the second another company tries it, it's a sign that they are the devil.

Allow me to respond to this by reposting something I wrote earlier. (and because I'm getting really sick of repeatedly having to retype this)

======================================

But you know what? That's not the issue here. But for discussions sake, let's make a few quick comparisons, shall we?

EA - multi-billion dollar corporation, employing and funding thousands, and has been in operation for over two decades.
Valve - company comprised of, at this point, less than 250 people.

When Valve first released Steam, they were breaking new ground. Add to that that they didn't exactly have the knowledge, resources, or funding to make it a perfect system at start and one can see why Steam was so buggy. That it's become what it is is nothing less than impressive.

EA, on the other hand, has been trying to make their own DD service for years. Origin is hardly their first attempt. Yet, it's still a colossal pile of sh#t. But why? They have the funding. They have the experience. And God knows they have a wealth of industry knowledge to pull from on what to and what not to do.

Valve had an excuse back then. What's EA's excuse now?

(and don't even get me started on the BS information collection policies and their unbelievably stupid "account ban" procedures.)

======================================

Also, Valve having it's own games exclusive to Steam is FAR different than EA moving to have EVERY SINGLE GAME they publish exclusive to Origin. If you can't see the discrepancy in that then...well...I'm not even sure where to go from there.

 

[Creamygoodness]

Thank you! EA for giving me another in a long list of reasons to NOT to play any games that you produce from here on out.

 

[Vakz]

We are intent on providing Mass Effect to players with the best possible experience

Priestly also made it clear that Origin would be necessary to play the game on the PC

Playing Mass Effect 3 multiplayer will require a constant connection

Hehe, this guy is funny! ... Oh, it wasn't a joke?

Well, I didn't have much hope for this one anyway, after how ME2 turned out. If EA doesn't want my money, too bad.