Origin Cheapens IP With Deep-Cutting Sales

[NiPah]

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At no point did I say to ignore the hypocrisy. yes it's pretty blatant in this case. You and every other person in the thread has pointed it out. What you fail to point out is that in this case this is a good thing for the consumer. But of course, continue overlooking that fact so as to not weaken your arguement, which may I remind you consists of a half assed "GOTCHA!" that a 4 year old could spot.

If EA being a hyprocrite results in lower prices for buying games, I'm all for it. Bring on the hypocrisy.

Just pointing out I mentioned cheaper prices are good, but due to EA?s history of perma banning seemingly innocent people (IE people who were quote glitched on forums, people who use the same computer, or people who mouth off on a forum) such deals were a double edged sword. I actually don?t hate EA, I hate some of their policies, I hate that some of my favorite developers were disbanded in EA, but overall they have some amazingly great games. All that said EA?s internet distribution team scares the shit out of me, enough so that I?ve only bought their counsel games and have stayed with other PC online distribution services.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

But wait... wasn't Origin at war with Eurasia just yesterday afternoon? I remember because I was doing my laundry and-*HMPTHHMPTHMPTHMMMMMMMM*!

"This is the MiniLuv. Lear'sFool does not exist. He never existed. His wife was impregnated by a telepathic alien from Zeta Reticulii. There is nothing to see here."

 

[Signa]

I have to wonder if the reason we saw this sale followed so closely by the comments from the VP is that the VP knew about the upcoming sale, and wanted to drum up a few full-price purchases because he was hoping we'd all go "well that game on Origin won't be going on sale soon, let's buy it now."

Too bad his head is so far up his ass that he doesn't realize that we want to buy from other places than Origin, regardless of sales. It reminds me of all the "yay company, rah rah rah!" bullshit that gets thrown around corporations. Even the employees will forget what it means to be a consumer.

 

[Vigormortis]

*blinks* I don't think you are quite all that sober at the momemt.
Valve has mostly turned from a developer to a publisher, anybody should have seen the writing on the wall since they had issues with the HL2 chapter issues and with Steam taking over as it has back in the day.

As I see it, as long as TF2 keeps the money flowing in, the urge to finish HL2:C3 won't happen any time soon.

You are most probably right, they are far too busy working on Hats for people to buy in Tf2 to worry about finishing the story of a much loved game series.

Except that they actually are working on Half-Life 3, and have been since the Orange Box released.

Take a peak here: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/23/gabe-on-ricochet-2-delay-but-he-doesnt-mean-ricochet/

And just in case you don't pick up on the sarcasm and innuendo in the article, Newell means "Half-Life 3".

Also, I wouldn't get your hopes up for Episode 3. There's virtually no chance the next Half-Life game will bare that moniker. It'll likely just be Half-Life 3.

http://train2game-news.co.uk/2011/05/10/valve-finished-with-episodic-gaming/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/02/04/have-patience-with-valve-the-next-half-life-will-be-amazing/

 

[Grygor]

I have to wonder if the reason we saw this sale followed so closely by the comments from the VP is that the VP knew about the upcoming sale, and wanted to drum up a few full-price purchases because he was hoping we'd all go "well that game on Origin won't be going on sale soon, let's buy it now."

Too bad his head is so far up his ass that he doesn't realize that we want to buy from other places than Origin, regardless of sales. It reminds me of all the "yay company, rah rah rah!" bullshit that gets thrown around corporations. Even the employees will forget what it means to be a consumer.

I figured it was just a case of a corporate exec talking out his ass, considering that I bought Mass Effect 1 and 2 on sale for $30 total ($10 for 1, $20 for 2) back when Origin was still called the EA Store.

Which, incidentally, was also significantly cheaper than they were on Steam at the time.

 

[Sofus]

"EA says NO to competition"

Does anyone else remember how EA once used to talk about pricing products properly? things like how it was illogical to use the same prices for digital and retail version of a game... well aparently EA doesn't.



No offense mr. random EA suit... but you should know better than to mention Steam or VALVe if you're going to announce that you like money more than fans.

What I read was:
1) "Steam is a danger to our over prized model and we will do everything we can to force people to pay full price for terrible games."
2) "I don't want people to EVER be capable of buying our products at anything than full price."

I would mention how Dead Space (1) still has camera problems if you have a saitek joystick installed... or how EA attempts to force their developers to push out a new game every single year... or how EA haven't done anything for the gaming community in the last 7 years.


Letting games go on sale 1 or 2 years after their release is not bad buisness... it's what happens with EVERYTHING that ages.

 

[runtheplacered]

Valve has mostly turned from a developer to a publisher

Except for the fact that they release content monthly and develop a game at least once a year.

 

[heavyblues]

I'm not seeing a sale.
I go to Origin and I see the same shitty full prices, but I keep seeing a bunch of people in the UK and Europe talking about things being, like, half off.

 

[Antari]

Even a month after first seeing this thread it still sends me into uncontrollable laughter. A true Comedy gem for the year.