these threads are the PC equivalent to console wars. Only pettier.Lictor Face said:
But yea, why swear blind loyalty to one DRM platform when you can enjoy the perks of both?
Origin Sale Takes a Jab at Steam
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But yea, why swear blind loyalty to one DRM platform when you can enjoy the perks of both?
In my opinion, if there's any game that should go for "On the House" it's Dragon Age 2.Drummodino said:
* They cancelled much of its planned DLC
* They gave away Mass Effect 2 with the game
* Retailers refused to stock an Ultimate Edition.
* Dragon Age 3 is coming up for release.
They should use this train wreck of a game as goodwill marketing for DA3. It's really all it's good for at this point.
Now EA just needs to work on releasing good games that aren't just the bare minimum required to be considered "technically a game." Actually finishing said games would be a nice touch too, but I wouldn't want them to take on more than they can apparently handle.
And isn't that kind of the point? The lack of self awareness in this thread baffles me. Not you, just....Jasper van Heycop said:
because BF4 is playable? because SimCity was playable at launch?Jasper van Heycop said:
im sorry but steam triumpths origin in both quality and quantity, offerings untold amount of great games from pretty much every conceivable genre, any good puzzle game on origin? how about adventure games? strategy games? simulators? do they atleast have platformers?
atleast theres plenty of battlefield if you never get tired of that
you can check for yourself, count the amount of titles releaed on steam this year with a favorable metacritic score, now count the amount of titles released on origin with a favorable metacritic score, i really cant understand how the existence of bad games affects your enjoyment of good games
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i think what its being sold has a lot to with a store, that was the main point of my original comment, if you are critizing the mains tore page, well that has nothing to do with what i said, and if anything i could argue that half of the stuff on the main origin page is DLC
The thing with EA/Origin is there's a certain amount of consumer awareness/reputation built up through past deeds.
With Valve/Steam, they built this digital market place themselves and adopted a consumer friendly policy to give us frequent major sales without any competition. EA is likely only doing these sales because Valve does it and they need to stay competitive, but if they were ever to gain a stranglehold on the market place the sales & discounts would probably stop. You can see this sort of behaviour with their sports titles. When there's competition they innovate, but when the competition goes away there's is the only game on the market the innovation & effort slows to a crawl.
Fortunately they're not big enough and the competition is too strong for them to pull the old Microsoft business strategy: embrace, expand, exterminate.
With Valve/Steam, they built this digital market place themselves and adopted a consumer friendly policy to give us frequent major sales without any competition. EA is likely only doing these sales because Valve does it and they need to stay competitive, but if they were ever to gain a stranglehold on the market place the sales & discounts would probably stop. You can see this sort of behaviour with their sports titles. When there's competition they innovate, but when the competition goes away there's is the only game on the market the innovation & effort slows to a crawl.
Fortunately they're not big enough and the competition is too strong for them to pull the old Microsoft business strategy: embrace, expand, exterminate.
http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Fantasy/Jasper van Heycop said:
are we done?
maybe we have different definitions of what makes a store good, when i think of a good store i usually think of a place where i can get desired goods, hassle free and with a great service
I do love how the fact that this is Origin and not Steam makes it a bad thing according to the comments. I guarantee that if Steam took a crack at Origin, people would be laughing at Origin in the comments. But EA is "totes teh devils" so Origin is Demon Spawn.
For those questioning Origin taking a potshot at Steam, you must be new to this. Sega had that whole "Genesis does what Nintendon't" campaign and Sony even took shots at Nintendo back with the PS1. I vividly remember ads stating that you couldn't fit Playstation games on a cartridge. Complete with a FF7 screen shot that it claimed the N64 couldn't handle and it was only a part of the game.
And it's not even a thing that only happens in games. Car companies constantly talk about how much better their car is compared to the competition, for example.
Honestly, I don't have a dog in this fight. But keeping some perspective would be nice. Worst case, Origin makes Steam better for virtue of existing. Meaning that you win all the more.
For those questioning Origin taking a potshot at Steam, you must be new to this. Sega had that whole "Genesis does what Nintendon't" campaign and Sony even took shots at Nintendo back with the PS1. I vividly remember ads stating that you couldn't fit Playstation games on a cartridge. Complete with a FF7 screen shot that it claimed the N64 couldn't handle and it was only a part of the game.
And it's not even a thing that only happens in games. Car companies constantly talk about how much better their car is compared to the competition, for example.
Honestly, I don't have a dog in this fight. But keeping some perspective would be nice. Worst case, Origin makes Steam better for virtue of existing. Meaning that you win all the more.
It's kind of like:CriticalMiss said:
Over here we have a pizzeria selling any large, one-topping pizza for $9, and over there we have a pizzeria selling only pepperoni pizza for $9.
What EA is doing here is the equivalent of the second pizzeria advertising, "Pepperoni pizza only nine bucks! Who needs those other toppings? Nobody ever eats those."
It's cool and all that they've got a few games on sale for such low prices but a jab at the competitor, when the competitor is handily trouncing you in the same endeavor, is as pathetic as it is scummy.
Even so...
I heartily agree. While I would argue that Steam's had competition for years (and doesn't even have anything even remotely resembling a "monopoly", as so many would like to claim), having better competition is a good thing.
Here's hoping Origin continues to improve.
You should have seen EA's smear campaign against Steam leading up to the launch of Origin.Dr. Pepper Unlimited said:
My god, they left no scum bucket un-flung during that campaign. I've rarely seen a company commit so much hypocrisy and blatant lying in such a short time span - not outside the oil and banking industries, anyway. The EA CEO's even took turns taking personal jabs at Gabe Newell during interviews and press releases.
It was truly pathetic. It was almost as bad as the Sega/Nintendo smear campaigns in the 90's.