1. Drop the stupid DRM schemes. People are gonna pirate your game anyways, and the harder you try, the harder you end up punishing your paying costumers, for they are the ones having to jump through all the loops, to get to play the game they bought, while the pirates just wait patiently for someone to crack the game.
2. Leave steam as the game-overlay platform. I'm not saying steam is flawless, and perfect, merely that it's by far the biggest. I rarely buy games off of steam, and if i can, i choose to buy them on a disc, but i use steam as my universal friends list, all my friends are on steam, and it makes it easy to see who's online and ask them if they're up for playing.
I don't think EA origin is not gonna blow steam away, i don't think they'll functionally replace them for a lot of gamers, it'll just be an annoying thing you'll have to fire up before playing BF3.
I don't wanna end up haveing to open 7 different programs just to see who's online.
Heres what i do when playing:
A) Fire up steam to see who's online and up for playng
B) log onto ventrillo, so we can talk while playing
C) open the game.
Now when BF3 comes out, add these 2
D) Open Ea origins
E) Open battlelog (their battlefiel-facebook website, where the server list is, or so i've been told)
Thats 5 things to open, just to start playing.
I know someone is gonan be like "Herp derp, it's just a few double clicks, are you too retarded to click a button, spoiled retard" And no, i can double click without any problems, but what purpose does it really serve to have to use all the different shit? It's not there for us, the gamers, the costumers, it's there because the companies wanna conquer the market, which in itself is fine, it's what they do, but please find some way to do without unneccecerily annoying your costumers.
3. Don't ever sell power.
Micro transactions that buys you power unobtainable by normal costumers that didn't fork over the extra cash ruins your game balance.
If you sell something that could be achieved otherwise through gameplay, no problem. I don't mind the D3 real money AH, causei can still find the loot myself.
I wouldn't mind, if people was able to buy a boost in Xp-gain in WoW, cause i could still level with no problems without it.
I don't mind micro-transactions, that buys you cosmetic changes, cause they don't affect gameplay.
4. Drop day 1 dlc, and other stuff, to prevent the re-selling of games.
If you buy a book, you'll excpect it to be readable by your friends as well once you've finished, and not lack the last 10 pages.
If you buy a movie, you'll expect to be able to watch it at a friends place on his dvd player, without lacking the side-plot.
Then why on earth shouldn't i be able to borrow a game from a friend, and play it without lacking content?
This is also why i prefer discs over digital distribution, i sure as hell expect to be able to borrow the game i've bought to a friend.
As for online games, it should be like this: You connect your account to the CD key, you can have as many accounts as you wish on one CD key, allowing you to borrow the game out to friends, but you can only play with 1 account at a time. This allows people to install the game on as amny computers as they wish, but still only play from 1 at a time, just like a single player game requiring the disc.
As for the PC-gaming dying to consoles:
If say the PS4 and Xbox720 came with keyboard and mouse as a viable option for all their games, i would probably get a lot more games on the console. Right now, when i get a new game, whether i get it for PC or PS3 is meinly determined by whether i'd rather play with a controller, or M/K.
If M/K was standart, in addition to a controller on consoles, i'd probably pick console more often, cause it's a dedicated gameing machine, and the games are specifically made to run on that excact hardware.
You could also just plug a controlelr to a PC, but it still doesn't solve the problems with pc's not beeing of uniform nature hardware-wise, which often causes problems.
If games ran on console, it would also potentially easen the points made in the second paragraph, cause all the meta gameing like universal friends lists, voice chat etc. would be handled over PSn/XBL, not 5 different programs battling each other.
TL
R Mad ramlbing above, move along people, nothign to see here, not even a reference to your moms smoking hot body and what i'd liek to do with it.
2. Leave steam as the game-overlay platform. I'm not saying steam is flawless, and perfect, merely that it's by far the biggest. I rarely buy games off of steam, and if i can, i choose to buy them on a disc, but i use steam as my universal friends list, all my friends are on steam, and it makes it easy to see who's online and ask them if they're up for playing.
I don't think EA origin is not gonna blow steam away, i don't think they'll functionally replace them for a lot of gamers, it'll just be an annoying thing you'll have to fire up before playing BF3.
I don't wanna end up haveing to open 7 different programs just to see who's online.
Heres what i do when playing:
A) Fire up steam to see who's online and up for playng
B) log onto ventrillo, so we can talk while playing
C) open the game.
Now when BF3 comes out, add these 2
D) Open Ea origins
E) Open battlelog (their battlefiel-facebook website, where the server list is, or so i've been told)
Thats 5 things to open, just to start playing.
I know someone is gonan be like "Herp derp, it's just a few double clicks, are you too retarded to click a button, spoiled retard" And no, i can double click without any problems, but what purpose does it really serve to have to use all the different shit? It's not there for us, the gamers, the costumers, it's there because the companies wanna conquer the market, which in itself is fine, it's what they do, but please find some way to do without unneccecerily annoying your costumers.
3. Don't ever sell power.
Micro transactions that buys you power unobtainable by normal costumers that didn't fork over the extra cash ruins your game balance.
If you sell something that could be achieved otherwise through gameplay, no problem. I don't mind the D3 real money AH, causei can still find the loot myself.
I wouldn't mind, if people was able to buy a boost in Xp-gain in WoW, cause i could still level with no problems without it.
I don't mind micro-transactions, that buys you cosmetic changes, cause they don't affect gameplay.
4. Drop day 1 dlc, and other stuff, to prevent the re-selling of games.
If you buy a book, you'll excpect it to be readable by your friends as well once you've finished, and not lack the last 10 pages.
If you buy a movie, you'll expect to be able to watch it at a friends place on his dvd player, without lacking the side-plot.
Then why on earth shouldn't i be able to borrow a game from a friend, and play it without lacking content?
This is also why i prefer discs over digital distribution, i sure as hell expect to be able to borrow the game i've bought to a friend.
As for online games, it should be like this: You connect your account to the CD key, you can have as many accounts as you wish on one CD key, allowing you to borrow the game out to friends, but you can only play with 1 account at a time. This allows people to install the game on as amny computers as they wish, but still only play from 1 at a time, just like a single player game requiring the disc.
As for the PC-gaming dying to consoles:
If say the PS4 and Xbox720 came with keyboard and mouse as a viable option for all their games, i would probably get a lot more games on the console. Right now, when i get a new game, whether i get it for PC or PS3 is meinly determined by whether i'd rather play with a controller, or M/K.
If M/K was standart, in addition to a controller on consoles, i'd probably pick console more often, cause it's a dedicated gameing machine, and the games are specifically made to run on that excact hardware.
You could also just plug a controlelr to a PC, but it still doesn't solve the problems with pc's not beeing of uniform nature hardware-wise, which often causes problems.
If games ran on console, it would also potentially easen the points made in the second paragraph, cause all the meta gameing like universal friends lists, voice chat etc. would be handled over PSn/XBL, not 5 different programs battling each other.
TL
R Mad ramlbing above, move along people, nothign to see here, not even a reference to your moms smoking hot body and what i'd liek to do with it.
