Poll: Is EA refusing to have ME3 on steam going to change anything?

[Vausch]

I only say "no" because the start was when EA played the "I'm taking my ball and going home" move and created Origin.

 

[Enizer]

well, i think communications first started breaking down with the crysis 2 thing, where crysis 2 was pulled from steam something like 2 days after release

so yeah, this is a symptom of breaking communications, however, not the start of said break

 

[paislyabmj]

Me3 on pc is going to get less sales but ea will get a larger percentage of the profits.More origin accounts get made and in the future origin exclusive games will suffer less due to the larger amount of origin customers making origin a more viable platform for exclusive games in the future.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Simply put, EA want to sell their games on Origin only, so they get an even bigger chunk (read: all) of the profits from it. No middle men, they sell it directly. I'd buy it on steam, as I have the first two, I won't use Origin, so they've lost at least one sale. I understand they're promoting Origin, but I can't stand the stupid business practices involved in doing it. Crysis 2 was removed for the same reason, though has just recently been brought back to Steam (don't buy it by the way, it's crap whichever DDP you buy it from!) so maybe it'll be there one day and that's the day I'll buy it.

 

[Khazoth]

It will definitely change things. Like me never playing Mass Effect 3 again. I hate Origin. Screw you EA.


To be realistic I voted no, its not going to change anything in the grand scheme of things. Fans that really loved the series will go searching for it. There will be a fringe that will not buy it due to it not being easily available.. But.. No.


EA will be EA. They will refuse to listen to their fans, dig their heels in, and do whatever they want.

 

[NLS]

The "start"? The "start" was back when they pulled Crysis 2 off of Steam because they were trying to push Origin forward. Besides, Mass Effect 3 is almost five months old now, which likely means that EA doesn't care about it anymore.

I'm tempted to ask if the OP has been living under a rock all of this time...

Actually, things may be softening up. Considering that they re-released Crysis 2 a few months ago, maybe they'll give ME3 and BF3 the same treatment. Buuut, it will probably be years from now, a sort of "Get it first on Origin, or find it in the cheapo-bin at Steam, except it's still full retail price years afterwards"-deal is what I imagine.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

a poor marketing choice is all I'm seeing, less people will have bought it because its not on steam, less sales means less of EA's precious profit.

even if Valve takes a cut from the income, it would still even out on both long and short term sales, not having it on Steam just seems petty on EA's part.

 

[Something Amyss]

I said it was more likely, not that they wouldn't mind. You can't deny that most folks who would consider themselves Valve fans would likely have a very negative view of EA.

So, there's more likely, but only in an intangible and meaningless sense.

 

[GoaThief]

Crysis 2

I recently purchased Crysis 2 during the Steam summer sale for 75% or something similar, so you cannot be correct.

I can't imagine EA would have allowed Crysis 2 to be put on sale if they weren't kosher with Valve either.

 

[Tranquility]

Well I, for one, refused to actually buy it.

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm not sure what you're trying to get at;

That their anti-EA stance does not translate into anything meaningful. That they might be anti-EA is one thing, but you said they were looking for a chance to dick over EA, and they didn't do that. EA sells awesome on Steam, Mass Effect 3 and other Origin-exclusive titles still sell good (Awesome in the case of ME3), and literally nothing's changed except the fanboys are running two invasive DRM clients instead of one.

It is, to borrow from some old dead dude, the tale of an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Consumers are excessively vocal these days, but completely unwilling to inconvenience themselves in any way imaginable. This is why the call of "boycott" is so meaningless these days; instead of boycotting the product, people scream loudly then buy it quietly.

There was a lot of sound and fury once about a little client called Steam. most of the things people say about Origin now were once said about Steam. And people bought the Steam-mandatory games anyway, and Steam became an incredible asset for Valve because nobody wanted to give up their precious games. And Origins, even if it sucks, stands to do the same, because nobody wants to give up their precious games.

 

[Dendio]

The "start"? The "start" was back when they pulled Crysis 2 off of Steam because they were trying to push Origin forward. Besides, Mass Effect 3 is almost five months old now, which likely means that EA doesn't care about it anymore.

I'm tempted to ask if the OP has been living under a rock all of this time...

Except EA/Bioware has been supporting the game with 3 multiplayer dlc's, single player extended cut and on going Bi weekly Operations. We have two more single player dlc's to be released in the imminent future and most likely multiplayer dlc through christmas.

Mass effect support has been awesome, and almost all of the dlc has been free

By the way mass effect 3 release on Wii U during christmas with new scenes that give back ground on the past two games for new players.

 

[shrekfan246]

Snip

This thread was resurrected again? Sheesh.

They're releasing single-player DLC? Apart from "Leviathan", that's the first I've heard of it. Besides, I never said anything decrying Mass Effect 3, I merely said that EA probably doesn't care about sales figures for it anymore. Not to say they don't encourage people to buy it still, but when it comes to "ultimate sales figures!" time, they're not going to say "Oh, Mass Effect 3 sold [however many millions of copies] over the last half a year", they're probably going to say "Oh, it sold [however many millions of copies] in the first three months".

Bioware is still supporting Mass Effect 3. That doesn't mean EA still cares about it.

 

[kingthrall]

Well If I liked Mass effect 3 (not the game itself) but for starters I would care. Because of Origin being the platform compulsory to run it and to violate your privacy. This would probably leave steam and MA3 incompatible regardless.

Its no big issue, it works in Steam advantage actually as they are the big shots when it comes to online game downloads and by not having EA software they simply isolating their competitors away from publicity.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

This makes me laugh. So the pc market is starting to get it's very own xbox/ps3 split...about time lol