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Actually it looks like Crysis 2 wasn't pulled by EA:ebug9 wrote:
EA yanked several of their newest titles from Steam (try searching for Crysis 2 and see). I'm guessing it's because of that Origin shit. All their titles will be offered there from now on.
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Just look at the pack that's coming with BF3 pre-order now.JdeFalconr wrote:
DICE I could see taking care of business, potentially, but they don't have much say in this part.
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ea have had an online store for years, too. loads of people have - not just steam. the difference is that steam centralized all the community and stats and everything else on one application. but really a lot of that came from the all-seeing-eye / xfire. it's one big copy and compete market, really. steam is the best now, but we'll see. i don't think i'll be using origin much at all.DUnlimited wrote:
silly ea desperately trying to catch on gaben 10 years too late. too late now that 98% of all pc games are sold through steam.
no they are trying to compete with that COD shit with the prestige service facebook integrated shit.dtacs wrote:
Origin isn't an actual program, think of it as Direct2Drive, simply downloads from a website.
At least thats my understanding.
www.play-asia.comCheez wrote:
Good thing I'm preordering an import.
Thanks, England.
Did you ask them why you can ship discs from the other side of the world for half the price of digital distribution?Jaekus wrote:
Figured it out, went onto their live chat assistance and did it from there.
I love it, all these digital distribution channels, in my opinion, just punish the consumer. I don't like the idea of all my digitally owned games being spread across a plethora of online services. I currently have stuff from Steam, Impulse, and a couple on the old EA Downloader store. Now I'll have crap on Origin too if I don't buy BF3 disks?Giant Bomb also says that Alice: Madness Returns and Battlefield 3 were removed from Steam, too, but I don't recall ever seeing Store pages for those games to begin with.
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Monopoly schmonopoly. Plenty of competitors. It's just that Steam does it best for PC.eusgen wrote:
is turning into a monopoly.
I don't care for it either. I have more than enough usernames and passwords to remember on their own without having to deal with Steam, Impulse, GFWL, Relic Online all at once with a bunch of other competitors trying to edge in. If this starts to become more common, I'm just going to go back to primarily buying box copies, or just entirely move over to console.JdeFalconr wrote:
Uh-oh, it looks like BF3 could indeed be exclusive to Origin. From Firingsquad's article on this:I love it, all these digital distribution channels, in my opinion, just punish the consumer. I don't like the idea of all my digitally owned games being spread across a plethora of online services. I currently have stuff from Steam, Impulse, and a couple on the old EA Downloader store. Now I'll have crap on Origin too if I don't buy BF3 disks?Giant Bomb also says that Alice: Madness Returns and Battlefield 3 were removed from Steam, too, but I don't recall ever seeing Store pages for those games to begin with.
