Notch Calls Origin "a Good Thing"

[Easton Dark]

The thing is... Steam doesn't need to change at all in order to be better than Origin.

That's not competition.

 

[jawakiller]

Tried origin once... I'm pretty sure a somebody with cancer died that day as well. Family didn't react well. Started flipping shit. It's was awful.

Oh and the guy's family didn't take the news well either. They cried and went to the funeral. Sad stuff happening.

 

[Burnswell]

We have a good king, so lets bring in an evil king because competition would make things better... somehow...
Steam has good products and services already so not sure what this will do apart from give your steam account a smaller range of games and require you to install that origin malware crap

 

[SajuukKhar]

Valve comes from a developer background, their foray into selling other peoples video games was unexplored territory.

EA however, has been practising and learning how to make money through sometimes neferious means for a long time now, this shows as their first step into the same market as Steam sees them force the program onto people and remove said games from the competing service.

I can buy Colgate toothpaste from competing supermarkets, but i can't get crysis 2 on steam...

You are aware that EA does still have some of thier newer games on Steam and would put their bigger games back on Steam is Steam changed its shitty DLC policy.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Only when the competition is actually trying to bring about changes beneficial to the field at large; ie, offering a better deal.
Which Origin has so far proven incapable of doing.

 

[SteewpidZombie]

Arguably Steam needs NO competition, due to the fact that they already offer 50% and sometimes 75% sales on virtually EVERYTHING (I've even seen $30.00 games as low as like $5.00) at least once or twice a year (minimum). Something I can't see Origin or other services doing. Steam has already realized that making your customers happy and putting games on sale is what sells and makes a profit (Killing floor dropped from $20 to $3 for like 3-4 days, and the game sales/activity BOOMED with literally like a 1000+ people playing 24/7 for over a week straight).

So when I want some good deals on Triple-A games I'll stick with Steam, if I want some cool and inventive Indie games then I'll go to Desura, but if I wanna have a company pull down it's pants and squeeze out a massive pile of S**T onto my face while I shove money in their pockets then I guess Origin would be my best choice.

 

[Zenode]

Dear Escapist

I know you like to create drama, but you REALLY should have run the story on the fact that Origin changed its EULA so that it couldn't check out everything you do on your computer, it would really clear up a lot of bullshit floating around here.

Sincerely
Zenode

 

[joshthor]

he actually has exactly the right idea. i wouldnt have as much of a problem with origin if i could still buy my ea games (mass effect 3 lookin at you) on steam. i still wouldnt use origin unless they did something amazing, but i wouldnt want it and all ea executives to die in a fire.

 

[Strazdas]

Competition Does make for a better market. Origin is NOT a competition. it would be competition if: players would have a choice on which platform to buy the product. real situation - we are forced into origin. its not a competition, its slavery.
Both steam and origin needs vast improvements. thing is, steam been improving for the last 8 years, will origins?

 

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