Let's compare, shall we? EA is giving us its own games, most of which are crap. (Those that aren't are made by Bioware, which I fear is getting bogged down by the sheer number of projects getting piled on as EA realizes they're the only dev house they've got left who's worth their salt except for DICE, which has only ever done multiplayer FPSs well anyway.
Meanwhile, Valve takes its sweet time giving us really, incredibly good and atmospheric titles like L4D and HL2 (with attending episodes) and gets us to spend our time on other peoples games while they make more, and treat their customers like people instead of boxes of money and (Entirely male) hormones.
It's going to be fun to watch the fireworks. I predict Origin will flame out once the whole TOR thing blows over and people go back to WoW. EA will realize they don't have the catalogue to make a Steam-style service work on their own, fold their cards, and quietly put all of their products back on Steam. (And hope everyone forgets Origin existed.) On the off-chance Origin actually proves to be better than Steam, I'll gladly jump ship. I don't judge companies subjectively, I evaluate based on past behavior. EA stands to regain a lot of lost customer trust by making themselves out as the "other Valve" even if they aren't really.
