Poll: Origin v Steam with battlelines drawn, where r u?

[psicat]

Steam loves their customers, Origin loves to rip off their customers and powdered toastman FTW.

I really hate blind little fanboys that think Steam is some paragon of virtue. I know enough enough people who have been screwed over by Steam, and had their whole account ripped off, my brother included.

Your brother needs to stop telling his password to strangers.

To paraphrase Yahtzee a little; Valve is like a stripper: They don't actually like you but pretend to so you can give them your money.

He said that about Nintendo, in case you weren't aware.

I use Steam for one or two games, but I'll never have a library of games with games that cost more than $10 each and of more total than what I spent already of around $65, basically the price of one console game.

What is this I don't even... Please learn English. I'm not quite sure what you're saying in this abomination of a sentence, but Steam offers cheaper prices than brick and mortar stores for games, especially with the periodic sales they have. Case in point, I got Mass Effect 1 and 2 for $10, Assassin's Creed 1-3 for $30, Portal 2 for $25, and tons of indie games for under $2.50.

He is an adult, he knows about security, and doesn't tell his passwords to anyone, even me. He just didn't use Steam for a few months when he tried to again he couldn't, he contacted customer support they just told him his account was banned and refused to say why or try to fix it.

I'm well aware the quote was about Nintendo, I just changed it a little that's why I said it was a paraphrase not a direct quote.

My sentence was grammatically fine, maybe a little run on. You just need better reading comprehension skills kid. And, prices don't matter when you can't trust the retailer at all.

 

[yuval152]

He is an adult, he knows about security, and doesn't tell his passwords to anyone, even me. He just didn't use Steam for a few months when he tried to again he couldn't, he contacted customer support they just told him his account was banned and refused to say why or try to fix it.

I'm well aware the quote was about Nintendo, I just changed it a little that's why I said it was a paraphrase not a direct quote.

My sentence was grammatically fine, maybe a little run on. You just need better reading comprehension skills kid. And, prices don't matter when you can't trust the retailer at all.

he probably got fished,and I didn't understand what you said too T_T

 

[Omnific One]

If Origin gives me 75% off sales like Steam/D2D does, sure, I'll use it. Until then, no dice. Probably never, actually, considering EA doesn't want to give away their stuff like that.

 

[andy.welbournW]

The question is how much I trust EA, and I simply do not trust how they do business.

I do understand why some people still buy EA products, but it is not for me. I think the poll speaks volumes.

 

[GeorgW]

I prefer Steam for its sales, but it doesn't really matter to me, I can just as well download a few titles from Origin or buy a disc copy.

 

[Gindil]

My money goes to whichever asks for the least amount of money, simple as.

I hate to say it, but Steam is not always the one having the cheapest price. Link [http://shockedfish.com/]

The fact is, people will find more convenience through steam than most other places.

Not sure why you quoted me then, I didn't say Steam has always got the cheapest price. In fact, my entire point is that people care more about the price than the place they download it from.

Dude, your computer must truly be slow with so many different digital services. XD

 

[thirion1850]

Steam will win, but it's a shame. There should be competition for it, otherwise it's a monopoly.

You're kidding, right?
Steam is NOT the only digital distribution platform out there.
Gamer's Gate, Direct2Drive, Good Old Games, Impulse are all there. They make enough money to keep going, so it's not like steam has anything approaching a monopoly, even without the competition from Origin.

Well, I'm supposing there's a reason I haven't heard of them then, isn't there?

 

[NoCakeFourU]

There wasn't an option for me so i haven't voted

My opinion is thus - Anyone who is loyal to a particular digital distribution platform is a fool and a fools fool at that. It does not MATTER which program you load up to play your game, or which distribution software you need to download it; they're utterly irrelevant to anyone with an ounce of common sense.

The ONLY things that matter are thus

- Which has it cheaper
- Which downloads faster
- Which has good security for my Credit card details.

And it really only comes down to the first one when you *really* think about it. There's not really a good way to measure each platforms digital security (and both are likely to be as good as one another) and Whatever download speed they have is ultimately going to be hindered by *your* connection speed. Not theirs.

So really, whichever is cheapest. I mean there's not even any grass-roots, "support the small business" reason to support one over the other. They're both multi-million dollar companies, they both publish their own unique games and they both suck from time to time.

My money goes to whichever asks for the least amount of money, simple as.

This ^. And more.

It's really not that big a deal to have to use Origin to play EA games, and frankly, it's good that there is some competition in the market. That way Steam will feel more pressure to act competitively - selling games at a lower cost, making Steam more user-friendly, etc. They already are doing most of it, but it's added incentive.

It doesn't matter whether Origin tanks or takes over as the new distribution service for gamers. Either way, the userbase wins.

 

[Zagzag]

Although I use steam I don't entirely trust it, and only use it to get a game when it is the only way of buying said game. I do like steam, but the idea that I don't own the actual game bothers me. Origin seems really stupid, in that you own even less of the game than Steam lets you. For this reason I wouldn't go anywhere near it...

 

[isnosche]

I'm confused about this is any different than Battle.net for WoW and other Blizzard games? You don't find those on Steam and yet there isn't a daily cry for its immediate failure and destruction despite Blizzard's connection to Activision. I'm not up here to defend EA or its business practices but lets keep some perspective: you want a system that one of this site's favorite developers (Bioware) is forced to use to sell and operate their games with because you dislike the publisher.

MHmmm, this was playing on my mind aswell, i think people dont consider them because they are a pc exclusive club and so far haven't screwed their playerbase like EA. supporting Diablo 2 for far longer then they should and they have a public face ... like blizzcon. Its also pretty obvious they have a sense of humor (implementing that lorekeeper dwarf, alot of the questnames .. and so on) and doesn't release games untill they are ready.
People still see it as blizzard and not an activision devision

Ea on the other hand ... not the best of reputation and they have literary distroyed anything they have touched ..

 

[Griffolion]

I've just made my first purchase on Origin (BF3 pre-order) and it really wasn't that bad. The checkout is just as easy as Steam. I'd prefer it if I could have just stuck to Steam for everything, but this whole thing doesn't actually need battle lines. They are both valid DDS' competing with each other. Our loyalties should be to ourselves and our wallets, not which one is 'better'.

 

[Wintermoot]

I stick to Steam it,s also a dickmove by EA to remove their content from steam Origin would never topple steam!

 

[Kelthurin]

Uhm.. I'll root for both, I guess. Origin isn't all bad. The only problem, is that it only supports EA titles.

Oh and EA's customer support is a fucking joke. Which is the other problem.
I work in customer support. If one of my colleagues tells a customer, what the EA representative told me, they would get escalated and smacked in the freakin' gob.
Not rudeness, just general god-damn incompetence.