Poll: The Effectiveness of Boycotting: EA/ME3 Edition

[ResonanceSD]

Though I suppose the lion share of MW2 players were new buys because ponies.

Isn't that pretty much the reason for most of the pre-orders or first day buys of any given AAA release? Well, not necessarily ponies, of course, but often something equally irrational. I mean, we could also look at the numbers of how many people bought, to remain on topic, ME3 simply "Because ME3, Oh-em-gee!"; and call those silly as well.

^ This, a lot of people have been telling me that they bought it BECAUSE THEY NEEDED TO FINISH THE STORY MAAAN

Read the wiki people -_-.

ResonanceSD, boycotting EA since Dragon Age 2.

 

[Rednog]

I bought it, did not buy the DLC because I'm still trudging through the previous game. Wanted to hit the multiplayer before it became a ghost town.
I don't mind origin, it really isn't no worse than Steam's big brother-ing. Seriously the amount of hate to Origin just blows my mind, it really isn't horrendously worse than steam. Hell even Total Biscuit has said that Origin has flat out worked better for him then Steam. I'm honestly in the same boat, I have a good gaming PC and steam still runs like crap, Origin I get 3+mb/s, and I can still surf the net and whatnot with no hindrance. Steam on the other hand, throttles at 1 mb/s and will completely lock up any other internet usage.

EA's business practice of treating employees like crap is the only problem I really have with them. But buying or not buying Mass Effect 3 wasn't going to change that in any way.

See origin does have faster speeds (hint its because nobodies using it) but its a memory hog, its updater/updating process has bugged out on me numerous occasions during the course of playing bf3 (to the point of making me re-download whole patches because it got confused). Leading me to not only give up bothering with bf3 (which i did enjoy) but also origin. It doesn't matter if it downloads faster if I have to go through the process 4 times before it chooses to do it properly.

It had actual issues that any company trying to compete with a market leader shouldn't of. Not to mention the lack of any tangible sales, very few actual games and no indie games when i last checked completely dropped off my interest.

So while your experience of it may be good, there were a lot of peoples who weren't and while that shouldn't be enough to write it off, it is when
a) you have many games on a competitive service
b) the service in question is owned by a nefarious compay
c) the service in question provides nothing new for you.

I don't get the double standard. So steam is notably a memory hog, I mean god help you if you're trying to do anything else when you're downloading something on steam, it locks up your shit, oh well I still love you steam. But if Origin does it, well you're done with Origin forever? I still remember when Medal of Honor was on steam and it had horrendous patch issues that didn't get resolved for like 2 months, should I have said "fuck steam, they botched this, never dealing with them again"?
Point A: Ok so other services have the same games, why is this some huge fault of Origin? As a consumer you should be looking to various companies/ services for the best deal you can get. If I see a game on origin and on steam and they are the same price, but I'm getting far better speeds on origin, I'm going to buy on Origin. If I find a better price on steam I'll buy it on steam. Hell if I find the same deal on amazon I'll download it from there, because even amazon's downloader works better than steam's.
Point B: I'll give you that, but like I said I personally only have issue with EA's treatment of employees, I think the other stuff people hold against them is a little blown out of proportion considering so many other companies pull the same shit but no one says a damned thing.
Point C: Why does something have to "provide something new"? What huge innovation are you looking for in a game distributor? Just because something has a relatively equal (subjective) service it makes it worse? Like I said in point A, you shop around for what best benefits you as a consumer, mindlessly tying your wagon to Steam regardless of better service and or price elsewhere is ludicrous.

 

[Furtled]

Didn't buy it due to Origin and spent the last few months arguing with EA's legal department. That's been enough to put me off anything released by EA for the foreseeable future.

 

[Rednog]

I bought it, did not buy the DLC because I'm still trudging through the previous game. Wanted to hit the multiplayer before it became a ghost town.
I don't mind origin, it really isn't no worse than Steam's big brother-ing. Seriously the amount of hate to Origin just blows my mind, it really isn't horrendously worse than steam. Hell even Total Biscuit has said that Origin has flat out worked better for him then Steam. I'm honestly in the same boat, I have a good gaming PC and steam still runs like crap, Origin I get 3+mb/s, and I can still surf the net and whatnot with no hindrance. Steam on the other hand, throttles at 1 mb/s and will completely lock up any other internet usage.

EA's business practice of treating employees like crap is the only problem I really have with them. But buying or not buying Mass Effect 3 wasn't going to change that in any way.

See origin does have faster speeds (hint its because nobodies using it) but its a memory hog, its updater/updating process has bugged out on me numerous occasions during the course of playing bf3 (to the point of making me re-download whole patches because it got confused). Leading me to not only give up bothering with bf3 (which i did enjoy) but also origin. It doesn't matter if it downloads faster if I have to go through the process 4 times before it chooses to do it properly.

It had actual issues that any company trying to compete with a market leader shouldn't of. Not to mention the lack of any tangible sales, very few actual games and no indie games when i last checked completely dropped off my interest.

So while your experience of it may be good, there were a lot of peoples who weren't and while that shouldn't be enough to write it off, it is when
a) you have many games on a competitive service
b) the service in question is owned by a nefarious compay
c) the service in question provides nothing new for you.

I don't get the double standard. So steam is notably a memory hog, I mean god help you if you're trying to do anything else when you're downloading something on steam, it locks up your shit, oh well I still love you steam. But if Origin does it, well you're done with Origin forever?
Point A: Ok so other services have the same games, why is this some huge fault of Origin? As a consumer you should be looking to various companies/ services for the best deal you can get. If I see a game on origin and on steam and they are the same price, but I'm getting far better speeds on origin, I'm going to buy on Origin. If I find a better price on steam I'll buy it on steam. Hell if I find the same deal on amazon I'll download it from there, because even amazon's downloader works better than steam's.
Point B: I'll give you that, but like I said I personally only have issue with EA's treatment of employees, I think the other stuff people hold against them is a little blown out of proportion considering so many other companies pull the same shit but no one says a damned thing.
Point C: Why does something have to "provide something new"? What huge innovation are you looking for in a game distributor? Just because something has a relatively equal (subjective) service it makes it worse? Like I said in point A, you shop around for what best benefits you as a consumer, mindlessly tying your wagon to Steam regardless of better service and or price elsewhere is ludicrous.

Well steam does none of that for me. Literally none of that. in the 10 years iv been using it the only thing that ever bothered me was offline mode, and even that has been improved.

A i will always get a better deal on steam due to sales. Thats not even a question

C Because its a competitor, unless you do something new or go about something in a different way then you deserve failure.

And i don't "tie my wagon" to steam, i use gog, i use amazon, origin provides me with literally no advantage (im sorry download speed has never been a problem for me, i tick it off and do something else till its done, i have many things to keep me busy) and as such as a consumer it is of no interest to me.

So by all means decree that you like the thing, do not try to claim there are no valid criticisms of it and paint all people who dislike it as hypocrites just because they had a worse experience with it than you.

I call people hypocrites because most of them are. People treat steam as infallible and ignore any fault it has what so ever. For example you say oh well I've never had a problem with steam, I had a problem with Origin. Fuck Origin. But there has/are people who have problems with Steam, and Steam has dropped the ball lots of times. I think it is flat out hypocritical of people to say the Origin is the worst service ever when they've barely used the damn thing while at the same time turning a blind eye to Steam's faults. Hey steam works amazing for you, great, keep using it, but don't pretend like it is a god send and Origin is the devil.

Also, 10 years? Really? Cause your steam says August 2006, to have been using steam for 10 years you would have to have been part of the very first beta users. You want to see someone who's been using steam for damn near 10 years since its full release? http://steamcommunity.com/id/rednog

 

[ResonanceSD]

Im not going to quote because of stacking, but if you notice steam being a memory/resource hog, you need a new pc.

 

[lapan]

Still haven't bought ME3 and probably never will. Started being sceptic about it when it was announced it would be Origin only and from that point on problems just kept piling up. Electronic Arts would have to make a big turn around at this point to make me buy from them again.

 

[Weaver]

Didn't buy due to origin and it's tricksy ways.