Poll: The likelihood of an OriginOS

[The Jovian]

Given how absolutely creatively (and morally) bankrupt EA's been since the mid 00s, I really wouldn't put it past them to try and make their own Origin-themed OS that will probably cost a lot and suck balls just like how Origin sucks balls. For an added bonus their games' PC ports will be OriginOS exclusive, so you'll have to pay extra 50-100 dollars to play their games on a PC.

Let me put it to you this way, Valve is a very popular musician that has won numerous Grammies and has made some of the best pop songs of the last decade and a half, and EA is an, egotistical, narcissistic, mediocre pop song "artist" that somehow has a legions of fangirls and is trying to stay relevant by being really immature with the occasional publicity stunt or by ripping off the guys with actual talent because he's too afraid to write original stuff on his own, Valve being one of them.

EA is greedy and careless, some might even call it evil, Valve manages to do DRM, micro-transactions and DLC properly but EA keeps screwing it over, twisting what was once a great idea into a money making machine at the expense of the consumer. I will not be surprised if SteamOS is a huge hit and three days later EA announces the OriginOS for 50$ and Origin Machine for 300$ and all of their Origin games will be exclusive to this new OS and console, I will not be surprised if EA actually has the balls to do something this consumer unfriendly. But if it does, if it keeps taking gamers for granted, if it keeps assuming we're all just retarded sheep, eventually it will suffer the same fate as THQ, it will overextend it reach and it will all crash and burn, and nobody will mourn them. Everyone will rejoice that the corporate beast that feeds on the souls of artists is finally dead.

What do you think? Is EA this soulless or does it still have some standards?

 

[mad825]

Possible.

That said, I highly doubt it, it being a Linux distro as well...That also said, it won't be just EA alone cashing in on this project if it does become a trend....That also said that I said, "Origin" has been around longer than you think under the name of "EA download manger".

 

[ohnoitsabear]

I highly doubt it. Look at it this way, Valve isn't going to make any money off SteamOS itself, since it's a free OS and they'll get the exact same cut from games sold on that platform as they do already. If Valve is going to make any money off of this, it's going to be from hardware sales slowly creating a niche market. They aren't going to make tons of money overnight from this. Basically, from my perspective, it seems like Valve is trying to play the long game with this, and their motivation for doing so seems to be as much about making a change in the OS and console markets as making money (something they can do, because they're privately owned).

Now look at EA. First off, EA sells a majority of their games on consoles anyway, so a large investment (and believe me, making an OS would be a large investment) to make more money off of the PC market really doesn't make sense when they could invest that money in other things. Not to mention that Origin is not nearly as dominant as Steam on PC, and they really have less influence on what happens on that platform. Also, what would EA gain from this? A quick buck from PC gamers and an even greater loss in consumer goodwill? It really doesn't make sense for EA to want to do this.

 

[Yuuki]

An OriginOS exclusive to an Origin machine - possible. If it's their console they can put whatever the hell they want on it, although it IS important to remember that games still need a standardized combination of hardware+software to function. I don't even know what an Origin-machine would resemble besides simply being a stripped-down PC that runs only Origin + a basic GUI.
As for an OriginOS for PC trying to compete with Windows - not gonna happen, Windows is too fucking strong.

As for "Origin sucks" - a lot of this is just baseless and for some reason you are trying to draw a relationship between Orign and EA's pricing/DLC/micro practices. They are completely separated, Origin has nothing to do with how EA handles pricing/DLC/micro. Origin is nothing more than a distribution platform exclusive to PC.

EA will treat consumers like retarded sheep because on a grand scale they ARE retarded sheep. Consumers speak with their wallets and EA eagerly listens - then they see how far they can push ideas/concepts to maximize their gain. Simple.

Are EA ethical/customer-oriented? No.
Will something like EA always exist? Yes.
Deal with it however you see fit.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Oh it's not about souls or standards, EA wouldn't know what to do with those, it is only ever about profit.
And considering that unlike Valve they have:
- a store people only use because it holds their games hostage
- no community support
- no good will
- no software / hardware / game developer support unless they are holding them at gun point
- and a massive deal for Xbone and their sports game TV crossover nonsense

At this point this would not only be a waste of money because not one person would want their console but could cause quite a few lawsuits with MS.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Doubtful, SteamOS isn't a short term profitable enterprise (which is EA's guiding star) it may help the PC market as a whole but its a whole lot of time and effort for little if any monetary returns for the company involved.

 

[Strazdas]

Very unlikely. They may be money grubbing bastards, but they are smart enough to realize that further dividing the operating systems will not bring thme more profit. in fact they already hate the SteamOS being successful (lets face it, it has a lot of support from stema fans and people that want alternative to windows alike), as that is going to divide the games even more than it already is. what they would like if they would control the ONLY platform. making their own? noone would use it.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Absolutely 100% no chance of ever happening. The entire point of SteamOS is to be an open system. To give us something better than Microsoft. It immediately raises the bar of what EA would have to achieve. And DICE already announced that they would like to get their games onto Linux. So it's far more likely that EA will simply start developing games that would natively work for Linux based systems like the SteamOS. They don't need their own OS. Not to mention that it wouldn't fuckin' work in the PC gaming world. Fragmenting the PC community like that is not a good idea. Show me a PC gamer who would be willing to install 3 operating systems on his machine or a PC gamer who's willing to buy a separate system just so he could run EA games. It's a ludicrous idea.

 

[Master_Fubar23]

Don't know, don't care. I wouldn't buy it/get it for any reason.

 

[DelphiSantano]

Show me a PC gamer who would be willing to install 3 operating systems on his machine or a PC gamer who's willing to buy a separate system just so he could run EA games

Honestly, I think it would only be slightly easier to find a PC Gamer who's willing to just run EA games, let alone go out of their way to be able to.

And Valve can pull off an OS, I doubt EA could.

Valve have less resources but they do have support from the vast majority of the gaming community, who are willing to give just about anything they do a shot.
While EA have tons of resources but have earned the disrespect and scorn from most gamers, whose first question when it comes to an EA product is quite likely to be "What's going to blow up if I touch this?".

 

[Bostur]

Unlikely. But if SteamOS becomes a success, maybe they would ship a Linux port of Origin. If they want exclusivity they can just abandon the PC completely and focus on consoles.

 

[Daverson]

I think, if it were ever announced, OriginOS would signal the downfall of western civilization. And I mean, literally, they'd be at some exposition, some suit would just say "OriginOS", the crowd would start panicking, and it'd just spread from there.

Since most politicians don't really "get" computers, a general state of emergency would be declared too late, as most armed forces would have gone renegade before action could have been taken. Conservative estimates would give us a week before the first government collapses. Russia and China would undoubtedly close their borders first, but this wouldn't do them much good, and while their less developed areas wouldn't be as heavily effected, the damage done in both Moscow and Beijing would still be catastrophic. With the key members of the security council in ruin, the UN would fall apart, reducing humanity back to the age of warring city-states.

As a result of this, EA's share price would probably suffer a noticeable drop.

 

[shrekfan246]

EA is greedy and careless, some might even call it evil, Valve manages to do DRM, micro-transactions and DLC properly but EA keeps screwing it over, twisting what was once a great idea into a money making machine at the expense of the consumer.

This caught my eye.

How exactly were DRM or micro-transactions ever a good idea in any way, and how does Valve do DLC properly? Valve's idea of DLC is extra hats. In first-person games. Obviously you might argue that cosmetic DLC is far better than something like Mass Effect 3's 'Citadel', but at that point I'd have to just bow out due to a matter of opinion, because if I'm going to be paying extra on a game I'd like to get some sort of fairly significant extra gameplay time out of it.

As far as "OriginOS" - Does Origin cost money to put on your PC?

Even if they were stupid enough to try segmenting off their portion of PC gaming even further, which I suppose wouldn't surprise me, they'd have to be even stupider than Microsoft at this point to try charging Windows-prices for their own proprietary OS.

 

[LAGG]

I see people still have no idea of what the SteamOS is.

 

[AT God]

I see people still have no idea of what the SteamOS is.

Yeah, I was under the impression SteamOS was going to be the operating system primarily for the Steambox, meaning its about bringing the PC experience to console users. OriginOS would be nothing without an Originbox and EA has Originboxes, they are called Xbox an Playstation, both of those consoles allow EA to sell their products the way they want.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I see people still have no idea of what the SteamOS is.

Since you're acting so smug about it, I must assume you do have an idea.
If so, enlighten us, rather than throwing a quaint Parthian Shot at everyone.

 

[aozgolo]

Origin was a cashgrab by EA at the PC Market, they already have considerable investment in the console market, they're not going to jeopardize that by releasing their own OS.

 

[spartandude]

I would consider it a possibility if SteamOS is a hit, if it isnt then i highly doubt EA will bother.