Dragoonlordz wrote...
Rotkaepchen wrote...
Mr.
Priestly, with all due respect, you may want to stop flattering people
who back you up and start answearing some serious questions, like
"What does Origin add to the ME3 experience from the player's point of view? I
understand
how data collection benefits EA, but does this forced service actually
add anything to the single-player game experience for us?". Sorry, but
no smiley here.
Question was originally posed with the added mention of asking for no marketing speak, well if don't want marketing speak then it's a question for the players not the company at that stage.
As
a player who uses it and already answered this myself, how I have
preference for the Origin client over Steam regarding resources used and
speed of both download and application itself, I use both. I prefer
getting my titles through digital distribution instead of having shelves
full of cd's, dvd's and blu-ray's which to be honest is quite annoying
these days. I have friends on both clients and talk to them and the only
thing I would like more so with Origin which believe will come over
time is more titles, more sales and lastly few more features but the
client itself is good imho better than steams client and I prefer to use
clients than retail to keep my games organised and stored as well as
way to avoid annoying issues of lost or scratched discs. The no client
option for purpose of DD which already stated prefer myself over retail,
is not as good because it requires me to remember over a dozen
passwords and usernames for each D2D, GoG, Gamersgate, Impulse, Amazon
and many more. A client or in my case two clients is better for me in
this regard.
That‘s all very interesting, provided that you are already interested in using a DD in the first place; something that, I suspect, is not the case of many of those that choose to buy the physical copy.
And that is the key problem; Origin was meant first to answer EA’s aspirations and second to focus on those players that do care about DD. But, It is also being imposed on those that are just interested in buying a physical copy in the first place and playing ME3 offline; for those what is the advantage of Origin?
Now, I can understand why EA wish to start ME3 through Origin, even if it doesn’t benefit the gamer; but once it is launched in offline single-player, what is the point of keeping Origin working in the background, consuming resources? Even for EA? What impact will Origin have in lower-end machines performance? I wonder.
Personally, as a gamer, it just seems so pointless; a hassle really. As I don’t buy games online or play multi-player, I certainly don’t see most of what you point out as advantages; and even the ability of downloading a scratched disk content, (a very rare event to begin with), does not justify having an application like Origin always on during game-time, consuming machine resources, for no apparent reason, or gain.
It seems to me that, likely the powers that b at EA, in their eagerness to embrace a brave new world of DD are just failing to realize the pointlessness of their product for a significant part of their consumer base:
It is pointless to make Origin mandatory if the consumer is not interested in using in the first place. It just annoys the consumer that has to deal with a beta, not fully stable and/or is concerned with his security/privacy, without providing return to EA or added value to the customer.
Not a good way of doing business.
Modifié par vallore, 04 février 2012 - 03:53 .
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