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[JasonPogo]

 I'm just saying I don't want to have Origins on my computer.  Just make the game stand alone like the first two.  If Origins is required to play this game I will most likely pass it up.

[Allan Schumacher]

Addai67 wrote...

No it's not.  Steam is my digital platform of choice (apart from GOG.com) and it works.  It offers me a service- cheap games, mostly, since I don't use the cloud feature or forums.  Origin offers me nothing.  The exclusivity boondoggle also means I can't buy the games on my platform of choice.

I still remember when Steam was routinely referred to as "A Steaming pile of ****."  Some of the CS players I played with just gave up on the game with all the issues Steam was giving them.


You mention the exclusivity boondoggle of Origin, which restricts you from buying the game on your platform of choice.  Are there other places besides Steam that I can buy any of the Half-Life/Portal/Left 4 Dead games? (nevermind that many games now come out with Steamworks built in)

At face value, Origin doesn't really offer me much either, since Steam already offered it.  Until I realized that it's just like a competing department store opening up in a different section of the local shopping from the other one.  They sell many of the same things, and effectively just exist to compete with one another now.  The in house stuff they make is their own brand, and can only be bought within that department store.


I love Steam, and have been an avid user of it for a long time.  But I remember being unable to play Half-Life 2 on launch because of heavy traffic on the Steam servers refusing to authenticate my game.

As it stands, I have a heavy tendency towards Steam for no other reason than I like having my gaming library consolidated.  Still, I occasionally pick up the odd game on GamersGate or even Origin.


For reference sake though, take the following quote for Valve games 10 years ago:

EA have too much invested in their awful steam-wannabe at this point to
not require every game they own be required to play it. They can't write
it off at this point sadly.

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 05 février 2013 - 06:51 .

[Fiddzz]

Allan Schumacher wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

No it's not.  Steam is my digital platform of choice (apart from GOG.com) and it works.  It offers me a service- cheap games, mostly, since I don't use the cloud feature or forums.  Origin offers me nothing.  The exclusivity boondoggle also means I can't buy the games on my platform of choice.

I still remember when Steam was routinely referred to as "A Steaming pile of ****."  Some of the CS players I played with just gave up on the game with all the issues Steam was giving them.


You mention the exclusivity boondoggle of Origin, which restricts you from buying the game on your platform of choice.  Are there other places besides Steam that I can buy any of the Half-Life/Portal/Left 4 Dead games? (nevermind that many games now come out with Steamworks built in)

At face value, Origin doesn't really offer me much other, since Steam already offered it.  Until I realized that it's just like a competing department store opening up in a different section of the local shopping from the other one.  They sell many of the same things, and effectively just exist to compete with one another now.  The in house stuff they make is their own brand, and can only be bought within that department store.


I love Steam, and have been an avid user of it for a long time.  But I remember being unable to play Half-Life 2 on launch because of heavy traffic on the Steam servers refusing to authenticate my game.

As it stands, I have a heavy tendency towards Steam for no other reason than I like having my gaming library consolidated.  Still, I occasionally pick up the odd game on GamersGate or even Origin.

This x100.  I think i've popped up in a thread like this before.  I'm in the exact same boat as Allan.  Steam was garbage when it was launched.  Now I use it all the time and enjoy it greatly, (and am SUPER excited for the steambox for home [if it actually has everything they say it does])

Origins' challange (and uPlay etc etc) is to build something as good as steam in less time because they are not the first.  It took Steam YEARS to get where it is.  We will see what happens, competition breeds innovation. 

[Allan Schumacher]

The point being that I have heard all of your complaints for the past decade for Steam. If it's a deal breaker for you, then fine.  Steam was (and in some cases still is) a deal breaker for others.  I encourage you to stand by your convictions, especially for a luxury good like video games.

Worst case scenario, you skip out on the BioWare/EA games while Origin (and others) provide competition in the digital marketplace which will only help the consumer for the non-EA games it hosts. There's no shortage of PC games out there so it's not like you'll have nothing to play.

Best case scenario, Origin continues to improve (like Steam did) and even find a way to contribute something extra to digital purchasing of PC games that competitors like Steam and GamersGate have to adopt.

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 05 février 2013 - 08:10 .