EA is using origin to exclusively sell its new games

Murph said:
And that is how much? I see an Ultimate Edition for R400.
Some of their prices are fully in line, but R350 for Mass Effect 1 :wtf:
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Yep. Got my goty via take2 UK importing for R250, had another one imported for R266. Even at those pricing origin is just another LOL.
 
Pr⊕phet said:
Yep. Got my goty via take2 UK importing for R250, had another one imported for R266. Even at those pricing origin is just another LOL.
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Epic fail @ EA .. geez,
if they wanted people to use it , they should rework their pricing.
Look at it , no disk , no postage , no manufacturing costs , granted theres bandwidth and server hardware costs but that doesnt mean the price should be the same as when you buy it from the store ?
Save people money already , we plebs in South Africa have to pay for bandwidth :(
 
They are going to regret this move as it will directly impact sales of their new games. Steam has some 30 million users that you get free advertising and exposure to, Origin has like.... 5 users? There is just no way they won't sell significantly less copies.
 
It seems that EA is only removing some of the games from steam, not the other digital distributors. Very clever move to annoy the biggest platform on the market...

Their pricing is also ridiculous compared to pretty much each and every digital distributor. Hopefully this ends bad for them.

Will have to use their bs platform to old republic though.:mad:
 
It's a business move, brings more revenue to EA by not having to go through a 3rd party store
 
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EA is unfortunately pretty big, they can easily pull half the stuff out of Steam and have it on Origin only (this would include ALL Bioware games) . Most people will not have much of a choice but to buy from EA.

I don't see why people are being pissy about it though, i don't see anyone complaining about BLIZZARD . Show me those Blizzard games on Steam, yep..it is not there! I don't see Activision losing any sleep or sales over that.

In fact i won't be surprised if Activision starts doing the same thing , Battle.NET + CoD Elite and all these things is bound to end up into some exclusive online store eventually...
 
diabolus said:
I don't see why people are being pissy about it though, i don't see anyone complaining about BLIZZARD . Show me those Blizzard games on Steam, yep..it is not there! I don't see Activision losing any sleep or sales over that.
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You like an old man taking a shit having to press something out: BLIZZZZZAAAARD

lol.

Unless you've not known, there is quite a difference between battle.net (blizzard) and EA. EA sells a lot more titles ;)
 
Pr⊕phet said:
You like an old man taking a shit having to press something out: BLIZZZZZAAAARD

lol.

Unless you've not known, there is quite a difference between battle.net (blizzard) and EA. EA sells a lot more titles ;)
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And your point is? EA is only making like 2-3 titles exclusive to their own store at this stage, if they really want to screw Steam over they would pull every single EA game out of there and make it Origin Exclusive. Steam is not going to win that battle.

Valve thinks they can strong-arm the publishers with all kinds of exclusivity rules, and just by the way , Valve pulled Crysis 2 from the store not EA .

http://kotaku.com/5812264/ea-says-it-was-valve-who-expelled-crysis-2-from-steam
Instead, EA reps tell Kotaku that it was Steam's "business terms" that resulted in Crysis 2 being removed from Valve's platform.

"It's unfortunate that Steam has removed Crysis II from their service," reads a statement from the publisher. "This was not an EA decision or the result of any action by EA."
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Likewise, Activision is already selling Blizzard games "Exclusively" on Battle.Net , nothing stops them from selling CoD and all their other games in there too and telling Steam to take a hike.
 
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