EA Origin adds 11 new publisher catalogues

While I know many people are hating on steam my question is; didn't steam, the current darling of digital distribution, have a checkered start also? I remember the first few times I used it, back when it was first release, finding it the most unstable, temperamental and just plain annoying thing ever. With time valve tweaked and improved and gained more games and now it is what it is. So should be not give Origin the same benefit of finding its feet?
 
Good news. I haven't even been on steam since mid last year. Wish i could get rid of all my steam games as they have been a bit dissapointing on MP. E.g Cod BLOPS & HomeFront.
 
I wanted to buy Dragon Age Origins on Origin and it was about R350. I got it from BTGames for R100. It offers nothing.
 
OmegaFenix said:
While I know many people are hating on steam my question is; didn't steam, the current darling of digital distribution, have a checkered start also? I remember the first few times I used it, back when it was first release, finding it the most unstable, temperamental and just plain annoying thing ever. With time valve tweaked and improved and gained more games and now it is what it is. So should be not give Origin the same benefit of finding its feet?
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My problem with Origin has never been the technology, well mostly not, but rather the store itself which in SA NEVER gets updated. 5yr old games sit at full retail price of R350/400 while you can pick it on in shops for R49/99. So with Steam when a game get released there I know if a wait I will eventually be able to pick it up for a nice price, with Origin however, the price never changes. So if a game is Origin exclusive I can more or less just forget about picking it up on digital distro which is where I do 90% of the Pc game buying.

As far as the technology goes just to show how little effort they put into Origin you can look at Battlefield 3 and how friends are implemented, that is completely separate from Origin friends to the point where I can be in game with a friend and his Origin account will still show as offline to me. Origin still lacks loads of features that Steam has but I would certainly be willing to give them a chance and see how they grow if I thought that would be the case but I've been using Origin since before it was Origin and was still called the EA Download manager and in that time they have added nothing.
 
Haters gonna hate. Very few things in life are perfect from day one. Except maybe Jessica Alba... Anyway, this is good news, because it will likely force EA to fix any bugs. Like Omega said, even thee mighty Steam started off with bugs.
 
Pointing out shortfalls =/= Hating

Not bothering to update game prices after initial listing =/= Bug

Maybe you are right about getting more publishers forcing EA to give a crap about Origin since they can't just force you there by making the games exclusive.
 
MOnk said:
My problem with Origin has never been the technology, well mostly not, but rather the store itself which in SA NEVER gets updated. 5yr old games sit at full retail price of R350/400 while you can pick it on in shops for R49/99. So with Steam when a game get released there I know if a wait I will eventually be able to pick it up for a nice price, with Origin however, the price never changes. So if a game is Origin exclusive I can more or less just forget about picking it up on digital distro which is where I do 90% of the Pc game buying.

As far as the technology goes just to show how little effort they put into Origin you can look at Battlefield 3 and how friends are implemented, that is completely separate from Origin friends to the point where I can be in game with a friend and his Origin account will still show as offline to me. Origin still lacks loads of features that Steam has but I would certainly be willing to give them a chance and see how they grow if I thought that would be the case but I've been using Origin since before it was Origin and was still called the EA Download manager and in that time they have added nothing.
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That seems to be a trend with some digital distribution services, the price doesn't line up with retail prices. Onlive has the same problem. We can only hope that in time it changes.
 
Until Origin can compete with Steams specials in S.A. it's pointless. So far all Origins specials have only been valid in regions outside of S.A. and until they change that they will remain obsolete.
 
I think it's also a bit unfair to compare the South African version of Origin with the US Version of Steam. (considering that Steam doesn't have a SA version to begin with). What does the pricing look like on the US Origin store?

However it seems that the local version of Origin is attempting to follow in the footsteps of the local piss poor version of Xbox Live.
 
Why is it unfair? We can access the International version of Steam, which is in USD, yet are restricted to the SA Origin store. It's not unfair since that is what we have to work with hence that is what we must compare.
 
I'd say my problem with Origin is also not the technology, but the company.
As mentioned already by some other people, the ridiculous prices for older games, suspension of accounts without proper cause, EULA and the list goes on... Just read the news around EA in the last couple of months.

Add to that, the fact that I already have a great digital distribution client that provides me with great prices and does everything it is suppose to.
 
If is the word there.

But in anycase I hate how they give you a key for anygame on origin store and then you contact their support and they say the key is a discount key yet in the email it states for any game on ea store...
 
Crzwaco said:
But in anycase I hate how they give you a key for anygame on origin store and then you contact their support and they say the key is a discount key yet in the email it states for any game on ea store...
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I wouldn't know. I haven't gamed on PC in years. That will be rectified soon.
 
Oh yeah I had forgotten the fact that EA are perfectly happy with completely banning your ENTIRE Origin account making all your games completely inaccessible.

Say something the mods don't like on the forums? Account wide BAN!

Someone said something bad on the forums and mentioned your name? Account wide BAN!
 
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