Watch your backend Steam, it looks like there’s a new kid on the block. EA might be pushing their own stuff on their recently rebranded Origins digital distribution service, but they’re also open to other publisher catalogues.
“A lot of other publishers are looking at viable channels for making their content available, and we would welcome them on Origin and hope that they would see the value of what we’re trying to bring with the Origin client in association with their games as well,” the company’s David DeMartini tells IndustryGamers.
“We would absolutely welcome that kind of evolution. We have a large team of people here that’s continuing to expand the Origin feature set. The social feature set, the cross-platform capability… when that’s extended into some of our key intellectual properties in the next 3-6 months, people are going to see the value in the game experience of that integration between Origin and the games. And if there are other publishers that would want to take advantage of our ability to reach customers or take advantage of that same feature set we absolutely would welcome that.
“People want to be able to have access to great content, and as much as we’re willing to sell our content anywhere under these high level principles we’ve established I imagine there are other publishers who want to try to make their content available everywhere they can as well.”
If this works out, Origins could become a serious competitor with Steam, Direct2Drive, and other similar platforms, which is really only good news for you and me.
