{"id":36442,"date":"2012-04-21T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36442"},"modified":"2012-04-23T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T10:39:24","slug":"gabe-newell-origin-isnt-doing-anything-well-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36442-gabe-newell-origin-isnt-doing-anything-well-yet","title":{"rendered":"Gabe Newell: “Origin isn’t doing anything well yet”"},"content":{"rendered":"

While in the past Valve\u2019s<\/a> Gabe Newell<\/a> has been quite charitable in his comments towards EA\u2019s<\/a> Origin<\/a>, it would appear that the gloves are off.<\/p>\n

Speaking candidly, the man at the helm of Origin\u2019s biggest competitor, Steam, clearly doesn\u2019t think much at all of EA\u2019s service \u2013 at least not for now.<\/p>\n

“They have a lot of work to do to get to where they need to be and where I as a customer would want them to be,” he said.<\/p>\n

When asked what he thought Origin was doing well, there was an awkward, \u201cErr, Err\u2026\u201d before Gabe elaborated.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to dodge the question – I don’t think they’re doing anything super-well yet.<\/p>\n

“They have a bunch of smart people working on it but I think they’re still playing catch up to a lot of people who have been working in the space for a while. I think they’re recognising what the challenges are with building and scaling out this kind of system.<\/p>\n

“That’s not to say they won’t build stuff in the future that is useful to software developers or to gamers but they haven’t done that yet.”<\/p>\n

Newell also spoke about EA pulling their titles from the Steam service, and whether or not the Origin-exclusive titles will be showing up on Steam anytime soon. Valve is trying, but it looks like we shouldn\u2019t hold our breath.<\/p>\n

“We’d love to have their games on Steam,” he explained. “We think their customers would be happy if their games were on Steam. We tell them that on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

“I think EA wants to take their shot at building their own alternative to Steam, and if they’re successful at that and their customers like that then that’s great.<\/p>\n

The Valve boss added that the focus should be on the best possible experience for the gamer.<\/p>\n

“As we learn about this stuff we’re all going to be making things better for other gamers. Tim Sweeney doesn’t look at Steam and say ‘F***, we shouldn’t support that because that will hurt long term sales of the Unreal Engine’. He’s like, “that’s pretty cool, that’s pretty useful”.<\/p>\n

“So hopefully EA get their head to the same place.”<\/p>\n

Source: Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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