As you may have heard, EA is starting its own DD platform called Origin. It's totally within their rights of course, and not a biggie in itself...but they just pulled Crysis 2 off Steam and announced that it will be 'Origin only' from now on. Uh-oh.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06 ... more-62256

What makes matters more confusing is that, as of now, there are still a shitload of big EA games on Steam and other DD sites. As the article states though, the real test will probably come when the newest battlefield game is released. Not that I've been buying a lot of EA games ikn the past few years, but still potentially fucked up.

(oh and people who already owned Crysis 2 on Steam can still play it on there of course)

I won't be DD from EA. I'd rather buy it in the store. Steam is easy and integrated with stuff. Origin? Fuck that. I buy what, MAYBE 2-3 EA games a year? Not worth the investment and difficulty. I'd rather buy a brick and mortar version and then just launch it via Steam.

yeah but you'd still have to go through the Origin client to play them if you bought them from a brick and mortar store, like with Steam. I agree with the sentiment though, I'm unlikely to be signing up for Origin anytime soon either. Steam has got the 'gaming hub with great friend system' thing down to a T, and EA can suck my balls with their crazy plans.

Suckas should have thought of much earlier, like 10 years ago when Steam came out. Buuut they were too busy making sequels of games and exploiting gamers. Now they're late to the party and want a slice of their own. Yeah, fuck that.

yea, kinda like microsoft's games for windows live or whatever the fuck it is. Sucks ass is what.

What I'd like to see is an open, inter-operable log-in thing. Unified friends list, unified achievements and all that, but different front ends... use the one from Steam, or the one from Microsoft, or the one from EA... or something some user cooked up in his basement. That would be freaking awesome. But it would probably take legislation (or threatening of legislation) to actually happen.

Jesus christ on a wet bike.

I really do hate E.A. and I'm really starting to bank on the what goes up has got to fall prophecy with them. They're screwing everyone over just to get their own way like a spoilt child. I reckon the whole company is made up of the cheap fuckers who grab pennies out of wishing wells.

They no longer print instruction manuals [which annoys me to NO end at work], they stop people buying pre-owned games by making them pay £8 just to be able to play it on-line, they stop Steam selling their titles... what next?

They're going to find you in your shower, molest you, then beat you and put you on the street to make them money. Oh yes. You will be their little girl. And you will like it.

Yay let's give the jumped up twats money directly so they get ALL the profit from their rehashed, identical, annual games instead of only part of it!