EA needs to get with the program and release their substandard crap through steam. Then at least we don't have to deal with Origin anymore.
EA Needs to F*** off and die
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Much as we all want it to die, Origin made EA $300M in their last quarterly report, so Origin is probably not going anywhere.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! LET'S FUCKIN' KILL EA! I got explosives and plenty of KNIVES if anybody needs them!
Then maybe my cousin's will get my little cousins GOOD games to play.
Then maybe my cousin's will get my little cousins GOOD games to play.
But according to EA, steam is hurting games by devaluing them. That's of course why EA made a steam clone, and why they've continually tried to buy valve.
Yeah, it kind of hurts their argument when they go out and do the exact same thing (only it's inferior, sucky, intrusive and unwieldly).
I think Steam has actually been great for PC gaming. EA can suck it.
Steam has done exactly what video game companies should have done as soon as the whole "online piracy epidemic" started to rear it's ugly head (as did Apple with iTunes). Rather than fight the technology, they embraced it and did it in a way where they could still make a profit and provide a good consumer experience. (though, initially iTunes had a policy where you could only download a song once, that has since changed).
True.Thanks to Itunes my pirating days are as good as over.Also I buy the musik directly from the band or the bands website if possible.As for games...why the hell do virtual copies cost the same as a boxset?
GasBandit
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Games, schmames, the real outrage is that e-books cost more than hardcovers.
I get my mp3's through Amazon now. They've got better prices and even brand new albums will start at like 9 bucks instead of 13-15.
For now. I'm still holding out for a DoJ antitrust smackdown.
The EU side of things got settled in consumers' favor (more or less), so there's a real chance that the US may follow.
Ha ha ha ha. Consumer's favour.
I seriously doubt it would be Valve. They aren't in the business to make shitloads of money... they are in it to make great games and influence the direction of the industry. They want ATTENTION, not money. From that perspective, they really don't stand to gain anything from a buy-out. Besides, with Steam they own the most successful and influential gaming service in existence. They can basically print money already.
I would, however, believe it was Capcom.
Basically this. Valve is employee owned and Gabe owns most of that. He is also not on good terms with EA ever since they formed Origin to basically get out of paying him for DLC. I don't think he'll ever consider selling Valve as long as he's able to work there and/or Steam is the dominate market for PC games.
I remember reading an interview with Gabe where he talked about EA and what he saw as the danger of superpublishers buying up game developers. He said that EA had continually offered to buy valve, and that the only reason they can continually say no is because they own the company completely and don't have to answer to shareholders. If it ever got so bad where the only choices were to close the doors or sell out to EA, he said he'd rather close the doors.
Yeah, it's less about EA and more about the shareholders thing. Valve just doesn't run in a way public shareholders are going to like. That said, the success of Steam would probably be enough to get shareholders to leave the dev side of Valve to their own devices, but why take the risk when you already are successful on that scale?
Yes and no.
BioWare certainly could have asked themselves the same question (and probably did), but BioWare was always a much more publisher-friendly/dependent developer than Valve ever was. Valve's relationship with Sierra turned contentious fairly early on, while BioWare regularly made more publisher relationships so they could make larger and larger games. You can make a really strong argument that BioWare always intended to be bought out.
(fun fact: Though John Riccitiello spent most of his career at EA, he was briefly CEO of the private holding company that owned BioWare and Pandemic before coming back to EA shortly before the acquisition)
Also, once Steam started making waves, Valve started reputedly making more money than BioWare ever did with less than half the employees (currently, enterprise value is guestimated somewhere North is 2.5Bn). Combine that with Valve essentially being a publisher in their own right, and it's a fairly different picture.
Why is it that the way you hit in EA baseball games sucks ass? It just feels awkward and clunky. Also-WHO THE FUCK DECIDES THE MUSIC TO THESE DAMN GAMES?!
No your right, I'm thinkin' Sony games. I forgot they were made by different companies because both Madden and MLB baseball have incredibly annoying announcers and awful music. Also the "make a player" in either game is far too lenient. I'd mock the gameplay, but what's more to mock?