Ehhhhhh,
I'll be waiting for fucking weeks to play this game if I buy it from ozgame....
.......is 2 weeks of HELL worth 30 dowlah!?
everything i write is a ramble and should not be taken seriously.... seriously. ♥
Ehhhhhh,
It's coming from the other side of the world?Jaekus wrote:
Why two weeks?
Oh, I thought it was localCheez wrote:
It's coming from the other side of the world?Jaekus wrote:
Why two weeks?
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EA Policy on Selling Games on Third-Party Download Sitesjsnipy wrote:
sauce?
Last edited by Evil_Black_Fox (2011-07-24 16:36:07)
Knowing EA, they probably wanted direct control over Gaben's secret pizza vault. You don't do that.Evil_Black_Fox wrote:
Basically EA didn't pull anything from Steam. Steam dumped their products because they don't like EA's terms.
Or it could be that Steam and Origin are direct competitors.tazz. wrote:
tldr Steam wish for EA not to be able to sell the DLC for a game purchased on steam, anywhere but steam...
read a full article here: http://games.on.net/article/13302/The_D … Lock_Horns
This.FEOS wrote:
Or it could be that Steam and Origin are direct competitors.
The whole BF3 Alpha experience has been unpleasant thus far, all around.rdx-fx wrote:
Tried EA's Origin with the BF3 Alpha.
Origin sucked syphilitic donkey dong.
Uninstalled both.
Buggy, laggy, slow. Like a half-assed attempt at a WebKit derived Steam copycat, as done by a hung-over intern, in 45 minutes, on a Monday morning before the 9:00am conference call.
I'm sure I've picked up dogshit with printouts of better code than Origin.
Obviously why EA don't want to have their DLC limited to JUST steam fi the game is bought on steam.FEOS wrote:
Or it could be that Steam and Origin are direct competitors.tazz. wrote:
tldr Steam wish for EA not to be able to sell the DLC for a game purchased on steam, anywhere but steam...
read a full article here: http://games.on.net/article/13302/The_D … Lock_Horns
EA's big holiday release, Battlefield 3, apparently won't be available via Valve's ubiquitous PC game download service, Steam, as previously hinted. Taking to Twitter and its own forums, EA announced as much with some interesting, if not inflammatory, claims. "BF3 will not be available on Steam as the service restricts our ability to directly support players," the Twitter account says.
The forum post goes a bit further in explaining the publisher's position, though it doesn't go so far as to explicitly explain the schism. "Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to deliver patches and other downloadable content," the forum post reads. "No other download service has adopted these practices." As with Dragon Age 2, this is in reference to one specific part of Steam's Terms of Service agreement, which forces games to deliver DLC and patches through Steam rather than through a game-specific client. EA claims this to be restrictive, and thus refuses to sell some titles through the service.
It remains unclear why EA -- who, in the past, has offered a variety of games through Steam, regardless of the Terms of Service -- refuses to offer DLC and patches through Steam suddenly, but it certainly appears to be a stance the company is staying firm on. The forum post also notes EA's inclination towards resolving the issue with Valve, saying, "We hope to work out an agreement where Steam can carry Battlefield 3; meanwhile, gamers can pick from the more than 100 digital retailers."
welcome to business.UnkleRukus wrote:
By directly support players, they really mean. We want to fleece them for as much money as they have, because we're greedy fucks.
I work in retail, thanks for telling me something I already know dawg.tazz. wrote:
welcome to business.UnkleRukus wrote:
By directly support players, they really mean. We want to fleece them for as much money as they have, because we're greedy fucks.
What I was getting at was that EA could have pulled out in preparation to put all their support behind Origin and to attempt to sully Steam's rep a bit in the process, hoping to boost Origin's market share.tazz. wrote:
Obviously why EA don't want to have their DLC limited to JUST steam fi the game is bought on steam.FEOS wrote:
Or it could be that Steam and Origin are direct competitors.tazz. wrote:
tldr Steam wish for EA not to be able to sell the DLC for a game purchased on steam, anywhere but steam...
read a full article here: http://games.on.net/article/13302/The_D … Lock_Horns
Fucking hurr durr....... that part was obvious -.-
anyway, no BF3 on steam confirmed
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/06/battl … e-restric/EA's big holiday release, Battlefield 3, apparently won't be available via Valve's ubiquitous PC game download service, Steam, as previously hinted. Taking to Twitter and its own forums, EA announced as much with some interesting, if not inflammatory, claims. "BF3 will not be available on Steam as the service restricts our ability to directly support players," the Twitter account says.
The forum post goes a bit further in explaining the publisher's position, though it doesn't go so far as to explicitly explain the schism. "Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to deliver patches and other downloadable content," the forum post reads. "No other download service has adopted these practices." As with Dragon Age 2, this is in reference to one specific part of Steam's Terms of Service agreement, which forces games to deliver DLC and patches through Steam rather than through a game-specific client. EA claims this to be restrictive, and thus refuses to sell some titles through the service.
It remains unclear why EA -- who, in the past, has offered a variety of games through Steam, regardless of the Terms of Service -- refuses to offer DLC and patches through Steam suddenly, but it certainly appears to be a stance the company is staying firm on. The forum post also notes EA's inclination towards resolving the issue with Valve, saying, "We hope to work out an agreement where Steam can carry Battlefield 3; meanwhile, gamers can pick from the more than 100 digital retailers."
It's called DRM and the industry thinks DRM works.cospengle wrote:
Steam sucks arse, everything I buy/DL from there doesn't work.
This reeks of the same thing.
If I was in any way paranoid, I'd be wondering if it was a plot by console vendors to get rid of the PC gaming market.
Why is it impossible to by a PC game these days without installing some kind of malware on your machine?
My experience has been the opposite since 2003. While whatever negatives exists for online distribution services in general, those negatives have been few and far between with Steam vs others.cospengle wrote:
Steam sucks arse, everything I buy/DL from there doesn't work.
This reeks of the same thing.
If I was in any way paranoid, I'd be wondering if it was a plot by console vendors to get rid of the PC gaming market.
Why is it impossible to by a PC game these days without installing some kind of malware on your machine?