EA's Move to Steam Makes its Games the Most Played on the Platform

[Legacy-ZA]

I am happy about this, but... when do they change their minds again?

 

[c2DDragon]

I don't really know what is so special of having the games now. The Battlefield games (I don't know about other EA games) still require the Origin launcher to play them. So now you have to open Origin and Steam. If you ask me that is almost worse then just using Origin alone.
When do publishers realize that we want all our games on one Platform.

I personally don't care having to log into Origin/Steam/Uplay/Battle.net/Epic/Xbox
Imagine if Steam (if it's the one you want to be the only one) goes offline for some reason. What would you do ? Search for non-infected cracks to play the games you paid for ?
You just own the ability to use the games, you don't own nothing more, just accounts. If your account gets banned for some reasons, well, you would need another one to activate new games.
If you want to see all your games on one platform you can use GoG Galaxy 2.0 but it will open any necessary platform for you to play the games.
We cannot sell our games anymore on PC thanks to Steam and the CD-key activation process...having one platform only is not a good thing in my opinion. Especially a DRM focused platform.

 

[Deleted member 177333]

I personally don't care having to log into Origin/Steam/Uplay/Battle.net/Epic/Xbox
Imagine if Steam (if it's the one you want to be the only one) goes offline for some reason. What would you do ? Search for non-infected cracks to play the games you paid for ?
You just own the ability to use the games, you don't own nothing more, just accounts. If your account gets banned for some reasons, well, you would need another one to activate new games.
If you want to see all your games on one platform you can use GoG Galaxy 2.0 but it will open any necessary platform for you to play the games.
We cannot sell our games anymore on PC thanks to Steam and the CD-key activation process...having one platform only is not a good thing in my opinion. Especially a DRM focused platform.

The reasons you outline here are why GOG is my #1 storefront these days. Steam is #2.

 

[HarleyCola]

Not only is EA getting people to download its stupid launcher for games bought through steam, but it seems to be a trick to pull people away from steam.

Steam told me I might be interested in TS4 which I already owned through origin so I decided I'd go play that for a bit. I hop on over to origin where I'm told there is a huge sale on DLC and the base game, everything 50% off. But wait .... I go back to steam where the base game and all of its DLC is being sold full price.

So let's say you bought the game on steam, you paid full price, downloaded the shitty extra launcher you didn't want , then you see that the game was on sale on the launcher you didn't want , so you go back to steam and refund the game because why would you pay more for the same thing, now you go over to origin, buy the base game and can also buy some dlc now too. So now when you want to play the game , you bypass steam and go to origin where they can advertise their games at a cheaper price to you to keep you using their store, which they don't have to pay a portion of the sale to anyone else.

 

[Vayra86]

Not only is EA getting people to download its stupid launcher for games bought through steam, but it seems to be a trick to pull people away from steam.

Steam told me I might be interested in TS4 which I already owned through origin so I decided I'd go play that for a bit. I hop on over to origin where I'm told there is a huge sale on DLC and the base game, everything 50% off. But wait .... I go back to steam where the base game and all of its DLC is being sold full price.

So let's say you bought the game on steam, you paid full price, downloaded the shitty extra launcher you didn't want , then you see that the game was on sale on the launcher you didn't want , so you go back to steam and refund the game because why would you pay more for the same thing, now you go over to origin, buy the base game and can also buy some dlc now too. So now when you want to play the game , you bypass steam and go to origin where they can advertise their games at a cheaper price to you to keep you using their store, which they don't have to pay a portion of the sale to anyone else.

Was the same back when they had Mass Effects on Steam. User experience is an afterthought as usual.

Yet another nail in EAs and possibly Steams coffin. None of this is helpful it is just artificial inflation of users online. Now they can both say they get used more than EGS.

 

[Space Lynx]

Does anyone know if we can move our Origin games to Steam or do we have to re-buy? It would be nice never having to download Origin again.

 

[Deleted member 177333]

Does anyone know if we can move our Origin games to Steam or do we have to re-buy? It would be nice never having to download Origin again.

I can't speak for every title, but the two I would have bought on Steam were Crysis 3 and Jedi Fallen Order, but per their Steam page, Origin is still required, so I'd say if you have the Origin copy, don't waste your money on the Steam copy since Origin is still needed.