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Origin Boasts 4M Client Installs; Promises Third-Party Content "Very Soon"

[Sep 09, 2011, 7:43 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

There are quotes on Gamasutra from Electronic Arts CFO Eric Brown, after he spoke today at a UBS conference in London. Speaking about their Origin service, he says to expect games from other publishers in the near future: "Initially, Origin is set up to deliver EA games, but very soon, we'll be delivering third-party content to Origin." He also spoke of how Origin is doing. "We're fairly excited about Origin," he said. "We have about 4 million installs of the client, we expect that number to climb substantially as we enter this ... holiday season." The article also notes that EA's PC games now install Origin by default, even if the game is purchased at retail.

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Re: Origin Boasts 4M Client Installs; Promises Third-Party Content

Sep 10, 2011, 13:02

Sepharo

Beamer wrote on Sep 10, 2011, 12:00:
It's baffling to me that so many of you have a hard time believing this.

Some of you are very odd people.

What games are currently released that require Origin on PC?

The 4M number can't be all BF3 preorders because there aren't that many across all platforms let alone PC and a preorder doesn't have to mean they installed the client anyway.

So we're left with other games that require Origin (I admit I have no idea what these are) and games that optionally use Origin that prompted the user to willingly install Origin. You don't think 4M installs in 3 months for a service that most people don't want is unusually high?

Did you need to launch EADM/Store to play games you bought through it?




[I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr

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