CJ_Parker wrote on Feb 20, 2012, 13:06:
Creston wrote on Feb 20, 2012, 13:02:
Obviously you don't own your games on Steam, but if you can't tell the difference in attitude between how Steam views its customers, and how EA/Origin views it, then I don't really know what to tell you.
Yeah. Awesome. So Valve regards us as top class hookers while for EA we're street slut hookers. Does it really make a difference? At the end of the day we're still getting fucked .
I don't use Origin and see no need to, though I support there being alternatives and competition. Right now it may be ahead of where Steam was at this point of its lifespan, but from a consumer standpoint there's no reason to compare things at two states other than the present.
But Gabe danced around ownership. He gave a stock answer about doing what's best for the consumer. Yeah, ok, every successful company does this, and every company ends up less successful a while after they stop.
He avoids, though, that their customers aren't just end consumers. And that sometimes doing something that, on its face, seems worse for end consumers is better for them (e.g., taking away some of their rights in exchange for a vastly expanded product assortment.) And I'd wager Gabe is quite fine with the ownership model as it stands.