Origin Woos Crowd-Funded Games

[May 18, 2012, 8:27 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

EA announces it will waive its distribution fees on Origin for crowd-funded, "ready-to-publish" downloadable PC games for 90 days after launch. They offer quotes from prominent Kickstarter projects praising the move. "Crowd-funded projects are like the 'people's choice awards' -- a way for gaming fans to express what they want to buy and play. It's great to see a big publisher like EA acknowledging that and opening up distribution opportunities for these games," says Jane Jensen, President, Pinkerton Road. "I have had a long relationship with EA and it is great to see them recognize and support the crowd-funded games model," said Brian Fargo, CEO, inXile Entertainment. "Having Origin waive their distribution fees for 90 days for fan funded games is a major economic bonus for small developers. We look forward to bringing Wasteland 2 to the Origin audience."

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Re: Origin Woos Crowd-Funded Games

May 19, 2012, 09:28

Wraith

Orogogus wrote on May 19, 2012, 08:05: Steam is barely acceptable, but there should probably be a timeout period after which the game should be offered without DRM. Haha, weak-willed compromiser. At this level of vitriolic extremism, just crank it up a notch and take the crusade to Steam DRM (which is basically the same as Origin DRM), and also against Gamestop, which is also evil (what with Impulse DRM), and in two easy steps moralize yourself right out of the games hobby, leaving nothing but Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. Which are tainted by running on Windows, made by Microsoft, which is foisting GFWL on us. There's just no way to have any confidence in the industry until every single company involved is boycotted into the fucking ground. I can live with Steam. Primarily because there's an offline mode, your fucking DLC doesn't disappear if you're offline and there's no record of Valve denying someone access to their games because they didn't like something they posted in their forums. EA, Ubisoft and ActiBlizzardFuckTards are all moving towards an always-on experience. Within 2 years, I expect one of these motherfuckers to try and force gamers to rent a AAA title or pay per use, instead of purchasing it outright. And if people are stupid enough to support them on the way, it'll happen that much quicker. At least with Valve, they're a known and somewhat consistent quantity. The shit mostly works and is limited to a delivery and authentication mechanism. And frankly, their corporate manual suggests a far more gamer-friendly company than the soul-sucking leeches which infest EA.

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	1.	May 18, 20:40	Re: Origin Woos Crowd-Funded Games	ASeven
	20.	May 19, 05:24	Re: Origin Woos Crowd-Funded Games	Longswd
	2.	May 18, 20:42	Re: Origin Woos Crowd-Funded Games	Saboth
	3.	May 18, 20:46	Re: Origin Woos Crowd-Funded Games	Cutter
	5.	May 18, 21:05	Re: Origin Woos Crowd-Funded Games	ASeven
	6.	May 18, 21:17	Re: Origin Woos Crowd-Funded Games	killer_roach
	9.	May 18, 22:08	Re: Origin Woos Crowd-Funded Games	nin
	10.	May 18, 23:01	Re: Origin Woos Crowd-Funded Games	Jerykk
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