Starting April 4th Origin will be going all digital. This means the entire Origin game store will be entirely digital downloads for PC and Mac.
What does this mean for you? If you're among 99% of our users, absolutely nothing. Your shopping experience hasn't changed one single bit.
But if you're that 1% who still desires a physical collection, we want to let you know that Origin won't be able to fulfill that need beginning April 4th. We’ll still be here when you transition your gaming habits to the wonders of digital downloads.
Digital is fast and convenient. Origin’s focus is to give gamers the best experience, and going all-digital will make that possible.
StaTik wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 18:33:HoSpanky wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 17:30:HoSpanky I would love to take your out of the suburbs and put you in the country. I would then precede to tell you your "fucked" and how I could care less about your ISP situation.
Ok you DO realize your situation is a minority case, right? I think data caps are horseshit, altho the 250gb caps that Comcast and AT&T have aren't absurd...it's pretty hard to hit that cap, even during a Steam sale.
So I'm guessing you live in a rural area, and have a small ISP that's raking you over the coals. That sucks, but you won't get a larger company to wire up your town (or god forbid you live way outside of a town). The cost will never, ever be recouped. And since everyone was too busy watching football or the Kardashians to bother complaining about deregulation, they aren't even required to PRETEND they care anymore.
If you do live in a small town, and you're IN TOWN, see about getting your representatives to pester Metronet. If there's enough interest in your town, you may be able to get them to wire up fiber to everyone's house. If your town is packed with old folks or hillbillies that don't care about that there inernet, you're fucked.
Thanks bro.
HoSpanky wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 17:30:HoSpanky I would love to take your out of the suburbs and put you in the country. I would then precede to tell you your "fucked" and how I could care less about your ISP situation.
Ok you DO realize your situation is a minority case, right? I think data caps are horseshit, altho the 250gb caps that Comcast and AT&T have aren't absurd...it's pretty hard to hit that cap, even during a Steam sale.
So I'm guessing you live in a rural area, and have a small ISP that's raking you over the coals. That sucks, but you won't get a larger company to wire up your town (or god forbid you live way outside of a town). The cost will never, ever be recouped. And since everyone was too busy watching football or the Kardashians to bother complaining about deregulation, they aren't even required to PRETEND they care anymore.
If you do live in a small town, and you're IN TOWN, see about getting your representatives to pester Metronet. If there's enough interest in your town, you may be able to get them to wire up fiber to everyone's house. If your town is packed with old folks or hillbillies that don't care about that there inernet, you're fucked.
entr0py wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 15:51:EA ran their own store for years, well before Origin came into being. At the time it was a way to sell back-catalog games that retailers may not offer, and otherwise cut retailers out of the picture entirely.
Yeah, it would be a bit retarded to go to an online game store to buy a game disk. I'm pretty sure steam won't mail you disks either. It was a bit weird that Origin ever had that option to begin with.
Simon Says wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 15:56:
Let me set you straight, no wifi hotspots in my area. I'd rather go to a friend a of mine with a UBS key and download off piratebay once and never have to be bothered again with disguised DRM.
I have loads of legit games here I bought in dvd/cd format back when all was needed was a CD/DVD/Serial/phone home once check. Back then the protections were circumvented, but they werent a pain in the ass, but I wouldn't bother with cracked software because it wasn't a pain in the ass. So I actually bought games.
Right now its: Buy DVD, oh, no data on the DVD, or data, but still 2 gigs of crap to download as a useless day-1 DRM measure ( which gets circumvented on day 1 anyway ). And you can't download patches, or these day 1 downloads on usb keys, you actually need your computer, yeah I'm going to haul my desktop around to a Wifi hotspot, ofc.
Well, when they began doing this, I got fedup with the crap of hauling my computer case around. I stopped buying and started cracking and loading to a USB key, fuck you, won't jump into 36 loops in the right order with my head upside down and pay for your ( useless, since they get cracked day 1 anyway ) paranoia. Bbye.
BobBob wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 15:45:Cynyc wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 12:00:
2 words: DATA CAPS!!!
Some folks have crappy isps and 1 game will wipe out their monthly allowance. With extra data being btwn 9 and 15 usd per GB, who wants to pay 400 dollars to download NFS?
http://bit.ly/1gUM2dk
Cynyc wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 12:00:
2 words: DATA CAPS!!!
Some folks have crappy isps and 1 game will wipe out their monthly allowance. With extra data being btwn 9 and 15 usd per GB, who wants to pay 400 dollars to download NFS?
DangerDog wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 14:47:Cynyc wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 12:00:
2 words: DATA CAPS!!!
Some folks have crappy isps and 1 game will wipe out their monthly allowance. With extra data being btwn 9 and 15 usd per GB, who wants to pay 400 dollars to download NFS?
Steam and the many publishers that use it don't give a shit about your data caps, why should EA?
You need to raise your pitchforks up to these greedy ISP's that want you to pay not only for a service they're not providing but to pay for the infrastructure upgrades that tax dollars should have already paved the way for fiber internet to everyone, at least in the U.S. anyway.
jdreyer wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 13:13:
So, are EA PC games available on disc in other retail channels? Like at Gamestop or Best Buy or wherever? I haven't bought a disc in a good five years, but I remember seeing them for sale in Best Buy last year.
Cynyc wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 12:00:
2 words: DATA CAPS!!!
Some folks have crappy isps and 1 game will wipe out their monthly allowance. With extra data being btwn 9 and 15 usd per GB, who wants to pay 400 dollars to download NFS?
SpectralMeat wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 13:18:avianflu wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 12:23:Why?
I just want Origin to go away so I want to believe Origin is hanging on the ropes....
I am not defending EA I am not a big fan of them but why do you wish for Origin to go away?
Competition is good for the consumers. Origin is not any more pain to use than Steam and at least EA offers 24hrs money back if you are not happy with the game you've bought, something hopefully Steam will start to do in the future.
I love Steam and everything but I don't see how Origin's existence is a bad thing for gamers.
avianflu wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 12:23:Why?
I just want Origin to go away so I want to believe Origin is hanging on the ropes....
Creston wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 11:09:avianflu wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 10:01:
I sense the smell of desperation. Steam has the marketshare.
I don't think that has anything to do with it. I don't believe EA's numbers for a bit (they claim like 40+ million users), but even so Origin is, perhaps sadly, doing pretty well for them.
This is purely done to save costs for printing discs and the like.