Origins Ditches Discs

The Origin website announces EA's online store is dropping physical discs and going online only (thanks VideoGamer.com). Word is:
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.
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Apr 3, 2014, 11:04
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StaTik wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 18:33:
HoSpanky wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 17:30:

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.
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.

Thanks bro.

Being put "in the country" sounds like my worst nightmare.
Actually, didn't Burt Reynolds and John Voight star in that movie?
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Apr 3, 2014, 10:41
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Apr 3, 2014, 10:41
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 23:36
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 23:36
Mar 31, 2014, 23:36
 
Please read the entire post, as it does actually have a possible answer, albeit not one that would happen quickly. The "you're fucked" bit is dependent on whether or not the rest of the town you live in (if you live in one, and not way out where you can't even see your neighbor's house) is ALSO interested in decent high speed Internet/tv.

Also, if your house is half a mile from your neighbor, that pretty much makes you impossible to get good service to with current tech. Everyone wants super high speed Internet, but only where it's monetarily feasable will they do it. Getting fiber 5 miles down a road for one person would cost more than they'd ever make in that customer's entire lifetime of paying for the service.
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 18:33
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 18:33
Mar 31, 2014, 18:33
 
HoSpanky wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 17:30:

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.
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.

Thanks bro.

This comment was edited on Mar 31, 2014, 18:39.
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 17:45
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 17:45
Mar 31, 2014, 17:45
 
entr0py wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 15:51:
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.
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.

But with digital downloads being the bulk of sales now, the overhead from storing those games and operating a shipping operating would no longer make sense to someone like EA. Now you have to be a retailer to have the volume for it to work.
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 17:30
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 17:30
Mar 31, 2014, 17:30
 
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.


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.
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 16:10
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 16:10
Mar 31, 2014, 16:10
 

To ask your question in a different way: "How many network game clients is too many on your computer?" 1? 3? 5? It is a serious question.

It is not like these game clients are unobtrusive: they are shopping engines, each of which forces you to fiddle with account privs and security and etc.

I think every game consumer has a different answer to that question, which is fine. For me, the limit is one client. After the supreme disaster that was HOMM6 and Uplay, I learned an important lesson.
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 15:56
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 15:56
Mar 31, 2014, 15:56
 
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

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.
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 15:51
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 15:51
Mar 31, 2014, 15:51
 
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.
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 15:45
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 15:45
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
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 15:35
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 15:35
Mar 31, 2014, 15:35
 
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.


Oh man, you must think fiber is cheap or something.
The cost to wire up a 2-stoplight town with fiber was 44 million dollars. I worked for a company that does just that - brings fiber to the home, but not in major cities, due to the cost of bringing it in.
Fiber is about a dollar a foot, and that doesn't include the labor, which is quite a bit more. New neighborhoods that offer fiber to the home have $1500 added to the cost of the house, to HELP subsidize the cost of building out a fiber network.

And if you think the wiring is expensive, you should see the cost of the equipment it takes to RUN that.
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Mar 31, 2014, 14:50
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 14:50
Mar 31, 2014, 14:50
 
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.

No reason why they still won't be, this is just through Origin that you can't acquire a physical copy, retail like Amazon,Walmart etc might still be physical cd or most likely an empty box with a cd-key you redeem on Origin, just like many Steam games.
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Mar 31, 2014, 14:47
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 14:47
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.
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Mar 31, 2014, 14:06
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SpectralMeat wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 13:18:
avianflu wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 12:23:
I just want Origin to go away so I want to believe Origin is hanging on the ropes....
Why?
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.

One thing I will say for EA is that their refund policy is good. On the other hand it has to be since they keep releasing barely functional games. My buddy got a refund for BF4 + Premium by just explaining to support that the latest patch had introduced yet another problem and he was fed up. This is like after playing it for 100 hours to boot. I wouldn't have given him a refund in that situation.
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 13:35
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Mar 31, 2014, 13:35
 
You guys do realize that this only means the ORIGIN GAME STORE is no longer selling physical copies, but that EA games WILL be available in other retailers, right?
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Mar 31, 2014, 13:18
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Mar 31, 2014, 13:18
 
avianflu wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 12:23:
I just want Origin to go away so I want to believe Origin is hanging on the ropes....
Why?
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.
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Mar 31, 2014, 13:17
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 13:17
Mar 31, 2014, 13:17
 
For what EA offers in their physical editions... they're better this way
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Mar 31, 2014, 13:13
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 13:13
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.
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 12:56
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 12:56
Mar 31, 2014, 12:56
 
...I bought GT6. It had no manual.

I selected manual in the game menu.

It said to go online.

Fuck this shit.
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 12:23
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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 12:23
Mar 31, 2014, 12:23
 
I suspect you are right -- 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.
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