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Bhruic wrote on Jun 17, 2011, 03:29: I really don't get the bitching over this. I mean, yeah, early on without having any info, it was easy to conjure up doomsday scenarios. But look at the facts:
1) You don't have to have another client running constantly, so you don't have to worry about having "dozens" of clients going. Once you've downloaded the game, you never (if you don't want to) have to run Origins again. 2) You can still get the game from a non-Origins source if you prefer a physical media.
Now you can still say stuff like "it won't go on sale", but where's the rationale for that? Yes, EA doesn't have to compete with other digital distributors, but they still have to compete with all the other MMOs out there. While it's possible they'll never have the game go on sale, that'd be foolish from a competition standpoint, and I suspect EA has enough business knowledge to realize that.
Now I haven't really looked into Origins that extensively, so if it turns out that you've got a download limit, or install limit or something like that with SWTOR through them, then I can see a valid complaint. Barring that, it just seems like a lot of people who aren't going to like anything that EA does just because it's EA doing it.
I don't get why you don't get why people don't like this.
Physical media is largely a thing of the past for many people. I, for one, can't recall the last time I bought a game in a box.
EA's digital distro service, in the past, was awful. Even if Origin is better, I don't like EA, and would prefer to do business with Steam.
EA is doing this simply to try to get a slice of the Steam pie, and based on EA's prior track record, I'm betting their service will NOT be something I want to be involved with.
I'm not basing my decision on "EA hate" but on EA's prior performance. You imply that people not being enthused about anything EA does is somehow irrational or unfair - but EA earned that.
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