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There's a big sale on the Origin Store celebrating the first anniversary of the launch of EA's online store. They are offering a 40% discount on several PC digital download special editions. Also, MCV notes a Q&A from last week on GameSpot with EA's David DeMartini, who calls the service's first year "a huge success." He also offers a criticism of Origin's stickiness, saying this is something they need to address going forward. "Being self-critical of Origin, I would say it's not sticky enough. And we want to put features in place where we fully take advantage of your friends lists and gameplay activities amongst all of your friends so you can compare achievements," he says. "We want you to be able to challenge your friends, and to challenge your friends to play other EA games to try and achieve things that might even be across EA games. A lot of people are loyal to us and we need to reward them with that stickiness, so we're looking in that direction."
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Crustacean Soup wrote on Jun 18, 2012, 15:05:
Dev wrote on Jun 18, 2012, 14:55: You are right, that was a bad example. But I have seen people defend EA and origin, so they must exist out there somewhere I have had no issues with Origin that weren't my own fault (I had a connection problem, but that's because I horribly screwed up my Windows Registry permissions), and I'm not terribly opposed to buying the occasional game there. And as for EA? It's EA, I just treat them like any company, and I will buy their products if I like them enough. That's not loyalty, that's more like apathy. Oh no, my friend. According to EA, you are like a slavering EA fanboy. Apathy is about the best thing anyone's ever demonstrated to them, so...
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