Origin Sale; EA Calls Service "A Huge Success"

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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Jun 18, 2012, 19:55
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My random thoughts on the matter are:

1) "Huge Success" tells us nothing. If, for example, EA expected the service would gain 5% digital download market share and it ended up with 8%, then sure - for EA, relatively speaking it's a huge success.
2) The last time I tried to use Origin was for my "The Old Republic" installation it was terrible. Absolutely, utterly terrible.
3) I'm not against using a bad service if I need to if the game I am trying to play is good (I used Steam in the beginning when it was a nightmare to play HL2 after all), but there isn't a single game on Origin I would consider worth owning that can't be had through Steam, a far FAR better service.
4) Did I mention Steam is a vastly superior service in every conceivable way?
5) In the end, no matter how good Origin ends up being it is still run by EA, the most despicable publisher in gaming (with the possible exception of Microsoft).

I find it pretty telling that the best thing that can be said about Origin (judging from the few non-negative comments made) is that you have the option to not use it. I'm not a huge fan of the "games as a service" concept, but Steam is so feature rich and loaded with functionality I find useful it makes me want to use it. This is how it's done, not that EA will ever figure it out.

This comment was edited on Jun 18, 2012, 20:06.
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