Origins Ditches Discs - Blue's News Comments

Origins Ditches Discs
[Mar 31, 2014, 08:53 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

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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Re: Origins Ditches Discs
Mar 31, 2014, 12:23

avianflu

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Re: Origins Ditches Discs Mar 31, 2014, 12:23

Mar 31, 2014, 12:23

avianflu

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.