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.
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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