Sounds good to me. I know where my bread is buttered.

At the same time, he mentioned that he has other plans to intrigue people to buy older games rather than directly reducing the price.

It's possible they're planning on rolling out huge franchise bundles at discounts or some other form of discount for consumers. This is also something Steam does.

Their loss. The profit numbers Steam has published for sales can't be argued with.

Considering the pricing on EA use on Origin, they need and could quite easily afford a few giant sales like Steam. They have digital downloads priced higher than physical discs even though they get more profit per sale via digital download.

When it comes to Steam sales I usually only get games that I'd normally wait a while for anyway (e.g. Fallout New Vegas, Rage, Braid). I won't bother waiting for a sale if I really want a game. With some older games I already own, I buy them when they're on sale for convenience of having it on my account (Deus Ex collection, and Far Cry 1&2 just now!).

I believe EA is primarily afraid of putting out new high-profile games and having gamers think "oh, sweet, the new Battlefield/FIFA game just came out. I'll wait 4 months and get it during a weekend sale of 75% off"

And EA is deathly afraid of losing those profits. Is it logical? Well...

the thing is Valve obviously doesn't cut the prices on its own, the publishers agree with it, so it's working for (some of) them.

They should also realise that not all consumers are dumb and pricing your digital downloads higher than the physical versions is more likely to push customers to other competitive services... or the physical disc via Amazon.

EA is focused on upfront and direct profits. Consumers are secondary, it would seem.

It's strange though, considering their ideas of making higher profits seem to not be raking in as much profit as their competitors who focus primarily on consumers (Valve).

At least some of it comes from having to answer to shareholders. In contrast, Valve are private and just do what they feel is in the best interest of Valve rather than anonymous shareholders.

good news to hear. With that kind of thinking i am sure origin will fail.