| fordy said: I'm starting to get more and more turned off by EA Origin, and it mainly has to do with their strategy for drawing in people, and their attempts to muscle into Steam territory using their library of IPs. |
This annoys me to read, to be honest. Valve doesn't get a golden monopoly card anymore than any other business. Other companies have every right to compete with them. Steam doesn't have a "territory"--there is a market, but others can enter it as they like. As for EA using their properties to their advantage, do you see Valve games on Green Man Gaming?
Valve always gets a free pass, I suppose because of their sales, though Steam is still DRM and has an annoying client. So far, I haven't found Origin to be any worse than Steam. In fact, though things might have changed since, with Dragon Age 2, I only had to deal with Origin when I installed; after that, I never used it again.
