pokoko said:
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. |
Digital distribution competition is fine, but why should people (the majority who I've talked to say that Steam is miles ahead of Origin in terms of features etc.) have to deal with a second-rate digital distribution system just because they refuse to play nice and let the consumer decide which medium is better? I'd be complaining about Steam's services if the situation was reversed, and they refused to digitally distribute on any other platform, but that's not the case....
Besides, how will things go once there IS competition? Will we be seeing digital distribution platforms close? What will happen to the games that people purchased on them?
