fordy said:
pokoko said:
What other digital distribution platform are Valve games on? I far prefer to buy games from Amazon, for example, which are often sold without DRM. Valve does the exact same thing you're talking about, they keep their games exclusive to their own service in order to draw customers. You're using a double standard here.
Besides, the reason most EA games aren't on Steam is because Valve took them off. Why? Because both sides were being greedy. Valve didn't like that people could buy DLC directly from EA from within the game and EA didn't want to alter that just for Steam. Remember, you CAN buy digital versions of EA games from other places such as Amazon.
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Amazon sells digital copies of games without any kind of DRM? Are you absolutely sure about this? Sure there's no other limitations, such as being unable to sell to international customers? (amazon themselves have refused a few purchases from me just because of my address). However, if it's a completely DRM free system, then yes we should move to that. However, I need to look more into it.
You have any articles relating to this action from Steam/EA? I'd like to read about it.
You can buy digital Origin-enabled games on Amazon? That's news to me. Besides if you could, you still need an Origin account anyway to use it.
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You can buy some games without DRM on Amazon, those where the publisher doesn't add any themselves. I bought The Witcher 2 without DRM from Amazon, for example. Several other digital distribution services, like GoG, are the same. Steam, on the other, basically IS DRM for all games sold from there.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-15-ea-valve-took-crysis-2-off-steam-article EA wants to sell DLC from inside the game, Steam won't allow it. Look on Amazon, games like Crysis 3 are sold via download.
Yes, you'd still need Origin, but how is that different from where you have to have Steam to play Portal 2?
