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JEMC said:

Chazore said:

I wouldn't say total defeat. They are bringing over their service and tapping directly into Steam's usertbase with it, much like how Ubisoft did before, where they wanted Steam's pie, but required the use of their client, making them double their own userbase and customers. 

It's annoying as hell to me, because I can see what they are doing, and I find it half scummy, but at the same time I definitely see the business sense in them doing this, because not only is EA Access on Origin, but now it's on Steam, their own IP's are cheaper on Origin compared to Steam (once that Steam sale ends). Combine all of that, and you have EA practically tapping on you shoulder, saying; "hey, don't you wanna use our client?, we've got EA access and our games are cheaper here too!".

I'm not a big fan of their idea though, because I want quality services and prices lower everywhere else, not just their client, because we all know they set the prices of those games of theirs over on Steam. But like Ubisoft, Bethesda and Blizzard (may as well toss EG in there too), they don't seem to want to improve their clients anymore. 

They tried to build their own store and services and keep all the money for themselves, but they couldn't do it and now they're stepping back. First allowed the Humble Store to sell Origin keys and now they're back on Steam with everything they have.

They lost and now are trying something different.

vivster said:
Maybe I should postpone my new PC to early next year.

If you're going to delay it, why not wait a bit longer to have PCIe5.0 and DDR5?

PCI-E 6.0 is about to enter pre-ratification soon... To put it into perspective it will be 64x faster than PCI-E 1.0. Nuts.

But, for the general user, PCI-E bandwidth is a non-issue, SSD's might benefit as they tend to be limited to PCI-E 4x lanes, but I highly doubt if the average user would notice a difference between 2.5GB/s of SSD bandwidth and 10GB/s in day to day operations.