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Forums - PC - Steamworld Dig and SW Battlefront Season Pass are free on Origin

Chazore on 04 October 2017
GOWTLOZ said:
Chazore said:
Considering that Steamworld dig is a game from 2013, it's surprising to see EA offering it for free this late, same goes for the SWBF season pass (which was heavily reduced last year). That said, I bought the SWBF season pass and was met with disappointment as I couldn't find many if any matches with the bought pass itself.

Great that they decided to make old content free I guess, but as for the season pass, it's a wasted effort with a practically dead community.

I also don't consider Origin to be superior to Steam, as EA still hosts far higher prices for their games, still lacks the library of releases that Steam has and has less sales compared to Steam, let alone GoG and GMG (hell I've seen GMG having better sales for Origin games than Origin itself).

I said Origin is better in this way, but on the whole I agree Steam is better. Sales, servers and variety of games make it better but I want Valve to take notice of this.

EA even gives away free games on other platforms, I remember them giving NFS MW and PVZ GW free on PlayStation platforms. More publishers should do this on all platforms and services with older games!

Valve doesn't tell devs to slash prices on their season passes though, that's entirely up to the devs to decide. All Valve does now is try their hand at keeping order within their store as well as working on new features and existing ones. EA owns their store and the vast majority of the games sold there. Games that go for free on Steam are decisions made by the devs, not Valve.

If anything, EA took hints from Steam thanks to free limited time old titles every once in a while, as well as having a built in FPS counter (which Valve had first, now Origin and GoG have caught up with that feature, with MS being last as well as Uplay, Beth.net and Battle.net).

Bear in mind that via other platforms, means it's by their own client service, not outside of it. It also falls under the EA vault service, one which you pay to gain access to. I do not consider paying for something as being "free". Gaining access to something without having to pay a cent is what would be considered as free.

What these companeis should do, is give away old games for nothing, and I mean nothing, that alone builds a ton of goodwill, without having to pay to earn said goodwill.



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GOWTLOZ on 04 October 2017
Chazore said:
GOWTLOZ said:

I said Origin is better in this way, but on the whole I agree Steam is better. Sales, servers and variety of games make it better but I want Valve to take notice of this.

EA even gives away free games on other platforms, I remember them giving NFS MW and PVZ GW free on PlayStation platforms. More publishers should do this on all platforms and services with older games!

Valve doesn't tell devs to slash prices on their season passes though, that's entirely up to the devs to decide. All Valve does now is try their hand at keeping order within their store as well as working on new features and existing ones. EA owns their store and the vast majority of the games sold there. Games that go for free on Steam are decisions made by the devs, not Valve.

If anything, EA took hints from Steam thanks to free limited time old titles every once in a while, as well as having a built in FPS counter (which Valve had first, now Origin and GoG have caught up with that feature, with MS being last as well as Uplay, Beth.net and Battle.net).

Bear in mind that via other platforms, means it's by their own client service, not outside of it. It also falls under the EA vault service, one which you pay to gain access to. I do not consider paying for something as being "free". Gaining access to something without having to pay a cent is what would be considered as free.

What these companeis should do, is give away old games for nothing, and I mean nothing, that alone builds a ton of goodwill, without having to pay to earn said goodwill.

Valve could still give theoir own games for free.

The games I mentioned here are free for everyone, sure EA Origin Access gives you more free games, but you get some free games like Steamworld Dig withouit paying anything at all. You can go and download them right now if you want.

I wasn't aware of Steam giving out free games, any free game they have on the store now? Would be cool.



Chazore on 04 October 2017
GOWTLOZ said:

Valve could still give theoir own games for free.

The games I mentioned here are free for everyone, sure EA Origin Access gives you more free games, but you get some free games like Steamworld Dig withouit paying anything at all. You can go and download them right now if you want.

I wasn't aware of Steam giving out free games, any free game they have on the store now? Would be cool.

Valve have given theirs for free before in the past, they even have two of their games that are F2P, those being TF2 and DOTA 2.

The season pass being free doesn't really do much, considering that the multiplayer base for that season pass is next to nothing, I already gave you my account of playing with the season pass before. Steamworld dig is basically £6 on Steam, which is pretty damn low for a game from 2013.

I don't consider OA to give out "free gamesd", because it means I have to pay a fee in order to access the vault. Their "on the house" program (which Valve doesn't have to name, nor do any other devs that give out titles for free) is perfectly fine and really that should cover the rest of the vault instead.

http://store.steampowered.com/genre/Free%20to%20Play/

https://www.pcgamesn.com/nine-best-free-play-games-steam



Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.