News Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 EA has announced a new online service today called Origin, which will provide a storefront for all EA-published games on PC and offer features similar to competing platforms such as Steam. The Origin web store is currently live with over 150 titles, and the downloadable client is available as a beta. While Origin will offer [...] Read the full story at starwarsmmo.net... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWUSS Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Anyone remember when Origin referred to a video game developer? Neither do I... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 @ DAWUSS: Origin Systems, the creator of the Ultima and Wing Commander series. There are others here who are that oldskool As for the Steam competitor... I doubt this'll mean that EA will stop selling its games on Steam, but when Steam sales come around you can bet that EA games won't be marked down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 @ DAWUSS: Origin Systems, the creator of the Ultima and Wing Commander series. There are others here who are that oldskool As for the Steam competitor... I doubt this'll mean that EA will stop selling its games on Steam, but when Steam sales come around you can bet that EA games won't be marked down. EA also bought the later disbanded Origin Systems, but I'm sure you implied that Also I think I read that the versions of EA's new games on this "Origin" store would just feature more extras, or exclusive limited editions, no doubt more of that day 1 DLC bull**** they've been shoving down our throats. Anyway, pretty sure TOR is the only game atm announced as digitally available only through this store. Guess I'll be picking it up retail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkonium Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 This may have something to do the Stargate SG-1 repeats on Space being on Season 10, but EA naming this service "Origin" makes me really nervous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Vougalot Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 So does this mean there won't be a hard disk version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkonium Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 So does this mean there won't be a hard disk version? No. What they mean is the downloaded version will be exclusive to Origin. It only means you can't download it unless you accept the Ori as gods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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