Origin third-party support begins with Saints Row, Batman
EA's Origin store will start offering third-party games next month. Electronic Arts had said that "forward-looking publishers" were looking to jump on board--those publishers include Warner Bros., THQ, and Capcom.
EA's Origin store will start offering third-party games next month. Electronic Arts had said that "forward-looking" publishers were looking to jump on board--those publishers include Warner Bros., THQ, and Capcom. On November 15th, Origin will add Batman: Arkham City and Saints Row: The Third, with more titles coming from these publishers "in the coming months."
"Since launch, we've had overwhelming support from both publishers and developers across the gaming industry, recognizing Origin as an opportunity to deliver more of their great content straight to consumers across the globe," David DeMartini, senior vice president of Origin at EA, said in a press release. "We're excited to welcome Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, THQ and Capcom as the first publishers to offer their games via Origin."
Origin has seen a tremendous boon in recent days, largely due to Battlefield 3's reliance on the platform. Upcoming games, like Star Wars: The Old Republic, are likely to continue EA's reach amongst PC gamers.
"We are very pleased to partner with EA and have Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's key PC titles available on Origin," said Greg Ballard, senior vice president, Digital Games, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. "In growing our digital offerings for consumers we want to give fans increased access to critically acclaimed titles such as Batman: Arkham City."
"THQ is excited to work with Origin and to offer players another new, innovative way to experience the over-the-top fun of Saints Row: The Third," said Terri Schiek, senior vice president of publishing, Americas at THQ. "We look forward to building our relationship with the Origin team, and to continue to deliver great content for the platform."
"When we met with the EA team and discussed their long-term vision for Origin, we were excited to lend our weight to their efforts," said Christian Svensson, senior vice president at Capcom Entertainment. "We hope to expand our PC fanbase for our legendary brands on Origin."
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EA's Origin store will start offering third-party games next month. Electronic Arts had said that "forward-looking publishers" were looking to jump on board--those publishers include Warner Bros., THQ, and Capcom.-
I wonder if this is going to make any companies think twice about using the steamworks system. Or would they just make two separate DD releases? I can't see EA doing the same thing like D2D does, just sell a code that's used on steam.
But if you look at CDPR's Witcher 2, game is phenomenal, however CDPR's choice to make a separate version for steam isn't working out the best at times. They still haven't fixed the steam version not being able to use the overlay, however if you bought it from anywhere else, the overlay works just fine.
Should be interesting how this one plays out.-
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You sure? I know it uses steam cloud but beyond that I have no idea. Steam cloud doesn't make it steamworks, neither does achievements really. Just makes that version use steam. But Steamworks in my mind means you need to play through steam, like the latest COD's or Fallout NV.
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morrowind and oblivion arn't officially steamworks, but use the cloud, psychonauts has the cloud (but i guess that just makes that a steam special version)
Im guessing that saints row 3 will be steamworks, but you can get copies that don't use steam, unlike games like FNV or metro 2033
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It's listed as a steamworks game on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steam_games#Upcoming_games
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http://www.saintsrow.com/community/go/thread/view/136781/28585305/F.A.Q._Thread_(Updated_Sept._6th)&post_num=1#510238985
Fuck them if it's not actually a steamworks title. This is the only "official source" that I can find.
Everywhere else official looking lists it as PC: DVD-ROM title.
And I could have sworn this was originally listed as a Steamworks title on the Steam store page.-
I tried the character creation tool yesterday and the PC version has you using a key to grab it on Steam.
That said, at least the character creation tool is very poorly optimized and the UI is a shitty console port.
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well, that was kinda what I was getting at. CDPR decided to make 2 different (at least) versions and it seems they are having issues keeping up with all of them at the same time, I was never blaming steam, Im just curious if other developers are going to go the same route.
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you didn't have to buy the Steam version and if DRM bothers you, why not the GOG.com version or walk to a store or order a retail box over the internet? I have it from GOG.com, but if I remember right, it should pre-patch on initial install to remove the DRM on the retail disc. After all the patches, the only version with DRM is Steam's.
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right, but im saying are other companies going to follow in CDPR's footsteps of making other versions of the game? Are we going to have a special Steam, Origin, and whatever else copy? or are they going to be the same for sanity sake?
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Well, before Steamworks-enabled titles really kicked off with third-parties, we used to see that. You see it now mostly with mods for non-Steamworks titles, where modders have to provide separate mods for Steam copies and again for retail boxes.
Personally, I'd rather see the separate copies, or at least a digital distribution-agnostic version. I'm sure developers don't enjoy handling separate patch systems for the same title, but at the same time I think it's worse to require a single digital distribution platform for a title.
This complaint is equally against Battlefield 3 for Origin and Deus Ex: Human Revolution and those like it for Steamworks. As the more mature platform, Steamworks-enabled games are just more plentiful.
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Steamworks doesn't affect Origin since Origin is just an installer (for now). It downloads and installs the game, but otherwise serves no other functions (no, it does not patch or update the games).
So Steamworks works fine since it downloads the GCF for Steam to use.
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After using Origin for BF3, no thanks. I want nothing to do with other games on this service. Had nothing but problems from the get go.
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What, seriously? They're actually giving 30% of their profit away to a competitor with unproven partner service for this kind of thing? I would have bet money that nobody would take that offer. Is the 'people so new to PC gaming that they only have BF3 and don't plan on getting any Steam titles' market really large enough to make this a winning proposition?
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How do you know that EA is charging them 30%? I would not be surprised if EA is trying to buy market share by taking a lot lower % of sales on their platform to get it off the ground. EA forced MS into letting them control their own servers on Live and they are trying to force their conditions onto Valve too. EA does not want to come crawling back to Valve with egg on their face. In order to do keep that from happening they have to do something to chip away at Steam.
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I don't want to hear any of these publishers talk about how Steam is a conflict of interest because Valve runs it now that they seem to be willing to be on a direct competitor''s download service.
Regardless, not buying any of these games on Origin. The chances of Valve still being around 5 years is very likely. The chances of EA dropping support on Origin if it doesn't turn out to be as successful as they hoped is equally likely.
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I disagree completely. EA does as many shady things as it can get away with to move people from playing their older titles and into their newer titles. Now that their games are going to be locked behind their gate on your computer how are they going to act? Maybe you will just get an ad for the newest version every time you click to play BF3 when BF4 is out. No big deal right? EA wouldn't do that. And even if they did it is just an ad right?
Maybe instead of just shutting down old game servers for the internet they might feel like disabling all multiplayer functions in a game after so long? We are discontinuing all multiplayer services for the following EA games: ... That seems to be quite the logical next step to me from shutting down servers. Oh sure it will sound great when they sell you on it as the Origin Easy Access MultiPlayer interface. Through our Origin EA Multiplayer interface you can have easy access to both LAN and Internet gaming all through one simple page in the Origin service. See your friends online. See what your friends are playing. Join them with the touch of a button. No more server browser lists in-game. Access all your Origin EA Multiplayer enabled games* from one simple interface.
*Electronic Arts may from time to time remove access to older games from the OEAMP to ensure our customers have the best experience available to them that we can provide.
I generally don't do conspiracy theories, but I also don't believe EA farts rainbows and builds utopias for gamers the world over to play in. -
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And steam does with Valve games...
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Not bashing, just pointing it out. I have more games (by far) on steam than anything else, even physical copies.
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Valve at least lets their competitors sell it: http://store.origin.com/store/ea/en_US/pd/productID.81565900
Even if it's the boxed version. You can still buy it where you want.-
Right, but that's because EA was the publisher for those on consoles (and I think PC retail). EA has also sold retail for quite a while, so its really no different than buying B&M or amazon. You still have to install Steam to play.
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As Wikipedia tells us -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orange_Box -- EA is the retail distributor. Of course they're going to sell it. But look at digital versions, where else is Left4Dead being sold? Half-Life 2? The Portals?
You can find Steamworks-enabled, third-party titles like Modern Warfare 2 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution on Impulse, but while Battlefield 3 is available on Impulse, Valve's first-party titles aren't. Requiring a platform be installed and used to play a game isn't exactly consumer choice, but then again, neither is barring a game from sale on other like platforms.-
If those companies sold boxed copies they could sell it too. It's their choice not to offer boxed copies.
Cannot blame Valve for that.-
Well, I'm sure you can, but whatever :)
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Why would ANYONE in their right mind get the Origin version of Saints Row 3 unless it still comes with steamworks AND is simultaneously cheaper? And since batman AC has probably already accumulated over 100,000 (pure guess) steam users thanks to the Nvidia bundle, both of these titles coming to Origin is almost completely worthless.
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If it's cheaper I'll buy it, I want cheap stuffz. amazon selling cheaper than Steam? Great, let me download your downloader amazon. Anyone else selling it cheaper? I don't care if I have to click a different icon so long as I save money.
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Excellent, I can't wait for games with 3 types of DRM! We should get games with GFWL, SecurROM and Origin ALL IN ONE! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG !!!!1111
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I'm torn on this. Its good in that its a big fuck you to microsoft and their shitty mcshitterson Games for Windows Live service, which will be bundled in windows 8. Origin is alright but I want to GFWL makes me want to punch my golden retreiver. On the other hand, now we can look forward to games with 3 types of DRM in 1 package. Fuck that.
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Keep saying it...competition is good.
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Well I decided to give Origin the benefit of the doubt and tried installing Mass Effect 2 on it, - it now sits at the point where I have to log into my EA account to activate the game, and then sits on Connecting.
Any ideas? The game key added fine (Steam purchase originally).
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Thanks Crabs.
Software as a service, right here folks.
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Now Capcom can get Games For Windows on Origin!
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If this leads to more price wars, I'm happy.
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I've got Origin, will use it for SWTOR and Dragon Age 2.
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Well, I'm on Origin because of BF3 already, so good. More price wars, the better. Had some trouble with Origin last night though, was really slow to start up and failed to do so entirely a couple of times, so they do have some ironing to do before it's something I'd say I'm pleased to use, be the reason the BF3 launch or not.
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