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For me it was a no brainer to buy it. Your mileage may vary though.
Double game clients running in the background. That's not good.
Good news: Origin has been sent to never-never-land.
Bad news: Origin has been replaced by EA Games, a walled-garden client similar to Origin, only much more broken.
I don't understand what this seemingly recent trend for unnecessary extra launchers and paraphernalia is all about. Why add unneeded (and from my viewpoint; function-less) complexity to a game?
Are you familiar with the term I used--"walled garden"? It means a gating mechanism intended to isolate you in a publisher's world and cut you off from other publishers' products. Examples include--but aren't limited to--Origin, EA App, UbiPlay, and others.
Steam, by contrast, is not a walled garden: in fact it's very nearly the antithesis of a walled garden. An even better example would be the GoG platform, Galaxy IIRC. Unlike Steam, which must deal with the big boys and perforce submit to the imposition of walled gardens and other forms of DRM, GoG explicitly rejects this approach and only sells games that are DRM-free...including launcher-based DRM.
Short version: it's all about the benjamins. Every company wants you to buy their products, and they're aware they're in competition with others, so they want to make it as easy as possible to buy their stuff while not buying anyone else's. I've no idea if this has been a successful strategy: suffice it to say there's no indication that we're going to see fewer walled-garden clients in the future.
BTW, there's nothing recent about the trend: it's been going on for well over a decade. In EA's case, it meant that any product EA published after a certain date--ME3 being my personal "bone in the throat"--was simply not available on Steam, owing to the inability of EA and Steam to come to terms.
Bottom line: the walled gardens aren't for you; they're for the publisher. And if that's unacceptable, your alternatives are: (1) boycotting that publisher's products, or (2) obtaining an illicit copy that has been jailbroken from their platform.
That is all.
Thanks for your reply…. But I’ve never had an XBox or PS.
My PC is a much more powerful and flexible system, I haven’t seen any compelling value in consoles since the Super Nintendo back in the 1992-3 era.
Thanks for your reply.
Cheers
Thanks for your detailed reply. I am familiar with that terminology, but as a consumer, I find it a major disincentive to make a purchase. The only way that I can see that it could be profitable is in the case of Apple (and perhaps Sony) where the company is vertically integrated; ie controls the hardware and the software. (I can’t comment on Sony as I’ve never had a PS etc). With Apple, the biggest draw card is that they screen out potentially dangerous code, so that numpty consumers like me don’t have to think/investigate when purchasing an app. The negative side is that the very practice of operating a walled garden begins a slow process of consumer resentment from day 1. So whilst you may trap the consumer for a while, once they have a mind to see what’s beyond the wall…. they generally never spend another cent with that company.
The walled garden is a blunt tool, that is driven by the most base of greed type motives. It is a myopic gamble from those who lack the most basic of understanding/ability to wish to compete on a level playing field.
Cheers then!
The notation on the store page is a legacy of the pre-EA App era. As we would have put it in my erstwhile profession, "Delete all references to 'Origin' and substitute 'EA App' in lieu thereof."
The one other issue people are actually having is that its somehow borked the achievements for ME2 and 3. I couldn't care less personally. But if thats something that bothers you then you should be aware. Or a recomendation I put elsewhere. Get the achieves in game and then use Steam Achievement manager to manually unlock them. If you really care about it that much.
I forget that some people don't have the same pathological need to collect video games and systems that I do. I've got an awesome PC, but some games just don't work well on it, like good console games that were ported poorly to PC.
If you ever find yourself with some extra cash to burn, though, I highly recommend all three of the current gen systems. They're great machines and they can play some games that simply don't work on PC anymore due to the way PC technology has just kind of left some of those old titles behind.
Honestly I just wish it were possible to port some of the console-only titles to PC. I really miss BF:BC, but I finally, reluctantly retired my Xbox 360 since it was the last game that I could only play on it.
And--yeah--I'm aware they ported the sequel to PC. Indeed I bought it on Steam. But while BF:BC2 excellent, it's not as goofy and fun as the original.