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FWIW, in terms of exclusivity, there have been games exclusive to EA's Origin. (e.g. the 2017 Battlefront II). I'm not sure how significant "any added friction

FWIW, in terms of exclusivity, there have been games exclusive to EA's Origin. (e.g. the 2017 Battlefront II). I'm not sure how significant "any added friction increases piracy" is in terms of numbers.

dleslie 8y ago
The difference is that people don't really hate exclusives on the publisher's own store unless the store is awful. IMHO: GFWL: awful and hated, dead now UPlay: awful and hated Steam: best in class and loved GoG: second best in class and accepted Origin: good and tolerated Blizzard: good and tolerated Epic: awful and hated
- TheGRS 8y ago
  People hated Origin pretty bad, but EA stuck to their guns. IMO its a pretty awful experience. And to be honest Steam isn't exactly a great experience either. I noticed they're finally doing a face lift on their storefront soon, perhaps from the competition?
  - dleslie 8y ago
    At least Origin didn't vacuum up exclusives from non-EA publishers. People who hated Origin probably already hated EA, too. The Steam library update had been years in the making.
- indigochill 8y ago
  I'd personally put GoG ahead of Steam, and not just for "grr Steam" reasons. Steam has a habit of breaking in weird ways like telling me I can't view my own achievements because my profile is private or suddenly wanting to download 0 bytes for half the games in my library. GoG on the other hand has been totally rock-solid for me.
  - dleslie 8y ago
    I prefer GoG, as well. I was attempting to express my understanding of the generally sentiment that I see from gamers I have a cron job that backs up my library every two weeks via lgogdownloader
- gruez 8y ago
  >UPlay: awful and hated What's so bad about uplay?
  - gsich 8y ago
    It's not Steam. /s
  - dleslie 8y ago
    In my experience, I'm unlikely to be able to play games due to issues with their auth servers.
  - Macha 8y ago
    * Reliability (both servers and client). Everytime I try to a play a uplay game I've had to screw around with getting a fresh installation of the uplay client. * Client performance * Similar to Origin, part of the motivation is so the games don't have to compete with the price of games on Steam, so end up being more expensive.
kristofferR 8y ago
Battlefront 2 is a bad example, as it's a MP game which can't be effectively pirated.

dleslie 8y ago

The difference is that people don't really hate exclusives on the publisher's own store unless the store is awful. IMHO: GFWL: awful and hated, dead now UPlay: awful and hated Steam: best in class and loved GoG: second best in class and accepted Origin: good and tolerated Blizzard: good and tolerated Epic: awful and hated

TheGRS 8y ago
People hated Origin pretty bad, but EA stuck to their guns. IMO its a pretty awful experience. And to be honest Steam isn't exactly a great experience either. I noticed they're finally doing a face lift on their storefront soon, perhaps from the competition?
- dleslie 8y ago
  At least Origin didn't vacuum up exclusives from non-EA publishers. People who hated Origin probably already hated EA, too. The Steam library update had been years in the making.
indigochill 8y ago
I'd personally put GoG ahead of Steam, and not just for "grr Steam" reasons. Steam has a habit of breaking in weird ways like telling me I can't view my own achievements because my profile is private or suddenly wanting to download 0 bytes for half the games in my library. GoG on the other hand has been totally rock-solid for me.
- dleslie 8y ago
  I prefer GoG, as well. I was attempting to express my understanding of the generally sentiment that I see from gamers I have a cron job that backs up my library every two weeks via lgogdownloader
gruez 8y ago
>UPlay: awful and hated What's so bad about uplay?
- gsich 8y ago
  It's not Steam. /s
- dleslie 8y ago
  In my experience, I'm unlikely to be able to play games due to issues with their auth servers.
- Macha 8y ago
  * Reliability (both servers and client). Everytime I try to a play a uplay game I've had to screw around with getting a fresh installation of the uplay client. * Client performance * Similar to Origin, part of the motivation is so the games don't have to compete with the price of games on Steam, so end up being more expensive.

kristofferR 8y ago

Battlefront 2 is a bad example, as it's a MP game which can't be effectively pirated.