It's paper mario in a south park skin. What can go wrong?
I'm not preordering it because march is all about dark souls 2 for me.
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It's paper mario in a south park skin. What can go wrong?
I'm not preordering it because march is all about dark souls 2 for me.
I think it actually looks better without the DOF lol. The specular highlights thing is pretty good though.
Nice. Fall of the Samurai Collection for a sensible finally.
Doubt that. Tony warned yesterday to buy it ASAP as the keys were going fast. He said there were not enough for the deal to last for one more day.
It's an Obsidian game written by Matt and Trey, I doubt it'll be a bad game. At worst I expect something merely decent.
bobnowhere
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And that's what happens when a game never on sale goes on sale.
And that's what happens when a game never on sale goes on sale.
You gotta wonder how EA is interpreting this, seeing as they've practically been giving it away on Origin.
They'll probably ignore it, as usual...
(Also, we have no metric of how it's done on Origin. Maybe it's done really well there?)
Probably interpret it that their games need more pay2play elements and toothpaste DLC.
(Whether it's done well on Origin or not, what does it say that so many people were apparently waiting for it to be on sale on Steam despite it having been much cheaper on Origin? Besides some doublethink about how Steam devalues games.)
spinalscratch
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Someone might think in EA, and realize how much money is ready to be made just releasing Mass Effect 3 and the Dragon Age series at least.
I don't know who are the owners of EA but that's clearly a mistake of their executives.
woo and indeed hoo
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EA are a publicly listed company I believe so are answerable to their shareholders.
Last year there were almost twice as many featured EA deals on Steam compared to 2012. Sooner or later the penny is going to drop.
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What I meant is, if people are ok with paying a premium to have their games in steam let them do it.
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I know. I bought Sim City 4 even though I knew I could get it cheaper in origin. An if the steam boxes reach a minimum success, will EA be able to afford not having their popular series like FIFA in them? Doesn't make any sense, at least from an business perspective.
Intheflorsh
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I thought people in this thread were being a little hyperbolic with their hatred of uplay, but holy shit is it terrible. I'm trying to play through Blacklist right now, and the game has to download and install a different ~500mb patch every time I try to start a game. This could have easily been avoided if uplay would just let you download the most current version of the game like Steam and even Origin. But, hey, at least this way I can get UPlay points.
Tip: Download from the url instead of through the patcher. I believe the url is inside the text bit of the patcher.
woo and indeed hoo
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Funnily enough, Steam versions of Uplay games are kept up to date, as Ubi's own Far Cry 3 patching guide so succinctly makes clear:
It'd be hilarious if it weren't so sad.
I was checking HLTB today and I saw there's a lot of games that don't have any information, so I thought that jshackles could add a feature on ES so it fetches the played time of the Steam reviews, so at least can now an average playtime. It would only be from the 50 most helpful posts, as well as the actual score is.
EA's invested a lot into Origin, and the only way that investment will pay off is if they keep games off of Steam. Besides, if a game is popular enough, people will buy it even if it isn't on Steam; games determine the success of a platform, not the other way around.
... so what really doesn't make any sense is why EA seems hellbent on destroying all their franchises.
http://steamcommunity.com//id/grasshole/recommended/34900/
Bad Rats best value for your money, very long game!
The DOF is just a blur filter. Someone will probably get ENB running nicely.
The Origin hate is hyperbolic, the Uplay hate is justified.
Not really seeing this to be honest.
They make more money if people buy directly from Origin store. If people buy an Origin game off Amazon or where ever, how are they making any more money than if the game was bought off Steam. The retailer, regardless of whether it's Steam, Amazon, GMG, or Gamersgate will take their cut.
How many people do you think actually buy direct off Origin.com?
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I'm not really seeing the "investment" when I use Origin. The rate that features have been added or maintained is downright glacial.
Let's call it like it is: they slapped a new name on EADM and spiffed up the client a bit. And then stopped giving a shit about it all together.
Evidently EA's petulance isn't paying off, though, or there wouldn't have been such a massive upswing in the amount of EA-featured deals last year (and this excludes EA Partners games). I don't expect EA to abandon Origin entirely but I don't doubt that it's looking at Ubi's Uplay integration and taking copious notes.
As for EA's own investment into Origin, well:
You're thinking of Uplay. As for Origin, well, this was EA's roadmap whenthe service launchedEADM was rebranded as such:
I've taken the liberty of crossing out what EA has yet to actually release(1)(2)(3):
(1) While some of EA's mobile games requrie an Origin log-in, there's no actual Origin mobile app.
(2) Achievements finally went live last May, but there is no reward system.
(3) While you can link your Facebook account to your Origin account, there are no social benefits tied to this.
Edit: To put the above time frames into perspective, EA's Q4 FY2012 ended in May 2012 -- we're approaching two years since that date and the vast majority of its planned features since Origin "launched" in mid-2011 have yet to materialise.
I wish more people realized this. There's too many people even on this board that think Origin is "new" and started in 2011 or whenever they launched it. It's nothing more than a goddamn name change and a really basic client. They still don't have every feature Steam had when Origin launched and we're going on 3 years later.
That reminded me of Jorji of Papers Please.
And, yeah, I already had thought of that as one of the flaws of that idea lol
WalMart approach, I expect. Same reason Steam keys can be bought of Amazon, GMG, etc: let third-party resellers market your platform for you, get them onto your platform, and then they'll be more likely to buy directly from you in the future.
And I think a lot of people have bought directly off Origin.com, during price errors at least.
I'm sure they still give some shits about it. It hasn't gone the way of GFWL yet at least.
EA apparently has some trouble choosing between money in the hand vs money in the bush.
AHA-Lambda
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Has there been any update on if UPlay is included in South Park?
There's no way in hell I'm paying that extra £10 Ubisoft PC tax.
There's no way in hell I'm paying that extra £10 Ubisoft PC tax.
Yeah, not going to work as a substitute for HLTB. People might write reviews after 10 minutes of playing, or replay for years after they beat it, or idle a lot in game etc. It might be ok for an idea of how much replay value a game has but it's always going to be heavily skewed because the people who like the game enough to leave a review probably like it enough to play it way more than the average.
Steam community strikes again. I wonder what other nuggets of wisdom we'll get from them today?
spinalscratch
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I think at this point the money they are not making selling games in steam is more than the investment in origin. But if not, sometimes changing your investment at time might help you to reduce your losses.
IMHO we are at this point. And as JaseC pointed before, the fact that they are increasing their sales in steam seems to reveal they are noticing the same too.
Cmon EA, the sooner, the better!
IMHO we are at this point. And as JaseC pointed before, the fact that they are increasing their sales in steam seems to reveal they are noticing the same too.
Cmon EA, the sooner, the better!
Erm, I thought the increased prevalence of those sales was because they're no longer allowed (apparently) to have their own "publisher weekend" sales like the other major pubs on Steam. (I assumed it was a consolation prize)
Cheddahz! Never go on Steam forums!
AHA-Lambda
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the "master race" seems to have a lot of morons on it.
The fact that South Park is number 3 on top sellers at that ridiculous price isn't helping.
I don't go on there actually expecting a serious outcome (or logical one), I mainly go on there to get a few laughs
All you young whippersnappers these days. I remember when EA's download service was called Link.
Well let's be honest Achievements are still a bit thin on the ground (I think they are still in beta). Only BF3 MP, Mass Effect 3 and Dead Space 3 has then and anything EA has released afterwards hasn't had support. I would say it seams like you need a 3 in the title to get them but even Crysis 3 doesn't have them.
Well let's be honest Achievements are still a bit thin on the ground (I think they are still in beta). Only BF3 MP, Mass Effect 3 and Dead Space 3 has then and anything EA has released afterwards hasn't had support. I would say it seams like you need a 3 in the title to get them but even Crysis 3 doesn't have them.
People in general are morons. I learned that a young age.
I'm convinced that person is just trolling. There's no way repetitive multiplayer where you just run around a map a thousand times and kill people over and over again would make it worth the price when a full fledged RPG doesn't.
Nope, they are just that dumb Derrick.
Only if he wants to enrage himself.
This works for Steam because it has a gargantuan third-party library that is constantly expanding whereas Origin only has around two-dozen, most of which are either Steam or Uplay games.
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