Ubisoft to EA: Y u so mad?

[EzekielRage]

With the info we now have about the Xbox One we can say for sure EA dropped Nintendo support because of Origin and their pre-owned support. Since the Xbox One does not support pre-owned games and has exclusive EA partnership for a while its quite obviousy whats going on here.

As said before, personally, I dont miss out on much. The question is, was anyone ever playing EA games on Nintendo systems? Its like Call of Duty, people play that on the 360 because that's where everyone plays it. Once again, it's always bad to lose a developer but it's even worse to completely piss all over your customers. I am quite sure Sony and MS will learn that lesson the hard way...

 

[FAST6191]

Oh, and Ubisoft has the moral high ground because they realized that people hated them forcing DRM upon consumers, while EA continues to try and justify that shit like Sim City Always Online DRM is a good idea, or that people want Origin both on their PC as well as having it forced integration into consoles. They figure just because they have a large number of registered Origin accounts, that people actually want to use it, but they like the games so much they have no choice because EA doesn't give them an alternative, while Ubisoft who have their U Play service, still offer other means of buying their games digitally while EA does not.

You know what though, I am still pissed off at Ubisoft for delaying Rayman Legends by making it multiplatform, but I am not pissed off at them because they are continuing to support the Wii U while other devs are being douche bags.

Now the rumblings about stuff in the 360 world might have changed the perspective but like dropping online passes?

Origin.... because a world leading company in a field wants to be beholden to a competitor (at cost and freedom of actions) for what amounts to a fairly important service?
Likewise "if you build it they will come" tends not to be the greatest model for online services and if you can force, cajole and otherwise get people past that "joining up and occasionally checking in" hurdle you tend to do a lot better.

 

[DSGamer64]

Now the rumblings about stuff in the 360 world might have changed the perspective but like dropping online passes?

Origin.... because a world leading company in a field wants to be beholden to a competitor (at cost and freedom of actions) for what amounts to a fairly important service?
Likewise "if you build it they will come" tends not to be the greatest model for online services and if you can force, cajole and otherwise get people past that "joining up and occasionally checking in" hurdle you tend to do a lot better.

While I agree, having more distribution options is better for business in maximizing sales as well. Alienating a group of people just because you dislike the way a business is operating it's service, is not exactly a good way to treat your customers. Why should the customers care about your petty squabble with another business?

 

[the_randomizer]

While I agree, having more distribution options is better for business in maximizing sales as well. Alienating a group of people just because you dislike the way a business is operating it's service, is not exactly a good way to treat your customers. Why should the customers care about your petty squabble with another business?

Sensationalism is very attractive in this day and age unfortunately. News/information is often blown out of proportion for the sake of getting readers.

 

[FAST6191]

While I agree, having more distribution options is better for business in maximizing sales as well. Alienating a group of people just because you dislike the way a business is operating it's service, is not exactly a good way to treat your customers. Why should the customers care about your petty squabble with another business?

For my money most of the anti origin lot would probably cave and install it anyway the moment a game they want comes out for it or it represents a financial bonus for them to get it on the service, much like the "OMG boycott" crowd. Granted EA has not yet managed to truly deliver on either of them but that is a different matter. Issues with the terms of use/service aside (and though I truly dislike them most people merely click through such things) not installing origin probably rates lower than not installing flash or java on a system (those have good security reasons to try to avoid installing them).
Why should they care.... is it really a relevant question?

 

[DSGamer64]

For my money most of the anti origin lot would probably cave and install it anyway the moment a game they want comes out for it or it represents a financial bonus for them to get it on the service, much like the "OMG boycott" crowd. Granted EA has not yet managed to truly deliver on either of them but that is a different matter. Issues with the terms of use/service aside (and though I truly dislike them most people merely click through such things) not installing origin probably rates lower than not installing flash or java on a system (those have good security reasons to try to avoid installing them).
Why should they care.... is it really a relevant question?

Well I love the Battlefield games but I never caved and installed Origin when BF3 came out. If they wanted to get money from people like me again, they wouldn't force Origin on me and let me use the service I prefer.

 

[slingblade1170]

Every time a new Nintendo system is released since GC its crap. You can get on any forum and people say "Nintendo is doomed", "Its an underpowered piece of crap", "lacks features", etc. But if I'm not mistaken hasn't Nintendo created the next steps of innovation with every system that eventually gets copied by the competition? Nintendo isn't going anywhere, just wait until a 3d & HD Mario/Zelda/Metroid comes out and they will dominate sales.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Every time a new Nintendo system is released since GC its crap. You can get on any forum and people say "Nintendo is doomed", "Its an underpowered piece of crap", "lacks features", etc. But if i'm not mistaken hasn't Nintendo created the next steps of innovation with every system that eventually gets copied by the competition? Nintendo isn't going anywhere, just wait until a 3d & HD Mario/Zelda/Metroid comes out and they will dominate sales.

Wait... so you say everything Nintendo has done since GC is crap, then you defend Nintendo? What?

 

[slingblade1170]

Wait... so you say everything Nintendo has done since GC is crap, then you defend Nintendo? What?

No, I just remember reading all the same negative comments since the GC was released. I love Nintendo, have every system since the NES. My point was that Nintendo will completely turn this around with time.