Will EA rip off steam again?

Origin is a store for their games meaning they don't have to pay a percentage on every copy sold to Valve, with very little downside. It's obvious why they built that. Going into the hardware/OS business is something completely different and wouldn't help their existing business. I don't think they have any interest in that tbh.

how is origin a knockoff. Going by your logic any DD service that came out after steam is a knockoff. Is just an alternative for steam

Having said that i never did like origin that much mainly to game library but there are good stuff about the client that steam dont have such as you can play games without the client running in the background and backup process is much better implemented compared to steam ( on older versions on steam you could just copy game files then restore them and steam will recognise the game but nowdays backup only works with the backup/restore option )

Of course steam is still much better thanks to a huge library better offers and better community features

it's good for companies to "rip~off" other companies.... CALLED competition

Origin is clearly a knockoff. The design is a outright copy paste. Lets not try to make out or pretend otherwise.

Son, don't try give a lecture on business. The first order of the day when walking into

dragons den is "do you own the rights to the patent". Competition and copyright infringement are two different things. EA should outright be sued.

Look, competition.

http://kotaku.com/5931661/ea-sues-zynga-says-the-ville-rips-off-the-sims

lol uninspired thread

Origin isn't nearly as bad as people claim it is.

Steam has a HUGE user-base and library. Origin doesn't. EA knows that.

Wow this is the first time I've seen a thread TC has made and I already dislike him. That's gotta be some kind of record.

so what if the design looks a bit similar? If something works and someone else copy it whats the problem here ? Going by our train of thought technology would be 50 years behind. Also the 2 services are quite different at their fuctions. For once you dont need to run origin to play games then the backup process is much more easier just copy the game files ( the 2 positives over steam ) then the community features again are different, steam has more options and lots of other differences.

How is Origin a "rip off"? It is like saying any burger is a rip off from the original burger. Doesnt matter if you put lots of cheese or onions or lettuces, it is still a burger. Like seriously, did you expect something different from Origin when it is made to do what Steam does?

You just admitted it was a ripoff. Nice one sonny,.

@uninspiredcup: you obviously missed the point. Can you make a burger without a beef/chicken/veggie patty and with no buns? You cant!

No and they shouldn't. Valve's Steambox is very risky, something EA (at this time) needs to avoid. EA is a software company, not a hardware manufacturer and the company's financials don't afford them the luxury to build their own OS and try to recruit other third parties to. If they wanted to co-partner with other companies to make their own platform, maybe (as in Blizzard, Rockstar, etc.) but there isn't sufficient incentive for those companies to come together and leave the opportunities afforded them by Sony, MS, Google, Apple, Oracle, and Nintendo.