Excellent maybe this means that they will use the money they got to pull those stupid ads from the dashboard, hell Sony has a free service and they don't serve you any annoying ads.
There is room for a competitor to Steam, I wish people would stop saying that there isn't, what annoys me with EA, I will include Valve here as well by the way, is that the games that they publish are only on their service. I have already chosen GOG and Steam as my digital platforms of choice, Origin offers me nothing that Steam doesn't already provide other then yet another login to remember. Games like Kingdoms of Amalur have proven that you can put games on both services without issue. EA, if you want people to use your service, do it by giving us a better product not by withholding part of your product from part of the market over some pissing contest. You start allowing your games to launch day and date on Steam along with Origin and you maintain those 45 million active user who are still purchasing on your service then you can celebrate because that would be an impressive achievement.
For the DRM thing, yeah I believed the explanations about the always online function not being DRM from EA about as much as I believed it from Activison/Blizzard, say what you want about Ubisoft at least they called it what it was.
I will give them credit for the LGBT thing though, it is always good for any company to push equality .
If this is true then I may have to pass on the 720 and just stick with the PS4. I didn't support Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, or any Ubisoft PC game that required this nonsense and I sure as hell am not going to support a console that mandates this nonsense.
Got to be wondering if they will be using standard 3.5" HDDs for this, will definitely do funny things with power consumption, heat production and system size but it will get them much better HDD capacity at a cheaper price. In saying that though 2.5" HDDs come in, what, 1TB sizes now?
*Edit* Actually I shouldn't be surprised since most digital download sites don't tend to publish their sales numbers so unless those numbers quoted are official from Square Enix it makes sense why they aren't included.
If I had the money I would be getting Tomb Raider, but I am still on the fence about Hitman. It is curious that the sales figures given ignore digital copies since that is how the vast majority of PC gamers tend to get their games nowadays.
"There's an expectation to be able to try for free, and only spend money if they want to".
You know I am sure that this has been mentioned may times before but honestly I remember them doing stuff like this years ago, they were called free, playable demos released around the same time as the game, people got to play the game for free and paid for it if they liked it.
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