Origin offers huge discounts despite previous Steam sales criticism
Platform offering up to 87% discount
Only a week following their criticism of Steam by saying the service's substantial discounts "cheapen" IPs, EA has revealed a sale for Origin, which offers up to a 87 percent discount.
Origin's FloorPrice sale is offering a 75 percent discount for games including Spore, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Darksiders and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Dragon Age: Origins has received a 87.5 percent discount.
The sale prices mentioned represents discounts on each of the title's current pricetag on the platform, instead of their original RRP. Subsequently, the discounts make for an ever larger saving for consumers.
Origin's massive discount prices will come as a surprise to many following the service's boss displeasure at Steam's sales that go up to 75 percent. David DeMartini stated that such large discounts led to the cheapening of IPs, and he even promised that Origin won't follow suit.
"We won't be doing that. Obviously they think it's the right thing to do after a certain amount of time. I just think it cheapens your intellectual property. We're trying to give you a fair price point, and occasionally there will be things that are on sale you could look for a discount, just don't look for 75 per cent off going-out-of-business sales."
DeMartini had recently said that Origin's first year has been a "huge success", with the platform boasting 12 million downloads, as well as $150 million in revenue thus far.
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speaking of which, i heard a while back that EA might be bought out by another company...any info on that?
As to wanting Valve to buy EA...LMAO. You want a bigger hypocrite to take over another? Nice...I think Valve really need to put more focus on their own games before taking over someone else's, plus EA are publicly traded, I doubt a privately owned company will want the excess of pressure to meet shareholder's demands when they cannot conform to their own consumer's demands.
When Valve release Half Life 2: Episode 3 or Half Life 3 then I will back them in their future plans...until then the only way I will support Valve is via Steam and playing previous Valve made titles like Left 4 Dead
I think we can all be glad that 75% off sales can exist on Origin, in spite of previous reports. That just means that Origin exclusive titles have a chance of deep discounts come Xmas. I'm sure we can all agree that's a win for gamers since EA has committed itself to this route. :thumbs:
They're not really getting slagged for having a big sale but for the hypocrisy. Not even 2 weeks ago the boss went on a rant about how it's bad for the industry and you'll never see origin follow suit.
However, I suspect said announcement was a PR stunt to garner extra attention for the sale in question. I know I wouldn't have known about it were it not for this article.
EA's tactics are underhanded and I would love to see them take a big enough loss from one of these ill-advised publicity campaigns, etc. to reduce the chance of them committing another in the future, ultimately making them a better company and a positive force in the games industry... but failing that, Valve finally having some mainstream competition can only be good for the consumer.
And you said it yourself: if EA didn't have Valve to compete with, they'd never sell games at these prices
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