Off Topic > Games
Lets rant at Origin
rockslide26:
The only problem with digital distribution is that you buy THE LICENSE TO DOWNLOAD THE GAME from Steam/Origin/Uplay/whatever. Unless you're good about making backups, unless steam's download servers stay up forever, eventually that game will be lost.
I don't disagree with you that digital download is superior, but it still is flawed
Bisjac:
keeping your disk clean and undamaged is no different then the need to write down steam keys and make backups.
the media changes, but the common sense is all the same.
there would be computer nooby backlash if steam suggested (at every install you make) that you make a backup.
half these users dont even know what that means. or dont have disks or externals. or dont have parental permission to eat up yet more harddrive space.
you gotta dumb it down for the crowd. but the rule is all the same.
Harm94:
My ideal of the ideal distribution system is that it just install's a copy of the game to your computer and can launch without the software being needed. Steam has one phatal flaw, should they go out of business every thing will disapeer. I've heard about there so called plan b, but are you really going to back up terrabytes of games?
As for ea, they wont be seeing my dollar any time soon since there butchering of cnc4 and the casualizing of Battlefield.
beachbum111111:
--- Quote from: Pandan on August 23, 2013, 08:10:47 AM --- They don't have a nice interface like steam. Etc etc.
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Wait what? Origins interface looks far nicer.
blockbuilder1:
This has turned more into a rant of either system for buying games.