EA bedding more publishers for Origin

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EA bedding more publishers for Origin

Jokke

Hm, I wonder how this will look in a year or so, competitionwise between Steam and Origin..

BHHammy

So how long do you think before EA caves in to their inner nature and starts forcing publishers' hands to release stuff exclusively on Origin?

It's not a question of "if", it's a question of "when".

_k

Hm, I wonder how this will look in a year or so, competitionwise between Steam and Origin..

This is where EA can try and really push the social side of their service and make it a lot of things Steam is not or trying to be. They could do things like open up their chat to be added to pidgin under a standard protocol, auto post to fb/google+/myspace????, forum signatures, mimic some of the social sites with features they offer connecting users to each other or notifications. They are already handling the game launcher, BattleLog, in a manner that others are not.

Canti

So how long do you think before EA caves in to their inner nature and starts forcing publishers' hands to release stuff exclusively on Origin?

Last October.