"The gaming industry has JUST begun to recover."
"The gaming industry has just reported all time lows in sales."
Isn't that kind of contradictory? O.o
Anyways, the problem with current-gen hardware isn't exactly the GPU/CPU, it's the limited memmory constraints.
Not all type of hardware upgrades makes it more difficult to develop a game. Having more memmory means the developers have more breathing room ...
^ You *might* have to go through their client if they get ballsy enough.
You know how a steamworks game works right? What if EA copied that and made it so that all BF3 purchases have to be activated on Origin?
=p
Isn't that $10 usually for console versions because of some publishing fees or something?
Most PC games still launch at $50 (check out the 'Coming Soon' section on Steam).
A few publishers such as Activision and EA have decided to go for the $60 price. People end up buying the game anyways so they figure they might as well make more profit.
"They fail to see that there's a great deal of cost involved, update, dlc, anti-cheat."
To be fair, the costs involved are just server maintenance. Updates and DLC aren't all that different from general game downloads (although I don't think Origin has auto-updates/patching yet)
Anti-cheat isn't provided by the digital distributor.
Activision does have it's own digital store. So do a lot of other publishers.
^ Having their own store means the sale revenue goes directly to them (instead of a retailer/distributor getting a cut of the pie)
I think Activision does this with a few digital games such as Starcraft2.
I'm not sure what they plan to do with Origin. Whatever it is, I hope they keep running the client optional. I tried Origin and it seems to eat more memory than steam. Though I did like it's visual look.
I've bought a couple of games from the old EA Store, as Theo above you said, it doesn't currently work like Steam or GFWL.
The game essentially behaves like a retail game (except that, you can download it from EA's Download Manager whenever you want). So if anything, it's better than steam since you don't need any other clients running to launch the game.
I was going to buy BF3 from origin anyways (along with BF2142), assuming they don't make i...
It is worthy of noting that if you check the BF3 page on Origin, it states that the Back2Karakand free expansion is only valid on Origin.
This might explain why D2D's pre-order doesn't list the expansion and why steam has yet to make BF3 available.
I suppose EA realizes that they have a killer line-up coming up and want to take the opportunity to pull PC players to their platform. Wouldn't be surprised if they keep their future games exclusive to origin. ...
Is that your steam login id?
They tend not to matter, you can change your profile name to whatever the hell you want.
Just go into your user settings and the options will be there.
Can't.
The pre-order pack isn't available everywhere yet and only specific retailers carry them.
That's the problem here. Not all pre-orders get the exclusive weapons, and there's no other way of obtaining them.
AVA is the only one I tried.
It reminds me of RainbowSixVegas for some reason... might be the similar engine/style.
It's not so bad, although I like CombatArms more, but that game is infested with too many hackers.
There's some fun to be had in AVA's escort mode. I didn't find TDM all that thrilling. There's a few other objective~ish modes too.
Is it really a wise decision to buy a game that's been in development for longer than you've been alive? O.o
... and the Escort mode is fun too.
Oddly feels more intense then Brink's similar mode.
The BackToKarkand expansion is something they're working on, but isn't likely to be finished by BF3's launch, so it will be released later.
It is an expansion and thus, must be bought, just like BC2 Vietnam. EA decided to give the expansion for free to pre-orders, which is quite a nice deal.
As for this announcement, it seems EA doesn't realize that having a varied arsenal IS an advantage.
Makes sense for them to say that as they've invested a lot in 3D tech on their TVs.
Although affordability is an issue, they'll also need to solve glasses as well as the headache issues that 3D tends to bring.
Until those issues are fixed, it'll remain a gimmick.
The PWPack is not exclusive to the UK or Europe.
There'll be similar packs around that world.
That isn't what people are complaining about.
It's the fact that they're stripping items from the game and shoving them into exclusive retailer-specific packs that is causing the complaints.
... because it has some fun and unique games? O.o
Resolution might make a difference.
I'm wondering how they'll manage with the memory limits.
Games don't offer exclusive items that impact online gameplay.
BC2's items were all day-one unlocks, so you could play the game and unlock them. Every single thing in the game was obtainable, no matter when you buy the game.
In BF3's case, you can only obtain those items unless if you pre-order. You can't obtain them afterwards.
There was a boycott with BadCompany1, when EA wanted to sell weapons later on. The boycott worked and EA did...
Are you sure?
The expansion pack is free with all limited edition.
The additional 3 exclusive in-game items are only available in the Physical-Warfare-Pack and that pack is only available at specific retailers.
Amazon isn't one of those retailers as far as I know.
I'd figure they could have something similar to WarioWare Inc.
... though they'd have to get the detection spot on.