• pascal@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If that was true, EA would have been dead in the water 12 years ago.

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      1 year ago

      Didn’t EA shut down Origin or at least make it optional?

      Remember Valve is the company and Steam is the storefront/launcher.

      Epic is the company, EGS is the storefront/launcher.

      EA is the company, Origin is (was?) the storefront/launcher.

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        1 year ago

        Didn’t EA shut down Origin or at least make it optional?

        Technically no. EA now just calls it “The EA App”

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        1 year ago

        If Mass Effect Legendary Edition actually included ME3’s multiplayer I might’ve considered installing Origin again.

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        1 year ago

        Nope. Star Wars Squadrons (which I got from Epic, BTW) required me to download and install Origin first. I’d be salty as fuck about that if all parties involved hadn’t already guaranteed that it was a game that I was never going to pay for anyway.