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Origin Brings in the Bucks

Posted Feb 2, 2012 at 3:55PM EST by

Listed in: News Tags: battlefield 3, EA, origin, Remedy Entertainment, selectsoft
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If you search around the web a bit, one thing you’ll find no shortage of is complaints about EA’s Origin service. Missing/vanishing games, indifferent support reps and a myriad of other problems plague the online platform, which is still very young in terms of its developmental cycle.

 

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These troubles don’t seem to have fazed EA much, however. The company confirmed earlier this week that sales through Origin have been quite nice indeed, with the service bringing in over $100 million since launching in the summer of 2011. EA is also boasting that the Origin client has been downloaded over nine million times, with a concurrent user peak of one million.


These numbers came alongside an announcement that new games from new publishers would be making their way to Origin – publishers like Remedy Entertainment, Focus Home Interactive, Iceberg Interactive, Macro Games, Legendo Entertainment and Selectsoft.


Of course, it’s hard for gamers not to take this news with a bitter squint, since a large number of Origin installs are the direct result of EA requiring the service on blockbuster games like Battlefield 3. When you force players to buy and play a game through one specific mechanism, you’re naturally going to see it begrudgingly adopted on a large scale.


What do you think of Origin’s numbers? And, how has Origin been treating you?


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# RE: Origin Brings in the BucksDruidium 2012-02-02 20:07
Thankfully Battlefield Two does not require Origin to be installed. I bought the game from Steam so I have no problems gaming. What bugs me is to host a Battlefield Two internet game you have to rent a server from EA. Lan parties are free thankfully with this game, but means my friend has to come all the way over to my place. Would be a lot easier if I could just host a private internet game, then we could just play from are own houses.

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# RE: Origin Brings in the Bucksg6 2012-02-04 19:05
crapy crapy move by ea - again... U buy the game that opens that crap, that launches a browser so than you can play the f* game! just put your damn game at steam.

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