Origin cheap prices

[hondaf17]

All the command and conquer games work for me on Windows 8.1.

On your main origin screen, right click, go to game properties, then check the box "disable origin in game for this game".

Should work, get you past the splash screen.

 

[carling220]

Enjoying BF4. Although truthfully it feels the exact same as BF3! That being said I've not played online for over a year.

I have tiberium wars and the Kane expansion it's really good already. Red Alert 3 I bought and it is terrible this was a year ago.

Not tried Crysis 3 yet. I just wish someone would make a game like Tomb Raider or Devil May Cry.

 

[TeknoBug]

Titanfall was $5 a few weeks ago, didn't even consider it and moved on.

 

[clok1966]

Or more like Valve got greedy and wanted EA to pay them more. The real story behind EA pulling its games from Steam is that Valve rewrote the publisher-side terms of service. Valve wanted to get a little piece of every DLC sale for games bought through Steam, not just the original purchase.

Incorrect.

EA found a way (debatable as they gave up when lawyers where brought in) around Steams already established rule that ALL PARTS of a game (DLC included) was on STEAM. so end users had access to all parts of the game in one spot. Valve did rewrite the terms after they tried this (so you are correct in that part) to make them crystal clear, and leave no loopholes to use. When this all went to lawyers EA, not Valve, pulled games. In the legal maneuvering Valve was found to be in the right, (they only reason you see EA games still on steam that where there before this, they would like to have pulled them all). Lets not forget EA had a digital download service BEFORE valve did. They did nothing with it, prices where more then boxed copies in stores. It was in place for those who wanted copies hours from release. They did nothing to promote it or make it worthwhile. Steam came along and cornered the market. It wasn't so much STEAM wanting a piece of everything, but they do want everything available for all users on their service if they support the main game (making money on it is a byproduct for sure). But more EA wanted the whole PIE, which after STEAM made it well known and used they felt having 2-4 big names game games them the right to do. Its simple, go look at sales before and after STEAM for EA, they are less.
VALVE is in it to make money no doubt about it, but to make them the BAD guy in the EA thing is incorrect. All the info is out there, simple to read (maybe a bit too legal to understand) this was all debated to death when it happened.

 

[Red Hawk]

Incorrect.

EA found a way (debatable as they gave up when lawyers where brought in) around Steams already established rule that ALL PARTS of a game (DLC included) was on STEAM. so end users had access to all parts of the game in one spot. Valve did rewrite the terms after they tried this (so you are correct in that part) to make them crystal clear, and leave no loopholes to use. When this all went to lawyers EA, not Valve, pulled games. In the legal maneuvering Valve was found to be in the right, (they only reason you see EA games still on steam that where there before this, they would like to have pulled them all). Lets not forget EA had a digital download service BEFORE valve did. They did nothing with it, prices where more then boxed copies in stores. It was in place for those who wanted copies hours from release. They did nothing to promote it or make it worthwhile. Steam came along and cornered the market. It wasn't so much STEAM wanting a piece of everything, but they do want everything available for all users on their service if they support the main game (making money on it is a byproduct for sure). But more EA wanted the whole PIE, which after STEAM made it well known and used they felt having 2-4 big names game games them the right to do. Its simple, go look at sales before and after STEAM for EA, they are less.
VALVE is in it to make money no doubt about it, but to make them the BAD guy in the EA thing is incorrect. All the info is out there, simple to read (maybe a bit too legal to understand) this was all debated to death when it happened.

EA had been operating that way for a while. Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect 2 both had DLC you could purchase outside of Steam. Those games are still on Steam, too, so whatever changed didn't affect them. If it was simply a matter of EA not wanting its games on Steam, they could have pulled them like they pulled Dragon Age 2 and Crysis 2. And they wouldn't have later put Crysis 2 Maximum Edition up on Steam.

The bottom line is, Valve changed something on their end that caused recent EA games to be withdrawn from Steam. It was not the direct result of EA's own action. EA games not being on Steam is Valve's fault. If Valve had done nothing, recent EA games would still be available for purchase on Steam (EA did not pull their games from other digital download stores at the time).

 

[TeknoBug]

Lets not forget EA had a digital download service BEFORE valve did.

They did? I don't remember that? Steam released in 2004, not sure if the internet world was big enough on broadband back then for EA to have a digital service before Steam.

I know the only place I could get BF1942 and the expansions were physical via my local stores back then.

 

[dougp]

They did? I don't remember that? Steam released in 2004, not sure if the internet world was big enough on broadband back then for EA to have a digital service before Steam.

I know the only place I could get BF1942 and the expansions were physical via my local stores back then.

He's wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(digital_distribution_software)

They didn't actually do software sales until BF2.

 

[TeknoBug]

He's wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(digital_distribution_software)

They didn't actually do software sales until BF2.

Yeah I remember the god awful EADM, even Gamefly/Direct2Drive's DL manager was better.