Information EA Origin gets Kickstarter projects, Wasteland 2 is first

[Roguey]

Don't you guys think there is a big difference between choosing a distribution platform alongside all other possible platforms and having a publisher who's funding your game telling you how to develop it?

I'm glad someone beat me to it. Honestly, it's a fucking distribution platform, nothing about that goes against any sort of "kickstarter" ideal. Distribution on origin isn't any different than distributing on steam or GoG, which people have outright asked for in this very topic.

No, it's not 'just another distribution platform'. This is a service that provides EA with income; income which they then use to keep churning out their shovelware and fuel the decline. This is a service that feeds these cunts that have destroyed one great dev after another. People laugh at it now, but eventually it will be a very useful addition to the coffers of EA.

Valve's Steam or GoG is nothing like this. Valve barely releases any games of their own and GoG only has the two Witcher games. They are not predatory scum in the vein of EA.

I'll make it simple for you: Every Origin sale directly or indirectly funds Dragon Age 3. I supported this because I didn't want a cent going to EA. I don't give a good fuck about Valve or GoG or Gamersgate or Impulse because they haven't shit on the things I've enjoyed over the years, nor do they have the all encompassing footprint dominating the industry with slash and burn methods stifling all the creativity. Had Activision a distribution platform and Fargo went there I'd be just as pissed off.

Consider this: Who the hell is going to buy Wasteland 2 from Origin when you can buy it directly from inXile or Steam? They're not going to be getting much of anything from this.

 

[Infinitron]

Why is it so much worse that money from WL2 distribution goes to fund DA3 (though it really doesn't work that way) than to pay for Gabe Newell's sammiches or whatever? I don't care about either of those, why do you? I don't care about bad games being released considering nobody forces me to play them.

Fixed (Edutainment: Valve is privately owned, they have no shareholders)