Origin sale ends tonight, get Dead Space 1&2 for $10, ME trilogy for $40
By Tim Colwill on February 18, 2013 at 4:09 pm
Origin are actually using their massive discounting ability to offer some impressive discounts on EA games, valid until midnight AEDT tonight.
If you head over to the Origin online store you can grab Dead Space 1 for $4.50, Dead Space 2 for $6, and the entire Mass Effect Trilogy for $39 (normally $70).
Meanwhile, Dragon Age: Origins and the sequel are $10 each, Crysis is just $4.50 (what is this, Steam?) and Battlefield 3‘s various expansions are anywhere from $10 – $12 (if you’re not a Premium member).
Check them all out by clicking here.
Source: Origin (thanks Cas!)
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Golly, they’re cheapening all those IPs.
That was my first thought.
Won’t someone PLEASE think of the IPs!
Ditto, pretty sure they’ve had more sales in a month than steam in it’s life time.
God damn you lot, Origin can’t win.. damn if they do, damned if they don’t..Since when was a Steam sale accused of “cheapening” an IP …
But MUH IP is being cheapened.
Can’t work out if internet’s best troll or EA’s biggest fanboy, either way though I’m in tears here.
schrapple’s comment,
Wish you had a like button to press.
Mearehear – EA said Steams sales were cheapening an IP and hence it is hypocritical that they’re now having decent sales of their own.
To their credit a good sale is a good sale so go buy if you need any of these.
Dragon Age 10 bucks each? Hardly the best Deal. Pretty sure Amazon Digital had the 2 pack for like $5-$7.50 during christmas.
Still, I will admit some of those like Dead Space 2 have very ‘anti-Australian pricing’ in terms of usual price gouging compared to Steam.
damn, some decent prices there. Maybe not the best prices around, but they’re still cheap. Quit bitching and be happy we have these options lol
Hahaha As if I’d play a game that costs less than $10. Everyone knows that only the best games worth playing come with a price tag of $80+
Mearehear is right. EA could give every game in Origin away for free and donate $1 billion to charity… and you guys would still complain about it or find some way to give them shit.
Get over it already or would you prefer they never put on any sales at all?
Also being willfully ignorant of what EA said.
They never said they won’t do sales, I point this out to some of you (ie PalZer0) nearly every time this comes up, so at this stage I have to assume you’re not actually interested in facts.
Sure some of this is getting close to what he said feels cheapens IP, but isn’t actually over the figure they gave at the time.
Also he comments that it works for Valve and that’s fine, it’s just not something EA want.
But carry on, DAE HATE EA LOL
shuth,
Pointing out hypocrisy is one of the most enjoyable things I can think of. So naturally when the head honcho of Origin, David DeMartini, said they don’t believe in sales because it cheapens IP and shame on Steam for doing so…and then almost immediately do a complete 180 when they see how much money can be made… well, you can hardly blame us for giving them shit for that, it’s just too delectable.
eggheart,
He never said that.
“just don’t look for 75 per cent off going-out-of-business sales” – David DeMartini, 2012.
You’re completely right Makena, this sale is only up to 70% off, so I guess they’re not hypocrites after all.
I addressed that, also if you bothered to read the full interview with him you might actually more understand his point of view, and even the interviewer somewhat agreed with him.
But of course, more fun to cherry pick a comment and have a good ole sook.
makena,
I read the interview, and I believe I completely understand DeMartini’s argument. He was pretty specific in saying that you won’t see EA games discounted that much on Origin as it cheapest the IP, and sales of 75% off vastly undervalue the hard work that developers put into games. He was having a go at Steam, their direct competitor, and trying to explain why you don’t see significant sales on Origin. Soon after we saw significant sales on Origin. I’m not sure how else to read it mate, please enlighten me in how this is not saying one thing and then doing another?
And I’m not having a sook, I’m having a laugh. I don’t hate EA, I just don’t think about them when I can help it. You’re the one rushing to their defence, so maybe you could quit the sooking and allow us our jollies. Origin bashing is a time honoured tradition and I won’t allow such a entertaining sport to be derailed by the likes of you.
Yes eggheart I can. Repeating that line is a new and interesting dig at EA that hasn’t been seen in any Origin sales article ever!
No, wait, tt’s actually akin to “first” posts. I’d say it was funny the first few times but “first” posts were never funny.
eggheart,
Ah the ole “I’m not sooking, why are you sooking?” I wouldn’t say I’m sooking, nor did I mention names (Aside from PalZer0) as to who might be having a sook, I would happily concede that I’m arguing though.
As to why I’m arguing this, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but a lot of shit gets slung at EA round these parts, and frankly when it comes from a base of ignorance, I like to offer a counter view.
I’d suggest you re read the part of the interview you’re referring too, especially the question, which was specifically about “random deep discounting”, and that he understands what Valve does, just that EA have a different perspective about it.
He goes on to say that
“occasionally there will be things that are on sale you could look for a discount, just don’t look for 75 percent off going-out-of-business sales.”
Now sure, 70% is close to that, but it’s on a fairly limited list of titles, nothing like the huge sales that steam do at xmas/mid year (12 titles vs hundreds, or thousands?).
So if you can’t see how he’s not saying “EA will never do sales”, and how this sale differs from what sales steam do, then that’s fine, but I respectfully disagree.
You replied to me, told me I didn’t bother to actually read the interview, and then inferred that I’m cherry picking and having a sook. If you meant it more generally and not personally at me, then that’s not how you wrote it.
Good for you, sticking up for the little guys.
The direct quote is:
Q: One of the things that Steam does is this random deep-discounting of software, and it works well for them. Do you see that as something you want to do?
David DeMartini: We won’t be doing that. Obviously they think it’s the right thing to do after a certain amount of time. I just think it cheapens your intellectual property. I know both sides of it, I understand it. If you want to sell a whole bunch of units, that is certainly a way to do that, to sell a whole bunch of stuff at a low price. The gamemakers work incredibly hard to make this intellectual property, and we’re not trying to be Target. We’re trying to be Nordstrom. When I say that, I mean good value – we’re trying to give you a fair price point, and occasionally there will be things that are on sale you could look for a discount, just don’t look for 75 percent off going-out-of-business sales.
One more time…
Q: One of the things that Steam does is this random deep-discounting of software, and it works well for them. Do you see that as something you want to do?
David DeMartini: We won’t be doing that.
In case you missed it…
David DeMartini: We won’t be doing that.
I honestly can’t see how he’s not saying “EA will never do deeply discounted sales”. I’m glad you’re saying “respectfully disagree” now, as if that retroactively makes your “stop sooking” comment respectful. Whereas I think I’m quite clearly and honestly disrespectfully disagreeing, albeit partially in jest.
Origin can go sit on a cactus for all I care. EA will never have the goodwill that Valve has, because when it comes down to it, they will do whatever they can to make the most profit whilst simultaneously saying whatever it is they think people want to hear, even if those two things are at odds – that shows a lack of integrity.
And for all the hate they get, they really don’t need you flying their banner and fighting the good fight for their honour, do they? Why don’t you pick a easier cause to defend? Nvidia vs AMD, 360 vs PS3, PC vs Mac. These are all worthwhile causes where there are good points to be made on either side! Nope, instead you picked Steam vs Origin… I can only wish you the best of luck in your endeavour.
I know which one I would choose if I was forced to only have one.
Maybe one day Origin will be just as big and useful as Steam, and people will forget the grumbling they did when BF3 was an Origin exclusive just the way they forgot the grumbling about HL2 being a Steam exclusive… time will tell!
eggheart,
Yes I replied directly to you, once you said that they don’t believe in sales, which they never said. In fact what you’ve pasted and kindly bolded says they’ll do sales. So you agree you were factually incorrect in what you said?
Incase you forgot, you said “David DeMartini, said they don’t believe in sales because it cheapens IP and shame on Steam for doing so…”
Which of course, in what you’ve bolded above;
occasionally there will be things that are on sale you could look for a discount
And regarding “shame on steam”;
It’s an approach, and I’m not going to say it’s not working for Valve. It certainly works for Valve
So shameful he acknowledges that it works well for them.
I don’t agree that this is “random deep-discounting”, this is a sale on a few select items, that’s a point that can easily be argued a counter too, but like I said above, this is 12 items, not hundreds or thousands.
Mostly though, when did this become Origin vs Steam? I didn’t actually mention what steam do in any context (Aside from saying that EA have a different philosophy to them). Not everything is X vs Y.
In this case, I honestly just think people see EA and go “DAE HATE EA LOL”, which if you frequent almost any online community, you see a lot of.
As for trying to make my sooking comment retroactively ok, no, I still think people in this comment thread are having a sook, take as much offence at that as you want. The respectfully disagreeing with you is simply on your initial stance that EA said they won’t do sales, which you seem to have change tact on and are now correctly going with Random Deep Discounting sales.
In case you forgot what you claimed earlier, you said EA don’t believe in sales, which they never did. If you’ve moved on from that, then sure you’re more using what they actually said, which is all I want people to do. Not just parrot one out of context comment and run with that.
To all these comments, I say “ouch”. The only reason I’m not grabbing Dead Space 2 right now is that I’d rather have it on steam, and I can’t guarantee that I’ll be able to run the Origin version under Wine.
For the record, I was quoting someone else in the vein that I was thinking the exact same thing.
While I may be wrong about this, there’s still at least 1 definite problem with Origin – the doubling up of DRM on certain titles.
This from the Dead Space 2 page:
And this from the Crysis page:
There’s others too that have this sort of stuff – sometimes the Steam version is better (Dead Space and Crysis 2 Maximum Edition are 2 I can think of off the bat).
makena,
My lawyer has advised me to tell you that I did indeed say that Origin don’t believe in sales, and that this is contradicted by the aforementioned quote saying that Origin will do sales from time to time.
I would like to submit a revised statement:
“Pointing out hypocrisy is one of the most enjoyable things I can think of. So naturally when the head honcho of Origin, David DeMartini, said they don’t believe in random, deeply discounted sales because it cheapens IP and they completely understand why Steam does so…and then almost immediately do an alleged complete 180 when they see how much money can be made… well, you can hardly blame us for giving them shit for that, it’s just too delectable.”
70% is not 75%, a dozen titles is not hundreds of titles. You are correct on all counts. I cede these errors and offer 10 points to Slytherin for most skilful debating!
Okay, you won! So now that that’s settled and you’re enjoying the afterglow of a successful victory for the underdog… tell me the truth – do you honestly not think that David DeMartini has perhaps had a change of heart since his initial comment and decided to give deeply discounted sales a chance? Or do you honestly believe that he feels exactly the way he did then and Origin’s strategy regarding sales hasn’t changed in the slightest? Cause I think they’re a bunch of dirty hypocrites personally :P
Also, in addition to this, even when it’s not sale season and Steam isn’t doing some sort of publisher week or special event (like the current Steam for Linux celebration sale), there’ll generally be at least 5 games running at least a 50% discount due to the midweek deals, weekend deals, daily deals and the new weeklong deals.
Are you going to say that those don’t count either?
Honestly I don’t do this to ‘win’ or anything, I really enjoy discussing things like this, which is easier to do (For both sides mind you), when people stick to more factual statements, this isn’t exactly the first time a conversation like this involving me has come out of someone making an off handed remark.
And yeah, I think EA in general might have rethought it, perhaps he was too candid about some of his thoughts in that interview, but I do also think EA is maintaining a pretty different way of going about Sales than what Steam does, which maybe was his main point? Maybe he does feel the same way, but his employers don’t, unless someone does a follow up interview and specifically asks, we may never know.
PalZer0, I don’t think that changes much, as it’s still a sign that Steam have much more constant sales, so much so that a handful of titles on sale isn’t news, this is like the publisher weeks on steam, a few titles with good discounts, but then there is a gap between seeing one of those again.
Ooh ooh, I just thought of a point! Even if DeMartini isn’t being a hypocrite, he’s still WRONG! From a carefully conducted study (of 1, myself), I know that I have spent many hundreds of dollars more on games because of Steam sales than I would have otherwise. The huge amount of unplayed games in my Steam library is a testament to their effectiveness, and yet I still buy heaps of new releases for full price, day one! So either DeMartini is a hyprocrite or he’s an idiot, either way I win! 100 points to Gryffindor, YAY!
I’m going to sleep now, to dream of cuddling up my Steam library. It is the best thing to happen to PC gaming since the Voodoo2.
Lmao, sleep well <3
Ah ha, that’s where we differ. I was specifically trying to win the internet, so it’s all the more painful for me to be brought to task on my sloppy opening argument. I didn’t expect to encounter such skilful resistance, or I would have spent more time preparing.
In all seriouslynessness, I agree that factually discussing things is enjoyable, but I also find value in cheeky off handed remarks. I was only wearing my ‘off handed remark’ pants when we started, and it was quite a struggle to steer the ship of my argument into factual waters. In retrospect I should taken your resounding initial attack like a man and admitted that my comment was neither correct not particularly original.
Till me meet again Makena… I will be wearing the right pants next time, you can count on it.
It’s worth having a bit of perspective too. Origin’s catalog of games is probably about one tenth of Steam’s. Therefore, allowing for the adjustments, EA is still in Steam-like sale territory.
This thread was a good read. Thanks chaps. Especially Eggheart, many lols were had. An Internet for you, sir.
BF3 for $9.99, normal retail price is $49.99 (80% off)
http://store.origin.com/store/eaapac/en_AU/cat/categoryID.62171000