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Origin Waives Distribution Fees for 90 Days on Crowd-Funded Games
Electronic Arts gets a bad rap for pretty much everything, but they’re really not SO bad. Case in point: today they announced that their online game store, Origin, will waive distribution fees for 90 days for any game that’s been crowd-funded via services like Kickstarter.
Here’s what David DeMartini, the senior vice president of Origin, had to say about the move:
“The crowd-funding movement is incredibly healthy for the gaming industry. Gamers around the world deserve a chance to play every great new game, and by waiving distribution fees on Origin we can help make that a reality for successfully crowd-funded developers.”
This applies for any game that’s successfully crowd-funded, ready-to-publish, downloadable PC game. Pretty nice!
And let’s also think about this: EA, as a publishing giant, should, in theory, be against crowd-funded games. After all, by funding a developer directly, it cuts out the publishing side of things, meaning potentially lost revenue for the company. This move, though, finds a way to reward up-and-coming, independent developers who are making games that consumers want to buy, while still bringing people to EA. It’s win-win, I tell you!
Well? What do you think? C’mon, let’s show EA a little love this time. Way to go, Electronic Arts. WAY TO GO, I SAY.
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pr stunt because more and more people are finding out that EA killed BF3′s free to play servers in favor of rent to play servers. I think that constitutes something bad……
Though I did hear that after the initial fan reaction there were a few servers reinstated though I cannot seem to find any proof of this so far.
*besides EA is still realing from the whole ME3 debacle and you know the DS2 advertising……. they do stuff like this to make pissed fans think they are changine a new leaf and then when the fans are rehooked we get our hands ripped off by a crocodile.
EA is trying to trick us into thinking they are good! Don’t believe a word they-!
*ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL*
EA is so nice… I love Origin…
Technically, it’s a hell of a deal for EA, they don’t need to shed a penny, and in 3 months they start collecting money for nothing, plus it generates interest into Origin, which is still a huge debate in the gaming world whether it sucks or it sucks.