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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45820

Steam hit another major milestone today, logging over 5,000,000 concurrent users at once. Yeah... Steam is really a great service, if only they would settle that dispute with EA.

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tride · Elite Member Joined: 27 Feb 2010 Posts: 566

Excuse me, what dispute with EA ? And how come it's their fault about this. I read here and there such user opinions, lol!
The corporate idiot's at EA did this! They did it because they want more and more money out of nothing and because they needed to PUSH their useless Origin Steam "alternative"... Rolling Eyes

Baconnaise · Elite Member Joined: 22 Jun 2010 Posts: 710

Love the graphic. I'm not sure what the fuss was about. Valve is more or less a competitor to EA in many ways and it really doesn't make sense to support them. It's a shame many titles will be restricted but that's the way it is. The complaints about corporate greed in this case make absolutely no sense. EA wants to make money of course. Valve isn't doing it for free either. The only solution is time to see which platform dominates (Steam still so far).

tride · Elite Member Joined: 27 Feb 2010 Posts: 566

What are you talking about ? EA only offers their games through Origin... ?!?!
Competitors in what way ? That Valve makes a game in every 3-4 years ? That they are publishers ?

Valve just provides the platform for distributing games... and EA dont use this to make money anymore, well... who cares!

Baconnaise · Elite Member Joined: 22 Jun 2010 Posts: 710

tride · Elite Member Joined: 27 Feb 2010 Posts: 566

Man, do you seriously dont get what i try to tell you ?
Valve publishes and distributes "some" games, as seen from the list you posted... lol, 5 titles in total and they are a big competitor to EA ? Are you serious ?
Steam is a platform for distribution of games, where dev's can sell very good their products. So EA doesnt use it and they loose from the bigges digital distribution platform on the web!
Still EA sells their games throught other digital distributors, web sites etc...
So, why would they wanna NOT make some more sells ? Because they dont wanna drop their prices on their products like Steam are doing!
Steam is taking control over your product so they can sell it better! ANd they do it right obviously!
When a game doesnt sell well, they drop prices, put it in combos etc... to make and booost sales! EA dont like this and they can shove it in their arses!
Simple as this it is!

Valve is not a big time developer and distributor of games. They just have a couple of titles that rock and thats it!

Baconnaise · Elite Member Joined: 22 Jun 2010 Posts: 710

I'm not sure why you're grasping at straws. This isn't a comparison of both companies and who does more or less. They are competitors and may show bias towards one another as is natural. It's like comparing GM and Daimler Chrysler or any other business. Valve's terms for distribution through Steam are naturally going to benefit themselves and not EA's interests.

Thanks for proving my case further though Smile

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Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4194

Valve doesn't lower prices on games, it's done by the publishers of the game.

Csimbi · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:06 pm Post subject:

5mil? I gotta laugh, that's pretty nothing in the internet scale.
Try popular online services with 50mil or more users that actually consume bandwidth (not just exchange login info and validation checksums).

Baconnaise · Elite Member Joined: 22 Jun 2010 Posts: 710

Csimbi · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:37 am Post subject:

Baconnaise · Elite Member Joined: 22 Jun 2010 Posts: 710

What services do you speak of?

Csimbi · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:50 pm Post subject:

Personal communication services (messaging, calls, voicemail).
The "how to consume less bandwidth while providing the same level of service" game.