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EA Announces Origin for Mac Alpha Testing
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.. Battlefield, Dead Space and The Sims are all quality franchises.. (though not to everyone's taste) I can understand a lot of the EA hate but on their own merits a lot of EA games are just fine.
I'm not an Origin fan though, it's a shame it exists at all.
I'm not an Origin fan though, it's a shame it exists at all.
I had no issues installing on my 2011 iMac running Lion. However I got an "unknown error" when trying to login. I had to quit and re-open the app. Works okay after that, I was mainly in it for the free game.
I love Steam, if EA can make a Mac game library that matches that I'm all for it. Heck I'm all for more Mac games in general. But currently I can't seem them beating Steam, which has a good 10 year head start. But competition can be a good thing!
I love Steam, if EA can make a Mac game library that matches that I'm all for it. Heck I'm all for more Mac games in general. But currently I can't seem them beating Steam, which has a good 10 year head start. But competition can be a good thing!
Well that would be a first for EA so frankly I'm skeptical of this claim. Cider ports don't always work perfectly from day one so testing proves nothing, IMO. EA is way too lazy to bother with Mac ports given the relatively small market.
Look at Dragon Age Origins. It's a Cider Port and SecuRom (something EA promised not to use with DAO and not present on the PC version I bought) and therefore not compatible with a prior PC purchase code despite the fact it is just the PC version in a wrapper. Steam gives me both versions without question. Is EA going to do the same? Will they offer retro-active purchases to be downloaded for other machines like Amazon does for CD purchases? No? I guess I'm not really interested in Origin.
This reflects my feelings on VALVe and EA as a whole. It is sad though. I used to love sim games.
Go to http://store.origin.com/store/eaemea/en_GB/html/originweb/demos/pbPage.demos-en_GB
and click on the "Get Started" button in the Alpha banner...
I can't find it again, but one of the developers tweeted it today.
In any case, a native port is not necessarily an indication of quality. Ubisoft's ports are native and they aren't that great.
Correction: Battlefield WAS a good franchise. Up until that point when they decided to also publish on consoles. That was fine as long as consoles had totally different Battlefield games. But now, that they threw all the devs in one pot to put together one ****** version for everyone, it is definitely not a great franchise anymore!
Well, being different doesn't mean it's bad, and a lot of people enjoy it. BF3 is a great game by most people's reckoning!
Great, a launcher and store for a company that sells no Mac native games.... that makes sense
and they advertise/publish it with "auto-patching" and yet it doesn't , i own several PC games via origin and i have had to manualy find, download and patch each one, sometimes i have had to do that before i can install DLC available on origin...
Complete mess of a system, still in beta on the PC IMO
and they advertise/publish it with "auto-patching" and yet it doesn't , i own several PC games via origin and i have had to manualy find, download and patch each one, sometimes i have had to do that before i can install DLC available on origin...
Complete mess of a system, still in beta on the PC IMO
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Did they fix all the Mac problems with steam? I use it on Win7. Tried it on Mac and was not happy at all. Couldn't connect to it about half the time.
Origin just represents another greedy company's piss poor attempt to spilt up the market even more. I don't want 10 different Game Centers.
Works fine for me, got about 30 games installed under mac OS thanks to steamplay, reducing the amount of time i have to spend under bootcamp (except that i spend all my time in skyrim, and thats still not mac native)
Nope, when I click that link, I get redirect to the Swedish site, and it talks nothing about the Mac alpha.
Anyone have a direct link to the actual download?
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Great, a launcher and store for a company that sells no Mac native games.... that makes sense
and they advertise/publish it with "auto-patching" and yet it doesn't , i own several PC games via origin and i have had to manualy find, download and patch each one, sometimes i have had to do that before i can install DLC available on origin...
Complete mess of a system, still in beta on the PC IMO
It's an alpha. What do you expect? The store IS coming, and I'm sure that previous EA games for Mac, like Dragon Age 2, Sims and so on, will be available in time.
While people may hate EA for some right reasons and alot of wierd ones, you can't deny that one of the biggest publishers in gaming making an effort into Mac gaming is bad news.
I agree with this sentiment. When I heard about this development, the first thing I thought of is how I have to use several messenger and chat applications as they all use different protocols and wont work perfectly together. I don't want a similar situation with gaming, needing several different client services to run various games. As it is I have steam, plus 3 games I bought from App store or direct from the developer that can't be imported to steam.
Uh . . . thanks, but no thanks.
Oh, and the gesture of offering a 10 year old game that costs <$10 on practically every platform in existence, as a free incentive, is . . . odd.
Oh, and the gesture of offering a 10 year old game that costs <$10 on practically every platform in existence, as a free incentive, is . . . odd.
Well what do you think an alpha is about? It's not for consumers entertainment, it's for testing, for bugs. There's no reason EA should want people using this alpha release except for finding errors.
How much do you bet that EA has stopped Sim Cities Dual PC/Mac in box purchase so they can put the Mac version on origin, at a vastly inflated price, 2 months after the PC launch to try and get double sales.