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aurorum999's avatar
aurorum999
5 years ago

why do i have to buy a subscription to ea play to play origin through steam?

yeah, i just was so excited about this ea play thing on steam, until i read the details in the forum since the ea play official webpage is so unnecessarily  vague. correct me if wrong about the foll...
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dunny1g's avatar
dunny1g
Seasoned Vanguard
5 years ago
@CarbonCarl It wouldn't be Valve's idea. Valve are smart. They definitely don't like that launching a game on their platform opens a competitor's launcher.
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CarbonCarl
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago
@dunny1g After reading up a bit you're actually correct, but because Valve doesn't own any of those games, Valve/Steam is actually the third party client/storefront in this which is why EA games open up the Origin client.
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    aurorum999
    5 years ago

    valve doesn't "own" many other games that it hosts, and a great portion of them don't have to open up a launcher.. they just launch the <insert explicitive here> game

    i'd be more willing to buy a steam hosted ea play subscription if the ea titles actually did that

    • CarbonCarl's avatar
      CarbonCarl
      Hero (Retired)
      5 years ago
      @aurorum999 That's because most game publishers don't have a client, EA, blizzard, bethesda, ubisoft and microsoft owned games all require either a client log in or just an account log in.

      And yes I would too.
      • CarbonCarl's avatar
        CarbonCarl
        Hero (Retired)
        5 years ago

        This is actually a really good topic to discuss 👍

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