Except my argument hinges on getting more profit after their revenue stream from the game already dries up. It's literally turning down free money in favor of... well, nothing, really.
They haven't done this in the past with Mass Effect 3/Dead Space 3/Battlefield 4/ Sims 4. All signs point to them keeping it as an Origin exclusive but who knows. One thing is for sure, if it does go to Steam (which, again, I wouldn't get my hopes up) it won't be for a long time. And I mean a long time.
I think the difference is those games all had their brands built up on Steam before they went over to Origin, and they're MUCH bigger names than Garden Warfare. You can tell just by looking for a server that GW2 does not command the same kind of playerbase as even Dead Space 3, which was easily the weakest out of those games.
Generally you want to build your brand up and THEN take it away, but that's just me. I'm just really angry that EA cares more about their stupid little inferior platform with missing features than making sure I have a game I can actually play when I want to play it. But EA doesn't care about me. Apparently they don't care about their investors or money, either. That said, it looks like the only thing they care about it petty grudges. Sounds like classic EA.
Well...on the PC. Which as I understand has the lowest player base out of all three consoles. And Plants vs Zombies is a massive brand. That doesn't suddenly become any less true just because it's a spin off. And whilst I'm at, EA's profits have definitely gone UP because of their decision. Valve takes (roughly) 30% from all sales. Considering the success of those games and of Garden Warfare which is a massive brand.
Also what mode were you trying to play? Garden/Graveyard Ops? Because I've seen plenty of PC footage of the other multiplayer modes and there's no big issue there.
And the revenue WON'T dry up. They will only sell more copies as time goes on. People will get over their dislike of Origin and buy the game if they really want to play. And even if they don't, (They will) in a few months or so they're almost definitely going to add microtransactions into the game and as long as you have people who enjoy the game on PC they'll buy them.
