Do you have any idea how much money they're making by not switching over? They'd lose thirty percent of the profits. So they'd have to sell significantly more copies of the game to make up the profits they'd be losing by putting it on Steam. Especially considering what's coming out later this year.
And let me rephrase what I said: any gamer worth the title of gamer will get over themselves if they really want to play the game. And if you really know people who say something along the lines of "Oh that game looks co-Oh nope. Never mind it's on Origin. Not worth a second of my time." or "You're my friend and all but your recommendation is worthless to me because it's on Origin." Then I suggest you get new friends.
This is the issue with PC gamers (and I'm saying this as someone who has over 300 games in my own Steam Library), I mean really. You don't even deserve to call yourself a gamer if you decide you don't like game based on the fact that it's exclusive to a certain platform.
This year EA is going to release another Battlefield game, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, and probably the biggest title of them all Mass Effect: Andromeda. They have no reason to open up to Steam any time soon with the money they'll get from Mass Effect alone.
I feel like I'm saying the same thing over and over and you're not reading it. I want them to put it on Steam AFTER their Origin sales dry up. Which it looks like they did about 3 days before the game came out if the population I'm seeing is any indication. Also, I disagree with your statements about "a title of gamer" and such. I fully understand why someone who is a consumer does not want to support an inferior platform. If my friends tell me they've seen a movie that changed their life, but I'll need to go buy a VCR to play it, I'm gonna say "I don't care about what the movie is, I don't want the hassle of this nonsense."
It's not a directly apt comparison, but you get the idea. People already despise EA, and even more don't like installing unnecessary software on their computer for just one or two titles. I 100% get that. I'm willing to put up with it, but I don't hold anyone else to my standards. It has nothing to do with whether or not they like the game, it's more like "The game sounds cool... but I don't care enough to put down what I'm doing, make an account on this other platform I'll never use besides this one game." I mean, I think thinking less of your friends because they won't install a crappy third-party game client on command is waaaaay crrrrrrrrazier than them not wanting to install it to begin with, y'know?
In short, I get what you're saying, absolutely, but reality is GW2 sales are dismal on Origin and I as a paying customer am voicing my opinion on a valid and profitable solution. Not asking for the moon.
I feel like I'm the one repeating myself so to put an end to all that I'll just go back to the original point:
H* will freeze over before EA goes to Steam. It's a perfectly logical decision for them to make, they aren't going to lose any money from said decision, and they aren't going to make enough money to make up the loss of profit if they did open up to Steam.
And out of everything that I said I stand by what I said about your friends. It takes like two minutes to make a new account on a new platform. And if you're recommendation isn't enough to your friends...you should get some new ones. Plenty of my friends hate Origin, but they have plans to buy GW2 when they get the money because I recommended it.
