January 2020 Lunar New Year Steam sale!

"igazor;c-17294934" wrote:
This is perhaps a bit off-topic (sorry!) but it has just been announced that in addition Steam will be carrying TS4 and other newer EA games beginning sometime next year due to a brand new agreement between EA and Valve. Pretty surprising given the history here, but that may be of interest to those who might like to play these games with what we assume will be no Origin involvement. :)

There's obviously a lot that's still TBA, especially covering how various online features will work, and no news at all about older games like TS3. However, if we go by the information about the one EA game already available for purchase (pre-order) on Steam—Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—both Steam and Origin will need to be running at the same time while you play. It's kind of buried in the fine print on Steam's product page, but the gist of it is, you buy from Steam, you sign into Origin to link the two accounts, and from then on, Origin runs "quietly" in the background every time you launch the game through Steam. Here's the page, if anyone's interested:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172380/STAR_WARS_Jedi_Fallen_Order/

The rumor is Apex won't require Origin involvement, but I don't know that it's official yet. At any rate, whatever I think of Origin, I'd much rather use it alone than have to run both Origin and Steam. What I really hope is that linking accounts wouldn't affect the installs of people who own TS3 through Steam, because the whole point of buying through Steam was to not need a game launcher in the first place.

"ZeeGee;c-17295020" wrote:
igazor Really! Wow that is a big surprise. I’m very curious to know how and why that came about.

Among my favorite misquotes of all time: "The answer to all your questions is money."