Origins is mostly terrible because EA has been trying to create a "Steam killer" for years, releasing a new iteration of their download manager every year. I can stand having Origin as a companion, like a "use our service if you don't want Steam" deal, but pulling Crysis 2 from Steam and ONLY offering it on Origin? Pulling the original Alice HD remake the day Madness Returns is released on Steam? I don't even want to know what they're going to do to Battlefield 3. EA is full of these gimmicks.
Crysis 2 was pulled from Steam: kotaku.com/5811996/crysis-2-pulled-from-steam-now-only-on-eas-origin
I'd heard Alice was going to be Origin only too (as mentioned in the above article), but appearently not.
I don't get it personally, since Crysis 2 is still available on half a dozen other digital distribution services. Who knows how EA's collective mind works.
[Edited by Skyheart, 6/19/2011 4:54:07 AM]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Remember the good old days when you could just slap Omni-Gel on everything?" - Shepard, ME2
"Not right now. Trying to determine how Scale Itch got aboard. Sexually transmitted disease carried only by Varren..... Implications unpleasant." - Mordin, ME2
From what I can tell, the PC version of Alice that comes with Madness Returns is not a remake. It simply offers the choice for higher resolutions. The controls, gameplay, graphics and audio all remain exactly as they were eleven years ago.
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