EA Waves Distribution Fees For 3 Months For Crowd Funded Games
In the latest EA news, the company is now trying to help out the little man a bit by waving all distribution fees for crowd funded games for three months. It’s a shockingly nice move by a company that quite frankly gets a lot of well-deserved flak for some of the company’s practices in the past. So, I have to wonder, what’s the catch? What is EA trying to pull here?
Well, simply put, EA is looking for more users and developers for its Origin service. While they claim that 9.3 million people have downloaded and installed Origin, it’s commonly thought that most people still purchase most of their games through Steam or other services. This is an attempt by the company to draw some potentially talented developers to the platform, instead of having the games show up on Steam.
Overall, not a bad deal for everyone involved. If anything, the developers stand the most to gain here, as they’ll be keeping all of their money from the sales they’ll get from Origin in the first 90 days. And, you have to figure that those first 90 days are likely to see the vast majority of the copies sold in the lifetime of the product. But while EA isn’t likely to make money off of the games themselves, those people who play those particular games will be using Origin, and EA is going to make sure that the gamers see all of the other deals that Origin has going on.
