So Electronic Arts (EA) is selling all of their video games on Steam again as they announced today, but Origin is still required to be downloaded when you are purchasing the video games from Steam.

There is a petition up to get rid of Origin on Steam, vote for it if you want.

www.change.org/p/electronic-arts-electronic-arts-sell-your-pc-games-on-steam-without-origin

I thought Mass Effect 2 and 3 complete could also appear on GOG, but the Origin client requirement means nothing has changed.

UPlay is still mandatory so I suspect the Origin client demand is going nowhere.

That's why vote for the petition. The petition even talks about the video games to be on gog.com as well.

A petition. Cute. Even if a million people sign this, what's going to stop them unless say, all the Sims 4 whales stop buying those content packs at 20$ a pop?

It is interesting how some people still believe petitions do not work.

From Software responded to the petition to port and release for sale for PC Dark Souls.

Bethesda Softworks responded to the paid mods on Steam for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim petition to get rid of them back in 2015.

Blizzard Entertainments CEO responded to a petition.

MicroSoft sent a reply to a petition back in 2017 or something.

And yet, the Creation Club is still a thing that exists.

EA makes enough money to not care about this petition. Enough of EA's customers don't care enough to make the petition seem like it's a significant thing. It's a nice effort and idea though, I guess.

A petition to get rid of EA would be far more beneficial!

No doubt a number far greater than the people who'd sign this petition would be smiling from ear to ear on the day EA gets swallowed up by a bigger entity than itself.

Sadly that day may not happen in many of our lifetimes.

Lost revenue is still lost revenue. I would buy a lot of EA games, for example, if they were available in a DRM-free form on GOG or anywhere else for that matter (I know this is not the topic here, but just saying...).

I agree that most likely a petition is not something EA will care about, but it is something worth at least putting on a slide at a marketing meeting: "according to an online petition, this number of people would buy game X if we stopped shoving Origin down their throats". Might make them reconsider in time, especially for older games which are not seeing that many sales anyway.

Well, there is still hope that international pressure may force governments to put in place gambling laws which would seriously hit EA in the pocket and tip them over the edge, but much like any good evil character they would be thrown out of hell back to make gamers lives a misery.

I'm not disputing that, but based on the number of people who've currently signed this petition and the general history of EA overall, they very likely look at it as a drop in the bucket.

Meh. Market will decide, not petitions. People vote with their wallets, not with their mouths.

If (enough) Steam users feel it is ok the EA games on Steam require an Origin account and client, then fine.

If not, then fine, too. Maybe EA will reverse their decision then.

I am not fine with extra clients and logins, hence I keep buying games on GOG as I feel here the games are clean of such rubbish.

Steam don't care and neither do EA, nothing will change except the wind. And if they come to Gog so will the client and they will buy it and good luck to them.

They're doing the same thing Ubisoft did. "If you want to go through Steam to launch Uplay, okay fine. Have your double-client DRM. Enjoy!" Some people crave Steam's community features and want that, so let them have it. I'll keep buying EA games on Origin because I don't want even one client, let alone two.