Well, that would certainly depend on how many fewer copies they'd sell, now wouldn't it?

Monopoly is monopoly is monopoly.

I will be somewhat surprised if they dont do it if/when their deal with GOG expires.

Also EA wants more users for Origin -> what better way than getting even more exclusives. From money maximizing point of view it would make perfect sense to me.

Ofcourse hoping that they wont.

Ah, so that's why DA2 isn't on Steam! But yeah, I hate it that you need Bioware points to buy those DLCs. Not because of the system (although that's shitty too, just sell them for money!), but because they're never (or rarely, maybe it happened once?) discounted :( And they're doing it on purpose, too - Bought DA2 for 5€ or something, the (story) DLC would cost me around 18€ I think :/

I should really just see if I enjoy the game the way it is (yeah, I know, the hate, but I don't care) and then decide if I should get them or not. Or wait till they ditch the system. Or discount the points (as if that would ever happen xD).
Because for 18€, I can get lots of (discounted) games here or a newer game fully....

Except EA sells quite a lot of games on Steam?

GOG and Steam are kind "bit" different size so i wouldnt go to compare them 1:1. Majority hasnt even heard about GOG yet.

Anyways, EA has quite few games that arent on Steam. Newest Crysis, newest Mass Effect, newest Dead Space, Newest Battlefields etc. I am seeing something there - but maybe i am alone mm?

no, but the point being is that EA did not stop selling games on Steam. Selling less, yes, but not stopped.

could as well be too binding contract ;)

anyways, as i said i am hoping i am wrong.

How long does EA's contract with gog last? In case they really do start pulling games.

I know the last two games are crap, not sure if 7 is part of that as well. Noah Antwiler goes into detail on each game after EA got their hands on the franchise. I'm not an ultima fan, but it's a little sad seeing a long term fan just pulling his hair out talking about it. I'd only suggest getting the last few if you want to have the complete series just to have it and nothing more.

I wouldn't be surprised it's something like 5-10 years at a time or permanently. But overall the contract and duration has no negative effects on EA. Consider the games EA has put on GoG are likely ones they consider dead and won't support and are only putting out trying to milk for a little more money even though they consider it dead.

Ultima 7 is a very good game (my favourite one of the series ex æquo with 6).
Ultima 8 and 9 do not exist. Nonononope. Well, that's my story, and I'll stick to it ;) (and I will try to erase from my memory the fact that I bought 2 crappy games named "ultima 8" and ultima 9" a few years ago)

This is what really confused me; sure "GoG" might have given up the trademarks to the 'name', but I think the legacy has held on for them. My first thought was that it was some sort of partnership between EA and GoG; that they (EA) was directing traffic to GoG for sales of older titles, but one click-through banished that thought.

I would certainly agree that, just for the sake of "being nice", EA could have found any other title with which to name this section of the site.



That sounds correct to me: there are "seven" games in the Ultima series (plus one Ultima Underworld title). U6 and U7/7:2 were the pinnacle of this series. :)

[ Eight was well-meaning, but misguided; nine was a blight on the franchise -- too much work on 3D and graphics and such; no focus on the core values of the Ultima series -- and a sorry way end things, IMO ]

If GOG isn't using the trademark, then they don't have any right to it. It's really the way that copyright ought to function, but at this point, it's just trademarks that fall into the public domain when the owners stop using them.

I'm not sure how that would be nice. GOG isn't interested in being thought of as G.O.G. at this point, so any new comers are probably not going to realize what the name stood for and anybody who does know already knows what the name was.