>>174396073>relatively new mediumMaybe two decades ago
>>174396050It would make sense if they made that switch AFTER they got people to start using Origin. The problem is they took someone else's idea, meaning they already had to try and lure customers away from an already established product, and they did it in the stupidest, shittiest way possible.
You want to draw customers, you offer a superior service, you offer better prices, you accept a few losses to turn a few heads. You don't throw up walls and demand all the peasants come into your castle, or else they can't have the things they could probably get elsewhere. No one has lost sleep because they can't download more BF3 DLC.