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It's basically the same as console games. I am not pissed if a game releases on playstation. I am pissed if it's a playstation exclusive. Exclusiveness (for the sake of exclusiveness) is always bad.
But of course it doesn't affect me for now as long I am on the "winning side".
And you do realize that Steam started as -and still is to this day- an exclusive platform for Valve games, right? Valve are only selling their games at retail and on Steam.
EA/Origin is actually more open and less exclusive than Valve/Steam since you can still buy some EA games on Steam and you can also buy several EA games on uPlay for example. Good luck finding Valve games anywhere else than Steam.
There are two gaming publishers which promote 100% exclusiveness of their titles towards just one platform. They are Steam for Valve games and Battle.net for Blizzard games. Everyone else is selling their games on multiple platforms.
So accusations of keeping things exclusive is a very weak argument against EA/Origin.
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