Gabe Newell: EA’s Origin is “still playing catch up”
Yuliya Geikhman April 21, 2012 - 3:08 amNews: Steam boss Gabe Newell casts a critical eye on EA’s Origin in an interview with the Seven Day Cooldown podcast.
In a recent interview caught by Eurogamer, Steam’s Gabe Newell had some critical things to say about EA‘s Steam-like platform, Origin. Newell stated that EA “have a bunch of smart people working on [Origin] but I think they’re still playing catch up to a lot of people who have been working in the space for a while.” According to Newell, EA still “have a lot of work to do to get to where they need to be and where I as a customer would want them to be.”
A few recent issues put Origin in a bad light: Origin is responsible for the accidental leak of the Crysis 3 announcement and for rendering Mass Effect 3 “unplayable” when it first came out. But there must be something that Origin does really well, right? Not according to Newell: “I don’t think they’re doing anything super-well yet.”
You can listen to the entire Podcast over at the Seven Day Cooldown website. And you can keep up to date on all the latest Gabe Newell news right here on beefJack.
