[Origin] Gatling Gears half price on Origin

[Thermal Ions]

Noticed that recent release (on Steam anyway) Gatling Gears is on half price sale on Origin - for those interested in (a) Gatling Gears and (b) Origin.

Buy Gatling Gears? PC Game - Download Gatling Gears? PC Game from Origin

[jatcave]

Also noticed they have HFS:HP for $9.99. Is there more than one?

Buy Need for Speed? Hot Pursuit PC Game - Download Need for Speed? Hot Pursuit PC Game from Origin

[Thermal Ions]

Originally Posted by X4

Also noticed they have HFS:HP for $9.99. Is there more than one?

Buy Need for Speed? Hot Pursuit PC Game - Download Need for Speed? Hot Pursuit PC Game from Origin

That's the one I have (released around Nov 2010 from memory and what I can see on Steam). I found it rather repetitive and ultimately got bored with it very early on. Given I paid "full" import price I wasn't particularly thrilled. For $10 it's probably not too bad.

Admittedly I do seem to be the odd man out compared to it's general review scores however - so YMMV.

[Chief]

wow, what a huge surprise, EA pricing their origin titles for less than what they price them on steam. I never saw that coming.

[Jigoku]

It's just a spring sale. The regular price is the same.

[Chief]

lol yeah, just a coincidence that origin's spring sale started the same day they released gatling gears on steam huh.

[Jigoku]

Maybe you're right. I'm sure EA plan their storewide sales so they can undercut Steam on the release day of a no name $10 indie title that no one had of until they saw it on the Steam new releases list ...



It appears the sale is only available through the AU store, not US, oddly coinciding with our first day of Spring ...

[Chief]

At the end of the day it's good news for some customers who use origin, and you're probably right about the timing of the pricing being a coincidence but here's something I noticed yesterday;

Origin has had games on sale since it launched, but no one has been interested in them in the past.

Suddenly over a dozen forums and news sites I frequent had threads and articles saying "look at this new release game which is cheaper on Origin than on Steam" when they previously had no interest in origin's sales.

In the last 24 hours I've seen 8 (yes I kept count ) threads about Gatling Gears in the videogame section of a certain imageboard, which is just bizarre and on par with the actually popular Skyrim and LoL threads. Every single thread mentioned that it was on sale on Origin and contained discussions about buying it which in itself is weird when you consider the board's distaste for EA, DRM and Origin, not to mention it's simply a game this audience would have little interest in.

So either I missed the news that Gatling Gears is the most amazing game released in the last few months or Vanguard/EA is trying to stealth market the shit out of it.

[Reoh]

Originally Posted by Chief

At the end of the day it's good news for some customers who use origin, and you're probably right about the timing of the pricing being a coincidence but here's something I noticed yesterday;

Origin has had games on sale since it launched, but no one has been interested in them in the past.

Suddenly over a dozen forums and news sites I frequent had threads and articles saying "look at this new release game which is cheaper on Origin than on Steam" when they previously had no interest in origin's sales.

In the last 24 hours I've seen 8 (yes I kept count ) threads about Gatling Gears in the videogame section of a certain imageboard, which is just bizarre and on par with the actually popular Skyrim and LoL threads. Every single thread mentioned that it was on sale on Origin and contained discussions about buying it which in itself is weird when you consider the board's distaste for EA, DRM and Origin, not to mention it's simply a game this audience would have little interest in.

So either I missed the news that Gatling Gears is the most amazing game released in the last few months or Vanguard/EA is trying to stealth market the shit out of it.

Sounds like the EA Community Managers are putting in some overtime... heh.

[Thermal Ions]

Originally Posted by Chief

So either I missed the news that Gatling Gears is the most amazing game released in the last few months or Vanguard/EA is trying to stealth market the shit out of it.

Or everyone was so shocked about the pricing that they couldn't resist posting about it - well in my case anyway.

Personally the game doesn't sound that interesting and my distaste for Origin remains, but I figured someone here may be interested. Timely with the expansion of the forum too.