{"id":14861,"date":"2012-01-20T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T22:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14861"},"modified":"2012-01-20T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T22:09:02","slug":"experienced-points-dear-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14861","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Dear Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, my column this week is mostly preaching to the choir, but there&#8217;s always this mad, delusional hope that some of it will sink in.  I can understand (but not condone) when a company acts with contempt for their customers in service of their bottom line.  But I find it maddening when a company does so to their own ruin. In short, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/9359-Dear-Origin-You-Stink\">Origin needs to get its act together, quickly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The time and money put into Origin are considerable.  It could be a great opportunity for EA and gamers. I say this as someone who isn&#8217;t even all that keen on digital distribution and would prefer a market based on physical copies.  However, I can see this is the way things are going, and I can see EA is squandering this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>A good litmus test is this: <em>Given the behavior of the competition, would Valve need to change Steam in any way in order to avoid losing sales or market share?<\/em>  If anything, Origin just makes Steam look that much more attractive. <\/p>\n<p>How can so many people be so flagrantly clueless and dysfunctional for so long?  They must have unbelievable internal inertia to be this slow and unresponsive to market expectations.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, my column this week is mostly preaching to the choir, but there&#8217;s always this mad, delusional hope that some of it will sink in. I can understand (but not condone) when a company acts with contempt for their customers in service of their bottom line. But I find it maddening when a company does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}