500 games on Steam for Linux with much more on the way

Which is sad... to be honest there are worst companies than EA. The EA hate train/circlejerk never stops and people take it as a fact over time, I've seen people so against EA that they don't want any EA games running natively on GNU/Linux. I think the hate has gone out of proportions to the point that it's ridiculous, such as winning the worst company in America. Just a note, I'm not saying EA didn't do anything wrong, they did their share of horrible mistakes.

Origin is no different than Steam. I actually like Origin client more than Steam and I feel it's more responsive as well. Then again that's just me.

This article more or less sums up my thoughts.

I do agree that things were blown out of proportion there. I actually read a letter from EA themselves where they were quite good at putting things into perspective regarding this.

However, the DRM schemes they used on some games really put a sour taste in my mouth. Ubisoft also had some pretty bad DRM but they seem to have done a complete turn around on that.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is now available on Steam for Linux and Steam OS!!!!! As of today. Also the Summer Sale has begun. Now go buy the game. It is on sale for a few more hours. Don't miss the sale or TUX will spank you.

EA messed up my beloved Mass Effect trilogy. For that, they will forever receive my hate & scorn.

Mass Effect 3 had a lot of flak a years ago. I still remember all the hate haha.

1) The decisions you took didn't affect the ending in any way.
2) The story took quite a lot of heat.

Those were most of the topics talked.

The Mass Effect series went from mysterious horror-like RPG in a sci-fi setting to an all out epic battles kind of trilogy. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as it's done correctly. I think that ME 2 manages to do that well, but not ME 3. There are many plot holes just for the sake of making epic battles, but I don't want to get into spoilers here.

I really liked Sovereign in ME 1. Sovereign is a real Reaper, then we get Harbinger, who throws school yard taunts around like he's a bully from elementary school.

Didn't you hear about how fans raged a few weeks after the Mass Effect 3 release? Bioware promised something that they couldn't deliver. They promised that your choices would matter in the ending, but whatever choices you made through the game had little impact on the ending. In that regard, Mass Effect 2 is much better.

I think that Mass Effect 1 has the best ending of all the 3 games.

http://holdtheline.com/ This community was created during the aftermath of Mass Effect 3. The community was very vocal, and we managed to be heard but not listened to (we even launched protests like sending a lot of letters out to Bioware and so on). The complaints were based on how Bioware promised a ending where your choices really matters, but the choices just represent 3 colours that try to make artificial effects that doesn't really have any difference.

Even with the extended ending the game still doesn't feel complete and Bioware have still not delivered what they promised. Bioware/EA even went on a campaign against people who spoke up against the Mass Effect 3 ending. For some reason, several gaming journalists called us entitled whiny gamers (well of course we feel entitled (and betrayed) when a developer promises something then fails to deliver what they promised, and people bought the game because of what they promised).

Bioware doesn't care about their customers any more. They just see money sacks when they look at their customers, and t hey have no respect for their customers.

This is why I refuse to buy any more Bioware or EA games, and I won't until they come out with an apology and show that they have changed, but I doubt that will happen, because EA have ruined Bioware as they did with all the other developer companies they bought.

Exactly. I've learned my lesson after Mass Effect 3. If I pay 50$ it better be a damn good game. It should be almost perfect.