


This is absolutely not true.”ĭeMartini explains that while “any retailer can sell our games, we take direct responsibility for providing patches, updates, additional content and other services to our players. DeMartini opens his post with a shout-out to the company's would-be competitor, filing the Crysis 2 matter under “misunderstandings”: at that time, he writes, word online “suggested that EA was in conflict with one of our download partners, and that we had removed our games from that service. “Over the coming years,” EA head John Riccitiello told investors at the time of Origin's launch (opens in new tab), “we're transforming EA to a games-as-a-service model.” That transformation would seem bound to bring the company into conflict with Valve at some point, with the latter continuing to pioneer the model EA seeks to adopt.
