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Peter Moore on PC: Shipping physical discs 'isn't working' photo

Chatting with Edge Online about the current state of EA Sports, division president Peter Moore has voiced his concern with the company's business model for the PC platform.

"We really want to keep sports an important part of the portfolio that’s available to PC gamers," he explained, but the process of shipping off physical discs for the PC "simply isn’t working." Moore says he's "got to find innovative ways to bring our content to life on the PC and online is the way that that’s going to happen."

When the idea of an EA Sports MMO was brought up, he said that they were "constantly looking at what would be a compelling experience." He also notes that a major part of it is related to licensing approvals. Moore says if you don't want a game where "nobody does anything wrong or gets into player disputes, and no player gets in trouble at a nightclub at night," it's going to be hard to get a license approval.

As someone who dislikes both MMOs and the great majority of sports games, I would genuinely find such a concept interesting to see. It's sounding like digital distribution could be the next big thing for EA Sports, so let's all pray that I won't have to be doing posts on how the games come packed with some crazy form of DRM a few months from now.

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Niero's Avatar
Niero at 04/30/2009 11:57
Steam.
Monodi's Avatar
Monodi at 04/30/2009 12:02
I still don't understand why is it so bad to do it physical, its the same shit on retail console games...

...in my opinion.
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 04/30/2009 12:41
Christ, Peter! There's an elephant sitting on your face and it's name is steam.
JDigital's Avatar
JDigital at 04/30/2009 12:50
They'll never go with Steam, Steam requires you to be good to the customer... and we ARE talking about EA here.
Chronic Logic's Avatar
Chronic Logic at 04/30/2009 13:23
How fucking hard is it to transport some discs without fucking up?
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 04/30/2009 13:40
@Chronic Logic, that's a good question. We've been able to get what we want via post for a long time, I don't know why it's an issue NOW.
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JamnOnTheOne at 04/30/2009 13:56
"It's sounding like digital distribution could be the next big thing for EA Sports, so let's all pray that I won't have to be doing posts on how the games come packed with some crazy form of DRM a few months from now."

Sure you will...See Steam, the type of crippling DRM that PC gamers love!

Phsyical disks for PC gaming doesn't quite work anymore because the market for B&M PC games just isn't there. Major retailers stock maybe 50 boxed PC titles (save the el cheapo "$10 and under" titles). The days of Babbage's and EB Games having walls of PC titles is over, sadly.
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psycho terror2 at 04/30/2009 14:52
i went to buy a copy of Dark Athena this week. HMV didn't have it, and hadn't ordered any, Gamestation said they were waiting on it, as were a couple of smaller stores. Finally found a copy at Game, who had recieved it that very morning.

physical game sales for PC aren't working well, because nobody gives a fuck about them any more.
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Naim Master at 04/30/2009 16:17
Now you can buy Madden WHILE you grind 18+ to get the Green Helmet of Dilmadore? So bad it's good !
Hindesite's Avatar
Hindesite at 05/01/2009 04:07
I buy so many games through Steam now. I could list all the reasons it's great, but you've all heard them.

I wouldn't mind if EA moved their PC games over to Steam, personally. I'd work out great... for me, at least.
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Swizzler121 at 05/01/2009 17:12
um...yeah, welcome to 2006 EA.
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