http://www.ea.com/news/eas-biggest-sale-ever-on-july-4th

So they say: "In fact, all of our sales will be between 40% and 90%, with the great majority over 50% off". I think these prices are US only.

I already had a bad taste of EA yesterday on Steam, when MoH 2010 was double the price for my region... I have to accept that my money is worth less than others', of course, oh yeah.

today:
Origin's BFBC2 vanilla: $11.99

Steam's BFBC2 pack: $9.99, indeed waaay to go Origin.

Blame Steam, not EA. Hopefully Mass Effect will be heavily discounted, and I'd be able to finally experience what it is all about.

Steam doesn't set the prices. EA does.

I may have to use a proxy or something to get the games since I refuse to use the Mexican version of their store.

So, almost every single developer / publisher wants to screw with us Europeans? I think not.

According to CD Projekt Steam have a recommended price (ie €49.99) based on retail RRP. It's up to the publisher if they want to change that. Most publishers don't.

Hey, remember when I said that the homepage is infected?

Is it still the case?

Infected how?

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1956230

Wait, was the infection coming from ads? If so, EA wasn't infected, the ads server was.

Also, I don't see any ads on EA's site.

EDIT: The Alice link takes me to Origin, still don't get what's the infection here.

Don't let common sense get in the way of EA bashing. Remember this came from the Steam forums populated with people angry they can't get EA games on Steam anymore. "Don't buy from EA cause they are diseased hurr..."

Might that also have to do with taxes (VAT) to a certain extent? (GOG seems to have a way around it, maybe at their own cost, but with most other online purchases sadly those taxes apply.)

Not really. It's a sad combination of 'retail store legacy restrictions' infecting the digital distribution and the publisher's 'lazy' attitude.

Since the retail stores sold games regionally at a very, very different margin (see recent Australia/New Zealand - The Witcher 2 discussion), Steam kind of had to offer region specific pricing, if they wanted to get the big publishers (that is while Steam was still 'new' and had little marketing power up it's sleeves to haggle with, kind of like GoG in it's beginning years). The solution was that 'each publisher is on his own responsibility. Valve sets a price for a region only if the publisher doesn't care about it.'
The additional workload of setting various different pricing points (and keeping them updated against currency fluctuation!) seems to let a lot of publishers shy away from that though.
With good old games, the situation is a bit different. There's hardly any retail shop left selling them, so the deals you can get are far more 'lax', regional restriction wise.

now that's what i would call , well said!!!!
at least gog compensates where it can

Eh I learned my lesson of buying games from company stores when I bought from the THQ store. It seriously took me like 2-3 days to get my key from them and the hassle for DoW 2 was not worth it.

I doubt different company stores have much in common with each other.

I bought Alice: Madness Returns off Origin two weeks ago. I got it instantly.