Why reinvent the wheel... steam friends/chat?

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Uber's chat and friends system.

I'm an avid steam user. Love it. I understand the non-steam users points. The problem is if you are a steam user you have to re-add your friends in game. So really I think we just need a small feature that would allow us to get our steam friends in game, without having to re add them all.

Pretty sure it's juat an unfiniahed feature. I think they could make it automatically sync with steam contacts.

It is web based. There is no reason that couldn't be a mod. Just stuff in some URL that copies from steam chat. Twitch mod uses this already in a smaller form.

I am fairly certain steam and this will get along anyway, just use steam and you don't even need to use ingame chat. Or, make steam import to in-game friends and chat. Or, just use in-game chat, adding people again isn't that difficult but finding them ingame without an ingame chat is difficult.

ON the other hand, I have a digital copy of PA (bought directly from Uber), and PA's launcher takes a lot longer to launch the game for me.

Each to his own I guess. When it directly integrates with Steam chat, that would be nice.

I acaully kinda think its kinda boring. The chat thing, steam, uber,origen, irc,facebook. its all the same. i wanna have fun when i type. alltho i do but its all the same, kinda like talking u wanna have fun unless ur doing something important. what if i coulde fart the commander in the face giveing him a heads up massage or something. or pour a bucket of water telling him wake up.
I dont know, i woulde totally fart splash poo all over everyone tho lol

maybe draw something, telling to attack this guy. alltho people woulde draw rasist things and such but thats just a fraction of the people and kinda like police and laws. its ilegal ,why shoulde it stop other people haveing fun

What benefits are those exactly regarding PA?

I do wish everybody would stop hating on Origin. It's just like Steam, it just looks different.

That said, this thread has been answered to death. I'm here for the beer, I use Steam and Origin, I have 300 games on Steam, and I run PA from the Uber Launcher without any Steam integration.

Actually I run a lot of my Kickstarter games from standalone launchers. Steam integration is often a stretch goal or dependent on getting through Greenlight.

It's mainly because it's hosted by EA is why so many others hate it, they also have horrible download servers (many people have problems with unfinished downloads where it just gets close and stops repeating then they will even refuse to give a refund, took someone months because... EA.) I just don't like EA nor origin in general. Horrible custom service, bad servers, etc... Also they keep games on Origin only which is just unfair and forces people to use their product.

Uber had a problem with downloads where the update would fail towards the end. Network problems are commonplace, and are hard to work with.

I've never had any problems downloading through Origin (though their previous installer, the EA one used for games like that Warhammer arena game, were dodgy in that regard), and often reach peak speeds (8 - 9 MB/s) for most of my gaming updates.

Their customer service is widely reported as being excellent, at least in the UK, but I've heard it can vary dramatically (for the worse) depending on who is serving you. Steam Support, on the other hand, is the largest joke I've ever seen in both my time as a gamer and as a software developer.

I could generally see where you're coming from - a bad experience can often harm opinions, which is fair. But to say that EA are bad for keeping games on Origin . . . that's just laughably fanboy attitude. How do you think Steam took off? Do you see Half Life 2 on another other digital distribution system? DotA 2? Team Fortress 2? Portal? Left 4 Dead? Bearing in mind that TF2 was built from a game that wasn't even theirs. DotA 2 was also, and they bought out the original developers of both Portal and L4D.

(Rrrggh... The smilies don't delete) I'm not really a fanboy of steam and I'm not afraid to use origin, all I'm saying is its not my favorite platform.

I don't use steam. Lots of people don't use steam. As this game (and genre as a whole) attracts more of the old-school crowd than 'usual', it's likely a higher percentage of people than 'usual' don't use steam.

It works just like that with SMNC and Loadout. Both use UberNet.

EA killed Westwood, Origin (The company, not the portal) and Bullfrog.

Since then, I've given EA no support.

destructoid.com/ea-admits-it-blew-it-with-bullfrog-origin-and-westwood-69491.phtml

no need to wait for that to go tell EA to **** off. they'd shown the evil they were capable of long before that.

And Pandemic, after Mercenaries 2, and before they could even finish making Mercs Inc.. Actually, there are many games and developers I like, and usually when I wonder whatever became of them, I can neither say I am suprised nor is it pleasant when I find out EA did it.

You can neither make me stop hating on EA or Orgin, nor am I a fanboy of anything. Fanboy or not, you cannot believe you can convince me to accredit EA with anything, even IF they did it. Good customer support? Perha... NO WAIT F*** THEM!

Origin killed itself. Westwood was a more complicated case, but bear in mind EA acquired these companies as they were already going downhill, ironically in an attempt to save them.

Didn't always work out well, and in some cases transitioning to how EA worked (as a large company) didn't work for the developers acquired (who were used to a more indie setup).

Interestingly enough, that's quite a positive article about EA you linked

How many PC gamers don't have Steam? I understand your point and I find it annoying in other cases but this is basically like "This feature will only run if you have a GUI-based OS".

Just to clarify, @DeadStretch was against the OP