EA Waives Distribution Costs for Kickstarter Funded Projects on Origin

by Mike Bendel on May 18, 2012 @ 10:33 am


With Kickstarter becoming especially popular in the gaming sector, it’s no surprise that gaming behemoth EA wants a piece of the action. To that end, the company is waiving any distribution costs on Origin for titles that have been successfully crowd-funded. Any costs associated with distribution will be completely free for 90 days.

Currently, Origin boasts a userbase of 12 million gamers worldwide.

“The public support for crowd-funding creative game ideas coming from small developers today is nothing short of phenomenal,” said Origin senior VP David DeMartini. He added, “It’s also incredibly healthy for the gaming industry. Gamers around the world deserve a chance to play every great new game, and by waiving distribution fees on Origin we can help make that a reality for successfully crowd-funded developers.”

Notably, inXile Entertainment has already jumped on board to take advantage of this distribution deal on a non-exclusive basis. Wasteland 2, a post-apocalyptic that raked in over 2.9 million from Kickstarter backers, is headed to Origin – joining the previously announced Steam and DRM free release. Whatever gripes you may have with Origin, you have to admit this is a nice initiative from EA – especially since it comes with no strings attached. Interested parties can fill out the application form over on EA’s site for more information.

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Comments
hush404 says:

0_o did I just read that EA is going to publish Wasteland 2? Please tell me you meant "publish to Origin" and not "Publish" in the general sense.

x3sphere says:

Yeah, publish to Origin through this deal. It's still coming to Steam and there's a DRM free version planned too I believe.

Trigun says:

Trying to conjur up some goodwill EA eh?

Interesting.

KezraPlanes says:

I think you should re-phrase that to "Desperatly struggling to make Origin relevant" ;)

Trigun says:

I was thinking something along those lines before I wrote that. But I didn't want to sound overly cynical/negative like I usually do when I think of EA

slicer4ever says:

pretty much sums this up imo.

KezraPlanes says:

Really, don't hold back. They don't when they screw over their customers anyway.

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