Aemony

I expect to see the mockup change over the next few months as Zynga announces their new airline game for mobile devices.

@xiLeShadow Once every month a number of Steam users is randomly chosen to participate in the Steam Hardware and Software Survey. The users are asked if they want to participate with simple YES/NO answers. If they click NO, nothing happens at all and Steam picks another randomly chosen user for data mining. If they click YES, Steam proceeds to gather certain information regarding the user's computer and installed apps. After this point Steam presents the mined data to the user and asks him if he wants to submit it to the servers. The choices are YES/NO yet again. Clicking YES submits the data while clicking NO deletes it and makes Steam pick another random user for participation.

Outside of Steamworks games, this is the only time the Steam client mines and submits user data to Valve. Not only is it completely optional, but users are presented with the option to abort the procedure at any time throughout the process.

Compare that to Origin whom not only gathers this data periodically with apparently no choice to opt-out, but also does other things such as reads your XFire config file to find out where possible relevant games are installed.

@Aemony I probably phrased myself incorrectly. What I mean by "nerf" is that it would almost seem that the reapers have been nerfed in the third installment of the series. As others have stated, Sovereign was quite destructive and massive in the first game, and I fail to see how any kind of Earth could sustain a reaper attack long enough by so many reapers for Shepard to amass that massive of a force and rescue Earth. Ah well, perhaps the reapers are slow but thourough? :S

Since the nerf of Reapers, this sounds far less epic than what I first assumed it would be when I played the first game. I mean, does it really that probably over a thousand Reapers that long to enslave and thoroughly lay waste to Earth that our galaxy superhero Shepard is not only easily able to escape from the planet, but also amassing a massive fleet never before seen in the history of the galaxy, all to save the remains of the planet before it's too late?

I'm looking forward to playing the game, but it just feels as if BioWare won't be able to deliver since the previous two games portrayed a single Reaper capable of massive destruction on a global scale.

@Hunter141072
Foetoid is spewing some none-sensical stuff that makes no sense. The games were only removed from the Store, customers whom bought those before they vanished from the Store still have them in their libraries fully updated (EA has continued to push updates to them since the games' disapperance on the Store) and I'm pretty sure DLCs bought off-site is still compatible with the games.

@DAmwake
Valve doesn't sell their products on their own accord on any competitive service. The thing with Valve's products being on Origin is because EA is the retail publisher of Valve's games and as such sells physical retail copies of the games on Origin.