Would it be considered okay if I bought the Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition from steam for $30? I'm thinking its okay because its not full price and because I'm buying it from Steam so EA and EAware doesn't get all the money from it.

Also, is anyone else going on a personal boycott of EA?

Yeah I got shafted by their customer service when I tried to change the email for my Origin account and I just don't like the direction they're taking by forcing developers to casualize and dumb down games. Also they have a draconian DRM system which leaves you at the mercy of EA. Their microtransactions for pay to play games are also [censored] as well.

Boycotting a for-profit company means not buying or using their goods and services.

EA is the reason I did not install DA:O that I got as a gift from my folks. It's still on my gaming shelf, shrink wrapped.

No. As it is overpriced at $30 wait for it to go on sale again

Possibly the Spring sale if there will be one.

It's...not really much of a boycott if you still buy their products, even if they're old and not at full price. And I don't know how well of a message you're passing if you buy the ultimate edition of a game that itself had some really obnoxious DLC practices. For a boycott to have meaning, you really got to stick to your guns. It's easy to carry out when no products you like are being made, but it proves your devotion when you pass up on things you actually would get otherwise. I'd like to say that I was on an EA boycott...but in reality, their practices mean they just don't make anything that appeals to me anymore.

Now, at the very least, by buying DAO, you could certainly be sending a message to Bioware and EA that this is the kind of game they should be making. Unfortunately, it'll fall on deaf ears; 4 million copies and rave reviews, and we still got Dragon Age II.

buying a companies product is opposite of boycotting, you're supporting them. That would be like me boycotting Mcdonalds by standing outside with picket signs then getting hungry and going in and buying a big mac

Whether or not you mean it to, the purpose of your boycott will be defeated if you actually go and buy their products

But you don't have to ask anyone's permission to do that anyway.

Well, if I buy DA: Origins it will be my last EA game.

Why bother with the boycott if you are still gonna open your wallet to them...

Depends on the point of your boycott.

I won't buy any EA games that force me to support terrible policies like always online DRM or excessive DLC, but I will support them if they make a game without either. That way a message is sent as to what is acceptable and what is not.