God I love having an Xbox. Just means I don't have to put up with shit like this.
In all fairness, holding an extremly popular title ransom as a way to force users into installing a buggy, experimental new digital distribution system...isn't that exactly the same as what Valve did with Half-Life 2 to get people on Steam way back in 2005? People complained then, but they still bought it, enjoyed the game, and by the time Episode 1 came out, everybody loved Steam. Who's to say that won't happen with Origin as well?
Besides, when I hear a lot of complaints about Origin's software being buggy, or slowing down your computer, or games not downloading properly, I think "have you people been using the same Steam as I have for the last 5 years?" Surely I can't be the only one who's had there computer slow to a crawl while Steam's been running in the background, or been forced to re-download an entire game just for the sake of a single patch. How could Origin be any worse? It seems more like people are just arguing against Origin out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness towards EA, but anyone who refuses to allow themselves to enjoy something based on pointless, left-wing principles is just being a wanker.
In all fairness, holding an extremly popular title ransom as a way to force users into installing a buggy, experimental new digital distribution system...isn't that exactly the same as what Valve did with Half-Life 2 to get people on Steam way back in 2005? People complained then, but they still bought it, enjoyed the game, and by the time Episode 1 came out, everybody loved Steam. Who's to say that won't happen with Origin as well?
Besides, when I hear a lot of complaints about Origin's software being buggy, or slowing down your computer, or games not downloading properly, I think "have you people been using the same Steam as I have for the last 5 years?" Surely I can't be the only one who's had there computer slow to a crawl while Steam's been running in the background, or been forced to re-download an entire game just for the sake of a single patch. How could Origin be any worse? It seems more like people are just arguing against Origin out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness towards EA, but anyone who refuses to allow themselves to enjoy something based on pointless, left-wing principles is just being a wanker.