Humble Origin Bundle Breaks $5 Million

[Sol_HSA]

I assume this bundle is mostly to get people to try origin. I haven't bought a single EA game since they started requiring origin, as I don't want that on my PC.

I bought the bundle for the games on steam. Since the bundle included sims3, I figured what the heck, and installed it on my wife's machine.

The experience was.. interesting. Downloading the game took approximately 24 hours. First, the game claimed to have been installed, but the add-ons said the game wasn't installed on origin(?!). Starting the game, it required download of over 1G of patches, and after installing, the game asked for the game CD (?!??!).

I uninstalled the game and re-installed it. Now it wanted to download 6GB, which it should have wanted to download in the first place, but didn't. I wonder: what did it patch, earlier?

The download stalled, but I figured I'd just leave it to download overnight. In the morning, it was still at 3%. Cursing this, I pressed pause, and origin says it's "pausing" the download, and the "resume" button wasn't responsive. Killing off origin and re-starting it let me resume the download. Doing this after every few percent of downloaded game got the game, finally, downloaded.

Then I started the game to download the patch. The game said it's up to date. Pressing "refresh" revealed that oops, yeah, I need to download that same gigabyte patch after all.

Strangely enough, this patch is downloaded through a different downloader - not through origin - and that works BETTER than origin's own downloader.

After patching, downloading and installing the content packs, patching them, patching some "store content", and going through a bunch of pointless warning dialogs I can't even remember (I'm pretty sure I clicked through an order of 20 unnecessary dialogs through this process), the game is finally ready to run.

For the guys at EA: this isn't how it's supposed to work.

Wife's been playing the game for one evening, and apparently the game's an in-app-purchase hell. Which doesn't surprise me at all at this point.

 

[gorfias]

Wife's been playing the game for one evening, and apparently the game's an in-app-purchase hell. Which doesn't surprise me at all at this point.

Argh. I'm in SIMS3 Hell too. It let me log on, had an error, kicked me out and won't let me log in again. And that's just trying the initial registration for the game!

 

[Alar]

Wow, how much of this is for charity again? Wasn't it some kind of custom percentage? Either way, very nice! Congratulations to them for a stupendous idea and great success! I am interested in zero of these games so I didn't get it.

 

[OZAuCkn7J28sHLCv]

Wow, how much of this is for charity again? Wasn't it some kind of custom percentage? Either way, very nice! Congratulations to them for a stupendous idea and great success! I am interested in zero of these games so I didn't get it.

The split is only between charities and the humble tip. EA aren't taking anything.

Wife's been playing the game for one evening, and apparently the game's an in-app-purchase hell. Which doesn't surprise me at all at this point.

There's an option in the Sims 3 to hide the store items, so that isn't really a valid issue, it also installed in a very reasonable time for me.

 

[aceman67]

Part of that 5 million (now over 6 BTW), is the double charge I got from them after they said they were "Unable to Process" my credit card.

So now i'm out double the money I tried to donate, and didn't get anything in return.

 

[ThriKreen]

I am done here...... There is nothing I can talk with you about this that would matter. Enjoy Origin and best of luck to you. I am not going to respond to this conversation anymore. There is no point.

1) that neogaf thread, seems no one knows how to read file monitor software - notice how a lot of the actions were QUERIES? As in "Hey, what file type are you?" It's doing the same thing Steam is in regards to looking for executables to add to the launcher list, you know, of GAMES it RECOGNIZES.

2) there was a bug (source: buddy at Origin) in that it went up one more folder than it should have, so it was doing a recursive scan of C:\program files\ instead of localizing it to c:\program files\origin (of course, if you installed it elsewhere, it would scan from that root instead).

It was resolved pretty quickly, but it's not like it'll stop people who put their tax files in c:\program files\ then complaining Origin was scanning it. Of course, none of said scanned files were actually read, or submitted by Origin. You'd think with all the scrutiny since it was released, someone would have found evidence, but nope.

Not that it'll stop people repeatedly bringing it up as spyware with no actual proof.

I know you said that you weren't responding to this conversation any more, but I know people like you, you're coming back to lurk and see how foolish we all are. So allow me to respond to some of your more ridicoulous claims, and feel free to respond to me, showing how foolish I am. If you can.

Feel free to add my stuff to your future responses against this FUD.

 

[Erttheking]

Ok EA, I'll admit that this was really nice thing to do. However, it doesn't wipe away your record. If you honestly are trying to turn over a new leaf, this is a good way to start, but you need to follow up on it. I seriously hope that you are starting to turn over a new leaf, but for obvious reasons I have my doubt.

Aw well, 5 million for charity is always nice. Also EA didn't get a cent. That is also always nice.

 

[J Tyran]

Annnnnnd it like to scan everything on your system, will not let you opt out of that scan whenever it feels like it and will not let you FULLY shut it off like spyware [http://www.destructoid.com/ea-s-origin-may-be-glorified-spyware-causes-mass-upset-209745.phtml]

All of which is rubbish, nobody has been able to prove its spyware at all. As in no-one has ever intercepted and verified any suspicious data packages that would indicate that its spyware.

It accesses immediate processes and it accesses user files because that's where the damn saved games are just like with Steam and Uplay.

Lots of people claim its spyware yet no-one can prove it, your source is from 2011 yet in all that time its never been confirmed.

You started this conversation by linking a post that you SPECIFICALLY said you did not read the EULA..... Might want to do that in the future.
Section 2 Paragraph 2

In addition to information that you give Origin directly (such as email address and
account preferences), Origin periodically collects information including IP and
MAC address, Application usage statistics (for instance, if and when you
experienced unsuccessful installation), operating system (such as service pack,
drivers and support DLLs such as DirectX version), information about your
hardware as well as CPU information. If you do not agree to this collection and
use of information, do not install or use the Application.

Did you actually read it yourself? Or are you misrepresenting it on purpose? That EULA mentioned nothing about Origin harvesting email addresses... It clearly states,

"In addition to information that you give Origin directly (such as email address and
account preferences)"

In other words that means information the user decided to input themselves.

 

[Sol_HSA]

Wife's been playing the game for one evening, and apparently the game's an in-app-purchase hell. Which doesn't surprise me at all at this point.

There's an option in the Sims 3 to hide the store items, so that isn't really a valid issue, it also installed in a very reasonable time for me.

I'll have to check for such an option then - thanks for the hint.

 

[gorfias]

I got the entire Walking Dead recently for around $5.

That is a great deal! I paid many times that for the PS3 version!

 

[viranimus]

I saw this and honestly with this being a full fledged "Humble Bundle" I am actually sort of thinking that after the T minus halfway point they will add in like they usually do more games. With the numbers present I am thinking there is a chnce they may add Crysis 1 and Dead space 2 to the collection (Dead space more so cause it is beyond bizarre to bundle 1&3 but not include 2)

 

[gorfias]

I saw this and honestly with this being a full fledged "Humble Bundle" I am actually sort of thinking that after the T minus halfway point they will add in like they usually do more games. With the numbers present I am thinking there is a chnce they may add Crysis 1 and Dead space 2 to the collection (Dead space more so cause it is beyond bizarre to bundle 1&3 but not include 2)

Funny, Dead Space 2 on DVD is the only one I owned till now

It's already a great deal, it's for charity, I gave more than I had to as it is. I don't see it going over $10, so, it'll be a great deal till the end (I think). But, I'm glad I already did it. I'm having fun playing these, though, I'm not very far in any of them. I'm liking Medal of Honor more than I thought I would.