PC gamers..how are you enjoying Origin?

[Keava]

On the contrary, Origin = monopoly.

It's only a varied choice when you can still get a digital game from Steam, Gamer's Gate, D2D, etc. EA is instead pulling their new games and linking them to Origin only.

If this crap catches on, we'll have a dozen DD-clients for every publisher in PC land and you cannot get a specific game elsewhere.
Say goodbye to cheap sales and customer rights. EA is already banning people from the (singleplayer)games they bought legitimately and they're getting away with it.

If Steam, D2D or GG pisses you off, you can get exactly the same library of games from a competitor. EA doesn't care if a small percentage of their customers gets completely shafted, because it won't affect them. They even make you sign away your rights to a class action lawsuit when you use the service, so the duped cannot band together.

The fact that Origin doubles as spyware is only further insult to injury.

I don't even blame EA so much for trying anything they might get away with (they're running a business afteral), but I blame the sheep who don't care about pissing in their own well, because it works on the surface.

Again. Can say the same about Steam. You can't play Valve game without Steam because they all use Steamworks. You can't play several of other games without Steam either (DoW2, Civ 5, Rage, Skyrim to name a few). How is it really all that different?

Yes I would prefer if all studios had their full catalogues on all DD services but the industry is still quite young and a big publisher like EA obviously want's to keep those exclusivity rights to get a start-up on a rather new service. They could go better with it, by simply offering better deals than competition but it's big corporations, They never think of it till it's too late to back off (imagine the shitstorm if EA would now announce they are back on Steam, everyone would laugh at them).

I'm not saying Origin has no issues at all, that would be far from true, but frankly, compared to Steam, I have much better experience with it so far. Simple little things, like Customer Service and currency used is what is deciding factor for me. I don't have luxury of living in US, nor in one of the euro-zone countries (which are only part of EU, and even smaller part of Europe in general). I pick the service that gives me best options, based purely on those options. Not because of of some ignorant superstitions and love/hate relationship with one or the other publisher.

All the companies are in the end there for the money. I don't care for their sweet-talk, I don't care how many times Gabe will say he wants to provide quality service for everyone. So far he isn't doing it for me so I don't have a single reason consider Steam better than Origin or any other DD service at all.

 

[Knusper]

For a while I had to use it when EA was fixing my BFBC2 multiplayer account and it really was not great, especially the prices. Certainly not a substitute for Steam since it only had EA titles on it (may have changed now). I won't bother getting ME3 if it has to be run on Origin.

 

[ph0b0s123]

IDK, there are cracks to remove the need for Origin, for legit owners out there

Until EA find a way to detect that and ban you from Origin and all the games you have through Origin. No, thanks will wait for them to resolve the issues I have with the system instead.

 

[ultimateownage]

It's a piece of shit, and every possible advantage EA could have had with it (which isn't fucking over Valve) they've fucked right up. Why are the games ~£10 more from a DOWNLOAD by the company that MADE it, than a boxed copy from anywhere?
Doesn't matter though, Battlelog is mountains worse.

 

[ultimateownage]

I don't use any online digital rights management tool. Mostly because my anti-virus keeps picking up Origin and Steam as highly dangerous malware. That and the fact I'm not a total introvert and can actually converse with a store clerk, so I'm in no need of online shops.

The PC games you but from the stores will almost always either ask you to activate it on Steam or Origin now. So good luck trying to 'not be an introvert', as you so proudly put it.

 

[veloper]

On the contrary, Origin = monopoly.

It's only a varied choice when you can still get a digital game from Steam, Gamer's Gate, D2D, etc. EA is instead pulling their new games and linking them to Origin only.

If this crap catches on, we'll have a dozen DD-clients for every publisher in PC land and you cannot get a specific game elsewhere.
Say goodbye to cheap sales and customer rights. EA is already banning people from the (singleplayer)games they bought legitimately and they're getting away with it.

If Steam, D2D or GG pisses you off, you can get exactly the same library of games from a competitor. EA doesn't care if a small percentage of their customers gets completely shafted, because it won't affect them. They even make you sign away your rights to a class action lawsuit when you use the service, so the duped cannot band together.

The fact that Origin doubles as spyware is only further insult to injury.

I don't even blame EA so much for trying anything they might get away with (they're running a business afteral), but I blame the sheep who don't care about pissing in their own well, because it works on the surface.

Again. Can say the same about Steam. You can't play Valve game without Steam because they all use Steamworks. You can't play several of other games without Steam either (DoW2, Civ 5, Rage, Skyrim to name a few). How is it really all that different?

The difference with origin is permanent game bans and spyware.
I do hate it how retail DOW2 always requires Steam (and games for windows live both), but that's just 1 shared point against Steam.
Final consideration here is that EA have the most terrible track record of any publisher (DRM, take overs and bans all considered), while Valve are relatively clean. It wouldn't surprise me if EA would still make due on that EULA clause to remove every purchased game after 2 years.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Total bulls**t really. Not only is it a hassle to open, there are way too many rumours flying around about it being spyware for me to feel safe. Plus if you get banned on Origin, not only are you banned from online service, you're banned from every single game you ever bought on Origin

They run the place like its some kind of dictatorship and that's why everyone hates EA.

 

[Custard_Angel]

I don't use Origin, because none of my games use it.

As for my opinion on it, it just seems like an unnecessary grab at what Valve created with Steam. There's no reason for Origin to exist other than being another platform for the exact same thing.

 

[GrumpyPirate]

Havent tried and I wont either, EAs pretty much pissed me of to the point where i boycot everything that i dont absolutely want and that is most certainly their loss cause im one of those suckers that started buying all my games once my economy started allowing it. Been a fanatical ME and DA fan but unless they fix the Origin thing likely ill skip them and that might be the end of my EA affiliations entirely.

All this purely beside the fact that i wont allow origin to steal my personal info anymore than allow any random spyware/trojan on my computer, atleast they usualy have the good grace not to sell it for actual profit and they are easily removed with a proper antivirus/spyware.

Interesting how antivirus programs claim cracks and no cd fixes are viruses but they dont react to Origin isnt it?

 

[luke10123]

soo.....Origin

good?

bad?

terrible?

I havnt had the pleasure of using EA's "wonderful" new service, so Im curious to know how you guys are finding it? is it as bad as i seems? is it "ok"?

tell me your experiences

As much as I enjoy using Steam.
Read as: I don't notice it at all.

It's not the anti-christ. EA may be but Origin is just a program that sits on my computer waiting for me to start it so I can play Battlefield.

This, it's really not that bad. BF3's browser-launcher thing is actually growing on me. Origin's nothing special but it's not BAD in any way, people are just moaning because it's an EA service.

 

[The Dutchess]

It's fine, never had a problem. Just steam but more expensive - I never buy direct from their store lol it's a rip-off.

 

[Griffolion]

soo.....Origin

good?

bad?

terrible?

I havnt had the pleasure of using EA's "wonderful" new service, so Im curious to know how you guys are finding it? is it as bad as i seems? is it "ok"?

tell me your experiences

Meh, my experience is that I click Battlefield 3 whenever i wish to play it and then i'm whisked away onto Battlelog. It just sits in the background not really doing a lot (save for taking all my hard drive data and selling that to advertising corps, but that's by the by).

So my experience hasn't really been anything at all. Steam is the far superior service and I shall be sticking to that for the foreseeable future.

 

[ZeroMachine]

I'll let you know when, or if, I get a game that actually uses...

... Oh, wait, I guess I kind of have one. One of my friend's computers is dead, so she uses mine for her copy of Sims 3. That uses Origin. And come to think of it, I used it for the BF3 Beta too.

Huh.

Guess I've had no issues with it.

This "Origin is EVIL" stuff all fear mongering or something?

 

[DSK-]

I don't know, I haven't tried it and won't.

 

[WalkableBuffalo]

Wait, there are people who use Origin?

 

[PlowmanMk]

I dont have any problems with it. Not a fan of its interface though.

Also, I dont think people quite understand the whole 'spyware' thing. It isnt really spyware, as it is warning you in the EULA.
While it does gather information about your hardware/software etc, they dont have any access to personal information (pictures, documents etc). Facebook has that job
Hell, every store loyalty card and credit card takes user information. Its purely for marketing.

Although I think a smarter option would have been to give the customer a choice (or ask for permission) in whether or not to take part in this 'marketing scheme'.

 

[Something Amyss]

This "Origin is EVIL" stuff all fear mongering or something?

In a word: You said it.

It's even funnier because the scaremongering was over stuff the beloved Steam does.

 

[Tjoubou]

I'm not. I had a short experience with it with Battlefield 3 and it turned into an absolute nightmare that I chronicled in another thread. Long story short, I uninstalled everything and have no intention of using Origin or any Origin exclusive game. This makes me sad because I want to play Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 3 when it comes along.
Sadly, unless EA works out their issues with Steam, or makes their games not require Origin. I am going to have to say no.

You could just, you know, get them for console

 

[MrFalconfly]

Haven't had any issues. The interface and general look is quite slick.

It seems people are just pissed either because they need to have everything on Steam or because they think EA is interested in their adults literature collection (which they aren't).

 

[PotluckBrigand]

I don't like it. It seems stupid to have so many game platforms on my machine at once, but at least Steam and the GameStop (formerly Impulse) platform work most of the time.

I am also not entirely convinced by EA's insistence that they left Steam for the good of their customers. I have not once experienced the kind of chivalrous rescue and gallant derring-do that EA would like us to believe they are now undertaking for OUR sake. EA likes their money (Don't get me wrong, I understand they are in the business to make money, and I rarely begrudge them to that end). If they don't want Valve taking a cut from their sales, I'm not sure why they can't just say as much.

I don't like it, but I will use it when I have to (although my experience with the BF3 beta was almost enough for me to forswear the whole damned thing, and reading about people being unable to verify CD Keys they had purchased from the service itself was almost funny). I like the Mass Effect series too much and my Shepard and I have gone through our journey on the PC, so I will have to suck it up and deal with Origin for that game at least. Other than that, I would say skip it unless you REALLY like EA's games... but hell... what do they even make that's good anymore?

(EDIT) And yes... while probably 90% of my PC gaming is done via Steam, I am perfectly willing to admit that Steam itself is far from perfect. even after... what... 8 years now? It's still embarrassingly unstable at times, but as the launchpad for almost 300 games on my machine, I continue to use it for its convenience and, well, the fact that I ought to be a goddamn shareholder considering how much money I've given them.