Poll: Can someone explain the hate for the Origin program?

[Bestival]

Well thank you all for that I was just curious because I am looking forward to he new sims city game but I was reading there forums about sims and lots of people where saying that if it requires Origin they will not get it etc so I was just curious about you guys opinions.

Didn't some EA higherup recently state that they were only going to be making multiplayer games? In that case, have fun with you deathmatch City Building Sim!

No, nobody ever said that. OK, actually to be fair, clueless people who parroted what bigoted haters fabricated, said that. What the EA higherup actually said was that they were not making any games that were a single player-only experience. And that means that a game might have DLC or an online leaderboard. The Cerberus Network from ME2 is an example of that "online component". Please stop perpetuating this "only multiplayer lololol" nonsense.

Ah okay, cool. Like I said, I was pretty fuzzy on the details, and it did sound like a horrible idea to me in the first place... Then again, its EA we're talking about, so horrible idea doesn't mean impossible idea heh. Cheers for clearing it up. (Dem crazy interwebs, it's like you cant believe anything on here anymore!)

 

[crazyrabbits]

This whole concept behind EA apparently wanting to nickle and dime customers is just paranoia

Wrong. The continuing frequency of cases of day-one DLC from companies like EA, Capcom and others is enough to show that it's not just paranoia, but an absolute trend that is rightly freaking people out.

No, that's not "nickle and diming" as there's not a single bit of Day 1 DLC that has ever been necessary to enjoy a game. It's always been extra side bits.

Again, semantics. It doesn't matter whether it's optional side-content or not - if it's on the disc, it should be accessible in the game and to all players. Period. You can hide behind your "EULA! EULA!" defense all you want, but it has no merit. The rule of first-sale doctrine and existing consumer laws allow people to access the data on their disc for non-commercial means. This is just the game industry (once again) cutting off its nose to spite its face.

The whole day-one DLC issue is so bad that even projects that would otherwise have nothing to do with it (Obsidian's Project: Eternity, for example) had people crying bloody murder when they announced that they would start thinking about expansion ideas during the main game's development.

Really, that's the point you wanted to throw down on? Not EA's war on Gamestop, the snooping Origin software or the validity of complaints about the company?

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

People are slow to change and hating EA is in the vogue right now; rather than sensibly disliking certain products that they have made. Origin started out crappily, someone probably just put brute force code into it rather than saying "scan this area and this area and we will have the hardware data we need" they just put in for it to scan everything, and give them the information they need.

This led to people freaking out, understandably so. But very few people bothered to check in on the fact that the program is pretty much fine now. I read through the entire EULA by hand before I installed it, as well as the origin FAQ. They aren't doing anything super "fishy" that steam isn't doing as well. It's not the greatest system ever, but like many people have mentioned it's 7 years behind steams development process. It basically runs like a lighter version of steam, which is fine with me: I don't need pages for community badges, and a billion community hubs, and a market, and a steam inventory.

Despite the fact that I have origin though, I would still like to see steam crush them. Because I would rather have everything on one client and I'm already invested in Steam. I loathe the day when every company has their own and wants me to download 30 different clients just to run my games.

 

[Continuity]

I don't hate origin, I hate EA, and I don't want to support a publisher I hate buy using their distribution platform.

People are slow to change and hating EA is in the vogue right now; rather than sensibly disliking certain products that they have made.

It not their products I object to, though some of them are certainly objectionable; no, its their policies which show blatant disregard for the consumer and for gaming as an entertainment medium.