I'll put it simply, origin, is unneeded in this world it was created in an attempt to compete with steam, now it does that in the stupidest ways. for instance origin sales charge you sales tax on top of their product price, which steam does not, I mean sure if you were ordering a physical copy or something that would make sense but it cost me $67 to buy the digital version of SWTOR off there, due to nearly $8 in tax, that's retarded, nothing changed hands, That is excessively expensive for the base level purchase of a game period, that is the price of the starcraft 2 deluxe edition before taxes... but the only reason I didn't refuse to buy that game through them(only way I could buy it without having to spend money to go to a store and back to buy it) is because it's like the only product they seem to sell through the origin store online which I don't hafta have their bs origin client running on my computer to play.
I mean this competition would be great y'know if it were competition, y'know with price wars and such, but it isn't, steam has REALLY GOOD PRICES and always will, origin has a sale now and again, on a small number of games, most of which you can get elsewhere anyway. Only a handfull of exclusives, and no products from any other company, just EA, Steam has games from valve, and pretty much everyone else, including a metric fuckton of indie games, and so many games under $5 that one could easily go years without spending more than $100 on games, and that's not even counting the ludicrously good sale prices on bundles, I mean when you take a game bundle which is already a sweet deal saving you a ton of money on all the games, and chop the price by 75% you are getting games that normally cost like $40 for like $3, it's crazy.
So yeah Origin is bad because of how much of a pathetic failure it is, it's yet another development by EA to try and compete in an arena in which their opponent is wielding a high tech arsenal with grenade launchers autotargeting railguns, and an impenetrable suit of armour, and EA comes along all cocky with it's tinfoil hat, and array of kitchen utensils and starts screaming and swearing at Valve taunting them... Valve can just ignore them and still win, this isn't a competition, this is a horrible failure that shouldn't have ever been conceived.
It's not even fun to watch, frankly it kinda hurts, like a dull pain behind my teeth, like watching a fight between a pitbull and a jack russel terrier puppy. Who the hell would even even try to encourage that?
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