why is Origin= Bad...Steam =Good?

[Furtled]

I agree that Steam needs competition or else those great prices wont last. But they need competition from someone other than EA.

Yeah I'd love to see a more customer friendly player enter the market and you never know, it might happen, GoG are making noises about new releases and there's smaller start ups out there watching all this and learning.

Unless EA have a serious rethink about how they treat their customers I honestly don't think they have a hope of competing with Steam, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

 

[Ascarus]

It's EA's way of monitoring their audience. Origin basically takes the information on your computer, operating system, and the hardware and software you have installed, and gives it to other companies for marketing.

nope. they revised their EULA and specifically removed that. what they have is a freaking public relations nightmare for having it there in the first place.

that said, their EULA says the following: [EA] maintains the right to collect "nonpersonally identifiable data, including computer configuration, software usage, and peripherals connected. EA specifies that this data collection is done "for purposes of improving our products and services, providing services to you, facilitating the provision of software updates, dynamically served content and product support as well as communicating with you."

source:[link]http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/26/ea-revises-origin-eula-data-collection-is-still-in-collection/[/link]

It is hard to know how far EA might be willing to stretch the arguably vague terminology there, but Steam has similar statements in their EULA so take that for what you will.