Origin nowdays

[dragsaw]

So is it still evil or is it less shit im asking i still have my unopen colectors ME3 and i whant to play it

 

[Burig]

I've never really used it beyond Mass Effect 3. I didn't find it bad as such, but nowhere near as useful as Steam.

 

[Aircross]

Origin is made by EA.

That's enough to not use it.

Steam is made by Value.

That's enough to use it.

 

[Tayh]

It works reliably.
My PC still hasn't burst into flames yet.
I guess the Doommongers were wrong.

 

[Kushan101]

Origin really isn't as bad as everyone made it out. Offline mode works, dare I say it, more reliably than Steams. It boots quickly and it isn't intrusive in any way.

Buying DLC is a much simpler and straightforward affair than in Steam - in Steam I'm never terribly sure whether that DLC i just bought is installed or not. In Origin every DLC installed is listed and can even be removed seperately.
I know, EA making it easy to spend money, who'd a thought it?

Just install ME3 and play it. But for the love of everything, install the extended cut DLC - its free and VASTLY improves the ending (i.e. the game "ends" rather than just "stops")

 

[hazabaza1]

It's been fine for me. Crashes less than Steam, so that's good.

 

[Zhukov]

It's been alright for me.

Has this annoying bug where it will sometimes refuse to launch games until I restart it.

Hasn't done anything evil though. In retrospect, the whining and howling about Origin was a bit ridiculous.

 

[flarty]

i haven't used it since bf3, i didn't particularly enjoy the experience. Everything seemed long winded, and had to have origin running and a web browser which annoyed me. But it seemed reliable and the actual ui on origin was simple enough

captcha: push the envelope

the one thing origin doesn't do

 

[suitepee7]

i used it for ME3, but tbh never look there for sales or as my first port of call. now i mainly use gog.com and steam for pretty much everything i can.

then again, i never had a huge problem with origin anyway, other than my usual dislike of change >_>

 

[Paladin2905]

It worked well enough for the four hours or so I let it run. Didn't destroy my computer or anything, but to be fair I only let it run for that short time and never allowed it to connect to the internet after installing ME3- its now long gone.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Although I don't use Origin for anything other than Battlefield 3 and Mass Effect, and probably wouldn't have it at all if I didn't need it for those games, I will say that there is nothing wrong with it, and dare I say it, it works better than Steam.

Don't get me wrong, it's shit compared to Steam because it's devoid of pretty much everything Steam has apart from a store and profile page. But Origin has never crashed on me, or given me any errors, it's always ran perfectly unlike Steam which has crashed on me hundreds of times, or I'll get errors just going from the store tab to the community tab. I've never been randomly disconnected from Origin for no reason either. I even get faster downloads on Origin than I do on Steam for some reason.

I suppose what I'm saying is: No, it's not as bad as everyone was saying it was.

I've pirated some games for the sole reason of not having to install steam with it.

Have fun on your suspension.

 

[Paradoxrifts]

Wouldn't know. What I do know however is that as an Australian it is still cheaper for me in most cases to import physical games than buy them through Steam. Steam sales events and anything that escapes the grasp of the larger publishing companies are generally the exceptions.

 

[dragsaw]

so it seems its not so evil at all just kinda crummy

 

[Hugh Wright]

so it seems its not so evil at all just kinda crummy

And having a really small library, I own more games on Steam or Impulse than are available on Origin

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

I have two major gripes with it:

2: They pretty much forced you to get it

I felt the exact same way when Napoleon Total War told me I needed Steam to play. At this point, Steam was very foreign to me and I did not trust it. Origin isn't BAD - I think it looks better than Steam although their sales suck.

 

[Vault101]

its not so bad to use (and ME3 is worht playing)

however I dont know what the deal is with checking your shit on your computer...so theres that (if it is true)

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

its not so bad to use (and ME3 is worht playing)

however I dont know what the deal is with checking your shit on your computer...so theres that (if it is true)

There was a clause in the terms of conditions which did say they wanted access to the computer. If somebody can be bothered to copy and paste it - it would be appreciated.

I personally have nothing to hide on my computer at home as all I use it for is for gaming. I have a laptop to do internet searching and Skype so all they will find on my desktop is numerous games. Although, they might find out I do enjoy the Sherlock Holmes games & Nancy Drew and be shamed by several advertisements from EA corresponding to these.

 

[05026]

Just be aware that it isn't steam, so where steam would ask you for permission, origin just does it. Otherwise it is just an early, slightly more stable version of steam.