Origin nowdays

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

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

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

Not that Steam is perfect or anything, but what do people do that gets it to actually crash? I can't even remember the last time it crashed on me, and considering that I can't find any record of it in any logs anywhere, the last time might have been before the current incarnation of this computer, which I haven't reinstalled the OS or Steam on since around the time the Win7 RTM came out in 2009. It's been running on pretty much a daily basis since then too. Of course, I'm one of those weirdos who's never, ever had offline mode not work, so I could just be a freak. Heh.

 

[hazabaza1]

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

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

Not that Steam is perfect or anything, but what do people do that gets it to actually crash? I can't even remember the last time it crashed on me, and considering that I can't find any record of it in any logs anywhere, the last time might have been before the current incarnation of this computer, which I haven't reinstalled the OS or Steam on since around the time the Win7 RTM came out in 2009. It's been running on pretty much a daily basis since then too. Of course, I'm one of those weirdos who's never, ever had offline mode not work, so I could just be a freak. Heh.

I dunno, sometimes it just crashes. Launch a game, crash, browse the store, crash. Not very frequent, but it can happen occasionally.

 

[Petromir]

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.

Steam has a similar clause. The original EA clause was more broadly worded than the valve one to be sure, but the intent and usage of it are likely similar.

 

[EvilEggCracker]

It's all irrelevant anyway as EULAs are pretty much worthless. Origin as a program works fine. Better than Steam in fact. Far more stable (though it does have its fair share of occassional stuttering, and the odd "Unresponsive" issue) as everyone has been saying.

The major issue, as has been pointed out, is the lack of any real... products to purchase. The prices aren't exactly competitive for PC gaming (although some of the sales are okay. Some games actually go pretty low), and there's a serious lack of them. EA seriously needs to get some 3rd Party games on Origin for it to be viable - but they probably know that already.

And yeah;

"Origin is made by EA.

That's enough to not use it.

Steam is made by Value.

That's enough to use it."

The prose of an ignoramus.

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

"Origin is made by EA.

That's enough to not use it.

Steam is made by Value.

That's enough to use it."

The prose of an ignoramus.

I agree with you completely.
Some of the best games out were developed by EA.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

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

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

Not that Steam is perfect or anything, but what do people do that gets it to actually crash? I can't even remember the last time it crashed on me, and considering that I can't find any record of it in any logs anywhere, the last time might have been before the current incarnation of this computer, which I haven't reinstalled the OS or Steam on since around the time the Win7 RTM came out in 2009. It's been running on pretty much a daily basis since then too. Of course, I'm one of those weirdos who's never, ever had offline mode not work, so I could just be a freak. Heh.

I don't know, it just crashes, most recently it's crashed on me twice just uploading an avatar, sometimes it will crash just starting a game (although that's only happened to me three times since I got Steam). My problems with it are mostly disconnections and errors. Talking to a friend and all of a sudden you're offline for no reason, and that happens a lot, error messages to. I get error messages fairly often just changing page, changing from Store to Community "Error Code 14, Steam could not connect to the server".

 

[teh_Canape]

well, I only really use it for 2 games
Kingdoms of Amalur and Mass Effect 3
granted it's a bit tedious having to login and keep connection for those games, especially KoA being singleplayer only, but I've never had any true problem with it
I have Crysis 2 and Bad Company 2 on it too but since I just added those games to the library while I still own the disks, I don't require to run the program to play those games if I install from the disks

as for the store, hell no I ain't buying anything, damn thing is on Euros and Euros are expensive

only times Origin shat itself and lost connection making me exit the game was just whenever I was playing ME3 MP and I lost connection, which dropped me to the main multiplayer menu
but thankfully, every time it happened was when I was getting my ass handed to me

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

I don't know, it just crashes, most recently it's crashed on me twice just uploading an avatar, sometimes it will crash just starting a game (although that's only happened to me three times since I got Steam). My problems with it are mostly disconnections and errors. Talking to a friend and all of a sudden you're offline for no reason, and that happens a lot, error messages to. I get error messages fairly often just changing page, changing from Store to Community "Error Code 14, Steam could not connect to the server".

That could definitely be different for different people just because they're in different regions and connecting to different Steam servers. I've generally been fine with the ones in the northeastern US and Toronto, depending on where I am and what ISP I'm on at the time. Not sure what it's like in other parts of the world. You can try manually switching to a different one from whatever it defaulted to for you, which I've done a couple times before when the one I was on was overloaded/slow right after the release of a really popular game or something like that. Could be worth trying a different one, because most areas seem to have multiple to choose from.

 

[sanquin]

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.

I still don't trust steam either. I won't ever trust a company that maintains the rights to games I've BOUGHT from them. As they can cancel/ban your account and with it take all your games away just like that. For games you've BOUGHT.

I have very, very few games on steam. The half life and CS series, since they're from valve itself. Torchlight, since it was a cheap game. (got TL1 and 2 for 20 euro's) and some steam sales from this summer sale, all below 10 euro's. In total I've spent maybe 20~30 euro's this sale. And I will keep it that way. I refuse to buy anything over 20 euro's on games I don't even really own. And even 15~20 euro's makes me really think before buying.

 

[StashAugustine]

It's not evil or anything, it's just kinda useless. The only reason I have it is I got BF3, Crysis 2 and ME3.

 

[lockeslylcrit]

My main gripe with Origin and Steam is that it's a pay-once subscription service, rather than a retailer. Somewhere in the future, when Steam or Origin finally dies off, where do you think your games will go? You don't have a hard copy of (most of) the games, so when the services do go under, all those games will be inaccessible without a massive technology/DRM overhaul. I like online retailers, like GOG, that allows you to fully download the game and not worry about clients or such. If there's ever a threat that GOG will get shut down, just download all your games from them, burn them to a DVD, and you'll have the library of games you paid for without needing GOG.

Regardless, Origin and Steam work fine as they are right now, but be mindful of the risks you take when you aren't offered a DRM-free copy that you can download onto your computer without a client.

 

[Zaik]

Aside from the data mining thing, there's never really been much of anything wrong with Origin that wasn't already wrong with everything else.

If you're seriously worried about EA reading your 10 year old tax records or what kind of porn you like this week in your browser history, run it in a virtual console or laptop.