PC gamers..how are you enjoying Origin?

[WalkableBuffalo]

Wait, there are people who use Origin?

 

[PlowmanMk]

I dont have any problems with it. Not a fan of its interface though.

Also, I dont think people quite understand the whole 'spyware' thing. It isnt really spyware, as it is warning you in the EULA.
While it does gather information about your hardware/software etc, they dont have any access to personal information (pictures, documents etc). Facebook has that job
Hell, every store loyalty card and credit card takes user information. Its purely for marketing.

Although I think a smarter option would have been to give the customer a choice (or ask for permission) in whether or not to take part in this 'marketing scheme'.

 

[Something Amyss]

This "Origin is EVIL" stuff all fear mongering or something?

In a word: You said it.

It's even funnier because the scaremongering was over stuff the beloved Steam does.

 

[Tjoubou]

I'm not. I had a short experience with it with Battlefield 3 and it turned into an absolute nightmare that I chronicled in another thread. Long story short, I uninstalled everything and have no intention of using Origin or any Origin exclusive game. This makes me sad because I want to play Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 3 when it comes along.
Sadly, unless EA works out their issues with Steam, or makes their games not require Origin. I am going to have to say no.

You could just, you know, get them for console

 

[MrFalconfly]

Haven't had any issues. The interface and general look is quite slick.

It seems people are just pissed either because they need to have everything on Steam or because they think EA is interested in their adults literature collection (which they aren't).

 

[PotluckBrigand]

I don't like it. It seems stupid to have so many game platforms on my machine at once, but at least Steam and the GameStop (formerly Impulse) platform work most of the time.

I am also not entirely convinced by EA's insistence that they left Steam for the good of their customers. I have not once experienced the kind of chivalrous rescue and gallant derring-do that EA would like us to believe they are now undertaking for OUR sake. EA likes their money (Don't get me wrong, I understand they are in the business to make money, and I rarely begrudge them to that end). If they don't want Valve taking a cut from their sales, I'm not sure why they can't just say as much.

I don't like it, but I will use it when I have to (although my experience with the BF3 beta was almost enough for me to forswear the whole damned thing, and reading about people being unable to verify CD Keys they had purchased from the service itself was almost funny). I like the Mass Effect series too much and my Shepard and I have gone through our journey on the PC, so I will have to suck it up and deal with Origin for that game at least. Other than that, I would say skip it unless you REALLY like EA's games... but hell... what do they even make that's good anymore?

(EDIT) And yes... while probably 90% of my PC gaming is done via Steam, I am perfectly willing to admit that Steam itself is far from perfect. even after... what... 8 years now? It's still embarrassingly unstable at times, but as the launchpad for almost 300 games on my machine, I continue to use it for its convenience and, well, the fact that I ought to be a goddamn shareholder considering how much money I've given them.

 

[Geeky Anomaly]

Wait a second........I'm going to need Origin for Mass Effect 3?!!??

OMG....I'm getting chest pains....seriously...I won't be able to get it on Steam at least?

 

[Continuity]

It makes it easier to boycut anything connected to EA, so in that respect I am very pleased with it.

hear hear

It does have that going for it at least.

 

[PotluckBrigand]

Wait a second........I'm going to need Origin for Mass Effect 3?!!??

OMG....I'm getting chest pains....seriously...I won't be able to get it on Steam at least?

Most likely not. I'm sure someone has covered it earlier in this thread (honestly I didn't read most of it... just replied to the initial question), but EA and Valve had something of a tiff, and EA pulled a couple of their big titles off of Steam and no longer releases new titles on the platform. Some of their old stuff is still available (I assume contractually), but the odds of ME3 being on Steam are pretty negligible at this point.

You can always pray for a Christmas miracle, though. Probably won't hurt.

 

[Keava]

The difference with origin is permanent game bans and spyware.
I do hate it how retail DOW2 always requires Steam (and games for windows live both), but that's just 1 shared point against Steam.
Final consideration here is that EA have the most terrible track record of any publisher (DRM, take overs and bans all considered), while Valve are relatively clean. It wouldn't surprise me if EA would still make due on that EULA clause to remove every purchased game after 2 years.

Which Valve may do as well with Steam. Welcome to the world of licenses.

Spoiler: Steam EULA

C. NO GUARANTEES.

VALVE DOES NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS, ERROR-FREE, VIRUS-FREE OR SECURE OPERATION AND ACCESS TO STEAM, THE SOFTWARE, YOUR ACCOUNT AND/OR YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS(S).

13. TERM AND TERMINATION

Either you or Valve has the right to terminate or cancel your Account or a particular Subscription at any time. You understand and agree that the cancellation of your Account or a particular Subscription is your sole right and remedy with respect to any dispute with Valve.

C. Termination by Valve.

2. In the case of a one-time purchase of a product license (e.g., purchase of a single game) from Valve, Valve may choose to terminate or cancel your Subscription in its entirety or may terminate or cancel only a portion of the Subscription (e.g., access to the software via Steam) and Valve may, but is not obligated to, provide access (for a limited period of time) to the download of a stand-alone version of the software and content associated with such one-time purchase.

Origin at least promises 2 years. Steam can do it at any point in time.


It's also much easier to be clean when You are single developer/publisher studio and put out 1 game every hundred years, while EA has multiple studios below them and puts out several games a year. Easy to not be guilty if You don't do anything

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I'm not. I had a short experience with it with Battlefield 3 and it turned into an absolute nightmare that I chronicled in another thread. Long story short, I uninstalled everything and have no intention of using Origin or any Origin exclusive game. This makes me sad because I want to play Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 3 when it comes along.
Sadly, unless EA works out their issues with Steam, or makes their games not require Origin. I am going to have to say no.

You could just, you know, get them for console

I don't own any consoles as I have not been a console gamer since the PS2 era. There aren't enough console exclusives to warrant the purchase for me either.

 

[Valdsator]

I haven't used it and hopefully will never have to, even though Battlefield 3 looks like a lot of fun. Honestly, it isn't the greatest thing that Valve has a monopoly at the moment, but if competition means having to manage 8 different passwords and run 8 different programs just to be able to access all your games, then screw competition.

I doubt there's really any other way to compete. A lot of people already have several games on one service, and the only way to get them to use another is by having exclusive games. Since every service will have games we can't get anywhere else, every publisher will eventually have their own crappy program eating our CPU.

I don't want that.

 

[drosalion]

Honestly had no problems with it whatsoever with BF3, and will be pre-ordering ME3 eventually. I really dont see what people have against it other than the (now changed) agreement you have to sign which is now practically identical to Steam's.

 

[CoL0sS]

If Dragon Age 3 turns out to be any good and not a *expletive deleted* DA2 was I'll consider it. Until then, not a chance. Solidarity & spite.

LOL I am totally with you with that one.
I have taken up the exact same position because I was so butthurt at Dragon Age 2's quality.
For me it was the biggest travesty I had to ever experienced in gaming and I preordered that shit.

Haha I know how you feel. It was the first (and last) game I ever pre-ordered. I mean it wasn't that bad, I was just bothered by lack of story and constant recycling. Bioware did a good job with creating a "unique" setting and world in the first game, but did little to expand on it, or existing characters in expansion and sequel.

OT: I totally forgot about Steam. I know it's not perfect, but I think it's miles ahead of Origin in way they treat their customers, not to mention sales and larger selection. I don't hold that against Origin since it's a relatively new service, but I despise their business practice and their unbridled ban-hammer. I'll agree that competition is good (and necessary) but if we let them get away with locking us out of our games for arbitrary bullshit reason we're heading into a shit-storm, since a lot more publishers will follow their lead.

 

[veloper]

The difference with origin is permanent game bans and spyware.
I do hate it how retail DOW2 always requires Steam (and games for windows live both), but that's just 1 shared point against Steam.
Final consideration here is that EA have the most terrible track record of any publisher (DRM, take overs and bans all considered), while Valve are relatively clean. It wouldn't surprise me if EA would still make due on that EULA clause to remove every purchased game after 2 years.

Which Valve may do as well with Steam. Welcome to the world of licenses.

Spoiler: Steam EULA

C. NO GUARANTEES.

VALVE DOES NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS, ERROR-FREE, VIRUS-FREE OR SECURE OPERATION AND ACCESS TO STEAM, THE SOFTWARE, YOUR ACCOUNT AND/OR YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS(S).

13. TERM AND TERMINATION

Either you or Valve has the right to terminate or cancel your Account or a particular Subscription at any time. You understand and agree that the cancellation of your Account or a particular Subscription is your sole right and remedy with respect to any dispute with Valve.

C. Termination by Valve.

2. In the case of a one-time purchase of a product license (e.g., purchase of a single game) from Valve, Valve may choose to terminate or cancel your Subscription in its entirety or may terminate or cancel only a portion of the Subscription (e.g., access to the software via Steam) and Valve may, but is not obligated to, provide access (for a limited period of time) to the download of a stand-alone version of the software and content associated with such one-time purchase.

Origin at least promises 2 years. Steam can do it at any point in time.


It's also much easier to be clean when You are single developer/publisher studio and put out 1 game every hundred years, while EA has multiple studios below them and puts out several games a year. Easy to not be guilty if You don't do anything

So valve may legally do it, but haven't, while EA have been locking customers out of the games they bought, since the beginning of origin already.
Don't blame me for having less trust in EA than in Valve.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I guess I have an account, but not using it. Since I had an EA account, they forced it on me. If I'm required to use it for Bulletstorm or Dragon Age, I will mail EA and request my money back for those games. Their practices (Crysis 2) are my reason for refusing to use it. Would be a good way to get rid of that trash that is Dragon Age.

 

[Tharwen]

It's fine. EA isn't going to have any chance of beating Steam with it if they don't start selling other people's games on it too though.

What I'm more irritated by is Battlelog for Battlefield 3. It's stupid and bad and wrong. I have to actually go into a game, pause it, and go through to the options menu to change any game settings. To change to a different server, I have to close the game and let it reopen (unreliably) on its own.

 

[DalekJaas]

Heard the rumours about it being nothing but spyware and all the unfair bans and I have decided whatever game that comes out that uses Origin I will not purchase.

 

[yuval152]

Again. Can say the same about Steam. You can't play Valve game without Steam because they all use Steamworks. You can't play several of other games without Steam either (DoW2, Civ 5, Rage, Skyrim to name a few). How is it really all that different?

What do you expect?it uses steam,then it requires steam,can't be any simpler. Also for Game like Dow2,Rage,and those who require steam, blame the developers or the publishers for making the game steam-exlusive.

The difference with origin is permanent game bans and spyware.
I do hate it how retail DOW2 always requires Steam (and games for windows live both), but that's just 1 shared point against Steam.
Final consideration here is that EA have the most terrible track record of any publisher (DRM, take overs and bans all considered), while Valve are relatively clean. It wouldn't surprise me if EA would still make due on that EULA clause to remove every purchased game after 2 years.

Which Valve may do as well with Steam. Welcome to the world of licenses.

Spoiler: Steam EULA

C. NO GUARANTEES.

VALVE DOES NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS, ERROR-FREE, VIRUS-FREE OR SECURE OPERATION AND ACCESS TO STEAM, THE SOFTWARE, YOUR ACCOUNT AND/OR YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS(S).

13. TERM AND TERMINATION

Either you or Valve has the right to terminate or cancel your Account or a particular Subscription at any time. You understand and agree that the cancellation of your Account or a particular Subscription is your sole right and remedy with respect to any dispute with Valve.

C. Termination by Valve.

2. In the case of a one-time purchase of a product license (e.g., purchase of a single game) from Valve, Valve may choose to terminate or cancel your Subscription in its entirety or may terminate or cancel only a portion of the Subscription (e.g., access to the software via Steam) and Valve may, but is not obligated to, provide access (for a limited period of time) to the download of a stand-alone version of the software and content associated with such one-time purchase.

Origin at least promises 2 years. Steam can do it at any point in time.


It's also much easier to be clean when You are single developer/publisher studio and put out 1 game every hundred years, while EA has multiple studios below them and puts out several games a year. Easy to not be guilty if You don't do anything

There is a diffrence,valve could ban me,but i trust them not to(unless i do something that terrible),and unlike EA with it's great banning system,even if you do something wrong on the forums they'll ban you,for all of your origin games(all your money spended gone to waste), and steam has different accounts for the forums and the program itself(if forums are hacked then it won't effect my steam account).Also when "banned" by valve you just can't play on VAC-servers, or suspended.

And also for section C,they're just covering they're asses incase something happens.

Now hater,stop hating.

OT:not untill they'll stop scanning my PC for stuff.