Poll: Origin Survey - Would you recommend it to a friend?

[neppakyo]

Unless Origin has changed that *shrug* And add insult to injury, Origin, using the name of a great developer EA destroyed too.

I still consider Origin Maleware.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I voted 10 to spite the insultingly biased poll options. I've honestly never used it but if someone seriously liked using it and was to vote 10, you are basically calling them retarded. Since when is this much jackassery allowed to be put into polls?

Option 1 is there for people who won't touch it with a barge pole and option 2 is there for people like me who are forced into using it by EA. Anyone who does actually like using it would have to be retarded or at least brain damaged and this poll was rhetorical because I was amazed EA would put a survey up like that after what they did with SimCity but troll's gotta troll I guess.

Well, the guy bellow this post says he likes Origin so I guess you've just called him retarded. Nice job. Didn't read the forum rules I take it?

Why make a poll if you didn't want to see any of the options besides the first two get picked? Why couldn't you have just made a thread saying what did you pick and why? Instead you made an insultingly biased poll and then tried to cover yourself by saying anyone who likes Origin must be retarded.

 

[Laughing Man]

Funny.
I thought people had gotten over the whole fearmongering-and-slander in regards to Origin.

Not really, when all else fails spouting the day one BF3 Origin must have install fears will always work. Given that the tools are freely out there for ANYONE to look at what Origin does and you still have people spouting nonsense about what it does, well what can you do?

Would I recommend it no, but then I wouldn't recommend any of the DD services, I would say use whatever method you want to buy your games. Since the only circumstances under which Origin would be 'recommended' would actually be a situation where Origin is required to play the game it is hardly a recommendation now is it?

Anyone who does actually like using it would have to be retarded or at least brain damaged and this poll was rhetorical because I was amazed EA would put a survey up like that after what they did with SimCity but troll's gotta troll I guess.

You do know that what happened with Simcity has nothing to do whatsoever with Origin? To my knowledge Origin was totally uneffected by the events surrounding Simcities launch. This would be like laying in to Steam for the time Valve updated Left 4 Dead and basically killed the 'openserver' function within the game. The game was unplayable but would I spend day and night laying in to Steam because of it, NO, separate events.

 

[Therumancer]

My experiences with Origin have been negative due to them forcing me to create multiple accounts due to an error on their part when I pre-ordered ToR many moons ago. They said they would enable me to combine my accounts into one (getting rid of that stupid "you cannot register another version of the same product" thing in the process) but never did so, and pretty much started ignoring any complaints I sent their way about having to juggle two origin accounts for my EA library. It's simply put a broken system, with terrible customer service.

When it comes to STEAM I've had nothing but positive experiences so far, I guess there have been people who have been screwed by them, but I am not one of them. They not only offer deep discounts on games periodically, but on the rare occasions I've had a serious problem, I've gotten action from them. Namely when I bought "The War Z" and wound up asking for a refund when I saw a lot of other people were doing the same thing. They were not difficult to deal with at all, there was no run around, no hassle, etc...

Now at the end of the day STEAM is still DRM, and yes they are out to make money, their sales have gotten me to spend money I wouldn't have spent otherwise, and I've loaded up a library with games I'll probably never play, but logical or not I still thank them for those discounts, and honestly if I'm going to have to tolerate DRM I'd rather deal with Valve at the moment than Origin/EA.

That said I confess that I am looking forward to the release of some of these Kickstarter games that are supposed to be entirely DRM free, or at least to those who contributed to the Kickstarter.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Would I recommend Origin? No idea, never used it. The only EA games I have bought in the last 3 years have been from gog.com so yeah Origin is pretty much off my radar anyway.