What could EA do to change you mind about using Origin - Old - Admins please lock

[ph0b0s123]

This thread now with a working Poll here: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.319931-What-could-EA-do-to-change-you-mind-about-using-Origin#13061566

Groan, not another thread about Origin. Bear with me. I though I would try a new approach of being constructive. So for all those who are refusing to use Origin, is there anything EA could do as far as making changes to Origin to get you to start using it. For me it is just to make the hardware and software collection it does on your system optional, like steam.

 

[ph0b0s123]

After the 3rd attempt, posting polls just doesn't seem to be working today....

I give up.

 

[BlastedTheWorm]

Well, get rid of the spyware shit. Then it wouldn't bother me.

 

[Heeman89]

Option whatever: Make it work, and not make me have to sign up for 20 different things to get access to the bonus stuff.

Battlefield 3 is my first experience with anything Origin related and so far not impressed, and half the time it said I was still in my EA account and that it would be "upgraded" to an Origin account at a later date.

 

[GraveeKing]

Make everything free, guarantee I never have to ever pay for their goods again. Delete all their spyware crap and royally go fuck themselves.
Then sure I'd use Origin. But I'd still use steam more even then.

 

[Jadak]

Well, I don't have a problem with Origin so I guess to change my mind, they'd have to do something to piss me off. Murder my puppy or something.

 

[Jak LesStrange]

B... definitely B. I personally dislike the fact that we are moving towards digital only download systems. To me, there's nothing quite like the feel of a game in your had as you tear open the packaging and putting it in the disk-drive. The ping of a download doesn't have the same pleasure to it... I need Psychonauts now.

 

[wooty]

Nothing much, to be honest Origin doesnt bother me at all.

 

[SpAc3man]

The only way I will use it is if I have to use it for Battlefield 3. Oh wait.

 

[Drake666]

B: Nothing, I have steam and don't want to use another service / client.

I understand the idea that "everyone wants a part of the Steam business"... but I don't care! I don't want to have so many damn client on my computer. One is already enough...

Even then, I don't respect the "monopoly" over some game... "Oh you want to play Half-Life 2 ? YOU MUST install Steam"... idem for Origin and Battlefield... If they would only be a "buy games/manage library" client, Origin would probably not suck that much (Steam suck less for only two reasons: 1) They've got experience. 2) The spyware thing.)

 

[DeadlyYellow]

After the 3rd attempt, posting polls just doesn't seem to be working today....

I give up.

You didn't offer the proper sacrifice.

Honestly, nothing. I've been set against Origin since I first started hearing about it, same as I would be with a platform from Activision. Steam has coddled me into a nice little safety zone as far as digital distribution platforms go, despite the fact that some titles still require additional platforms to run.

Though personally I'd always side with a DD service over a platform.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

i don't mind it so much, as it is dead similar to so many different services out there.

however, 90% of the people on here will say A because they are that damn stubborn about it, regardless of what is true or untrue.

if i were to add some input, they need to make it slightly more streamlined, otherwise it's not a bad service at all, mind some of the prices.

 

[nukethetuna]

Offer something Steam doesn't?

Steam already provides the digital distribution platform very well. Launching a service that offers nothing new except a few exclusives I'm not particularly interested in won't get me on there.

 

[Something Amyss]

Change their name to Valve, their service to Steam, and act as if everything's changed when the differences are superficial at this point.

Oh, wait....

 

[Worgen]

Not much really, I mean since that spyware crap was in the eula, that means that even if they aren't currently using it, its functionality is still there and I trust ea to try and slip it back in when they think no one is watching.

 

[Techsmart07]

Nothing, really. I have so many games on my steam account as is, I doubt I have the time to play them all, and the list keeps growing every sale.
ways to get me to try origin
have better sales than steam.
offer a competitive quantity of games to steam.
kill spyware.
be more stable than steam.
give me something that steam doesn't offer (and a handful of titles won't cut it)
most importantly: convince all my friends to go to origin.

 

[KeyMaster45]

EA burned me once before when I tried to buy one of the SPORE expansions through them digitally. I paid my money, downloaded the install file, and the damn thing didn't work and never installed properly to the copy I had on my computer. A week of waiting for a response from customer support later and I'm told basically tough shit, we don't know what's wrong and we're not giving you a refund. Forgive me if I'm overly cautious with buying digitally from them.

Even with that bad experience I already have Steam and it fills my desire for digitally distributed games quite nicely. There is little if anything in EA's library that I want to purchase anyway, (that I don't already have a copy of on Steam) so at the moment it's a redundancy issue with me. Still, I don't see why it has everyone in this frenzy of "omg you have to switch to Origin or there's something wrong with you." Many competing platforms have challenged Steam, and most of them have failed miserably. Why exactly are we not treating Origin with the same indifference as the others? (the whole ToS issue withstanding of course)