You ever feel like Origin is Steams' lil brother that was bashed in the head with a brick?

[TheRussian]

I'd say Origin is more of a Streamlined little brother to Steam.

Really? I'd love to know why you think so. I'm genuinely interested. Is it because there are less games?

 

[ShinyCharizard]

I've basically hated it ever since I was forced to download and install it to play my Mass Effect 3 disk. Of course I'm not allowed to run my installed game unless I have origin running in the background too for no reason. It then went on to interrupt me with a message every time my internet connection went down while I was playing the singleplayer campaign. Thanks for doing that without asking or anything Origin.

I don't even care if it's a good store or what have you, anything that does this kind of crap isn't getting my money. Steam FTW I guess.

Every steam game also requires you to download the client and have it running in the background.

 

[Souplex]

To be fair, their parents were siblings, so both of them were defective before the brick situation.

 

[Auron]

I've basically hated it ever since I was forced to download and install it to play my Mass Effect 3 disk. Of course I'm not allowed to run my installed game unless I have origin running in the background too for no reason. It then went on to interrupt me with a message every time my internet connection went down while I was playing the singleplayer campaign. Thanks for doing that Origin.

I don't even care if it's a good store or what have you, anything that does this kind of crap isn't getting my money. Steam FTW I guess.

People who bought Fallout NV's or Skyrim's disk also need to install Steam. Why's one a blessing and the other a problem? If anything the only thing I have against Origin is the fact EA ripped all their newer titles from Steam when they created it. Ubisoft was far more decent about their Uplay store. It's a possibility that it becomes a trend with publishers that have enough money(or are foolish enough to directly compete with Valve.) to create their own Download platforms in the future, I wonder where is Activision's.

 

[Nerves82]

Sure, I'll shoot that right over to ya bud. I can find some friends who can use them. I already went without Origin for almost a year so I know I can just keep buying my games on steam.

Wow...they gave you 15% discount codes? That's fucking great. I don't know why you're bitching like a little ***** honestly. Give them to me if you're not gonna use them.

 

[Monster_user]

I like how none of these comments are reverent or speak to the concerns or griefs I have with Origin. A company that is in the business of charging large amounts of money for digital, non tangible products should be very interested in the happiness of the consumer. Costumer service and satisfaction is dead.

Well, a streamlined, low-profile client makes a lot of consumers happy. If Origin only did one thing, and that was make it easy to download your games quickly, and you didn't even know it was running otherwise, that would make a lot of consumers happy.

Other consumers want a more feature rich product. For them, Steam is a much more mature, and feature complete product. Cloud syncing, Digital Downloads, Voice Chat, Friend/Peer networking system, Anti-Cheat, Custom Tiles, Integrated Store Page, integrated Community pages, etc.


My biggest gripes with Origin are:

1. "DVD covers" are not customizable, which means non-Origin titles look ugly with a Windows icon for a "DVD cover" (Game Browser screen).

2. I miss being able to click on a link in Steam, and read the reviews on a title, to see if it is one I want in my library.

3. That annoying pop-up that shows the exact same ads as the store page. I hate that. Steam doesn't do that, and because of the sales, the Store Page is the first page I check when I open Steam.

4. No detail view for games. Seriously, why would I want more than eight games, if I can't see more detailed info about those games, like "Disk Space", or "OS Required", or "Hours Played", or "Favorited", or "Meta Score", or Cloud Sync Support, or Controller Support, etc.

 

[Patathatapon]

The problem is is that Steam has had years to set up, and continues to improve, while Origin is trying to skip some of the steps steam had to. Sort of like how Facebook is very dominant, and only the things that do things they don't have any chance of rivalry (Like Twitter, etc.)

Origin has the right idea of trying to not follow Steam's footsteps, thus it not being a clone and useless to all the Steam users they want. However, The path Origin may take will either: 1) Lead them to the Leprechaun land of perfection, outdo Steam, and make forum posts like this seem like a joke. or it will 2) Crash, burn, die, forgotten within a decade.

In either case, Something good will come of it that being the wonderful destruction of Origin, or some sort of magical Steam destroyer the lesson new developers to rival Steam will learn, or a better product for us all. Or both.

 

[Olas]

I've basically hated it ever since I was forced to download and install it to play my Mass Effect 3 disk. Of course I'm not allowed to run my installed game unless I have origin running in the background too for no reason. It then went on to interrupt me with a message every time my internet connection went down while I was playing the singleplayer campaign. Thanks for doing that without asking or anything Origin.

I don't even care if it's a good store or what have you, anything that does this kind of crap isn't getting my money. Steam FTW I guess.

Every steam game also requires you to download the client and have it running in the background.

I'm asking because I genuinely don't know.

Are there games that, when bought on disk and not downloaded, still require you to download and install the Steam client to play? Because that's what I'm complaining about with Origin.

Obviously if you bought the game through Steam I'd expect that. But not if you never used it and don't need it. If Steam does that then shame on them as well. I should be able to play a game without an unnecessary program running that's gonna generate popup windows with adds on my desktop.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

I've basically hated it ever since I was forced to download and install it to play my Mass Effect 3 disk. Of course I'm not allowed to run my installed game unless I have origin running in the background too for no reason. It then went on to interrupt me with a message every time my internet connection went down while I was playing the singleplayer campaign. Thanks for doing that without asking or anything Origin.

I don't even care if it's a good store or what have you, anything that does this kind of crap isn't getting my money. Steam FTW I guess.

Every steam game also requires you to download the client and have it running in the background.

I'm asking because I genuinely don't know. Are there games that, when bought on disk and not downloaded, still require you to download and install the Steam client to play? Because that's what I'm complaining about with Origin. Obviously if you bought the game through Steam I'd expect that. But otherwise that's bullshit and if Steam does that as well then I'm just as mad at them.

Yes alot of games require that nowadays. Skyrim is a fairly recent example, Deus Ex Hr is another. It pisses me off as well so you aren't alone in that.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Given the spyware that it installs...

and the morally bankrupt EULA they make you sign to use the service...

its more like Steam's pervy little mafia enforcer forty times removed bastard cousin.


Games for Windows Live Marketplace on the other hand...

isn't even a person in this metaphor. Its a warped little deathclaw that will ruin your day every chance it gets.

 

[thiosk]

I will most likely come into contact with it for sim city, and I'm none too happy about it.

I have to remember too many passwords, too many secret login codes, too many email addresses. I don't want another one.

 

[Monster_user]

I'm asking because I genuinely don't know.

Are there games that, when bought on disk and not downloaded, still require you to download and install the Steam client to play? Because that's what I'm complaining about with Origin.

Obviously if you bought the game through Steam I'd expect that. But not if you never used it and don't need it. If Steam does that then shame on them as well. I should be able to play a game without an unnecessary program running that's gonna generate popup windows with adds on my desktop.

One of my biggest pet peeves. Steam was like this from Day One actually.

90% of consumers bought Half-Life 2 on disc, and Steam was a forced install, and a LOT of people complained about that.

Now you can't even use those discs anymore, as the data is so badly out of date that Steam has to download it all over again anyway. I think the last time I tried to install from the disc, Steam just didn't even bother wasting my time installing it, it started downloading it right away.

 

[Snotnarok]

Not sure what the problem is with Origin, it's not as bad everyone makes it to be.
The lack of gifting option for digital is lame but my friend gifted me Battlefield 3 off origin via physical and that cost the same price sooooo, now I got a shiny new box on my shelf.

 

[synobal]

I'm honestly amused because it is just a reskinned EA Download Manager, and they've not stuck to their projected "roadmap" at all. It's crap and I honestly think they expected it to make them a lot of money and then they would work on making it better. Since the money never magically appeared they've made it a low priority.

 

[solemnwar]

Steam will pause my downloads/installs while I play another steam game.
Origin lets the downloads/installs keep going while I play another Origin game.

So that's one thing in its favour, at least.

I'm asking because I genuinely don't know.

Are there games that, when bought on disk and not downloaded, still require you to download and install the Steam client to play? Because that's what I'm complaining about with Origin.

Obviously if you bought the game through Steam I'd expect that. But not if you never used it and don't need it. If Steam does that then shame on them as well. I should be able to play a game without an unnecessary program running that's gonna generate popup windows with adds on my desktop.

Dishonored requires you to have steam to play it. Skyrim does as well, I believe, but I got it directly through steam. There's a few of them, it's not just origin.

 

[Imre Csete]

Oh yes, I haven't installed games this slow since I've had a CD drive in my PC.

 

[Zeraki]

I don't use Origin so I really couldn't say. I think I've used it once and that was for the free copy of Mass Effect 2 I got for buying Dragon Age 2(and it wasn't called Origin yet at the time).

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

Eh, I view Origin as that thing I need in order to play Battlefield and only needs to be running when I'm playing Battlefield, and I don't even play Battlefield that much anymore.

 

[SushiJaguar]

Steam is like a good prostitute. If they bruise you up a bit, you don't mind, because the rest of the sex is great. You'll let them put cuffs on you because the benefit outweighs the risk - you always get more than they do.

Origin is like falling out of a tour jeep on a safari and getting orally penetrated by a lion. It never ends well and leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.