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My one and only experience with Origin is BF3, and I plan to never use it again. I will simply not buy EA games that force me to use it.

I don't have anything new to add to the lists of reasons given by the previous posters, but only to agree with them.

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I dont hate Origin but I dont love it either. Right now it works, it does what its meant too and im sure it will improve, and im downloading games up to 3x faster than on Steam. I have a gripe with not being able to backup my games but once again - a work in progress I would hope. And the fact I cant run steam over the top of a game using Origin (yet to try and remap the steam keys to see if that works).

That being said, Steam is doing little to keep me right now.. Games are getting slower and slower to download - especially on big sales. They are doing little to keep the prices down, more and more games in aus are launch at near retail prices which defeats one of the major things I loved about Steam. On top of that, ive had more issues with steam lately than I ever had. Games reinstalling themselves, then not working, then having to repair them resulting in more downloading. Steam is still pausing at times, atleast its not locking up anymore or stops responding.

That being said, I can even see advantages and like using Games for Live too! Right now, Steam is still my preffered PC platform, all my games and friends are there. It has a huge range and has generally good prices and decent sales. But I think its time they step up the game, Steam was no.1 for a lot of reason, now companies have taken notice and stepping in people are going to be looking for that hook that makes there service better than the others. Id preffer to keep using Steam and see it get better, but I dont want to see them lockdown the devs more and end up with an apple centric way of thinking.. I think Origin could be a good thing for Steam in the long run.

I do not hate Origin, as the program/software is concerned.

But I hate some of the business practices behind it.


Origin works very well at the software level its a bit more direct and faster than Steam. I think Steam has become a bit bloated over the years with more features than it needs and its just a bit slow sometimes probably due to a lot of that.

Still though I prefer steam by a huge margin and only get games on Origin because they are significantly cheaper or only on Origin.


More to come... Amazon is working on there own digital service now and I think even Game Stop is doing it or will be doing it soon.

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I use games for windows (for about 2 games I think), steam and orgin... I also have games on DVD.

Now the problem I have with this is that I dont have 1 library showing all games. Windows 7 does have it's games folder but not all of my games automatically get added here. And if I manually add them, which is a pain in the ass, they dont contain all of the details etc that an automatically added one does.

One complete library that scanned Steam, scanned Origin, Scanned my games folder.... that would be useful.

Also... Seeing as some people are moaning about steam in here too... my only gripe with Steam is it's load times when booting the PC. Between Steam and Origin I just love waiting for them to load.

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Have you ever heard of X-Fire ?

Does the same like Origin / Steam. Just without the negative parts. Okay.. i didn't read the whole EULA... But if i want to i could just shut down X-Fire and still game everything! I don't need no Acitivation for Games, no extra programm running if i don't want to. Still get Ingame Chat /Video recording.
But hey... you can't buy Games in X-Fire... guess thats why all prefer Steam!

....., I for one don't like that policy and vote with my wallet to not support a company that treats its customers like that. ....

QFT!

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I Windows 7 does have it's games folder but not all of my games automatically get added here. And if I manually add them, which is a pain in the ass, they dont contain all of the details etc that an automatically added one does.

Another problem with the windows game explorer is that it starts to become flakey after you hit about the 140 games mark

It's pretty simple, they enforce exclusive distribution through them. Try buying any recent EA game on Steam... If I can't buy it or enable it via Steam, it's crap.

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Here is a reenactment of what made me hate Origin as much as I do now:

Get home from work super tired, want to browse interwebs. Turn on computer and log into Windows. Have SSD, so have EVERY program possible launch at start up. Cute little Steam sits quietly in the background, runs updates automatically, doesn't nag me about it, only asks to restart when entire Steam client has been updated. Click Chrome icon and start browsing interwebs, see something super interesting go to click it and BAM! Huge windows blocking screen. Its Origin asking me if its cool to update. Sure I say, just take care of your business and get out of my way. Does Origin hide to the task bar and start updating in the background? NO! It opens up an Install Wizard. I click Next. It asks me to accept a new EULA. Now I'm upset. Click I Agree. Now its asking where I'd like to install it. WHY?!?!?!?! Sit and wait for Install to finish, the entire time ready to explode. Install finishes. Leaves a present for me. NEW DESKTOP ICON!!! Oh wait, there's more. The icon you pinned to the start menu no longer works! Verge of erupting like dying star. Maybe the update finally removed that BF3 Beta that is clogging my Origin window? Go check, its still there, I create a new black hole.

And that, dear people, is why I hate Origin. Sure the crummy business practices, the absurd EULAs, and the general bad taste I get as a PC gamer from them weigh heavily on it. But if you are going to force me to use some software to play a game, you better make sure it works. How hard is it to make a piece of software that just in place upgrades itself. People hated Steam in the beginning because you had to have it to play HL2. But, with the exception of the friends list, Steam worked fine. It was unobtrusive. Hopefully Origin figures it out, because I fear this is a piece of software that is around to stay.

Honestly, I'm surprised I dont hate it yet. I've had my accounts information- credit card, actual account, and games- breached twice and had zero compensation from EA from it. The security lady I talked to to have the account locked and changed said that there were two very different ips using the account, she just refused to tell me them to do a "cross check" (more than likely because of legal reasons behind ips and all that).

Other than that, I don't mind it. As long as my information is safe and it works, which download times are far slower than steams, then im ok with it.

I hate origin because it sucks.

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