Ah, well this explains a few things.
Would it kill them to give you an error message or some kind of pop up saying the servers are having issues?
I've literally just spent the last 45 mins rebooting, trying to log in, checking my passwords, wondering where all my games had gone, wondering if I had a virus, wondering if that new AMD driver I installed has caused origin to 'not respond'.
Furthermore why on earth can't they have a 'backup' system that allows you to boot games (i.e. BF3) without having origin open, the BF servers I use are still up, so why should I loose out because the program that launches the damn game is having issues?