They seem proud that people are using their products. We are forced to use Origin the play the damn games! It's not out of choice
Aye they forced several hundred thousand players of existing games (Warhammer Online, UO) etc to sign up to Origin just to continue to play the games they'd been playing for years (and screwed up that change
).
I was talking to someone online last night who made a very good point.
He leaves Steam running all the time, but only loads up Origin when he has to in order to play a game.
Steam is nice, handy, works well, and has content from loads of publishers, including masses of fun indie gams and generally adds stuff to them Origin is just a glorified launcher and DRM front end for one publisher.
Origin could be a competitor to Steam, but first they need to stop kidding people it's about anything other than DRM and fix the damn thing.
Things like you install Origin to your games drive, you'd assume that any games installed via it would also install to that drive (like most steam games).
They don't, they install by default to your C drive, and then can't be easily moved to a new location (you have to uninstall, then reinstall them completely).
I won't mention that EA can't even get DRM right - I bought the upgrade to "digital deluxe" for Sim City (I wanted Big Ben and double deckers
), it didn't unlock part of the package for over a week - something that a google showed was not unusual (if you had bought the standard version, the DD was meant to unlock heros and villians DLC, it didn't for a week).
