I have to admit Origin isn't bad.

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Well I took the plunge upon finding Battlefield 3 for a fiver (found here) and it seems alright, it downloads much faster than Steam for me at a solid 8mb/s,

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and I can't really see anything that puts me off as such so far, although the actual program isn't as in depth or as good looking as Steam, it certainly isn't as bad as the things I've heard. I did used to hate on it blindly due to being Anti-EA (who isn't) but yeah, it really is alright. The font is much nicer on Origin too (I'm a massive fontwhore), all it really needs is some better sales and some actual features and it'll be really good.

That being said, it should still **** off and then EA should put all thier stuff on Steam but hey, Origin isn't the worst thing ever. Early days though, I'll probably be having a lot of issues down the line after this but eh. :cool:
 
Definitely, no way I'll be buying any multi-platform games on Origin, only the exclusives like Battlefield 3. Speed has gone up to 10mb/s now! Why can't Steam do this? Awful servers.

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Steam has millions of active users daily, i doubt Origin has even a million yet, so that is not entirely a valid reason.

Plus Origin's Memory hogging abilities have less than impressed me.
 
Yeah, been using origin since the Battlefield Alpha and have BF, and SWTOR on it. Not had a single problem with it.

The only thing lacking is a community which kinda bothers me for Medal of Honor, and especially NFS as both have a multiplayer component and my friend list is empty. mwuhaaa.
 
I get full speeds on Steam, Origin is slower.

So for me no, Origin is still an annoying crappy program tagged onto Fifa 13 and Battlefield 3. :p
 
I think the biggest reason for hate is because, rightly or wrongly, its not steam. People have their games on steam and from a convincence point of view, they'd rather use one service than many.

Secondary reasons
When picking between the two, its an issue of trust. EA has an history of screwing customers; valve have been pretty good support wise with game server browsers still running for their original games. They both make mistakes, but from an objective point of view, I'd say EA is openly hostile to customers.

Valve is the primary platform behind online sales. Many of the other bigger publishers have spoke out against sales, but they still offer them. Why do we think that is? I assume its because of Valve making it an industry standard. Digital games are too expensive in the first place (its generally cheaper to buy hard copies, which is nuts), without the sales I wouldn't be buying much.

I don't personally think origin is that great when it comes down to it. It seems awkward, and whilst I wouldn't write home about the Steam UI experience, I'd rather be using that (maybe because I'm used to it, but I suspect not). I haven't used origin in a while though, so maybe its better.

Exclusives. Steam has valve games and whilst its complely objective, most people would agree the likes of CS, HL, L4D, Portal, TF & DOTA2 are good exclusives to have. On the other hand, EA has Battlefield (OK, fair enough, it has a lot of fans), Dragon Age 2, Mass effect 3, etc. EA will probably have more exclusives in the long run, but most of them will be games they've ruined in some way.

TL;DR
End of the day, if valve wasn't the leader in digital sales, I'm fairly sure we'd have almost exclusively a set number of activations (and no, we're not gonna reset that number), no sales and more expensive games, always online DRM, etc. As a consumer I try not to give my money to companies that screw us, so I think I'll keep propping valve up until someone better comes along. :)
 
I don't have anything to add except for LOL at basing the quality of service of Origin on your download speed, when the fact it eats up RAM for breakfast and has other retarded habits.
 
Addicted said:
I don't have anything to add except for LOL at basing the quality of service of Origin on your download speed, when the fact it eats up RAM for breakfast and has other retarded habits.
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I'd rather a service eats up my ram (I have 16GB for cheap after all) than had poor downloads speeds. Course, if EA was as popular as Valve they'd probably struggle on the download, and the problem is solved easily by your ISP actually running a dedicated content server (if everyone on your ISP who used steam ******* about this, you'd probably be maxed 24/7 on the downloads).

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5...sted-STEAM-Content-server/td-p/171859/page/11

Thread shows the quality of VM support. Its stupid as well, as a Steam content server would probably save your ISP money (assuming it had a large enough base of steam users).
 
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aln said:
TL;DR
End of the day, if valve wasn't the leader in digital sales, I'm fairly sure we'd have almost exclusively a set number of activations (and no, we're not gonna reset that number), no sales and more expensive games, always online DRM, etc. As a consumer I try not to give my money to companies that screw us, so I think I'll keep propping valve up until someone better comes along. :)
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I agree, I wasn't saying Origin is better than Steam because it isn't, but if I'm forced to use Origin for a few games (Battlefield, Mirror's Edge 2, Dragon Age etc.) I'm not that bothered, really. It does it's job well.

Addicted said:
I don't have anything to add except for LOL at basing the quality of service of Origin on your download speed, when the fact it eats up RAM for breakfast and has other retarded habits.
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Well yes, when your forced to be downloading at like 500kb/s when your internet is capable of 10mb+ it is a nice refreshing experience. Especially when games like Shogun 2 are over 40GB with all expansions, just downloaded Battlefield 3 in less than 30 minutes, that is good, period. I've also heard very good things about Origins live support, whereas Steam support is horrific. Steam as a program is perfect except the horrible overlay browser and rubbish speeds. Also for RAM usage;

Jokes on you.
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Tibbz2 said:
I get full speeds on Steam, Origin is slower.

So for me no, Origin is still an annoying crappy program tagged onto Fifa 13 and Battlefield 3. :p
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Your full speed is like 800kb/s, what do you get on Origin? :eek: :(
 
I only have 8.5mb and Steam/Origin both max it for me. Origin has never ever given me any hassle either. I don't hate nor like it, doesn't get in my way put it that way.
 
dogmanstaruk said:
Yeah, been using origin since the Battlefield Alpha and have BF, and SWTOR on it. Not had a single problem with it.

The only thing lacking is a community which kinda bothers me for Medal of Honor, and especially NFS as both have a multiplayer component and my friend list is empty. mwuhaaa.
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mine to! whats your origin name then?
 
Origin seemed ok, but had to download that to get Battlefield 3. Not only is the Battlelog a disgrace the game was too. So Origin was uninstalled.
 
arekgreenman888 said:
If you reinstall you r system. How many times can you download this game? Also how long will this game stay in your account?
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As many times as you like, you may get a limited activation on certain games but so do some games on Steam, ie Riddick with Tages. Even though you can get them reset via a simple email to Tages.
 
aln said:
I'd rather a service eats up my ram (I have 16GB for cheap after all) than had poor downloads speeds.
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Ok, that I don't get. The download is performed once. The RAM issue is a constant once the program is running. So why would you prefer good performance once then poor performance constantly after that?
 
Zero Pope said:
Ok, that I don't get. The download is performed once. The RAM issue is a constant once the program is running. So why would you prefer good performance once then poor performance constantly after that?
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Mainly because it doesn't eat RAM or cause poor performance, and because only a handful of games will take anymore than 2GB RAM at any given time, and because pretty much every PC has at least 4GB now, if you don't then you're doing something wrong. :p
 
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