I have to admit Origin isn't bad.

[Omaeka]

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,

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.

 

[Omaeka]

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.

 

[Omaeka]

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Your full speed is like 800kb/s, what do you get on Origin?

 

[Omaeka]

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?

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.