I have to admit Origin isn't bad.

as much as I try to keep everything on steam, I was fine with origin at first. I just set a shortcut to bf3 on the desktop and forgot that origin was ever there. But after one of the recent patches where it opens up and puts itself in front of other windows every time I start BF3, I'm not so keen on it anymore :/
 
Omaeka said:
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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It's not really something you can make an absolute statement on like that.

I don't really use Origin, but I do use Steam and on average I get 12.6MB/s downloads on steam, occasionally peaking to just over 13MB/s.
 
jellybeard999 said:
If it was just a stat logger, that'd be fine. I'd prefer a game shortcut which launches straight to menu, server browser etc than a web browser alternative. Not that it makes much difference, but it isn't as seamless IMO.

I couldn't for the life of me copy/paste my BF3 install after reformat, so am downloading the whole lot again :mad: How can something so simple be so difficult. Steam manages it fine :rolleyes:
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This. Serious pain in the hole when trying to copy things into Origin. It worked for me a few versions ago but not lately.
 
aln said:
You mean apart from buying out and subsequently killing $insert_favorite_franchise? Do you need more?
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But that's being openly hostile towards franchises, not customers. If they killed off a franchise deliberately to annoy customers then the above would be true. But they haven't done that.
 
muggs said:
its probably bs, whats your connection? mine was 30mb and i was getting 6mb download which was a complete lie, maybe ea have done this on purpose to get new customers and to wow existing ones
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I'd agree with this, mine always tells me I'm downloading at 5.5-6mbps which is total ******* because i've never downloaded at more than 4mbps on ANYTHING else.

Never had an issue with steam download steams except for the release of huge titles like half life 2 etc anyway, and i let them off for that. You compare the amount of users downloading a big title on release on steam to the amount of people downloading on origin, it'd be a small fraction of the users.
 
Steam really needs to improve the speed at which the screes work. It's pathetically slow for a product that I've invested hundreds of pounds in to.

It's been slow for years. Maybe they should offer a premium version (connecting to different servers) for people who have paid games
 
Origin is just soemthing I have to have installed to run certain EA games, if they didn't need it I wouldn't have it unliek Steam which is actually useful.
 
Defy Belief said:
What do you like about it?
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If I'm browsing the internet, I can just open a new tab with battlelog, click join on friend, and I'm in a squad with them when the game loads. Don't need to open a program to find out no one is online or the servers empty.
 
I like both Steam and Origin but I would like the choice of using either rather than having my games library split between two providers.

I notice CoH 2 is available on both so nice to have that choice.
 
ZombieFan said:
But that's being openly hostile towards franchises, not customers. If they killed off a franchise deliberately to annoy customers then the above would be true. But they haven't done that.
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Its being hostile towards the customers who love those franchises who then go to pick up the next in line only to be bitterly disappointed. Of course this trick relys on those customers being fairly stupid, but for some reason the consumer market is like that.

Many people ran out to buy Dragon Age 2 because of the game the first one was, not realying the effect EA has had on the development of this product, and once they've spend their 30 - 40 pounds, they have little to no recourse on the issue.

Nartually the smart consumer will wait for reviews but when PCGamer gives it a 94 (amid allegiations of paid-for-review scores; more anti-consumer behaviour!) you suddenly get the sense that they aren't interested in trading you quality games for your money.

Those who learned this the hard way will probably not buy Dragon Age 3 and if faced with low sales, the publisher will decide this franchise is no longer desirable. Likely they'll probably write off the entire genre or blame piracy and use it for another reason to force DRM (which only affects paying customers, nor pirates).

Listen, if you don't think the company that killed Bullfrog, Westwood and now Bioware are a pretty **** company to give your money too, thats fair enough, but I personally won't give them mine unless abolsultly necessary ( as in they have an exclusive that I still desire in spite of them).

Just remember though, every penny you give to EA is a penny they'll likely try to use to ruin your next favorite game.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/10/nyt-ea-tried-to-buy-valve/
 
Omaeka said:
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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Serious question, because I honestly don't get it.

If you buy a retail boxed game over the net, at best it gets to you next day. Say 24 hours. If you buy digital you get it in a couple hours.

I'm sat on a ~15Mb connection, so Steam maxes out my line at 1.4MB/s. It takes a few hours to download a game.

Are you guys actually hurting from needing a couple hours to download a game? Or is this just a case of "My line can go *this* fast - Steam should match it!"

Frankly I think a couple hours to download a game is very reasonable. Unless you're downloading games every couple days, the impact this has is going to be minimal, no?
 
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