Major Origin client update rolling out

Wtf this is complete copy of Steam hahaha

I have seriously not seen a bigger facepalm worthy advertisement...I?ve said it again and I'm going to say it again. If you're going to COPY DIRECTLY from another intellectual property (Steam), make it better, NOT some pathetic dumbed down version of something that?s already been made which is still million times more successful then this crap. This is why people despise EA, Absolutely Pathetic

I can't complain about Origin. Steam charges more than Origin. Take note, my Origin account charges Singaporean Dollars which is much cheaper.

Of course with the Steam Summer Sale until July 22, and EA not doing and Crusader or Wing Commander series... I forgot what I said.

I wish I could download/link old EA titles like Alice or Ultima Online just like I do with my Blizzard/Steam accounts..

If Orgin wants to impress me, let me easily move a game from one drive to another.  That would let me put my 'primary' game on my SSD drive and leave the rest on the slow-but-huge D drive.  Then they would do something Steam won't do and I would actually have a reason to want to buy from Origin (other than EA forcing it).

Or maybe let me pick what version of a game to use.  Sometimes those patches are NOT a positive thing.  Steam lets you ignore patches but, once the patch is installed or you uninstall the game, you MUST use the patch.  Dial-a-version would have made life a lot better for me in Skyrim.  But Orgin won't do that, either.

Instead, we get a clock and a window that now floats.  If that's a major thing to them, they're doomed.

You know... it's funny.  EA has had a lot of bad press lately.  Its their own fault: the ME3 day one DLC debacle, saying stupid stuff like sales are bad and wanting microtransactions in EVERY game.... I wonder what they might be thinking.

And they say that any publicity is good publicity...

This story was supposed to be the good kind, like you want.  Even though, this story basically said "Origin to be more like Steam."

However, after reading through the first page or responses I'm finding that EA is digging itself into a hole with core gamers.  I don't really see anyone defending EA. 

My first experience with Origin said it all.  The ME3 demo came out, I installed Origin, setup an account, and pushed the ME3 demo install button.... and nothing happened.  I tried to find info on it, and found a forum post by an EA employee that basically said "oh its your fault for not going through this 12 step solution involving registry edits..."

Granted, an update came out within a week and I was able to make a big 2 inch button work... And then the ME3 demo sucked.  However, i'm still amazed it didn't work to begin with.

I won't be using Origin after that experience.

Great! Now it looks...just like steam :S

I have had great experience with the secret war.

1. In-game problems such as stuck characters or mission bugs, usualy a GM within 10 minutes shows up in his Venecian Uniform to help out. One, was actually watching me slay a boss and congratulated me and then asked me kindly for informations on a bug I reported. I have NEVER seen such customer service.

2. What are you all bragging about, EA will charge for game updates? The Funcom gives free monthly updates in regards of not only game performance but new missions, new items and such. It is free of charge for paying customers... what are you all saying, they will charge again.,

3. People heavily complain about the in-game market where you buy clothes for money. But there is a in-game clothe store where you buy HUNDRES types of different clothes with just little gaming need, so I never seen anyone look dressed the same in this game, unless they are wearing faction reward clothes. Again, nobody having had to pay real life currency. And now, the in-game clothes stores (the ones you do not pay RL money to) do not have lesser good looking clothes, they got in fact better looking ones !!!

4. I have had other customer service issues that have been solved immediately as well.

Let me tell you about Customer service in WOW and Eve Online:

1. WOW. The customer reps actually nearly trash talk to you. They threaten you, even if as a new member I was given 1000 gold as a present, I immediately had my account frozen and an in-game investigation was started and a GM having said my account was suspended. Then I contacted them and they said I had to contact the European blizzard customer service but my account and CC and myself, use it in the US. Then once that was solved, I had constant password resets, due to security reasons and I just quit playing that dumb game.

2. Eve Online. You make a petition and if lucky 3 weeks later some guy that does not even speak English replies some idiotic nonsense that was not even the issue to begin with....

Keep it up Funcom, going to play this game for long !!

Gabe Newell eats EA for lunch... and I mean this literally.

and functions like sh!t! 

Still looks like sh!t. 

I just thought of something... The whole idea of capitalism is to have mutliple competitors creating the best product so that people will buy it, which creates quality. But Steam has no competitors (calling Origin competition to Steam wouldn't even be laughable, it would just be pathetic), and yet still Steam is amazing... which leads me to believe that Gabe Newell is a socialist! Its foolproof!

Sounds good EA. In the meantime please consider the following:

-Security

-Privacy of users

-Sales on games. So people can afford them

-Get a new PR team. Preferably made up of people that don't say one thing yet do another. That would be a good start.

-Don't disable online features to games because there is only a few thousand people left playing it. Maybe wait till 10 people are left playing at any given time. None of this "OH there is only a few thousand people that still play it. But they make up a small portion of the overall user base. So lets pull the plug.... nobody will be upset by it."

-Don't screw your customers over with shitty customer service constantly.

-Oh and game selection......

On second thought I think I am going to stick with steam for probably a good portion of my life. They haven't screwed me over yet and I have had nothing but good times with them. Maybe one of these days EA when you clean up your act completely I might consider joining.

I'd prefer if these games were also available on steam, and EA would still get paid...

Crap!

I wonder how much they're going to charge for it.

Well, considering Origin has had plenty of problems with personal privacy, and it's made by EA, I'd be careful.

Why can't I just buy Mass Effect 3 off of Steam?!! Why?!!!!!!!!!

If it's not steam, its already at a disadvantage in my eyes. Add on the fact that EA is splitting my games up between two services instead of all of them nicely on one.

Lessee, does their EULA and TOS still allow their programs to monitor everything you do on your computer and report it to EA? (Yes, everything, not just what you do with Origin.)  Survey says...GFYS.

And on this day no a single fuck was given.

All I want is Origin to work...  I have Origin since like 1 year and the program STILL doesn't work.  Every time I try to use it, it stops responding.  I click on something and it just freezes.  It's complete garbage!  I hope this patch fixes it.

I can't hear you over all these Steam sales.

Yes, now that Origin has finally been updated I can still not buy BF3 because it requires Origin.

I used to think that "Hey, Steam took a while to really take off. People hated that at first!"

But then I realise Origin coming in and claiming the same defense just means it's currently not as good as something else was nearly 9 years ago. And that it could take another 3-5 years before it is as good.

Origin rolls out a major update and the response from gamers is a resounding 'meh'.

Still nothing can beat Steam... Best gaming service out there. How can you buy from Origin when Steam has 60-80% down in prices every month? Even in 2012 games.

The only reason I have it is BF3

Still no reason to use this over Steam.

"This is amazing" - Said no one.

Oh so they arent gonna fix that orgin slows down your comps power up speed or even processing speed because it dosent tell you that the program is running and then when you try to do something complicated it cause your comp to freeze or slow down. Orgin you suck Steam i love you and your 5 doller games that i havent played for like 8 to 6 years

Origin is just annyoing. steam got there first and i DON'T want two game managers on my PC.

And the gaming PC community still does not care. If they want to improve, better take what the got now, throw away and do a whole new system from ground up, and maybe, just maybe people will care about Origin.