Origin is horrible...

[Mem]

Not unless people start backing these claims with evidence.

I have 400 games on steam and never had an issue with any of them.

I use all three ie Steam,Origin,UPlay,no real issues today with any of them but I do remember the very early days of Steam when it first appeared and it was hell until they fixed all the major issues it had.

 

[frowertr]

Informative posts guys. I appreciate the knowledge.

I guess I'm still not totally clear on the Steam DRM embedded into each non-Valve title. If the non-valve titles are required to access some form of Steam DRM then that requires the Steam DRM servers to always be on-line. How does that work in offline mode then when you can play your games when not connected to the internet?

Secondly, if Steam were to "go away" you guys are saying it would require the developers to "patch out" the Steam DRM? I guess this assumes there would no longer be any kind of Steam DRM server running somewhere (which would make sense if they were to go out of business totally. They would have no way to pay for it to keep running).

 

[TeknoBug]

I've used Steam since Valve launched it back in 2004 and never had issues with it aside it hogging bandwidth while idling but that was years ago. Origin I don't like and I close it as soon as I'm finished playing BF3/BF4, even EA's old Download tool sucked. I purchased a couple games from EA Download and if you don't install/play them in a year EA will remove it from your account, I lost NHL 09 that way.

 

[Tohtori]

I got Crysis 3 from AMD never settle something last autumn and had to install Origin to play it. Played it 18hours total or so and then forgot it for months.

A while ago when I tried to continue playing the damn thing I loaded up Origin only to find out the game had completely disappeared from my library and since the product key was already used couldn't be reinstalled. (the gamefiles are still in my HDD)

I spend hours navigating EAs miserable support pages to finally contact support and after days of hassle and email war I was told they cannot help me and I should call them by phone, which I won't do.

Now I have a few Gs of wasted HDD space to a game I own but cannot play, DRM platform that I cannot trust and VERY much contempt towards useless corporation.

Guess how much will I be spending on EA games in future?

 

[Patre]

I also got Crysis 3 last summer and installed Origin + added some of the freebies they've offered since.......never had any issues. I'd prefer to have everything on Steam as I have more games there, but besides that, both have worked out well for me. Uplay however, is a different story.........always had problems running it (possibly I need to uninstall and reinstall) when trying to play Far Cry.

 

[aigomorla]

It's not just Origin - Steam and Uplay are equally bad. DRM blows chunks but it's even worse when it's cloud based.

steam although asks before they can scan your PC.
And you have the option to decline.

Where as Origin says we are going to scan your PC, if u dont like it, dont install origin.

 

[Canbacon]

Where as Origin says we are going to scan your PC, if u dont like it, dont install origin.

That is a bit out of date. Go into the Advanced section in Origin Settings. Scroll down and opt out. There is a warning that entitlements for games still call back, but same with Steam.