Tell that to BF4. At least Ubi still puts their games on Steam.

I love me some Ubisoft lately, gimme Watch Dogs ubi! :-D.

well that's true! Ubi do good games but they don't give support at all.

No, you are so bad. You don't know how to enjoy games.

Nice opinion. Origin is hardly worse than Steam performance wise.

Did we go back in time? Nothing wrong with Origin now, actually EA got theres hit together faster then Valve did, anyone remember the shitfest Steam was at one point besides me? Made me stop playing Half-Life it was so bad, and I played daily.

it's like saying that Lamborghini it's a cheap copy of Ford...some people claims that new things are bad or worst...well find out that Steam when came out was worst that u can imagine and now have milions of people...give a credit to origin who's only 2 years.
"EA games are bad so i am missing nothing" - i guess u have a wood pc and can't run EA's games...

same here..can someone post a link..

+1
That refund policy is awesome!

"I seriously don't understand the problem with Origin aside from having to use another "service". It's the exact same thing as Steam."
It has been stated time and time again, repeated all over the internet. This isn't a lack of understanding, it's a lack of effort.

People disliked Origin because of it's policies. The EULA, when agreed to, gives EA the right to collect data from your computer. Not specific data, just 'data'. Even though this is likely only used for game-related stuff, signing the dotted line to give legal permission for essential data-mining is a very bad idea, and the start of a very slippery slope. Yeah, you can click options within the Origin client to select certain kinds of info to share, but once they have your signature, they can happily bypass that on a whim and never have to disclose anything. Also, while it is in an awful lot of EULAs, the bit about forfeiting the right to certain legal action made a lot of people cringe, given EA's history. While used mostly to fend off frivolous class-action lawsuits from career gold-miners, litigious companies with this in the EULA can naturally make people shy away.

This EULA was combined with a beta launch of Origin that was mandatory to access your games or purchase new digital copies. Even now there are rather glaring problems with it that have been present for years, such as incomplete downloads ditching large amounts of data and re-downloading them repeatedly, and the fix/work-around they tell you is the same as back then (yet not patched). Origin was attached quite aggressively to EA products, along with it's associated EULA. Disagreeing to the EULA meant no access and no alternate. Thankfully we can patch things like The Sims 3 manually now, though they really made it difficult at first. I haven't checked wither Spore still attempts to force you to install Origin (kicking you out if you refuse) despite it being pre-Origin, but I at least know you can get around it by disconnecting from the internet so the old EADM won't even know Origin exists.

Then there were a few events of people completely losing access to their games because of being banned on the forums, which set a terrible precedent. By all means give someone the boot if they break the rules, but effectively revoking someone's license to a game they bought because they got banned from the forum? Even if they were an outright troll and got banned several times, that's still a bad idea.

Steam isn't really like Origin at all. They at least offer some transparency about the data being transmitted, and have a great reputation that really isn't even comparable to EA. Don't get me wrong, EA's live support system is great, and their refund policy is a cool touch, but it really amounts to a layer of make-up on an otherwise dubious digital platform. If they tweaked their EULA a bit, then it would be far more competitive (and draw back a lot of customers who 'evacuated'). There was really nothing with EA's old EADM approach, it didn't need an extra layer of data-mining even if they wanted a unified launcher/DRM step.

You can safely skip Dead Space 3.

Damn, you are right o_O How could I miss this.. dont forget about Mass Effect 3..
I always thought EA is being huge dicks, but they actually just respect the commandments of Lord Gaben.

So, you are saying, if there ever is gonna be a HL3, it will be on Origin? ^^

I'm gonna give you the same answer that somebody gave to the exact kinda thing you said,
The Sims 3! xD

Steam kicked EA out, they didn't just leave!

Your comment is bad, you should feel bad.

HL3 confirmed.

there is no Halo on my Gameboy?, why?