http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-ekl_cEWk
EA publish some of the best games
Crysis
Battlefield
Fifa
NHL
Sim City
Mass Effect.
They are fine
EA publish some of the best games
Crysis
Battlefield
Fifa
NHL
Sim City
Mass Effect.
They are fine
Zero EA policy over here, I play games but won't go near EA stuff, nice to see most are in same boat, they deserve all they get.
Prove it.It scans your whole computer and send information to EA and unknown third parties. Data such as which app are installed and when they are used, your bookmarks and browser history, collect data with who you are contacting for example e-mail addresses.
It also slows your computer down significantly because it always scans what you are doing.
"Origin is quite similar to Valve's Steam." What's the point then?
Hardcore gamers like me don't like the way they cram the Origin software down everyone's throats.
It started with Battlefield 3 back in 2011. BIG hype and anticipation for this game, but on PC, you suddenly HAD to plug in to this Origin system in order to play the game, and on consoles the game had an "online pass" that everyone had to pay $10 for if they got the game used instead of buying at full retail... that just doesn't happen with other console games.
Since then, they've been dangling the franchises they have control over (Battlefield, Crysis, Mass Effect) in front of gamers with strings attached to things like first-day DLC and other little "rewards" for people who buy for full price on the first day of availability. They've also taken a strong stance against selling games at reduced prices like we get with Steam Sales.
In a nutshell, EA is kind of at the forefront of this creepy movement in the gaming industry to get gamers to pay more money for their games. They're trying to get everyone used to a world where nobody gets a game at a reduced price because it's used or it's been out for a few years so the price is dropped... instead, they want a world where all gamers pay full price for every game they play, which is a big deal because most full games these days sell for around $60 when they first come out.
That's why people don't like EA.
EA is the soulless corporate juggernaut of the gaming industry. I can only imagine how great the ENTIRETY of Mass Effect 3 would have been had EA not gotten its hooks into Bioware.
Instead, thanks to EA, we got a game that was 95% awesomeness followed by 15 minutes of ending that ruined the whole fusking series.
EA is the soulless corporate juggernaut of the gaming industry. I can only imagine how great the ENTIRETY of Mass Effect 3 would have been had EA not gotten its hooks into Bioware.
Instead, thanks to EA, we got a game that was 95% awesomeness followed by 15 minutes of ending that ruined the whole fusking series.
Prove it.
Really want to play the new sim city when it comes out. How do you think it will run on a virtual machine using parallels?
Believe me, your computer has so much more running in the background on a constant basis that you have no control over. You seriously need to upgrade your machine if it can't handle something so inconsequential as Origin.
Origin is currently idle on my machine, uses 0% CPU and 37 MB of memory. That might have been problematic if we were in the mid-90's.
It's a pretty vague EULA, that's everyones issue with it!
After all the bad press and the EA PR statement telling us that it's not spyware, they did update the EULA to say that it is actually scanning your machine (and monitoring software usage) and that they're not liable for any of the data they gather - It's pretty bad
It doesn't matter how much powerful your computer is, if you continue with that habit of populating the system with all those software, your computer will be always slow.
There's a huge difference between a badly worded EULA and what the program actually does. There would have been a *****storm of bad press had the program actually been found to be snooping through bookmarks, emails, contacts and the like (which, by the way, any program on a PC can do, with or without your consent). Yes, EA knows which apps you have purchased through Origin and knows when you're running them. In reality, that's probably pretty much the extent of the information they're interested in, but their team of lawyers (who probably haven't spoken to a real person in years) can't seem to put words on paper that don't ring major alarm bells.
But to suggest that the program is uploading sensitive personal documents, histories and contacts without any proof is absurd.
I meant a bigger *****torm... if someone had run a scanner and found that Origin actually accessed files it shouldn't, that would have been splattered across the web like the AACS decryption key was. In the grand scheme of things, negative articles about the EULA followed up by a revision to said EULA and then nothing more isn't really a whole bunch of bad press.
But the entire problem is with the EULA, since nobody's found any evidence that Origin is plotting to steal our contacts and bookmarks. So yeah, suggesting that the program does that is ludicrous.
However, the vaguely worded EULA definitely needs to be tightened up in order to give a clearer picture of what exactly the software does.
This will never be installed on my machine.
You had me at "EA".
Oh great... another "Steam-like" environment? No thanks. Steam is already a bucket of pain that I finally booted from my system after constant crashing problems. What happened to just releasing the games?