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EA publish some of the best games
Crysis
Battlefield
Fifa
NHL
Sim City
Mass Effect.
They are fine
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Crysis
Battlefield
Fifa
NHL
Sim City
Mass Effect.
They are fine
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EA Launches Origin Online Game Distribution for Mac
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You're wrong
Why? Because they're a big, soulless, profit-making corporation? And you post on an Apple fan site...
Anyway, EA is not the all-crushing money-juggernaut it once was. They've done some good stuff for "the community", such as demolishing a notorious trademark-squatter:
http://kotaku.com/5370359/electronic-arts-sues-to-cancel-langdells-trademarks
and suing the company that produces shameless clones of original games on an industrial scale:
http://kotaku.com/5931661/ea-sues-zynga-says-the-ville-rips-off-the-sims
So there you go. Maybe EA is not so bad. As for Origin, I installed it on the PC side a couple of weeks ago and bought Batman Arkham City and Crysis 2 for £5 each, which is ridiculously good value. They also had stuff like Dragon Age 2, Sim City 4, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and loads more for the same price.
Evil, evil EA.
Why? Because they're a big, soulless, profit-making corporation? And you post on an Apple fan site...
Anyway, EA is not the all-crushing money-juggernaut it once was. They've done some good stuff for "the community", such as demolishing a notorious trademark-squatter:
http://kotaku.com/5370359/electronic-arts-sues-to-cancel-langdells-trademarks
and suing the company that produces shameless clones of original games on an industrial scale:
http://kotaku.com/5931661/ea-sues-zynga-says-the-ville-rips-off-the-sims
So there you go. Maybe EA is not so bad. As for Origin, I installed it on the PC side a couple of weeks ago and bought Batman Arkham City and Crysis 2 for £5 each, which is ridiculously good value. They also had stuff like Dragon Age 2, Sim City 4, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and loads more for the same price.
Evil, evil EA.
Prove it.
No it doesn't. Origin takes up 0% CPU and 38 megabytes of ram on my system, nothing worth getting excited about... unless your system can't handle such a massive load.
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Don't forget taking down online servers less than six months after release of your $60 game.
I can't see how EA hasn't run afoul of antitrust laws the way they bought up competition. Their MO of buying up popular IP and running it into the ground while milking it for cash has ruined the gaming industry.
Wow, you can't even read a Mac blog without hearing people whine about the ending of ME 3.
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
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I played the closed beta on my 2011 MacBook Air 1.7 Ghz using parallels. It crashed at start up the first 15-20 times. After that it ran ok. It was slow, but not terribly slow. Nevertheless, i enjoyed the **** out of playing SimCity.
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.
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
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.
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Sure, if you have dozens upon dozens of instances of Origin running on a single machine, it may slow down. But adding Origin to a reasonable amount of running processes (say, a few dozen) that don't belong to the OS on a modern computer is not going to cause the system to come to a screeching halt.
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I downloaded this to get rid of unanswered friend requests in Simpsons Tapped Out. You can't delete them in game and some have been sitting there for months. I figured going through the Desktop application might work. Nope. You can't even see the Pending requests, let alone delete them. Great job, EA.
Now how do I do a clean uninstall so it deletes any files it put in the System Library along with the Application itself?
Now how do I do a clean uninstall so it deletes any files it put in the System Library along with the Application itself?
I'm not super crazy about EA, but its nice to see more games for the Mac platform. Oh, wait they have 49 titles for Mac and 24 of those are The Sims and 6 is Lego? Err...you need to work on that there EA. I mean I'm sure that Sims fans are probably excited, but you hardly left me wanting anything you got there. I'm a little underwhelmed, call me when you expand your roster of games for the Mac.
Of course there is, but the sheer fact the EULA was changed to include machine scanning and liability waiver (but remain just as vague...) after the *****torm of bad press (that already happened) is pretty suspect.
I certainly don't think it's absurd... It's a proprietary application with a EULA that's either very badly worded or worded exactly as desired. Due to the nature of the software there's little we can do bar what has already been done... Exactly what caused the initial *****torm and EULA rewrite?
It's a bit reminiscent of Sony executives announcing that "most people don't know what a rootkit is, so why would they mind us auto-installing one?" - That was swept under the carpet pretty well... People should get vocal!
ps. I'm a bit of an OSS fanatic, and have more machines running software that I can guarantee isn't 'snooping with/without my consent' than I can't.
I really want to play the new SimCity game when it's released, but I equally really do not want to install Origin.
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.
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.
One of the most famous brands in the world silently installing a back door (with vulnerabilities) on PCs used to play audio CDs didn't get that much bad press. They didn't get that much bad press when they said "people don't know what it is, why should they care?" either. The vast majority of computer users are oblivious to these sort of things. It should be up to the sort of people that visit tech sites like these to get angry, remain cynical and keep these companies in check. Origin does scan your entire machine, and more than likely is completely innocent and does nothing with it, that's not the point
Yeah, I think the EULA should be cleaned up. Although ideally, we should still be allowed to run applications without an extra piece of valueless (to the paying customer), intrusive software chugging along.
There's a fair few proprietary applications with dubious license agreements and background processes, but this is a thread about EA and I feel they've acquired and ruined enough companies to get a biased rant from me, an anonymous forum poster
I regrettably had to install it to play Mass Effect 3. EA is possibly the only Company I literally hate. I hate how they sink their claws into popular and loved games, force them to squeeze out game after game after game. If the game is multi-player forget about it being balanced because EA will simply off you a "Instant Mega-Death Ultimate Insta-Win Gun" DLC for $10 a month after the game is out.
Eventually people realize this game series is now horrible and half-baked because EA force them on a tight release schedule and stop buying the game, at this point EA will move onto another game series.
Can thank all the pirates for that. Not being naive and saying that all this DRM solves the problem, but it probably helps some analysts sleep better at night. Idk, I don't really have a problem with paying for the 2-3 games a year I actually care about, and really don't get bothered by booting up Origin when I do. I don't have much on my gaming rig I would be worried about someone tracking or looking at anyway.
