I knew there had to be something more to Origin...

Aug 24, 2011 16:38

And apparently it's glorified spyware EA is intending to use for advertising purposes and the like ( Read more... )

business as usual, spyware, ea, not surprised, drm

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maverynthia August 25 2011, 17:12:12 UTC
Well, I got Steam just to get one game on it that was $2.50. A good deal IMO, for me at least it hasn't rooted around my system and actually HAS let me play games when the internet was down. Though it complained about leaderboards and other trivial things.

Not to sell anyone on Steam, though it seems like the WAAAAY less evil of the two evils.

I find it interesting they call it Origin after the company that created Ultima, and in that game had basically EA AS the big evil (The magical pieces looked like the old EOA logo).

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