Goodbye steam... hello... Origin?

[Tbone]

Good thing I plan on playing SWTOR in the next two years.

[Aracher]

You guys should read the TOS for Origin. If you don't use your games OR your account for two years they will expire. http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/ Section 5

Wait what that is bullshit man! guess i'll just have to keep logging in every week to make sure that doesn't happen.

[Saint]

Glad I haven't bought anything or plan to on origin.

[Lithium]

You guys should read the TOS for Origin. If you don't use your games OR your account for two years they will expire. http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/ Section 5

EA figured that since DVDs and CDs 'expire' (wear out) after like a hundred years they too could implement a similar 'feature'!

[likwidtek]

Total fucking bullshit.

[AstralFire]

You guys should read the TOS for Origin. If you don't use your games OR your account for two years they will expire. http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/ Section 5

Wait what that is bullshit man! guess I'll just have to keep logging in every week to make sure that doesn't happen.

Steam has a similar clause, actually... It's standard "cover our ass" legalese that will never get invoked.

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

You guys should read the TOS for Origin. If you don't use your games OR your account for two years they will expire. http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/ Section 5

Wait what that is bullshit man! guess I'll just have to keep logging in every week to make sure that doesn't happen.

Steam has a similar clause, actually... It's standard "cover our ass" legalese that will never get invoked.

The difference is on Steam they say they have the right to at anytime, which allows them to ban accounts. EA says that games WILL expire after 2 years and your account MAY be deleted..

[Lithium]

Like I said earlier, it sounds stupid but, I rather keep all my digital downloads in one place... one emperor to manage rather than many. And because I generally trust Steam more... they've earned respect with me.

[likwidtek]

Amen Lithium

[AstralFire]

You guys should read the TOS for Origin. If you don't use your games OR your account for two years they will expire. http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/ Section 5

Wait what that is bullshit man! guess I'll just have to keep logging in every week to make sure that doesn't happen.

Steam has a similar clause, actually... It's standard "cover our ass" legalese that will never get invoked.

The difference is on Steam they say they have the right to at anytime, which allows them to ban accounts. EA says that games WILL expire after 2 years and your account MAY be deleted..

Incorrect, with regards to EA.

Entitlements are not content. Entitlements are:
""Entitlements" are licensed rights granted, awarded, provided and/or purchased by you to access and/or use online or off-line elements or features of EA Services and/or products.  Entitlements include but are not limited to paid and free downloadable content, unlockable content, digital and/or virtual assets, rights of use tied to unlock keys or codes, serial codes and/or online authentication of any kind, in-game achievements and virtual or fictional currency not otherwise governed by a Digital Services Agreement."

And I'd be very surprised if the clause ever gets invoked beyond "yeah, that game wasn't very popular so we're not wasting the bandwidth on its DLC or servers two years later."

[Tbone]

It's like the debt ceiling. It's been raised every year for the past 17 years, but now you guys are pointing it out and complaining to make some sort of point =P

Origin still has several phases to go, so I'm interested to see what the final product will look like.

[Lithium]

It's like the debt ceiling. It's been raised every year for the past 17 years, but now you guys are pointing it out and complaining to make some sort of point.

But what about all the Hope and Change.

[Da6onet]

It's like the debt ceiling. It's been raised every year for the past 17 years, but now you guys are pointing it out and complaining to make some sort of point.

But what about all the Hope and Change.

Off-topic: You can't blame Obama for the lack of brains and balls that is our Congress (woohoo reflection of voters!). The current "crisis" really happened when we departed Keynesian economics, and that really became obvious under Dick'n'Bush and their brainless ball-less congress. What I find more baffling is that the Japanese have already gone through all this, yet we're allowed to ignore lessons learned from that and pretend economic principles don't apply to us because our GD-Penis is the biggest.

On-topic: I don't like to crowd my toolbar with two different content managers, but I don't see a problem with Origin from a competitive standpoint. I think it's interesting because this is the opposite of what happened when iTunes and Apple came out first and made content delivery proprietary/vertical and then other services coming along to allow for less restrictive DRM/more flexible development.

[likwidtek]

Thank god!

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=8488436#edit8488436

Regardless of what other games may choose to do in their integration with Origin's desktop client, here's what our situation is:

You are not required to use the Origin desktop client to download, patch or play the game client for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

This applies whether you purchase The Old Republic via Origin.com or from a retailer in boxed form. You will not be forced to install the Origin desktop client.

There are still various consumer benefits to the client itself, but it's not required for The Old Republic.

[JP]

Origin scans your computer specially your installed/uninstalled software... and shares it with third parties..

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Origin-EULA-PC-Gaming-Glorified-Spyware-DRM,13285.html#xtor=RSS-181


INSTA uninstall and never installing again... and unless they revert their previous decision canceled my BF3 order.