Poll: Will EA Origin ever be as successful as Steam?

Because I really despise Origin, and I hope it burns in the fiery pits of hell where it came from

Because I really despise Origin, and I hope it burns in the fiery pits of hell where it came from

hedgy1

TC has never actually used Origin and is just on the I hate EA bandwagon.

as much as I dislike EA, more competition means better service from everyone

EA will continue to apply pressure using Origin which will encourage Steam to apply its own pressure, making all digital distribution retailers work a little harder to give us the best service.

Yeah their sales actually enticed me to buy BF3 for $20 a few weeks back. Now I've got nothing agains EA specifically, but I really can't stand the aesthetic of Origin, and offering games exclusively on origin annoys the pants off of me. That said, I can totally understand EA's reasoning in doing so. It's just a little bothersome to have to install yet another program which runs in the background. Also, LOL @ that video

EA said they are not a digital competitor....Origin was not made to take on Steam.

I've had nothing but bad experiences with Origin and EA. I hope they crash and burn to be honest.

As for whether or not it will ever be as successful, that depends on EA's willingness to adjust its abhorrent business practices.

I have bad news for you, EADM/Origin was and is already successful, however, I am personally disappointed by Origin, not because it doesn't work, it's quite excellent in fact and EA's infrastructure, mother of God, the download speed doesn't go under 14mb/s which is pretty much the maximum download speed I have on most websites, but I considered EADM perfect, it was just a download manager, you registered games on your account, downloaded whenever you wanted and that was that, now they are following Valve with their bloatware infested client, with lost of features nobody needs or asked for while leaving out features its community asked for years (features that even Origin has).

If you're talking about raw numbers, it won't, even if they added some 3rd party devs, Origin will always be mostly EA + they won't make sales every day all year.

I dont think so. Of course, a lot can happen in the coming years. I'll stick with Steam, because EA rubs me the wrong way, but the competition is good, and we gamers benefit from it.

TC has never actually used Origin and is just on the I hate EA bandwagon.

heytheredarlin

I can't really see it being all too great, since they like to put an arbitrary tax on digital goods, which i feel deters me from using it over Steam.

With as much as people hate EA, they would have to bend over backwords to gain the loyalty of a audience they only care half about anyways, so no.

The only reason origin has got as many users as it have now is because of battlefield 3. No one is there for their sales or prices in their ingame stores.

The only reason origin has got as many users as it have now is because of battlefield 3. No one is there for their sales or prices in their ingame stores.

DoomZaW

i would love Origin to be a success since the game i play the most FIFA 13 they support, when i go to EA store and i cant buy anything because it is in spanish and there is no way to change it because of some idiot, and since they were born they are unable to fix it

No it wont ever be as popular as steam but competition is always a good thing. Monopolies are always a bad thing, even if the Monopoly is owned by Valve.bonafidetk

Origin, eh.

I use it when I need to use it (like when I buy EA's first party games). It works, for the most part.

But no, it's not going to overtake Steam anytime soon - Steam just has too great mindshare out there.

- origin isn't bad, it just isn't good

- it came around way too late in the party to ever hope to keep up wit steam and its already established userbase that's been around for a decade

Steam has not been the only serious player on the digital dristribution market for some time and as long as money can be made, companies will be sure they get a bite of the cake..

I don't know how much of the digital distribution sales goes through steam, but im pretty sure they don't even sit on half of the online game sales and im confident their market share will only diminish in the future, as more players enter the market..

Speaking about success, I guess it depends on how you define success, but some people prefer origin over steam allready, so I guess they would say Origin is not AS successfull as steam, but has surpassed steam allready.

If we are talking number of users, I think Origin will have about as many users as steam in the future, if they don't allready have.

What do I prefer? - Neither, I prefer retail :)

edit. messed up space -.-

- it came around way too late in the party to ever hope to keep up wit steam and its already established userbase that's been around for a decadewis3boi

I don't like EA but I do like how it looks nicer then steam, you can earn achivements offline, and EA did add a bunch of their games I already had on steam to my origin account plus the live costumer support is nice and quicker then Valves ticket system.

Hating on Origin is stupid. It provides some decent competition to Steam.

It's not terrible software and it has some good deals from time to time.

I certainly hope it doesn't get as successful as Steam, it's just a much weaker service hosted by a company I have no love for. Steam is just a better service in almost every regard, I will just continue to vote with my wallet in that direction until further notice.

[QUOTE="wis3boi"]- it came around way too late in the party to ever hope to keep up wit steam and its already established userbase that's been around for a decadeDanielDust

[QUOTE="DanielDust"][QUOTE="wis3boi"]- it came around way too late in the party to ever hope to keep up wit steam and its already established userbase that's been around for a decadebonafidetk

[QUOTE="DanielDust"][QUOTE="wis3boi"]- it came around way too late in the party to ever hope to keep up wit steam and its already established userbase that's been around for a decadebonafidetk

TC has never actually used Origin and is just on the I hate EA bandwagon.

heytheredarlin

[QUOTE="heytheredarlin"]

TC has never actually used Origin and is just on the I hate EA bandwagon.

JohnF111

I would like to point out that I do use Origin. I just don't like it. Not jumping on the hate EA bandwagon, either. Just the Origin software they've been shoehorning into their games.

I want them to compete and the more of them the better. Now a 60 dollar game will usual go on sale a year later for 10 or less so i'm all for it.

I don tmind Origin, it was not as bad as I was expecting... but... it is not as good as steam and will never be as successful.

The one single reason i will never use origin is that the games are more expensive than anywhere online or in shops and that is a complete joke considering they are the ACTUAL publisher of the games. £39.99 and £44.99 ($65-$73) for standard pc games? no thanks.

The cheapest i can buy sim city for is £44.99($73)....£64.99($104) for the DIGITAL deluxe edition????? F that

i just hate having different services for everything... i want my games in one spot. don't make me use your crappy service for games you make. make a good service and people will use it, making your games exclusive to your service just pisses me off and makes me not want to buy the games at all. also, uplay can **** off and die.

[QUOTE="bonafidetk"]No it wont ever be as popular as steam but competition is always a good thing. Monopolies are always a bad thing, even if the Monopoly is owned by Valve.Elann2008

I have to agree. I only didn't buy as much this Autumn sale compared to other sales because I had the self-restriant to realize I still haven't had the time to play the games I bought at last years sales. :(

Never used it, but no, it won't. Steam's already a behemoth - I've never gone to Origin's store, even though I do want a few recent EA games, simply because it's not integrated to Steam. Not that I have anything in particular against it, it's just that there are plenty of games on Steam that I've yet to get before bothering with Origin :P.

I dunno, but I wouldn't mind. I like origin just as much as steam.

i certainly hope not, i do not want anything endorsed by ea to succeed since that will mean more annoying nickel and dime and bs practices from them.

never really had an opinion on origin until I bought Mass Effect 3 with its 2 data filled dvd discs, and origin decided not to install using this but to download 10gb worth of files that I already had...thank you very much Origin!!!