EA Origin's discounts won't be like Steam's "75% off going-out-of-business sales."

• Kollin wrote on 2012-06-09 01:11
  Eww, Origin.
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-06-09 09:37

  Quote from Lan;883259:

  I think it did things similar to what steam does but you couldn't opt out.

  
  Origin's checking your complete ProgramFiles data, not sure why. People say it's because they want to look for cracked EA-distributed games, but I don't know, haven't delved to much into it. You can apparently block it with some program called Sandboxie though, so it's harmless.
  
  Maybe you can handle it with some restrictive security settings too.
  
  There's also lots of slippery-slope DRM nervosity amongst some people, but I'm not really one of those "nothing or all"-type of guys so I do't care, and I suggest you don't either because it's fallacious. You can still take action where it actually does reach a critical point, instead of where the stuff that is happening is harmless. You wouldn't advocate dissolving the police and law system because some people can be incarcerated injustly either.
  
  Diablo 3 is a good specific case where it's taken too far.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-06-09 14:13

  Quote from Sumpfkraut;883536:

  Origin's checking your complete ProgramFiles data, not sure why. People say it's because they want to look for cracked EA-distributed games, but I don't know, haven't delved to much into it. You can apparently block it with some program called Sandboxie though, so it's harmless.
  
  Maybe you can handle it with some restrictive security settings too.
  
  There's also lots of slippery-slope DRM nervosity amongst some people, but I'm not really one of those "nothing or all"-type of guys so I do't care, and I suggest you don't either because it's fallacious. You can still take action where it actually does reach a critical point, instead of where the stuff that is happening is harmless. You wouldn't advocate dissolving the police and law system because some people can be incarcerated injustly either.
  
  Diablo 3 is a good specific case where it's taken too far.

  
  
  Blizzard is going with the "Ubisoft school of DRM technique". The put portions of game data online was retarded in the Prince of Persia game and it's retarded now. Eventually pirate people will just replace the file like they did with Prince of Persia, all Blizzard manage to do is ruin people's experience by making them lag... idiots...
• Cucurbita wrote on 2012-06-10 03:53
  Yeah they said the whole point of logging on was to prevent pirates but Starcraft 2 already has a lan pirated version out there.
• paladin wrote on 2012-06-14 04:05
  overall even with prices
  Steam just offers a neater plateform
  that isnt full of copyright traps
  Buying if you ask anyone who likes shopping is part experince
  Steam offers a wayyyyy better experince at a better price
  and this is captalism
  If ea cant offer a service customers will buy,its on them
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-06-14 04:12
  I hope Origin flops so they can make peace with Valve and put Mass Effect 3 on Steam. :(
  Steam summer sales are coming. Origin won't stand a chance. >:D
  ...and neither will my wallet. T_T I've barely played any of the game library I've bought in last year's summer sale. x_x