The EULA

The EULA

What do you mean by this?

• They pulled their "blockbuster" games from Steam while continuing to sell games they see no value in on Steam. They're doing this to maximum profits on their end. Games that they know will be blockbusters and sell ridiculously well they're selling only on Origin, while games that they're iffy about will be sold everywhere. This just shows that they're not concerned about the customers or users at all and only on profit. While they are a business and this is goal of all businesses, you also have to treat your customers right to maximize sales as well.


• The Origin client has a sluggish-feeling interface.


• The Origin client is currently consuming 172MB of memory sitting in the system tray; Steam is consuming 13MB sitting in the system tray.


• When I bring the Origin client forward it's still consuming 172MB of memory. This means that they are doing absolutely nothing in regard to memory management, releasing resources, etc. When Steam is brought forward, it will continually grow in size as more resources are cached, but upon minimizing it to the tray it will free all of the resources and drop back down to 13MB.


• The Origin client is ugly and the game list organization is terrible. You either get a giant icon view where the icons don't scale with the window size, or you get a list view that has a lot of redundant information. I don't need to see the purchase date of every game right on the game list. That information does not help me. It could be shown elsewhere upon request. A giant "READY TO DOWNLOAD" button is shown next to each game not installed, while at the same time showing "Ready to Download" under STATUS. This information does not need to be shown twice. The same goes with a game that's installed and it showing "Ready to Play." On top of that if I switch from "All Games" to show only games that are "Ready to Play" then I shouldn't have to see that their status is marked as ready to play.


• The Origin client just has so many design flaws and issues that the whole user-experience is just terrible. Some people might think that the Origin client is a new thing and has a lot of catching up to do to compete with Steam. However, the Origin client is just a reskinned/rebranded EA Download Manager, which is a reskinned/rebranded EA Link, which is a reskinned/rebranded EA Downloader. This goes all the way back to 2005, which is just two years after Steam debuted. They've had plenty of time to get their software together to make a great competitor to Steam.


• They're using the Origin name, desecrating one of the greatest game developers in history.