According to Brown, the Origin client has been installed by 3.9 million users. A full-on replacement for the EA Store, Origin serves as a hub and infrastructure for downloading and playing PC games, as well as ordering boxed products for other platforms. Though it currently only offers games published by EA, Brown reaffirmed the company’s intent to begin selling other third-party software through the service.
I can only see this number getting bigger and bigger. I suppose I am in the minority when I say I don’t want EA to have their own digital distribution system….I’m perfectly fine with Steam. They just don’t have a good track record of you know, having software that works like it should and of course, doesn’t invade on your personal privacy (I’m not even going to bother to rant about that…)
Those are some sad, gullible individuals.
After reading the Origin EULA a while back, I decided it will be a cold day in hell before I install it on my PC.
EA have no business in knowing what software I have installed on my PC; snooping around my personal documents just in case there’s something there they don’t like, and certainly have no right to lock me out of my own games if 1) I badmouth EA on their forums and 2) fail to log into their shitty service once every two years.
Suck it, EA.
I agree, it will fail, people don’t trust EA, they never will. Steam on the other hand, while not the best, is infact, the best, Gabe does know how to take care of community.
I bet that number includes upgrades from EADM. Seeing as Origin is just a rebranded version of it. This the forth time its been rebranded.