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Origin Auto-Adds Steam EA Games

[Feb 28, 2012, 10:47 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

EA's Origin service can automatically find EA games on your system and add them to your Origin profile, reports Day One Patch, as a user reports finding a copy of Dead Space 2 purchased through Steam in their Origin account. In reporting this news, Joystiq has declared the process benign: "Origin is known to check out the file names on users' computers -- without reading or transmitting any private information back to EA, of course -- and it now uses that power to streamline your EA games lists. In other words, EA is using its power for good. And to better market its own titles."

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64. Re: Origin Auto-Adds Steam EA Games Feb 28, 2012, 14:38 Beamer
 
Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Feb 28, 2012, 12:52:
Beamer wrote on Feb 28, 2012, 12:47:
But the giant amount of animosity is what I don't get. It's the exact same thing.

.... EA seems boring but totally ignorable.

I have a hard time hating something that means so little to me. ...
Just snipped some stuff out. It's not the westwood/origin/etc stuff that pisses people off. It's how they treat people that pisses people off. And not just their customers, but their employees. If you live up in Canadaland, you know this it gets passed through the industry very quickly. EA is a sweatshop up here.

Right.
Like I said, it wasn't that I didn't think people should hate EA, it was that I didn't remember why. Most of the examples I could come up with were from before EA was what it is now (ie before Riticiello), and no longer seemed to matter.

EA, as a whole, no longer seems to matter. They don't make games I want to play. I'm not going to spend time getting furious at them. I'm especially not going to go off the handle on them for things I'll allow from other companies. I may disprove of it, but I won't rage at about it. 		 
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