Bhruic wrote on Jun 17, 2011, 03:29:
I really don't get the bitching over this. I mean, yeah, early on without having any info, it was easy to conjure up doomsday scenarios. But look at the facts:

1) You don't have to have another client running constantly, so you don't have to worry about having "dozens" of clients going. Once you've downloaded the game, you never (if you don't want to) have to run Origins again.
2) You can still get the game from a non-Origins source if you prefer a physical media.

Now you can still say stuff like "it won't go on sale", but where's the rationale for that? Yes, EA doesn't have to compete with other digital distributors, but they still have to compete with all the other MMOs out there. While it's possible they'll never have the game go on sale, that'd be foolish from a competition standpoint, and I suspect EA has enough business knowledge to realize that.

Now I haven't really looked into Origins that extensively, so if it turns out that you've got a download limit, or install limit or something like that with SWTOR through them, then I can see a valid complaint. Barring that, it just seems like a lot of people who aren't going to like anything that EA does just because it's EA doing it.