My random thoughts on the matter are:
1) "Huge Success" tells us nothing. If, for example, EA expected the service would gain 5% digital download market share and it ended up with 8%, then sure - for EA, relatively speaking it's a huge success.
2) The last time I tried to use Origin was for my "The Old Republic" installation it was terrible. Absolutely, utterly terrible.
3) I'm not against using a bad service if I need to if the game I am trying to play is good (I used Steam in the beginning when it was a nightmare to play HL2 after all), but there isn't a single game on Origin I would consider worth owning that can't be had through Steam, a far FAR better service.
4) Did I mention Steam is a vastly superior service in every conceivable way?
5) In the end, no matter how good Origin ends up being it is still run by EA, the most despicable publisher in gaming (with the possible exception of Microsoft).
I find it pretty telling that the best thing that can be said about Origin (judging from the few non-negative comments made) is that you have the option to not use it. I'm not a huge fan of the "games as a service" concept, but Steam is so feature rich and loaded with functionality I find useful it makes me want to use it. This is how it's done, not that EA will ever figure it out.
This comment was edited on Jun 18, 2012, 20:06.
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