What the reason you HATE Origin?

Buying any kind of account-bound or online-activated games is always a bad idea unless:

a) you really trust the company and the service (and even then it can still turn out to be a bad idea someday)
or
b) its REALLY REALLY REALLY CHEAP

Valve/Steam fullfills both requirements for me.. EA will never be able to conquer a), so they have to make up for it with b) if they want me as a customer. I bought the Humble Origin Bundle mostly for the Origin-Games for example.

Origin burned our crops, poisoned our water, kidnapped our children, stole our women, and took our porn!

Because it has no Gaben

I don't like that it still doesn't have screenshot capability (I keep asking for it when they solicit feedback). Also, as others have said, I don't like that I can't gift games & DLC to friends/family.

That said, I do like that I can look at my Mass Effect games and within a few clicks see all the DLC available and what I have purchased (much clearer to me than on Steam where you have to click on the page for each DLC to see if you own it).

NO GABEN !

idk, sometimes they had good promos - I bought Sleeping dogs after 2 months from beeing released for ~4$

I don't hate Origin but I think its very unnecessary. There game selection is weak, there sales arnt as good and its a personal preference but I think it has an exteamly ugly and clunky interface. Plus the fact that it uses 4x the resources as steam is just annoying.
I can't comment on there support side of things. In the last 10 years of using steam I have never had an issue. Also steam creates more of a community for gamers to connect and share witch is awesome :)

Small library, small discounts and everybody hates using a second service for a single/couple of game(s).

I couldn't care less.

The last nail in the coffin for origin is when I had to find workarounds just to get games to install. With a download cap it is super annoying to download 15gb of data just to get an error saying the game cant be installed. I can honestly say that has never happened once to me on steam.

Origin is just a piece of trash. EA doesn't even try to make it any good and it purely exists for the sake of DRM. There are so many small things that are just annoying (Origin icon constantly flashing when launching BF4 through Battlelog, client and game updates require you to accept that Windows security thingy a million times, bad interface in general).

I don't hate it, but I really prefer to try and keep everything in one utility (Steam). Trying to remember where I bought which games is annoying. It took me a while to remember on which random digital game site I had bought World of Conflict. Turns out, it was Gamersgate, which I kind of forgot even existed once I started focusing on Steam.

1. No Linux support.
2. I don't like EA (they disrespect their customers.)
3. Aggressive DRM.
4. Origin was searching people's disks for "warez" games. These are spyware tactics.

The same reason I hate UPlay:

• BUGGY!!! (why the fuck you can't stay on Steam???)

EA, it's prices, it's lagging a lot and button "Remember the password" didn't actually remebder it.

I have 17 games on Origin and never had a problem. EA even gave me the Complete Collection of the original Battlefield 2 (Even though I only had the standard retail edition). The support is awesome and I like the design of the library far more than Steams.

So, nothing to complain from me :)

EA, and the time or two that I've use it, it was clunky as hell.

there is a difference between 'hating' and 'not using'

i don't :)

It's bad and it takes away games from steam.

As someone has already written origin is really not bad, steam is just bettter.

This subject is as overdone as the "Why do people hate CoD?" threads. Google is the fastest way to find out.

origin - selfish bast**s wont let their games on steam thats why fak them