Should I download the Origins?

If you wants Crysiseses get it, Butterfield kinda sucks if you don't have premium, and if you don't have premium don't expect to win.

No, it's totally crap. If you aren't EA games addict

Origin sucks. That's it. But please download it, take your time at the store & see for yourself.

Origin is fine. It's shortcomings have nothing to do with 'spyware' or anything like that and it gets decent sales on some titles every so often. If you want to play its exclusives, do so. If you don't, then don't. Don't base your decisions on how much people hate EA though. That would be unfortunate.

About the article, you give the same or more information to google, facebook and others, so I don't see why you should worry :p

I use Origin for a couple of games and I didn't have any issues so far, it does it's work ok.

There really isn't anything wrong with Origin to be honest. As a game manager it works many times better than Steam.

to be honest, origin is not that bad as many people say. I use origin to play crysis 3 SP and MP, both works great. But there are some hackers in crysis 3 MP indeed. BF 3 is a great MP game as well, but the origin server doesn't meet my expect. When I played BF3 online, the games was often disconnected from server and I have tried many ways but have not solved it. And I know it is a problem for some people but not for all.

Eh, try it. It's alright if the game doesn't flat out require Origin, like the first Crysis. I have BF3 and I dislike that BattleLog thing and requiring the client, played BF3 once, never did again.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Yep

I had more issues in a week with it than I had in a year with steam. Yet Battlefield 3 is a fun game and it's worth it. Just avoid the metro maps that have explosives enabled.

"August 24, 2011" So its old.

It's okay-ish. The store sucks because it gives me euro pricing just because I live near Europe. There's no game gifting in Origin, anything you buy goes to your account. And as someone above mentioned, the security is bad. I only use it for FIFA13.

Dont let the distribution platform put you off buying a game. Sure, Origin isn't as great as steam, but you dont need to use it much. I have it because I have sim city, but I only run origin when I run simcity, and then close it afterwards.

its no worse than steamworks, if you're cool with steam and want an origin game the only reason not to is to avoid the clutter of too many clients. if you don't mind that then go for it

I use both steam and origin to play, they never gave me any troubles

Origin is not even near as good as Steam, but it's far from being as bad as people claim it to be.

It's not bad, just misunderstood. :D