Oh EA....

i hate origin...

in that case, Facebook sucks.

That sounds about right.

Steam=MySpace
but
Origin=Whatever Microsoft's attempt at a MySpace beater was.

Facebook=.. unfortunately it wouldn't surprise me if that ended up being Apple or Google.

I love to hate EA.

At least yesterday they give me DA:O for free.

pfff

Silly EA, nobody likes you - thats why no one is switching to Origin.

A more apt analogy would be Facebook (Steam) and Google+/LinkedIn (Origin). Or iPod & Zune.

when battlefield 3 was released i really wanted to buy it, but then some friends of mine warned me because of origin and that it might be spyware. since then i never thought about buying BF3 again. it might be a good game, but i completely lost my trust to EA, and i will buy as few EA games as possible. EA sucks and it's hilarious, that they think origin is a competitor to steam

The best strategy EA has right now, is to not say anything.

I started using origin recently & i'm happy with the service(their live support especially). I then realized just how big steam is & started to wonder why we should all confine our money to one service. I don't see anything wrong with the 2 competing with one another as WE will reap all the benefit.

I'd welcome more services also to step up and give us great games,promotions & sales. more the merrier.

BTW you really think steam cant see whats in our machines also?(spyware) not only is there an option to scan your machine here willingly but I've also come across a steam survey once in the client that demanded to scan everything.

oh EA you so crazy

The thing is that social networks and game clients are NOT being compared. Its merely an example of a statement that goes along the likes of, "people make better things by building on the innovation of others, and we are trying to be better than Steam by attempting so."

Don't read and interpret things in broad sense people.

LOL Origin sucks, I've spent like 2-3 days and I've already contacted customer service three times. And one time they gave me a wrong answer to one of my problems. They made me reinstall like 10 gigs which didn't solve anything!

To be honest, the only good things about Steam (Personally) are:
1.) Cheap Games - regular sales
2.) If you ever lose your CD/DVD copy of the game, or if the disk is damaged, you always have a place you can download it easily.
3.) Steamgifts...

I disliked DRM in general - now-a-days I will not touch a game published by EA as they focus too much on the anti-piracy aspect, rather then focusing on giving their players full content.

But that's my view
No DRM > All
Steam > All DRM's

...of course we can avoid all this BS by just not paying for games... Which is sad really because I know many that pirate WANT to support dev's, but they don't want to put up with the publisher crap. -_-

David DeMartini is a funny man...