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Baron_Calamity · Jan 29, 2014

They did some back end stuff such as making the in game overlay work better and Origin uses slightly less memory. However the big improvement is custom game art. Yeah Steam and everything else could do it forever, though I think Origin currently is easier to do. At long last I can make those stupid default black Origin boxes go away for non-Origin games.

antitrop · Jan 29, 2014

Holy shit you have a lot of Origin games. Mine is like... Battlefield 3, 4 and... *sigh* Medal of Honor: Warfighter.

I'll add Titanfall to that in March and probably won't buy another game on the service for a long time.

Chavelo · Jan 29, 2014

Right click game, custom grid icon, choose directory of image file, done.

Pretty hard to do on steam.

Mesoian · Jan 29, 2014

Make everything as easy and comfortable as they can before Titanfall hits and they get a whole buttload of new users.

jsnepo · Jan 29, 2014

Can we now backup games or is this just aesthetics?

Grief.exe · Jan 29, 2014

antitrop said:
Holy shit you have a lot of Origin games. Mine is like... Battlefield 3, 4 and... *sigh* Medal of Honor: Warfighter.

I'll add Titanfall to that in March and probably won't buy another game on the service for a long time.

I got a lot of games from the coupon fiasco a couple years ago.

OP probably did the same as I recognize many of those titles.

slapnuts · Jan 29, 2014

It almost seems like EA is a monopoly with all these buy-outs,etc and of course all the exclusive deals they have in the sports genre.

alr1ght · Jan 29, 2014

Mesoian said:
Make everything as easy and comfortable as they can before Titanfall hits and they get a whole buttload of new users.

You mean like when it was unusable for almost a day due to the humble bundle. We'll see how it holds up.

Nokterian · Jan 29, 2014

Grief.exe said:
I got a lot of games from the coupon fiasco a couple years ago.

OP probably did the same as I recognize many of those titles.

That fiasco was amazing..got 3 games out of it.

alr1ght · Jan 29, 2014

Grief.exe said:
I got a lot of games from the coupon fiasco a couple years ago.

OP probably did the same as I recognize many of those titles.

god bless OS3874XVC

Mesoian · Jan 29, 2014

alr1ght said:
You mean like when it was unusable for almost a day due to the humble bundle. We'll see how it holds up.

Pretty much. I would hope they would understand the immense user load that's going to hit them that day.

I will not be the only one installing origin on my computer for Titanfall.

Leatherface · Jan 29, 2014

but it's Origin...

Lactose_Intolerant · Jan 29, 2014

They have Alpha Centauri, can't be all bad

Baron_Calamity · Jan 29, 2014

Chavelo said:
Right click game, custom grid icon, choose directory of image file, done.

Pretty hard to do on steam.

Its about the same. With Steam you have to create the image in 460x215 before hand where as within origin it will scale and crop the image with little input.

Grief.exe said:
I got a lot of games from the coupon fiasco a couple years ago.

OP probably did the same as I recognize many of those titles.

Pretty much that and the Humble Bundle thing they did awhile back but I bought all the Sims titles and expansions at launch. The only ones I never got on the pc were those weird Sims Carnival games.

Baron_Calamity · Jan 29, 2014

Lactose_Intolerant said:
They have Alpha Centauri, can't be all bad

Origin doesn't sell it. I bought it via Gog.com and added to origin.

KissVibes · Jan 29, 2014

Origin actually works super well. Faster browser than steam and the client overall uses less memory. Glad to see Origin making improvements that should hopefully force steam to make too.

Steam is pretty atrocious from design standpoint. Speed and crashing issues as well.

Leb · Jan 29, 2014

Honestly, I didn't even know it was possible to have that many games on Origin.

Scotch · Jan 29, 2014

Truthfully, Origin is a far better piece of software than Steam.

Stallion Free · Jan 29, 2014

Scotch said:
Truthfully, Origin is a far better piece of software than Steam.

So good they only need to update it once a year.

Mesoian · Jan 29, 2014

Shark Johnson said:
Origin actually works super well. Faster browser than steam and the client overall uses less memory. Glad to see Origin making improvements that should hopefully force steam to make too.

Steam is pretty atrocious from design standpoint. Speed and crashing issues as well.

I mean, you can skin Steam. That's like, 90% of the design issues solved right there.

Decado · Jan 29, 2014

I just want controller support for Mass Effect 3

The Cowboy · Jan 29, 2014

Happy days, I've been waiting for this so I can make Origin my default game launcher - I prefer its layout/speed over Steams but didn't like that non Origin games couldn't have custom tiles.

Henry Jones Jr · Jan 29, 2014

Scotch said:
Truthfully, Origin is a far better piece of software than Steam.

It kind of is. It is really sharp and fast and handles auto-updating games better than Steam for me. But still, I don't like how it has split my library.

WillyFive · Jan 29, 2014

They need a big picture mode.

And everything else Steam does.

But Steam would benefit from Twitch streaming, I think that's a cool feature from Origin.

MrNyarlathotep · Jan 29, 2014

Stallion Free said:
So good they only need to update it once a year.

Heh, this.

krae_man · Jan 29, 2014

Oh so this is why The Simpsons Tapped Out stopped working.

DOBERMAN INC · Jan 29, 2014

Scotch said:
Truthfully, Origin is a far better piece of software than Steam.

Not really,less features = less issues.

Lactose_Intolerant · Jan 29, 2014

Baron_Calamity said:
Origin doesn't sell it. I bought it via Gog.com and added to origin.

lol, typical ea

Acosta · Jan 29, 2014

Shark Johnson said:
Origin actually works super well. Faster browser than steam and the client overall uses less memory. Glad to see Origin making improvements that should hopefully force steam to make too.

Steam is pretty atrocious from design standpoint. Speed and crashing issues as well.

Crashing? I don't think Steam has crashed on me in a decade.

Origin is never going to be a competitor to Steam, so it's just a hassle, like Uplay. I don't mind competition but it certainly won't come from EA or Ubi.

Aside of Origin being barebones compared to what Steam offers, not even comparable.

TheSeks · Jan 29, 2014

Stallion Free said:
So good they only need to update it once a year.

If it works, it works.

No cards. No "community." Just games being launched. Final destination.

Omega · Jan 29, 2014

Now I can have my Dragon Age 2 art be based on the legendary OT

speculawyer · Jan 29, 2014

Why did they name it Origin? Did they really need to recycle that name just because they owned the trademark? Everytime I think of EA's digital distribution service I think of another development house they killed.

PoweredBySoy · Jan 29, 2014

Leatherface said:
but it's Origin...

wonk wooonk

scitek · Jan 29, 2014

Why would you launch non-Origin games via Origin? I don't see the convenience.

rvy · Jan 29, 2014

PoweredBySoy said:
wonk wooonk

The fuck, lol. Why did I laugh at this?

73MB. Still looks like ass.

eznark · Jan 29, 2014

Game changer

Zeth · Jan 29, 2014

Nice preface to Titanfall

Kade · Jan 29, 2014

That's a lot of Origin games.

TheGrue · Jan 29, 2014

Can someone tell me why my Origin client always seems to go away? Steam stays running all the time. I tried to do the same for Origin, but inevitably after running for a while, it just seems to disappear and doesn't auto run on Windows start, even though I have it checked. It's like it doesn't want me to use it and subsequently, I don't. I'm guessing it's due to updates or something? Steam does updates and at least tells me it did them and asks me to restart the client.

Baron_Calamity · Jan 29, 2014

scitek said:
Why would you launch non-Origin games via Origin? I don't see the convenience.

Mostly so I have all my Sims and SimCity games in one place.

strafer · Jan 29, 2014

Baron_Calamity said:

Perfection.

Baron_Calamity · Jan 29, 2014

DiscoJason said:
Can someone tell me why my Origin client always seems to go away? Steam stays running all the time. I tried to do the same for Origin, but inevitably after running for a while, it just seems to disappear and doesn't auto run on Windows start, even though I have it checked. It's like it doesn't want me to use it and subsequently, I don't. I'm guessing it's due to updates or something? Steam does updates and at least tells me it did them and asks me to restart the client.

Not sure. I've had cases where its running as a process but it doesn't appear on the desktop unless I right click on the quick launch icon and select my games. I've had that happen with a few other apps as well so I assume its my nvidia drivers virtual desktop or something.

graywolf323 · Jan 29, 2014

since when is The Sims 1 available on Origin?

iNvid02 · Jan 29, 2014

from the origin thread

iNvid02 said:
had a couple of beta updates over the past few days, not sure if this was added in recently or not but its about god damn time

theres some other stuff like auto exiting origiin after qutting a game and ignoring non critical game updates.

Dr Dogg · Jan 29, 2014

antitrop said:
Holy shit you have a lot of Origin games. Mine is like... Battlefield 3, 4 and... *sigh* Medal of Honor: Warfighter.

I'll add Titanfall to that in March and probably won't buy another game on the service for a long time.

Good job you can hide games in Origin then

It is quite nice to have the complete Battlefield, Crysis, Dead Space, Mass Effect and C&C collections all lined up on there though (more than half of I bought on Steam and reregistered the keys there.)

The Cowboy · Jan 29, 2014

iNvid02 said:
from the origin thread

Nice, totally missed that.

No more messing with the files to adjust the timer to stop the popup for the featured today (we've only been requesting that for a year or 2

), I like the auto shutdown when exiting a game option as well, that's very nice (I'd like that on Steam)..

MrCunningham · Jan 29, 2014

antitrop said:
Holy shit you have a lot of Origin games. Mine is like... Battlefield 3, 4 and... *sigh* Medal of Honor: Warfighter.
.

My origin collection is just Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Sim City, Dead Space 3 and Populous.

Yeah, I generally avoid buying games on Origin if I can purchase them on Steam.

obonicus · Jan 29, 2014

Baron_Calamity said:
They did some back end stuff such as making the in game overlay work better and Origin uses slightly less memory. However the big improvement is custom game art. Yeah Steam and everything else could do it forever, though I think Origin currently is easier to do. At long last I can make those stupid default black Origin boxes go away for non-Origin games.

What's that Sims 4 box?

Baron_Calamity · Jan 29, 2014

graywolf323 said:
since when is The Sims 1 available on Origin?

It isn't. I still have my install from 8 years ago that I transfer from computer to computer.

obonicus said:
What's that Sims 4 box?

I pre-ordered Sims 4. So its haunting my origin until it come out.

kuYuri · Jan 29, 2014

One of the best things about Origin is that I can hide games in my library. Not even Steam has this!

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