As much as I hate the fact that I need yet another stupid piece of software that I have to install solely for a single game I want to play, I tend to wonder;
was STEAM any better when they introduced it?
did people bitch less about STEAM when it was new?
yeah I also dislike the fact that we get more and more such software thrown at us, after the uproar when BF3 was released, EA changed their EULA (at least in germany), and by now there's not much difference to the EULA Valve uses for STEAM, or any other publisher in the industry. At least that's what I get from reading about the whole issue.
Again, yes it sucks, but the people I hear bitching about Origin are the same people that were bitching about STEAM, but have now adopted to it because there was literally no other way. Seriously if I have had the option to buy Skyrim for Xbox360 instead of PC with the requirement for STEAM, I would still have gone for STEAM, because it simply runs better on PC. My Laptop is about 2 yrs old and my loadtimes for Skyrim are still way better than on an Xbox!
And for the ones complaining about Origin invading their privacy, I'd bet that the people complaining the loudest are usually the ones that don't even know how to make their facebook account inaccessible to anyone. They know the least, but as soon as they hear the words "invading privacy" they're the first ones to get their pitchforks and torches.
You don't have to like it, heck no one liked STEAM initially, and I bet hardly anyone likes it still, but even tho it sucks that they burden us with yet another inconvenience, it is how the "game is played", and the masses will still bow to it. Not because they're stupid, well not all of them, but because they don't want to miss out on a great game.
Oh, and I'd avoid calling them idiots!
Besides, I'd rather have you stop talking about pirating games, if you have to talk about it, go find some place else...
