[QUOTE=Im Crimson;36814448]Another feature I miss in Steam that Origin actually has is more liberating game data management. Games can be set to be saved wherever (such as on a different drive) and migrating games is as easy as moving the folders around and letting Origin check the re-data integrity. Whereas in Steam the games are all saved in "steamapps" (which you need folder linking to work around) and their status is decided by some weird registry files that you need to move if you want to manually migrate data.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. This is actually a feature I think Steam is long overdue for. That, and a working offline mode :v:
[QUOTE=Dr Bob;36811741]Do you mean changing download regions?[/QUOTE]
Yeah
[QUOTE=Raidyr;36812099]Uses less memory and downloads faster than Steam does for me v:v:v[/QUOTE]
Doesn't for me :(
[QUOTE=redBadger;36810641]It's not steam, therefore it's shit.[/QUOTE]
Saying this would be very fanboyish and immature, but its true.
[QUOTE=Bang Train;36810610]9.0.... I remember the days when major version numbers meant something....[/QUOTE]
My god... What a miniscule thing to complain about.
[QUOTE=dass;36817298]Saying this would be very fanboyish and immature, but its true.[/QUOTE]
How can anybody really take what you say seriously when you contradict yourself? Even if it was intentional.
[QUOTE=Mooe94;36811594]It still runs like fucking shit and misses options like where the fuck you would like to download game content from and stuff like that.[/QUOTE]
It runs about 500% better than Steam. Steam locked up on a purchase. Why ? That shouldn't happen. The whole Steam client has frequent lockups on high player count days when using the community or store. I've never had Origin lockup. It starts fast, runs well, doesn't have a ton of useless features, and doesn't eat my processor or RAM in the background.
[QUOTE=Woovie;36823656]It runs about 500% better than Steam. Steam locked up on a purchase. Why ? That shouldn't happen. The whole Steam client has frequent lockups on high player count days when using the community or store. I've never had Origin lockup. It starts fast, runs well, doesn't have a ton of useless features, and doesn't eat my processor or RAM in the background.[/QUOTE]
aye wench shut those lips. steam isn't even that RAM hungry as you make it out to be. the whole "runs 500 percent better than steam does" is laughable. as much as I love this circle jerk festive thats running around right now- you're actually wrong.
[QUOTE=Laferio;36823717]aye wench shut those lips. steam isn't even that RAM hungry as you make it out to be. the whole "runs 500 percent better than steam does" is laughable. as much as I love this circle jerk festive thats running around right now- you're actually wrong.[/QUOTE]
Steam locks up a lot.
It locks up when I scroll through games, when I buy games, when I try to download games etc.
[QUOTE=Woovie;36823656]The whole Steam client has frequent lockups on high player count days when using the community or store. I've never had Origin lockup.[/QUOTE]
Maybe because Origin doesn't have nearly as many actual users all the time
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;36824633]Maybe because Origin doesn't have nearly as many actual users all the time[/QUOTE]
Yes because Steam locking up has anything to do with the server load.
The only reason Steam locks up when you purchase games is because of Valve's ass backwards custom filesystem shite (the one that breaks like fuck and forces you to restart, and if you don't you get pipe lock errors whatever the fuck that means...)
[QUOTE=Legend286;36824675]Yes because Steam locking up has anything to do with the server load.
The only reason Steam locks up when you purchase games is because of Valve's ass backwards custom filesystem shite (the one that breaks like fuck and forces you to restart, and if you don't you get pipe lock errors whatever the fuck that means...)[/QUOTE]
I'd also expect one of the major reasons for the program locking up when you say, start a download, is that it is waiting for the server to respond and start the transfer, but not in a fully asynchronous manner, meaning until it receives what it expects, it won't do anything else. Windows then treats it as crashed. It's one of the only real reasons I can think of it freezing like that to be honest.
I've never had steam lock up when I tried to go to my library, download games or buy games. I've only had it lock up lately when I got a voice chat call before steam was done starting up, which bugged it out.
Why are you people having lock up issues with Steam?
I RARELY get issues with Steam, and if I do, its because all of my bandwidth is going to a download or something.
Not once have I had any of the issues stated here.
Don't blame Steam if you have shit internet or have 100 MB left of space on your hard drive.
Also, I don't think Origin running better than Steam actually matters at all, think of it this way:
Are you going to replace Steam with Origin? I don't think so, so if that is the case, why do you even care about lower resource requirements?
Wouldn't it be better if Origin didn't exist at all? You're still running Steam regardless of how much resources Origin consumes, so overall its just a lose lose situation.
[QUOTE=ntzu;36824821]Why are you people having lock up issues with steam.
I RARELY get issues with Steam, and if I do, its probably because all of my bandwidth is going to a download or something.
Don't blame steam if you have shit internet or have 100 MB left of space on your hard drive.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, I can't blame an application for locking up when that application, and that application alone, is locking up? Are you delusional? Are you capable of rational thought? Steam locks up, it always has done in the 4 years I've used it. And it probably will continue to do so. A lack of hard drive space does not cause these lock ups, and a lack of bandwidth most certainly shouldn't cause these lock ups.
No other program on my PC, and likely everyone else with these problems, locks up as much as Steam. My Internet browser should be locking up if bandwidth was an issue, but it doesn't. Sound recording programs should be locking up if space is an issue, but they don't. Origin would be locking up if these were both issues that made Steam lock up, but it doesn't. Steam is flawed, it's a great platform, but the client is a piece of shit sometimes.
And seriously, this was back when I had an awful internet connection and no space. Today, with a good internet connection and over 500GB free, I still have these lock ups on occasion.
The only true problem I have with Steam is when you try to go to the Store after viewing the Community page. No matter how many times I click, it just refreshes the community page instead, then I have to restart Steam :v:
[QUOTE=hexpunK;36824882]-steam issues-[/QUOTE]
I always figured Valve coded their things, Source-wise and Steam-wise, in a way that makes Windows absolutely hate it, because Windows 7 particularly loves to crash Source games on my end. But in any case, I've had issues with Steam before - plenty of them - but it doesn't seem to be the 'lock-up' frenzy you get, so it might be one of those cases that vary from customer to customer. Personally, I find Origin a pain because it never remembers to log-in automatically and every time I do, it tries acting like i'm reinstalling the entire damn client, updates or no updates; Origin by itself isn't that much a problem otherwise.
Steam had some long-standing bugs but was always pretty stable for me. In the past few years it's been pretty awesome. It does lock up when buying games, but who gives a fuck? It takes a few seconds. Do you guys buy games every ten minutes while you're in the middle of doing something else with it?
Steam doesn't really crash for me but it's slow as a snail. It'll lock up for up to 30 seconds as it updates a game. Lately I've been having a bug where it just completely flips shit and breaks the Windows taskbar. I don't know how they manage to fuck up webkit so bad but the version that Steam uses occasionally won't navigate to the destination of a link, instead simply reloading the page (often after taking a loooong time to even download the page). It'll do this about 3 times before I manage to get it to properly navigate. Not to mention the numerous disconnections that you get because they preform maintenance all of the time and don't give any indication of it within the client, instead preferring to use a single SPUF thread to inform everyone.
If there's one thing Origin has over Steam, it's the UI. In that sense I hope Origin succeeds. Maybe it'll coax Valve into making Steam more stable.
[QUOTE=Splarg!;36825973]Steam had some long-standing bugs but was always pretty stable for me. In the past few years it's been pretty awesome. It does lock up when buying games, but who gives a fuck? It takes a few seconds. Do you guys buy games every ten minutes while you're in the middle of doing something else with it?[/QUOTE]
That's a terrible counter-argument.
It shouldn't lock up when I buy games.
[QUOTE=Dr Bob;36829459]That's a terrible counter-argument.
It shouldn't lock up when I buy games.[/QUOTE]
A small glitch like that isn't a terribly strong argument against Steam client as a whole, either.
I've never had steam lock up shit I must be bad at using steam.
[QUOTE=Dr Bob;36829459]That's a terrible counter-argument.
It shouldn't lock up when I buy games.[/QUOTE]
Good software shouldn't lock up in general. That's a sign of some kind of error in the programming. For example, people give Firefox shit for locking up, but the core program rarely does, it's when you start using the addons that it begins to lock up (Flash is a big cause of some of these I've noticed). Showing the addons aren't well made if they can cause lock ups.
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;36829538]A small glitch like that isn't a terribly strong argument against Steam client as a whole, either.[/QUOTE]
In Origin's defense, nobody in this thread has managed to bring up a very strong argument against Origin either. It's a good piece of software, enough said.
Don't fix what is not broke, EA.
Still can't authorise my email... The fuck? Been trying to login into Origin and it won't let me login.
I still prefer steam over Origin, and seriously don't you guys remember the old UI? Military green? They changed the UI to an updated one.
I get the lockups on steam as well, sometimes they happen for a minute I get disconnected from their network which is extremely annoying
[QUOTE=Bang Train;36810610]9.0.... I remember the days when major version numbers meant something....[/QUOTE]
who gives a shit version numbers are arbitrary
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;36812154]Origin isn't the worst one of these types of software but I just can't stand the company behind it.
If I had to pick the worst it would be either GFWL or Gamefly's client.[/QUOTE]
GWFL takes the cake for shittest game manager out there, I had to reset my PC back to windows 7 and lost all my data from GTA4
They said before it was synced on a cloud, yeah fuck you too.
I don't know why several people here seems to have a problem with Origin, even after getting lots of good arguments for why it objectively is good.
Origin is a good client without much fuss to it. The problem is not Origin.
The problem is EA using it as an exclusive platform for some of their games, but that is also a terrible argument, you know why? because Valve does the same for their games, try to buy any Valve game that came out after Steam was released without having to register it through Steam. You can't. That's not a good thing either, but people just go "but it's Valve and we love sucking their big fat cocks, rather, we want them to stick their big fat cocks in our mouths". Everyone just bluntly ignores all the bad or dumb shit Valve actually has done because they are so fanboyish about them. I completely agree that Steam and Valve is fucking great, but they still do dumb shit.
I think many people just automatically connect Battlefield 3's exclusivity on Origin and Battlefield 3's server browser site with the Battlelog plugin to Origin and mindlessly hate it.
I dislike using several DRM clients as well, which is why I like using Steam whenever possible. But there is nothing inherently wrong with Origin. It gives you good download speeds, it's up and working, it does what you want it to do, it acts like a game library, you can re-direct where you want games installed, it has it's own shop and they do have sales. People just go "Origin sucks becuz EA!!!!", it's a fanboyish empty argument that holds no grounds in any real criticism.
[QUOTE=bassie12;36811620]They've changed the UI and name of this program so many times I lost track.[/QUOTE]
Wait what?
The name has been origin for years. Before that "EA Downloader" And... that's it...
[QUOTE=redBadger;36810641]It's not steam, therefore it's shit.[/QUOTE]
It runs better than steam though in my experience. I've also never had it crash or freeze, unlike steam.
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