StormyFire Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 Do you use Origin? I use Origin, but I only use it because of The Sims 4. I prefer Steam for other games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 I thought EA were ditching Origin in favour of EA Desktop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Never in my life heard of Origin. What is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 (edited) Origin is to EA what what Steam is to Valve, their own indigenous PC Game store and launcher. Edited January 30, 2022 by Shagger killamch89 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Never heard of Valve either. Damn I am out of the loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 7 hours ago, Shagger said: Origin is to EA what what Steam is to Valve, their own indigenous PC Game store and launcher. You forgot to add that it's buggy at times and is prone to locking up at random times for no good reason. I use mine to play NFS: heat and every now and then it locks up on me and when I contact EA (why do I even bother when I already know what they'll say), it's usually some generic message which doesn't really help so I have search Reddit for somewhat of a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 I think the lot of old games continue to have the old dashboards and the platforms installs in them. So any new name changes happen they don't reflect in already released games installs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 On 1/31/2022 at 2:20 AM, skyfire said: I think the lot of old games continue to have the old dashboards and the platforms installs in them. So any new name changes happen they don't reflect in already released games installs. I'm sorry - I don't quite get what you mean. Could you clarify? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane99 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Origin, or EA Desktop is just another game launcher we have to deal with. We have too many launchers now. I hate that every company has to make their own game launcher now. Or even game downloading service. Soon enough, each company will just sell their own games on their own sites, defeating the point of Origin to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 15 hours ago, Kane99 said: Origin, or EA Desktop is just another game launcher we have to deal with. We have too many launchers now. I hate that every company has to make their own game launcher now. Or even game downloading service. Soon enough, each company will just sell their own games on their own sites, defeating the point of Origin to begin with. Yeah - it also annoys the hell out of me. I even had to make a folder just for the shortcut to all these flipping launchers because they were taking up my home screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head_Hunter Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I don't run my main home screen with lots of widgets or simply adding more of the apps, it covers the screen space for me, I don't like such kind of cluster on my Android, I simply remove them there to free up space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin11 Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 It will be distorting indeed, seeing apps covering my home screen, I simply need some space in the home screen side, and not covering it with apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 haven't heard about Origin for a good while now that i thought it doesn't exist anymore LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 9 hours ago, Patrik said: haven't heard about Origin for a good while now that i thought it doesn't exist anymore LOL It might as well not exist but it's still around. After all, EA still needs it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 On 2/11/2022 at 8:18 AM, killamch89 said: I'm sorry - I don't quite get what you mean. Could you clarify? A lot of games I remember used to release their own dashboard like the origin is. in the times of CD and DVD those became part of installers but not necessarily those are active these days. that's what I meant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...