$19.99 off certain games on Origin

[Monk]

Can someone explain the hate for Origin? Ive never had a problem with it, yet everyone seems to hate it for the sole reason that it is EA owned.

Steam is bad enough, in short.

My problem with origin is, put simply, that it is non-functioning software, nowhere near ready to serve in the capacity that EA needs it to be. Yet we are forced to use it anyway if we want the privilege of playing EA published sofware. I had the same issues with steam for years, as did many other people.

Today Steam has come a long way from where it began, but it is still very much a closed platform, and while the store and the sales are fantastic I have no illusions of the fact that it's main role is DRM. The fact that I don't even notice it 95% of the time allows me to accept that fact, but others have equal issues with steam as I do with Origin.

Currently, Origin is stuck in offline mode and won't go online. No, seriously. I'm not even sure how this is possible but Origin is literally refusing to connect to the EA servers. It says it needs to update every time I login, and I tell it to, but something in the process is completely broken and it kicks me into offline mode before an update even begins. I've tried everything I can think of and still it just sits there in offline mode. It doesn't help that EA's customer support is legendarily bad. I have looked and looked for a solution, tried everything short of ancient rituals to those who should not be named, and still nothing helps.

I haven't been able to play the new ME3 multiplayer stuff because of this, and after a few evenings of messing with it have just given up altogether.