Is Origin Better Then Steam ?

[SMEGMA FAN]

Just Asking

[The Brown Hornet]

Well couldn't you decide that for yourself? If you are a "PC gamer" I would imagine you already have EA Origin

[Spawn of Totoro]

Steam. Far more games. Maybe Origin will catch up at some point, but it has a ways to go.

Steam also has a lot of extras and social features that Origin doesn't. Some may feel that is a negitive though, some say a positive, most don't care.

[Blondi]

first thing, system resources, origin was/still is, a system resources hog

That would be enough, but since origin is from EA, i dislike it for that 2nd reason.

Beside that, steam has so much better sale offers, and indie games.

But decide for oyurself, check it out, installing origin is free i think :D

[duKe]

Overall, Steam is much better. Origin has a couple of neat features, like hiding games in your library, and at least for me, the download speeds seem to be better. The default shortcut for the overlay is also better (shift+f1) in Origin, but thankfully you can change it in Steam.

[Noah]

Steam has more features, more games, more users, more deals.

[Zefar]

For me Steam only wins with the amount of games it has and some of it's crazy sales. Origin being the faster platform and more reliable on getting it to work.

Originally posted by ToomuchCoffeeman:

first thing, system resources, origin was/still is, a system resources hog

System resource hog? Please, Steam wins on that. Easily getting up to 120 000k memory usage just heading into the store and checking some things. Origin does not do that.

[Cat]

I have one big no and something that turned me off from origin as soon as I checked it out.
Went on it's home page, front page, nearly all EA games up front, EA games recommended and promoted, regardless of new releases or sales. Must I mention, click a specific game category, half the page is taken by a large ad of their game even if it only losely connects to it, then 1/4 is their other games like it then the actual games are in "more games". Wtf... Talk about bias. I just imagine them playing around with the ratings and doing all sorts of other ♥♥♥♥ to keep you or make you an EA sheep rather than actually buy and play what you want to.

I know Origin belongs to EA but that is a bit of a horrible move, it is not a gaming platform, it is an EA games platform. Steam gives chance to all and you never see it promote valves games any more than any other game. It first of all lists things on sale and newly released, gives equal support and also does greenlight so that all companies have equal chances of a fair shot at the market.

[duLofmeister]

Steam is No.1

[Gemininovastar]

And don't forget the fact that origin is a major drm/supposed spyware

[誰がｗｏｍｂａｔ]

The ONLY thing Origin has over Steam is the games that EA won't allow on Steam.
In particular, Battlefield 3

[2point4]

Originally posted by Darkened Mare:

And don't forget the fact that origin is a major drm/supposed spyware

lol.

Any documentation and/or analysis to back this up? I see this still being posted every so often but nobody has any evidence that supports this claim.

[Gemininovastar]

Originally posted by 2point4:

Originally posted by Darkened Mare:

And don't forget the fact that origin is a major drm/supposed spyware

lol.

Any documentation and/or analysis to back this up? I see this still being posted every so often but nobody has any evidence that supports this claim.

So do i, but no, better safe than sorry through.

[Spectre]

Originally posted by 2point4:

Originally posted by Darkened Mare:

And don't forget the fact that origin is a major drm/supposed spyware

lol.

Any documentation and/or analysis to back this up? I see this still being posted every so often but nobody has any evidence that supports this claim.

The last part about spyware is I kinda doubt it. However, She's right about one thing. Origin is a major drm, but so is Steam itself. lol

So to answer OP's question, not really, not yet by far anyways. Steam has been around forever since the 2000s while Origin started in 2011.
Steam:
-massive library of games
-extra social features
-Steam Workshop
-frequent daily/weeklong/midweek/weekend sales
-on a occassion, free weekend play on certain games
-a store section for software which to be honest shouldn't be on Steam
-Steam Greenlight
-purchase early access to games
-affordable and best Valve games
-Steam Trading Cards if you cared
-Steam Market where you can sell trading cards, TF2 items, and other minor things
-Steam's Big Picture feature

[Gemininovastar]

Originally posted by Dredz:

Originally posted by 2point4:

lol.

Any documentation and/or analysis to back this up? I see this still being posted every so often but nobody has any evidence that supports this claim.

The last part about spyware is I kinda doubt it. However, he's right about one thing. Origin is a major drm, but so is Steam itself. lol

So to answer OP's question, not really, not yet by far anyways. Steam has been around forever since the 2000s while Origin started in 2011.
Steam:
-massive library of games
-extra social features
-Steam Workshop
-frequent daily/weeklong/midweek/weekend sales
-on a occassion, free weekend play on certain games
-a store section for software which to be honest shouldn't be on Steam
-Steam Greenlight
-purchase early access to games
-affordable and best Valve games
-Steam Trading Cards if you cared
-Steam Market where you can sell trading cards, TF2 items, and other minor things
-Steam's Big Picture feature

For the record i'm a she.

[banzaigtv]

Yeah, go ahead and call me the black sheep of the flock. Origin is obviously my platform of choice; have had no problems with it. No client crashes, freezeups, lockouts, persistent updates, etc. that happen in Steam. The Steam community is great, though. But only if Steam can dump that bootstrapper or whatever it's called and revert back to the original engine, things will be great again. Have played only one game on Steam during the last three months, but that may pick up very slowly as this dreadful year goes on.