Wow Origin, really?

[kdodds]

So I just got an email from Origin/EA telling me that they reset my password due to "suspicious activity". Seriously? They also added in that it could be because of phishing or using the same password elsewhere. Really?

Well, I haven't even opened Origin since DA:I came out, almost a year now, right? And I CAN'T use a super secure password because it has to be numbers and letters only and a max of 16 characters. Not phished, system is secure, but they got "hacked" and somehow that's my fault? And people complain about Steam, sheesh. Oh, and they have the absolute worst captcha ever. If you ever get anything with "i" or "j", refresh it.

No big, since I know I'm good, but still, you change my password and send me a very iffy looking email to reset it? Good thing I checked the guts of that phish/scam looking email or you'd've been junked.

So, basically, since they "have no reason to believe" "that the suspicious activity is due to unauthorized access", they decided that some schmuck in another country trying to brute force into multiple accounts (I'm not the only one) warrants them changing my password to a potentially less secure one? Basically the gist of the email is "Someone is trying to access your account from a suspicious place. They were not successful, so we changed your password anyway." Unreal.

Well at least I'm getting a mega update for a game I haven't played since release (DA:I). 17% complete after 30 minutes. I can redownload all of Skyrim, mods included, in that time. GG Origin.

[Tux]

Origin is still around?

[Perquisitore]

AaronionRings eredeti hozzászólása:

Change your password back then? They're just doing their jobs and trying to keep your account safe, hardly something worth getting angry about. I'd much rather them pre-emptively try to keep my account safe on the rare occasion something suspicious does happen than have them sit there and do nothing then have my account compromised because "oh we didn't want to bug you by trying to help".

This.

[kdodds]

AaronionRings eredeti hozzászólása:

Change your password back then? They're just doing their jobs and trying to keep your account safe, hardly something worth getting angry about. I'd much rather them pre-emptively try to keep my account safe on the rare occasion something suspicious does happen than have them sit there and do nothing then have my account compromised because "oh we didn't want to bug you by trying to help".

I actually changed it to something completely different, within the realms of what they actually allow.

I'm not really angry, just incredulous. Why change a password on an account that is proven secure by hack attempts that were UNsuccessful? That makes 0 sense by any definition of the word "sense".

Further, it's not protecting me at all. It's protecting them from piracy. There are no real means of harming me on Origin, no market items to sell, trade, or transfer. Nothing to glean from my account.

So, basically, they changed my password to prevent them from losing a sale that will never occur. They could just as easily have, oh, I don't know, penalized the offending incoming IP with a time sensitive (say 30 day) ban.

I've never heard of any site changing a user's password unless that site was hacked. Now I'm wondering if they were.

[Orbital Føroysk 🪐]

I wish Origin didn't exist. I want Mirror's Edge Catalyst on Steam, with cards and backgrounds, but it won't happen.

Such a sad thing.

[デュオペノッティ]

origin is for skrubs dont buy EA games plez