wtf is up with Origin?

[MrAngryFace]

[Joe Molotov]

It sucks, uninstall and get Steam.

[MrAngryFace]

Steam needs ME3

[Joe Molotov]

EA wanted to put it on Steam, but Gabe told them to take that crap and ram it, and Dragon Age 2 while they're at it until Bioware is able to live up to the standards of RPGs created in third-world countries like Poland.

[archie4208]

Valve is just keeping crappy games off their service. 

[Cormacaroni]

I dl'ed ME3 in 12 mins yesterday

One note - the app wouldn't take any of my ccs, but the web page did. :

[Smooth Groove]

I dl'ed ME3 in 12 mins yesterday

One note - the app wouldn't take any of my ccs, but the web page did. :

That's crazy bandwidth.  How much do you pay per month?  I pay $55/month and maximum DL speed is 1.5 mb/s. 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I think he's from Japan where 70-100 mbps is common.

Furthermore, I live in Iowa, I pay $50 a month and my maximum DL speed I've seen so far is 4.6 MB/sec.

I think you're getting hosed.

[Smooth Groove]

I live in a hilly area where supposedly fiber optics will never be installed.   :'(

Right now I'm with Time Warner cable, which is the only broadband option other than DSL.  I don't even know if DSL qualifies as broadband.  I tried it once and it felt like surfing on a phone modem again. 

[MrAngryFace]

I dl off steam crazy fast, so its all Origin being lame to me for some reason

[Smooth Groove]

Does Seattle have high bandwidth?

[Cormacaroni]

I dl'ed ME3 in 12 mins yesterday

One note - the app wouldn't take any of my ccs, but the web page did. :

That's crazy bandwidth.  How much do you pay per month?  I pay $55/month and maximum DL speed is 1.5 mb/s. 

100mb/s fibre optic - costs me under $15/mo (the whole apartment block is contracted so we get a big discount). I pasted a speed test result here once and it made everyone else ill

The Origin dl was only 10mb/s on avg...not that crazy.

[FatalT]

I was able to grab ME3 in 30mins off orgin.

Guess, they just like me more

I was able to grab ME3 in 25mins off uTorrent.

Guess I just had more seeders

[Smooth Groove]

I dl'ed ME3 in 12 mins yesterday

One note - the app wouldn't take any of my ccs, but the web page did. :

That's crazy bandwidth.  How much do you pay per month?  I pay $55/month and maximum DL speed is 1.5 mb/s. 

100mb/s fibre optic - costs me under $15/mo (the whole apartment block is contracted so we get a big discount). I pasted a speed test result here once and it made everyone else ill

The Origin dl was only 10mb/s on avg...not that crazy.

That's nuts.  I'd have to buy a 2tb hard drive every month with that kinda bandwidth.  No wonder you don't need too much SSD space since every game would only take 15 mins to redownload. 

[Momo]

wtf is up with Origin?

Electronic Arts

[Cormacaroni]

Smooth - I'm at 7.5 TB of HDD space right now, most of 'em groaning

[Smooth Groove]

Almost 7.5 TB of groaning material?  Damn, you're a bigger perv than me!

[Cormacaroni]

Yeah, it is true about the DL times...I never bother backing-up games I delete from Steam anymore (I used to delete them from the SSD, then back-up on a regular HDD). I can re-DL and install them to SSD in pretty much the same time as it would take to un-archive and install from a slower disk.

[Akala]

50% off a bunch of stuff this week!

may get the shameful sims medieval pack.

[fistfulofmetal]

strangely enough, i get faster downloads on Origin than I do on Steam.

3.0mb/s vs. 2.3mb/s

[Great Rumbler]

strangely enough, i get faster downloads on Origin than I do on Steam.

3.0mb/s vs. 2.3mb/s

*insert joke about Origin*