The worst thing is that Origin is compulsory for many EA distributed games now. e.g. If you played Mass Effect 3, you had to go online with Origin running every time you played the game to get past the DRM, even if you bought a physical disk to install the game. There were no other options for acquiring the game legally.
Besides being intrusive, Origin is spectacularly unfriendly to user mods. The mod community has made some nice texture upgrades for ME3, but to use them with an uncracked ME3 executable requires you to shuffle files around while Origin is running so that it never sees the modified executable (Origin scans and validates executables when you start up a game).
I'm not much of a gamer, but Bioware games are a weakness of mine. I look forward to the day when they're no longer infested with EA's spyware.
Besides being intrusive, Origin is spectacularly unfriendly to user mods. The mod community has made some nice texture upgrades for ME3, but to use them with an uncracked ME3 executable requires you to shuffle files around while Origin is running so that it never sees the modified executable (Origin scans and validates executables when you start up a game).
I'm not much of a gamer, but Bioware games are a weakness of mine. I look forward to the day when they're no longer infested with EA's spyware.