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whats the big deal a 4gb patch downloads in like 10-15 minutes I know not everyone downloads that fast but surely it wont be more than a hour or two. Unless you are on some unstable wireless it should not be a problem
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Possibly because Valve actually has a *good reputation* with its customers through years of honesty and good service, while EA is basically the antithesis of that, and pushed out a "me too" program that threatened to spy on your computer habits and sell it to other companies. Oh, also Valve offers free updates while EA tries to sell you a bridge every other week.
If you don't see the grand canyon of difference between Valve and EA, you haven't done much reading in the past two decades.
Possibly because Valve actually has a *good reputation* with its customers through years of honesty and good service, while EA is basically the antithesis of that, and pushed out a "me too" program that threatened to spy on your computer habits and sell it to other companies. Oh, also Valve offers free updates while EA tries to sell you a bridge every other week.
If you don't see the grand canyon of difference between Valve and EA, you haven't done much reading in the past two decades.
It's funny how not 6 months ago I was talking about how Activision has become the biggest douchebag company with Ubisoft second, with EA seemingly improving. I guess EA saw that and they wanted nothing to do with it, and set out on a crusade to fix this injustice and become the biggest douchebag company ever. Well EA, you can rest easy, you have officially achieved that goal.
Just get BF3 on PC. It's what I HAD to do becuase I am not trying to download origin. Had enough spyware and viruses before, thank you. Not dealing with that shit again.
Man, whatever happened to trying to net more customers by offering outstanding costumer service on top of an outstanding product?
Just to point out to the people questioning how this is different to Steam-
Valve offers ISPs the ability to run Steam Content Mirror Servers(which tend to be quota-free and faster), to mitigate the use of external-hop content downloads.
In Australia, literally ALL of the major ISPs run these, so the rule of thumb is that steam downloads tend not to be counted on Internet Usage Quotas thanks to this.
Not the case with Origin- Origin is all run from EA-Owned Servers Globablly and the ability to operate content mirrors is not being offered to ISPs at all by EA. This is the difference, and why Steam gets a free pass on keeping updates in-service.
Valve offers ISPs the ability to run Steam Content Mirror Servers(which tend to be quota-free and faster), to mitigate the use of external-hop content downloads.
In Australia, literally ALL of the major ISPs run these, so the rule of thumb is that steam downloads tend not to be counted on Internet Usage Quotas thanks to this.
Not the case with Origin- Origin is all run from EA-Owned Servers Globablly and the ability to operate content mirrors is not being offered to ISPs at all by EA. This is the difference, and why Steam gets a free pass on keeping updates in-service.
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