Quote Originally Posted by Area51 View Post
I don't see why Origin is that big of a deal, it fires up at launch and does nothing else. How is it that big of an issue? There is an entire single player campaign for you to practice offline. It doesn't take long to figure out how to at least play decently in multiplayer as well.
That sort of comment makes me wonder if you've ever suffered having to use Origin to be honest, let's just say it took a long, long time for that horribly designed inflexible piece of crap to get to the stage of launching the game and I really don't have the patience to go through it again (I can't believe EA never thought people would be using a small boot SSD). It's almost like EA wanted to prove you could make a worse client than Steam which impressively they have done, Steam used to irritate me frequently with its complete inability to handle errors correctly or communicate back what it was trying to do but having experience the horror of Origin Steam seems much better.

The single player is of no use for practicing offline as from what I've seen of it, the missions and maps have absolutely nothing to do with the multiplayer plus it wasn't very good anyway. It's much quicker to learn the maps in an offline mode with bots, my experiences with the multiplayer are not great as half the people don't seem to know what they are supposed to be doing, others are killing each other because someone grabbed a vehicle they aren't happy with which leave me really a bit confused about what I should be doing in all that. At least if I knew what was supposed to be happening I could get into the game more but as it stands after a few games of multiplayer I feel like writing the game off completely.

John