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And apparently it's glorified spyware EA is intending to use for advertising purposes and the like.
I don't know why they're saying "may be" in their summary based on what the EULA for origin states and what the program actually does. (apparently digs around your harddrive to find out what you're doing, etc, then relays that to the Master EA)
The odds of me giving Origin a chance was maaaaaybe 0.000000000000001%. Keep in mind my chances of giving Steam a chance are 0.0001%. Both are still DRM regardless of how they do it, and I'll have neither. But adding this kind of thing to your program, and trying to force feed it to your customers by making sure they HAVE to use it to play your games, drops that percentage down to 0.
And it will stay there even if the predictable eula change and program update comes along to calm the sheep. Mainly because EA does strike me as the type of company that will leave that "this eula may be changed at any time without notice to the user." clause in there and then re-insert their advertising spyware portion once they feel nobody is looking - hoping that nobody will call them on it the next time around. And if so, try it again, then again, then again.
I don't know why they're saying "may be" in their summary based on what the EULA for origin states and what the program actually does. (apparently digs around your harddrive to find out what you're doing, etc, then relays that to the Master EA)
The odds of me giving Origin a chance was maaaaaybe 0.000000000000001%. Keep in mind my chances of giving Steam a chance are 0.0001%. Both are still DRM regardless of how they do it, and I'll have neither. But adding this kind of thing to your program, and trying to force feed it to your customers by making sure they HAVE to use it to play your games, drops that percentage down to 0.
And it will stay there even if the predictable eula change and program update comes along to calm the sheep. Mainly because EA does strike me as the type of company that will leave that "this eula may be changed at any time without notice to the user." clause in there and then re-insert their advertising spyware portion once they feel nobody is looking - hoping that nobody will call them on it the next time around. And if so, try it again, then again, then again.
