Milestone reached within five months, according to company executive Peter Moore
More than five million gamers use EA’s online download platform Origin every day, the publisher’s COO Peter Moore has said.
The former EA Sports boss told Screen Play about the service after being heckled at the EB Games Expo in Australia last weekend by one member of the audience.
“We're only four and a half months in and already over five million people are using [Origin] on a daily basis,” said Moore.
“As I said to the young man who shouted at me, I think two years from now we'll be back down here in Australia and talking about how it really enhances and complements the gaming experience, not gets in the way of it, which I think some people do believe right now."
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Origin is not that bad as people make it out to be. It has less issues than Steam when it first launched (people seem to have forgotten about that) and it's really an improvement of G4WL (although that doesn't say much, throwing feces at your monitor is better than G4WL).
The main problem people have with it is that they want all their games in one place, and that's understandable. You launch Steam when your computer launches and if you play a game on Origin, your Steam friends will start talking to you mid-game and you can't answer.
To put this into perspective though, the Battlefield 3 Beta had over 8 million users, all of which had to use Origin to play the game. So 5 million daily users is not a sign that Origin is such a great service, but more likely a sign that many people really want to play Battlefield 3.
Doesn't get in the way... what is he talking about?
It doesn't even offer the most basic usability of adding a desktop shortcut to your game, which silently loads Origin in the background. Not to mention the countless minor bugs and irritating issues that have been plaguing the service months on, such as EVERY time you minimise the client thre's a pop-up telling you its still there.
There's also a shocking lack of integration with their own games, i.e. BF3 beta, which you'd think would be a top priority to really propel the service; Integration with their top selling titles.
BF3 uses battlelog in a seperate web browser, when that could all be done inside Origin. Battlelog has it's own friends list, party list, chat rooms, voice chat etc, NONE of which sync with Origin! Launching the game allows you to then use the Origin in-game service that doesn't even have a functioning friends list, showing none the useful features I have in battlelog (party, chat, etc.). Instead I have to quit, play in battlelog, then go back in game.
I've literally used Origin to open it, then launch my game and then minimise it (ofc being told its still there, don't want to forget!). It's been absolutely useless and infuriating at the best of times.
I can only imagine those figures are including the recent BF3 beta that includes the majority of users with the same experience as me - Boot up Origin, THEN load bf3 manually, then minimise it whilst playing.
