New EA Origin interface is live after extended beta test
The new design makes the service a lot easier to use ... and tolerate.
Electronic Arts has known that it needed to upgrade Origin. There were plenty of complaints about about clunky and unintuitive the service was. In late July, word got out that an update was in beta, and much of what was shown offered hope that EA had heard the cries and lamentations of users.
Now, the new design is out in the wild, having been in the works for two and a half years, with 10 developers working on the storefront since September of last year.
As always, EA said it will continue to take feedback, but the new changes look pretty good, and going form checking your library to finding friends online seems a lot easier than it was before.
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replyJohn Keefer posted a new article, New EA Origin interface is live after extended beta test
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Can get in on the OMGITSNOTTHEORIGINIAMUSEDTO instead?
I like the new notification center and the menus have more useful stuff, but the sidebar on the left is annoying to me. When did the world lose access to their menu bars or are they just not hip anymore? -
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It's definitely a good redesign
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There is only one more feature I need from Origin. Gifting. Why haven't they introduced that yet? Does Valve have a patent? Why the hell do I have to go to Amazon most the time to get a gift for someone on Origin.
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True, this is a valid complaint.
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Neither do I. Origin isn't fantastic, but it's not terrible either. It gets the job done.
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Yeah, if it wanted to get fancy, integrated forums, mods and community pages would be nice. Permanent groups like Steam would be an extra bonus.
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Basically become Steam.
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Well...if they want to innovate other features I am fine with that too. But, those are the frills on Steam I would eventually like. Bare minimum as I said above is gifting. I get that and I have no real complaints. Everything else is bonus on the working effective wrapper.
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It's usable on a basic level but I still have nothing but issues in various things with their in game overlay implementation, which forces me to keep it disabled most of the time, which makes stuff like friends chat and invites a pain in the butt. Plus some games still aren't alt-tab friendly and will degrade performance wise or or straight up crash.
Moving games around is a process as well. Only one default install location at a time while steam you can have multiples and choose where you want to save as you download stuff. steam is also more streamlined and friendly in that you can copy a game to another hdd, uninstall the game in steam and install it to the new drive and it will discover the old files and it all just works. Origin will say fuck you to that and re-download everything if you attempt the same. There are ways around this I know but it's still not as painless. This stuff doesn't matter to most but those of us with slow internet, limited SSD space, and multiple origin games pushing +60GB, juggling stuff around is necessary.-
I thought the last time I moved something Origin just detected it. Granted I keep two Origin folders, but on different drives so maybe that structure helps?
My origin detects my dragon age that I have installed on Steam for whatever reason too.-
Nope. Just attempted this recently with BF4 to free up SSD space for BF1. Unless the beta to this new release client today radically changed how it works.
And yeah, it will detect games already installed through say Steam, even Uplay does that. Doesn't mean moving them around is simple. Once something is already installed to a specific path through Origin itself, you have to trick Origin if you want to change that path.
And the way to do this is to copy the game to the new drive, rename the folder, uninstall the game, change the default install location in origin to where you want to the new one, start the install / download of the game you want, pause the download after some time, exit origin, delete the new folder, rename the old one to match the one you just deleted, relaunch origin, resume the download and then it might discover the files, but that iisn't guaranteed to work all the time. It's fun.
I know there's also symlinks, but last time I tried that with Origin and had to move things around it was a disaster.
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will it remember my login info after it updates?
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It did for me.
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the old version, every time it updated id have to type in all my stuff over again, so annoying
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Well that's a hell of an improvement.
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Notable improvement, DLC is mostly now visible (though hidden away under a separate tab), BioWare points are still around but now appear to be consolidated and sale codes universally apply to them, which is an improvement.
However the interface still doesn't support window snapping and the minimum window size is still about 60% of 1920.
At least Win+↓ now actually restores? Though I guess they could argue that Origin doubled the support for snapping related behaviors since previously only Win+↑ worked. -
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