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Posted August 19, 2013
something like origins
and yeah donations subtract from your taxes
Posted August 19, 2013
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Crosmando: I think it's pretty despicable naming their DRM client after the great Origin Systems. That's like raising someone's dear mother as a zombie and then pretending it's alive and well.
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oldschool: Indeed. That's like comparing skim milk to actual milk, in a word = Unholy.
Unholy = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urb6WPtoKIk
Posted August 19, 2013
Also I presume that creating an artificial separation between EA and Origin is a marketing thing. They make it appear like some sort of cooperation (which makes EA appear like a team player, a friendly company) and make you believe that Origin is something more than an expression of greed and unwillingness to cooperate with others.

But don't get me wrong, I can't really blame EA for introducing a distribution platform and DRM system of their own - they are a massive company with a long and partially glorious history, I wouldn't expect them to bow to Valve who got where they are by doing the same thing many years earlier.
Posted August 19, 2013
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amok: I think it is to do with:
1 - The beginning of something.
2 - The source of a river, information, goods, etc
From Middle English origine, from Latin origo (“beginning, source, birth, origin”),
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F4LL0UT: What does that have to do with anything? That the word "origin" has all sorts of strong and positive meanings doesn't change the fact that EA is responsible for the downfall of an amazing company and is using its same name for something else now. It's like killing a family member and then naming a child after him/her.
I think it may help to read the whole conversation, and not only the last post :)
Posted August 19, 2013
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amok: I think it may help to read the whole conversation, and not only the last post :)
I think it may help to assume that I did. :P
Posted August 19, 2013
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amok: I think it may help to read the whole conversation, and not only the last post :)
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F4LL0UT: I think it may help to assume that I did. :P
Then I honestly do not understand your question...
Posted August 19, 2013
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amok: Then I honestly do not understand your question...
I don't see how the definition of the word "origin" is relevant.
Posted August 19, 2013
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amok: Then I honestly do not understand your question...
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F4LL0UT: I don't see how the definition of the word "origin" is relevant.
Branding....

I doubt that the reason they call it Origin is because of Origin System, as stated before, but because of what the name means. Calling it something do not necessarily make into this, but it is branding.

Or to put it in other words, I doubt that the origin of the name Origin is Origin System... That was all...
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