Origin for Windows

I wish Origin improved with time like a fine wine. Origin is more like some sort of bleu cheese whose aging went horribly wrong at some point. It just gets worse and worse, too. The Origin client itself runs very slowly and often encounters problems simply launching, running, saving games.. Essentially basic functionality. This only gets worse when you add in more content, for example; The Sims Franchise. EA has this shiny membership, as well. DO NOT TAKE THE BAIT, IT IS A TRAP. I got the membership for 1 year for free through a promotion. I added some games to my library, played a few of them. I own all of the Sims 4 content, save the Digital Deluxe version of the base game. Eventually my membership ran out. However, the games that were added with the Membership stayed in my library with a fun notification of "Membership Expired, reinstate to play." Fast forward, I purchased these games on Steam. Now Steam needs Origin to launch in order to play the games. Origin thinks I need my membership reinstated to access the games. Cue endless loop of games never launching. That's just one fun example of the joyous ride that is the overly sour Origin platform. I cannot UNrecommend strongly enough. If you didn't buy the Sims franchise all those years ago, EA, I would never use Origin if I could get away with it. -10/10 stars.

I bought a hardcopy of the sims 4 a few years back. I didnt fully understand the whole origin situation then so I didnt take my username and password seriously. Well here I am in the future and lost my account information so I made a new account to play my game. Turns out even if you own both discs to install and play the game you still will need to redeem a code, which I had access to, but it can only be redeemed once.... meaning if you lose your account information you're basically crap out of luck and crap out of $50 (original price). I contacted the support team, and there was nothing they could do unless I could access some obscure email from years ago... I even offered to answer security questions, but alas.... that is not an option. So I would recommend not buying any games that require origin until they fix all the crap! I can admit that its irresponsible of me to lose my account info, but as an adult I cant help but think of the literal children that would probably do the same. Origin is garbage and steals peoples money. Zero stars!

Most fustrating bit of buggy software around, 30min into game crash... Restart from the begining again as many games don't have autosave function. Repeat cycle until you give up...Gave 3/10 as it has many of the games I love to play, which makes the buggy impossible process all the more fustrating.Sort your s**t out EA other providers have so much more funtionality to thier software and don't crash all the F***ING time.

So ... this is shit. I had Origin installed as i have all my gaming platforms and play the games i need when i want. ORIGIN WANTS TO START WHEN WINDOWS STARTS and I don't want that. I disabled this but it auto enabled it. I disable this feature not once, not twice but 15 fucking times. i decided to only install the fucking Origin when I need to play a game and quickly uninstall it as it is trash. They don't understand that if they want to stay, it is time to step up their game. The worst gaming platform a gamer could ever want. If they didn't have decent games, people would forget them in a max 1 year time. Apparently this site is crap also. Wants me to have a fucking verified email ... asking them to send the fucking verification already - still not there 10 minutes later - crap all over - no wonder shit site does reviews for shit platform. Maybe together they will make either a giant Turd or diarrhea

Absolute garbage!I hate this program so much, every f***ing time i go to play it needs an update, and it keeps reseting my password, Steam is the way to go

So I’m a big fan of the sims, I've downloaded the sims 4 3 years ago since then I ALWAYS had problem in launching the game or saving or bugs. Pretty much all the times you have to update the game witch can take up to 30 min. When a problem comes up with the game either EA and Origin take days, weeks to fix it, so you cant play till they do and there is no email support. I had to delete all my saving a couple of times, really frustrating... The point is that i have paid for something that i CAN'T use when I want to....