Steam Got where it did because of half life 2, I didn't want that at all with HL2, then it was successful because of bargains.
I like Origin, it's actually good for steam to have competition, and they have sales. It's a worse than steam for sure. They let you use old game keys and activate them too. I lost my Crysis 2 CD and it let me activate it, I activated my Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 1, Dead Space 2, CD as well.
They both have some of the same annoying problems... They both don't let you uninstall useless DLC.
I've never really had anything crash because of origin. If you look at footprint, I'm not sure if this is always the case. My origin Footprint is 72,000kb vs steams 108,000kb
I'd rather have box copies with no DRM, unfortunately I know thats not going to happen.
