@ZeForgotten said:

So? Log in just one time during those two years and it'll be fine. *looks around' ... oh wait, sorry, I now realized how awfully hard that must be for some of the people around here.

I have plenty of games that I haven't played in 2 years. If that happens to be the games I have on EADM/Origin, I lose those games? There's nothing consumer-friendly about that when Valve has no similar stipulation.

If you have not used your Entitlements or Account for twenty four (24) months or more and your Account has associated Entitlements, your Entitlements will expire and your Account may be cancelled for non-use.

Or. May. Who here understands what those words mean? You don't have to use every game you have linked to it, just use the account in any fashion whatsoever once during a two year period and you are fine. I'm not defending Origin because frankly I don't plan to use it at all, but some people here fail at reading comprehension and are trying to sensationalize stuff way too much.

And if spending less than thirty seconds to log in to a service once during a two year period is asking too much of you, well, you have other problems. Holy hell.

@Aronman789 said:

2 years is a pretty long time, just sayin.

I know right lol, what are you doing where this is actually an issue.

Ha! Whatta bunch of pricks.

@Aronman789 said:

2 years is a pretty long time, just sayin.

I know right lol, what are you doing where this is actually an issue.

@Azteck said:

@Jeffsekai said:

@Aronman789 said:

2 years is a pretty long time, just sayin.

I know right lol, what are you doing where this is actually an issue.

You're saying you play all your game at least once every two years? I know it says "may" but still. It's pretty ludicrous.

I'm saying I log into xbox live or steam once a year.

@GuyIncognito said:

@roughneck117 said:

Found this on Reddit. Hopefully this isnt true, but it looks pretty real, and if it is, its a fucking dick move of epic proportion.

So as I understand it, if you dont log into Origin for 2 years, the account gets deleted, and you cant get it back. Can anyone back me up or correct me if im wrong?? Anyone bitten by a radioactive lawyer recently??

I'm not a lawyer, but if it's true, then the only suitable retaliation -- after having your content taken away -- is bittorrent.

People like you... Urgh, the nerve! There are better solutions than bittorrent, like direct downloads or usenet :P

Hey guess what? The internet is still incapable of making a non-kneejerk reaction to something somebody interpreted for them with an intentional spin.

@MrKlorox: Follow the link. Then interpret it for me. Seriously. If I made any mistake with the interpretation, correct me. I have no problem with having a mistake or misconception corrected.

@VilhelmNielsen said:

Were anyone planning on using Origin anyway?

Nope. This seals the issue.

Solution: buy your games on discs.

@ajamafalous said:

@ZeForgotten said:

So? Log in just one time during those two years and it'll be fine. *looks around' ... oh wait, sorry, I now realized how awfully hard that must be for some of the people around here.

I have plenty of games that I haven't played in 2 years. If that happens to be the games I have on EADM/Origin, I lose those games? There's nothing consumer-friendly about that when Valve has no similar stipulation.

Sucks to be you then. I just took all my EA games that I bought on steam and added them to origin, so now I don't even have to launch a silly client to run the games. So at least I'll be using it a lot and this won't happen to me. Still can't see what's so hard about just opening Origin and log in for a second or two and log out again but I guess that's just me

they distinguish between Content and Entitlements. That's weird. Then they talk about redeeming entitlements. Whatever. Not worth my time or money to bother figuring out and using it.

Pretty much have sworn off EA anyway because of their buggy DRM. I can just rent the next mass effect.

@ZeForgotten said:

@ajamafalous said:

@ZeForgotten said:

So? Log in just one time during those two years and it'll be fine. *looks around' ... oh wait, sorry, I now realized how awfully hard that must be for some of the people around here.

I have plenty of games that I haven't played in 2 years. If that happens to be the games I have on EADM/Origin, I lose those games? There's nothing consumer-friendly about that when Valve has no similar stipulation.

Sucks to be you then. I just took all my EA games that I bought on steam and added them to origin, so now I don't even have to launch a silly client to run the games. So at least I'll be using it a lot and this won't happen to me. Still can't see what's so hard about just opening Origin and log in for a second or two and log out again but I guess that's just me

Because, like I said, there's no reason for me to put myself in that situation when Valve has no similar stipulation.

Having to "launch a silly client to run the games" isn't an issue for me because I literally always have Steam open if my computer is on.

@VilhelmNielsen said:

Were anyone planning on using Origin anyway?

Nope. This seals the issue.

they distinguish between Content and Entitlements. That's weird. Then they talk about redeeming entitlements. Whatever. Not worth my time or money to bother figuring out and using it.

Pretty much have sworn off EA anyway because of their buggy DRM. I can just rent the next mass effect.

@JoeyRavn said:

@GuyIncognito said:

@roughneck117 said:

Found this on Reddit. Hopefully this isnt true, but it looks pretty real, and if it is, its a fucking dick move of epic proportion.

So as I understand it, if you dont log into Origin for 2 years, the account gets deleted, and you cant get it back. Can anyone back me up or correct me if im wrong?? Anyone bitten by a radioactive lawyer recently??

I'm not a lawyer, but if it's true, then the only suitable retaliation -- after having your content taken away -- is bittorrent.

People like you... Urgh, the nerve! There are better solutions than bittorrent, like direct downloads or usenet :P

Demonoid... if you can get a invite but thats not to hard.. But for EA to delete an account and everything on it after 2 years of innactivity is stupid. When i first got CS i played it for like a month then dropped it for a good 3 years, not using steam at all for anything. I came back to it a few years ago and they still had it after all that time and ever since i have given them everything my wallet can spare in thanks for how awesome they are.. why cant EA learn from other's for once?

But will they keep your credit card information? 
 
The answer is ALL OF IT.

You mean the company that is selling online passes while turning off online servers?

@CrimsonNoir: BUT WHAT ABOUT IN MY HYPOTHETICAL SCENARIO I HYPOTHETICALLY DID SOMETHING HYPOTHETICAL THAT HYPOTHETICALLY HAS NO HYPOTHETIC EFFECT ON ME. HYPOTHETICALLY.

If you haven't used your Origins account for two years you will probably never use it again.

How does Valve get it so right with Steam, and companies like EA and Microsoft get it so wrong with GFWL and Origin?

I'm not surprised.  Companies will ream you if you give them the chance and it seems a lot of folks make excuses or don't mind. 

This whole thing just seems ridiculous. I can't think of any good reason to put that feature in.

If someone does not use their Origin account for two years it has most likely been abandoned. Two years is a fair amount of time in my opinion to let an account be inactive.

Oh EA you wacky guys you.

It's important to note that they say that they may cancel your account, not that they will, there's plenty of evil things companies may do under their ToS, and that stuff is really only there for legal technicalities. The bit that I find kinda weird about this is that they don't say that your entitlements may expire, they say that your entitlements will expire. Oh and to those saying it's not hard to log on every two years, you're right, but EA still shouldn't be able to take away all your stuff for you not doing so. I hope they revise their ToS on this one or at very least make it clear to customers that there's an account expiry time.

The people saying they don't plan on ever using Origin are likely going to have to at some point or another if they want to buy certain content.  It's not hard to extrapolate that the real reason for Origin existing is so EA can eventually release DLC for their games exclusively on their own service (which is, also speculatively, the reason for EA taking certain games of theirs off of Steam and not planning to release certain others on Steam at all, such as BF3 - Origin would allow them to release DLC on their own service for games bought through Steam, which Valve no doubt didn't like one bit), with the games having been mandatorily tied to your Origin account regardless of where you bought them.
 

Sure, it sounds terrible, but as others have said... 2 years is an incredibly long time to purchase and then not play a game.

It's still some BS, and needless jerk-ism, but it really isn't going to affect 99.99% of people.

Other than the 2 years thing, it's standard internet contract shit, it's not like other companies don't put equally retarded things in these contracts; just that no one wants to look for the dumb shit like they do for Origin because they've already decided they hated it and need a reason...if you don't play any games on your account for 2 years you probably don't give much of a shit, and the rest is standard BS.

That is kinda sucky but given the fact that EA are really pushing Origin into people's faces (and the fact that they've got a lot of companies under their belt) it's very likely that you'll end up buying at least one of their games each year and use Origin in the process. It's inevitable really, but having said that, I'm sticking to Steam since they can do things "better".

I read the Origin FAQ and found this.

this is a direct copy from

http://www.origin.com/faq

hope this helps

This is lame. If Valve had the same policy, I would have already lost all of my games on Steam, and Valve would have lost a customer. Now that I'm gaming again, I regularly purchase games on Steam. In fact, it's my preferred way to buy games. I wasn't planning on ever using Origin, unless forced to, so I guess this isn't a big deal for me. However, if they force me to get Origin to play SimCity, and I somehow lose my game after not playing it for a while, I'll be angry. They had better put SimCity on Steam.

If you don't use Origin for 2 years then you probably don't care if it gets deleted.

@spparrtaan117 said:

I read the Origin FAQ and found this.

this is a direct copy from

http://www.origin.com/faq

hope this helps

Definitely worth bumping a topic over a year old

That's fucking terrible. I'm already bound and determined to not use Origin because of the redownloading hassle. Now I'm even more determined not to.

BEFORE YOU GUYS GO FUCKING NUTS, read this:

someone bumps a topic over a year old to show that the threat is not that actual people's accounts will be deleted and other people ignore the bump post and jump on the 'Fuck EA!' train...

well, I wasn't going to use their shitty service, anyway :/