Re: Origin Points

@Straatford87 You really still need more input on how to do what with your own made up stuff after 3-4 years of not doing anything? Is the lack of quality original customer ideas and proposals really the problem? Doesn't EA pay some sort of PR or Design or Marketing person? Because this is rather easy to figure out and the only wrong answer really is doing nothing.

I have never said this, but look at UPlay, because they deal way better with their weird fake currency. If they can do it, why can't you? Even if it is just silly ingame items, backgrounds or stuff like that, at least they are doing something! https://support.ubi.com/en-us/Faqs/000012380/What-Are-Uplay-Units

I mean if the Origin Points are not good for anything, then why even have them?

Who needs originality when we can get games/dlc for free? :D

@mrmonsieurcgn

Of course we have our own ideas of what to do with the points. And it is clear that players would obviously be pleased with free games or DLC. But what we would also like to know from players like yourself, is if you would be happy with for example an Origin skin etc.

I personally hoped that it would be fun for you and other players to discuss Origin and its future. But I certainly understand if that is not your thing 🙂

Having said that, for us it currently isn't a matter of if we can do it, but rather the question of when. We've recently spend a lot of time updating the Origin client itself, which now opens up free time to make improvements elsewhere, such as with Points. It can also happen sometimes that developmental priorities change. For example, plans to completely overhaul the client might have not been made yet when we first introduced Points - do note that this part is just an example, as I wasn't present during the introduction of Points.

@BalanLiviu

Thanks for sharing!

@SplinterFrancis

Well, I completely agree there. You can never go wrong with free stuff! But we do already have our On The House promotions which offers free games, hence the question of what other type of stuff players would love to see 🙂

@Straatford87

I've got a proposal on how to use origin points:

Origin points could give you a certain origin "guild" rank. Reaching a certain "guild" rank could get you a coupon code of (for example) 5 euro or dollar which you can spend freely in the origin store. This gives you the joy of climbing in the ranks AND you will get a substantial reward for doing it. Another option is a seperate server for certain ranks where exclusive in game extra's could be obtained for certain games. The higher your rank, the more exclusive your reward will be.

@DarkBanishing

I like it.. 🙂

Thanks for sharing!

Origin points were implemented 3 years ago. In 3 years, with or without community input, one would think a purpose for them would have been in place by now.

My advice: Instead of looking for random community input in a forum topic tucked away in the Answer HQ forums, perhaps a public news announcement asking the community for input would be a better approach to gathering ideas.

So in 3 years, they are basically, still pointless. No pun intended.

How about custom skins for the origin client? You could use points to get a theme from a game you like or go even deeper and go into games and make some super goofy items for the sims or some cool dog tags for battlefield and so on that you could get with points. They wouldn't improve your gameplay but it would give you something that when you look at it you can say, yep I used my points on that and it was worth it xD

Just as a general point you mention, quote: "Or, when talking about getting free games or DLC with the points, elaborate a bit more about how you would see that working"

Well for the 1st point regards to having points and suggestions, the majority of people say FREE stuff, IE: DLC or indeed shortcut packs for games, inclusive dependent upon points you could also have skins or other smaller items.

But here is where your point comes into question, we the public who buy from origin are given to believe that origin points are worth something, the fact they are NOT and that its not clearly pointed out, im sure if it was clear at the start then most would not of purchased from origin.

Not to mention also as the general public, we are not developers, we do not know how you do things and have no control, so how can we see how things can work, its down to your team to tell us how it can or cannot work.

If you have a system of points collected for purchases made, then it should also be honoured by the fact they should be worth something, selling items on the principle that people are getting something and find they are not is somewhat controversial, but its an opinion only.

There are 100's of ways you can make the points work, by implementing a final product for which people can earn points for, give people a list of items they can purchase, including an extra 10/20 days on top of the 7 day free games, you can also include special items for in game like the skins or indeed weapons(dependent on the game), there are 100's of ways and ideas people can mention, but ultimately its down to origin, im pretty sure if they went with the majority vote people will be happy.

As i said, we are not origin, we are the purchasers, we have been given points after a purchase for which we cannot use.,

My opinion: I could have purchased elsewhere, and possibly saved money..But i chose origin because of the points....My mistake, something i wont do again in the future.

Why the Bloody hell would I want to spend points that I gained getting achievements in games on something stupid like an origin skin? you guys keep screwing up the bloody UI. and a "skin" isn't going to make it look any better

Hi Tom

I was a huge fanboy for EA at the "golden era"(2005-2011), but nevermind I come up with an idea with this origin points thing.

That would be good If we could spend these points on example I am playing with my friends in Battlefield 1 and I wanna buy that special weapon that the people could ONLY get with origin points or that weapon what I wanna get is a DLC weapon but we could get that with origin points or in the upcoming new Need For Speed which I am praying to god to please be a excellent game like the old most wanted or carbon, we could buy some decals,cool designs,cars with some origin points.Sorry for the long reply but I am really interested in that new NFS.

@UltimatePCAddict

Heya,

Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing your ideas - I will make sure that these get forwarded.

In the meantime, if you are for chatting more with us and other players, then we would love it if you could stop by on the newly opened Origin Community forums:

http://answers.ea.com/t5/News-Announcements/Introducing-the-Origin-Community/td-p/5900612

If you have any further questions, let me know!

Are Origin Points even real??

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@Sgtspite_UK wrote:

Are Origin Points even real??

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What else is a lie!? :D

I would like to get game extras like packs and such for origin points that seems reasonable instead of a origin skin or whole games . give up some of the packs for bf4 bf3 stuff like that

I think the best way to use these points will be to buy in-game stuff. For example, I want to buy some Fifa 17 Points, I have some Origin Points saved which would work perfectly to buy Fifa Points. It also encourages me to play the game more and use Origin for transaction. 

Can I add to this that EA/Origin actually had once intended to use the Points for purchase options?

I remember that I once wanted to buy a DLC part for my Dragon Age (or perhaps it was Mass Effect - Bioware for sure, though) and I had to buy it with 2500 points.

I gathered since then and wanted now to use them for something new and realized the option of using the Origin Points as currency was not available anymore.

(sorry for my bad english, by the way - I like this language a lot, but I am uncertain if my skill is sufficient for these sort of discussions already.

However, nothing ventured - nothing gained)

EA, seriously. Why did you step back from that?!

You could've broken through one of the most massive issues in the invention of game achievements! By making them viable!

Instead of just being there for braging rights, you could've given gamers the option of using them as money for buying additional dlcs for the games they own or

provide "on sale" options for purchasing new games over Origin itself.

Hell, you could even integrate your Origin Cards into this, too, providing points instead of real money! (like ESO's Crown Money Cards)

With achievement points being useful to players in a way, you would make them happy and gain not only a better reputation as a company from that.

You're wasting opportunities here!!

So, please, adress the once that are supervising this and get them to rethink this!

You could really improve gaming as a whole through that.

Not even World of Warcraft got such a step almost so right as you did there!

DO NOT WASTE IT!!

@EoniaBansbane

You are referring to Bioware Points. This is still an existent currency used to purchase DLC for our older Bioware titles.

I hope that in the near future you can use the Origin Points like at Ubisoft

Wait... where can I use my Origin points at UbiSoft?!

@DuplicateTrain4 @GermanCowboysFan

The comment referred to the hopes of Origin Points being usable within our client, similar to what's available in Uplay.

So Origin Points have been kicking around for at least 4 years now, and there is no explanation of what they are actually for?

I have 3905 of these points.  At least in Uplay I can use them from something useful.

@UncivilS3rvant

We're open to suggestions and thoughts in our Feedback Friday thread:

http://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Feedback-Friday/td-p/6030699

We're collecting all feedback relating to anything Origin on a weekly basis for review.