As far as piracy I wish they did things like some older consoles. Like the PlayStation and on of the Spiral games for example. A YouTuber made a video about this that I saw the other day where, if you pirate the game, it will make you lose progress on the way and if you have the patience to make it to the final boss it will send you back to the beginning having lost all progress. We need more companies that do that or some sort of similar thing. Now as far as using origin it is truly a headache. I'm glad I have my physical copies of the sims 3 and a base game prior to 2012 so I can play without origin. I really wish I could do the same for the sims 4. I mean I will admit it's nice going from my desktop to my laptop able to just load up the game nilly willy. But I don't know of the pros outweigh the cons at least for me