Why origin..
origin has been the worst thing to happen to the sims. we used to be able to play wherever and whenever and now we gotta be shackled down by origin 24/7. so now here I am waiting for some stupid glitc...
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"Writin_Reg;c-17091910" wrote:
How you play - off line or online makes no difference at all but apparently you think it does so it gives you a since of some kind of sense of security - that really does not exist.
This is not exactly true assuming you don't use software that does collect your data. If your game is not tied to specific client like Steam or Origin (or basically, in other words, is DRM-free), no one except for MS (if you use Windows OS) and hardware companies can collect your data.
Anyway, it's worth noting that besides sharing data with other companies, EA and many IT companies in US do share your data with American and in some cases with Israeli government (mainly, Intel and AMD) just as well, but I'm pretty sure anyone knows that already. Of course there are also Chinese that also collect your data and share it with their own government. But same happens with your Internet provider and VPN providers too.
"Writin_Reg;c-17091910" wrote:
EA does a good job at keeping their players safer and their info protected than some companies do.
There were plenty of Origin user data leaks (mainly passwords what actually matters) that happened through various backdoors/exploits/security breaches. In fact, even Intel & AMD CPUs backdoor opens possibility for security risks from hackers, but closed and hard to reverse-engineer technology kind of serves like a protection against them, at least for now. There are some issues with Google too, actually, mainly it's related to a couple of specific things which are not that easy to figure out, but otherwise all your data (like emails and other stuff) is freely available to anyone on the web.
They might be better than some, but there are still better companies when it comes to this, Steam is definitely one of better ones, though Steam too (but rarely) had security breaches that were caused by bugs. The last one I remember was related to all users being able to access other random user accounts instead of their own by clicking on "account details" link.
