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Re:Starcraft II goes free-to-play seven years after launch by theandrewbailey on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:08PM (#15647038)
Origin has been selling third party games for many years. They sell Assassin's Creed and lots of indies.

https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/browse?fq=publisher:u...

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Re:Starcraft II goes free-to-play seven years after launch by justanotherbody on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:17PM (#15649007)
I use origin for the limited set of exclusives (sim city, mass effect3) and consider it the poster child of what not to do

Admittedly my usage is low. However twice I have encountered installer errors regarding permission issues

It turned out origin never created the root installation folder. Manually creating it yielded a successful install. WAT?!

I won't be buying anything further requiring origin until 2019 at the earliest.

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