A petition to close down EA would be better.

I don't think anyone needs to resort to petitions or even writing complaints on forums and social media to show EA that they are doing something wrong... If they really are doing something wrong. After all, almost everything they do seems to lead to market success, so is it really wrong? They seem to be supplying a range of customers with products they apparently crave in a way that is both lucrative for them and seemingly unobtrusive to the average customer. More power to them! Clearly, users like you who even care about the fact that they need two accounts and two programs to get the privilege to launch the $60 product they bought are few and far between and are deemed worthless in the eyes of multi-million dollar company like EA.

... For the record, If this were the 90s, the average consumer would have laughed at the two client requirement and moved on. No petition required, the games would just bomb.

Personally, I don't care for their games, I don't care for Origins, Steam or any other sort of client I need to install to use software I purchased for full price. So their arrival on Steam means absolutely nothing to me personally as a consumer.

As someone who loves following the industry though, this is interesting because it hints at sales on Origin falling behind. Surprised that they didn't side with Epic like Ubisoft did. Also funny that consumers are celebrating this anti-consumer move, but that's what life is like in the hyperconsumer cyberpunk future of 2019! Not complaining, just saying!

That's more the fault of BioWare. The DLC for the games they developed was gated behind "BioWare points" and not "pay this sum, get this content" like any mildly reasonable developer would've done.

I think they flushed away the BioWare points and it's now possible to purchase the DLC directly through Origin but that's a small comfort to those who had to deal with the points at all.

Funny thing is the DLC is still only available individually with Bioware Points. I know because there's one DLC I still need for ME3 (Omega) but it's $15 worth of Bioware Points and that's never gonna happen. There are "DLC bundles" for real money available for each game, with everything included, for I think $20. I keep expecting that to go on sale for $5 or something so I can get it, but I've never noticed it doing so.

Yeah, that was the main complaint thrown against the points (or at least a common one, that I can recall) - that they rarely, if ever, went on sale for PC users and it frequently pissed off players looking to get DLC content for the games that used them. It's strange to think that DLC has become so commonplace at this point and storefronts still mismanage how to distribute it to users effectively.