The rotten orange origin platform that has been criticized by players for a long time is about to transform.
Mike Blank, senior vice president of EA, said in an interview with foreign media recently that the Origin game platform on the PC side has plans to change its name to EA Desktop App. After the name change, the player's account, games and friends list will be retained.
A month ago, Origin's paid subscription game system "Origin Access" just became "EA Play", and the introduction of EA desktop use can be described as a matter of course.
Origin platform was officially launched on 20 1 1, which integrated the functions of EA store and download manager and became the unified distribution channel of EA's games on the PC side. At the beginning of design, there was a willingness to benchmark the Steam platform.
In 20 12, Peter Moore, then chief operating officer of EA, said in an interview: "In the future digital world, the ability to build your own platform with consumers is very important."
However, when Moore left EA at 20 17, his high hopes for Origin never reached the height of Steam.
Moore has worked in Sega, Microsoft, EA and other game companies, and is currently the CEO of Liverpool Football Club in the Premier League.
EA has made many masterpieces in the past nine years, but Origin has become the threshold for players to get in touch with these masterpieces.
Poor user experience and frequent bugs make Origin criticized by players; Since EA has never set up a server node in Chinese mainland, Origin has always been famous for a large number of network problems that are difficult for domestic players to solve.
The writing and pronunciation of "Origin" is similar to that of Orange. Origin's icon is orange with a circle inside, so the nickname "rotten orange" has gradually spread among domestic players.
Ubisoft's game platform Uplay also has a problem similar to rotten orange, and it is also ridiculed by players as "PlayU".
As long as you have experienced it yourself, you will understand that Origin is rotten there. The use of "rotten orange" is like the game of "Sugar Bean Man", and every link is an insurmountable barrier.
Just pretending to be Origin is enough to deter some players. Origin uses an online installation package and needs to download a certain amount of data to complete the installation. It usually takes tens of minutes to download these data.
The slogan at the bottom of the download progress bar reminds players that "the download speed is really fast because of the latest technology", which seems to be a complete mockery of the players who are just waiting.
After installing the platform, the next obstacle is the login interface. Another group of players are eliminated here, even if they enter the correct account password, they have to face the next two situations, each with a 50% probability.
The first case is "unable to log in online at present".
The second situation is "sorry, we have technical problems at present, please try again later." But it is still useless for players to restart the platform or even the computer before trying to log in.
Try a few more times, and the verification code page will appear, which will not save the player from asking "Are you human?"
Some players who successfully logged in still can't use the platform normally. The original platform interface is white, leaving only one more line of black characters to represent the next challenge that players face:
"Well, something unexpected happened. Origin had a problem loading the page. Please try reloading the page.
Fortunately, for senior "rotten orange" users, this "unexpected" is also reasonable. Removing the system disk and deleting the cache can solve the problem.
However, even the most experienced users will make mistakes when downloading games. Many players report that the download speed of Origin is extremely slow, which is just a basic operation; Sometimes the download progress bar will suddenly roll back to 0% and start downloading from scratch, and all the efforts are in vain.
What's more, the download progress bar broke through 100% and continued to rise, but there was no sign of download completion.
Coupled with the off-line friend interface, unable to open the game, unable to load the game library and other common problems, the feedback of "rotten oranges" seems to have become the daily task of the player community.
In fact, not only domestic players think that "rotten oranges" are "rotten", but foreigners also post complaints about the strange origin every day.
The origin part of Reddit forum has a steady stream of questions and feedback posts.
Vice President Blanco also considered the problem of saving "rotten oranges". In an interview, he said that the use of EA desktop will bring visual innovation through a brand-new user interface, and at the same time bring players a "smooth and highly social experience", so that they can establish contact with people who want to play games together in the games they want to play, and provide the best space for this.
Since there is no further information release, we can only hope that the credibility of the last sentence is higher than the "very, very fast" installation interface. Blanco stressed that there is nothing wrong with socializing. Rotten oranges lack too many social elements compared with Steam; However, a platform that is difficult for players to use and the friend interface fails all the year round must not carry too many "social elements".
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This paper introduces a solution of "unable to log in online at present" on the orange platform, hoping to help everyone.
The orange platform cannot log in, and the solution of "temporarily unable to log in online" is displayed:
Open Run-enter% appdata %- delete all the contents of the Origin folder under the roaming and local folders.
Then start oranges. Try it if you have any questions!