EA has taken the advice, suggestions, and complaints of the community into consideration to come up with a significant update to Origin. These are all functional changes mind you, like easier navigation through menus.
The Origin overlay will now have a clock added to it, so you can easily check the time. The friends list is no longer locked into Origin, but a separate window that you can move around for easier chatting. The download and install buttons have been moved to a new pop out window from the game. Also, the menus have been changed and include more options, like viewing your order history.
Origin 9.0 does add a little bit of customization. What you can do is change the image size with a slider at the top of the various games in your games library, that’s about it. Not a lot of changes there. This is still good though, as it seems it was community-driven, so hopefully EA will continue this sort of behavior in the future.
This update is not out yet, but I would bet that we can expect to see it in the near future. You can check out more about this here.
Still not heeding my advice then? Which is to get their heads out of their asses and come back to Steam.
Nope, don’t think they’re heeding that one.
That screenshot of Origin looks awfully empty. ): Those games would have more friends on Steam.
Yeah, a lot of the things in the update are already a feature of Steam…