Origin

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2013–2022), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Origin, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Buggy and slow game store client2022-03-07
Reserved single-letter variables silently change values; no documentation of which are special2020-05-21
Terrible UX in its game-integrated features, described as far worse than Steam2017-01-03
Accepts plus-addressed emails at sign-up but rejects them at sign-in, leaving account unusable2014-05-21
Too many clicks needed to launch and play a game2013-04-25