User blog comment:Dragonfly18/Origin required to play Battlefield 3/@comment-1786471-20110816172058

I've had a bad first experience in Origin. I needed to download a patch for NFS Shift 2, so I went online to find the .exe file. It wasn't there, so after 10 mins of looking around I discovered you needed to download Origin. So I did that, made a new account, then spent about 20 mins looking for the patch, because they don't make it easy. You can't update with a click of the mouse like Steam, you need to look for the patch, so you need to search the exact name of said patch, not the game it's associated with. EA could not have made this any more user-unfriendly.