New EA Origin interface is live after extended beta test
The new design makes the service a lot easier to use ... and tolerate.
Electronic Arts has known that it needed to upgrade Origin. There were plenty of complaints about about clunky and unintuitive the service was. In late July, word got out that an update was in beta, and much of what was shown offered hope that EA had heard the cries and lamentations of users.
Now, the new design is out in the wild, having been in the works for two and a half years, with 10 developers working on the storefront since September of last year.
As always, EA said it will continue to take feedback, but the new changes look pretty good, and going form checking your library to finding friends online seems a lot easier than it was before.
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John Keefer posted a new article, New EA Origin interface is live after extended beta test
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Notable improvement, DLC is mostly now visible (though hidden away under a separate tab), BioWare points are still around but now appear to be consolidated and sale codes universally apply to them, which is an improvement.
However the interface still doesn't support window snapping and the minimum window size is still about 60% of 1920.
At least Win+↓ now actually restores? Though I guess they could argue that Origin doubled the support for snapping related behaviors since previously only Win+↑ worked.
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