The Rotten Orange platform changed its name

Can I change my name and change my luck?

The origin platform of "Rotten Orange", which has been criticized by players for a long time, is about to change its appearance.

Mike Blank, senior vice president of EA, said in a recent interview with foreign media that the Origin game platform on the PC has plans to be renamed EA Desktop App. After changing the name, the player's account, game, and friend list will be retained.

A month ago, Origin's paid subscription game system "Origin Access" had just become "EA Play", and the launch of EA desktop use was a matter of course.

Origin platform was officially launched in 2011, combining the functions of the previous EA store and download manager, becoming a unified distribution channel for EA's games on the PC side. From the beginning of the design, there was a desire to benchmark the Steam platform.

In 2012, Peter Moore, then chief operating officer of Electronic Arts, said in an interview: "In the future digital world, the ability to build your own platform with consumers is crucial."< /p>

However, when Moore left EA in 2017, Origin, which he had high hopes for, never reached the heights of Steam.

Moore has worked for Sega, Microsoft, EA and other game companies, and is currently the CEO of the Premier League Liverpool Football Club.

EA has released many masterpieces in the past nine years, but Origin has become the threshold for players to access these masterpieces.

Origin has been criticized by players for its poor user experience and frequent bugs; because EA has never set up server nodes in mainland China, Origin has always been known for a large number of network problems that are difficult to solve among domestic players.

"Origin" is written and pronounced similarly to "Orange". Origin's icon is orange with a circle inside, so the nickname "Bad Orange" gradually spread among domestic players.

Uplay, the Ubisoft game platform that has similar problems as Rotten Orange, has also been ridiculed as "PlayU" by players.

As long as you have experienced it yourself, you will understand that Origin is rotten. The process of using "Rotten Orange" is like the game "Fall Bean Man", every link is an insurmountable barrier.

Just installing Origin is enough to dissuade some players. Origin uses an online installation package, which requires downloading a certain amount of data to complete the installation. Downloading this data usually takes tens of minutes.

The slogan at the bottom of the download progress bar reminds players that "because of the latest technology, the download speed is really, really fast", which seems to be a comprehensive mockery of players who are just waiting.

After installing the platform, the next hurdle is the login interface. Another group of players are eliminated here. Even if they enter the correct account password, they will face the next two situations, each with a 50% probability.

The first situation is "Cannot log in online at the moment".

The second situation is "Sorry, we are currently experiencing technical problems, please try again later." However, the player restarts the platform or even tries to log in again after the computer, but it still does not help.

After trying a few more times, the verification code page appears, and there is no need to ask the player "Are you a human?"

Some players who successfully logged in still cannot use the platform normally. . The original platform interface was white, leaving only an extra line of black characters to represent the next challenge faced by the player:

"Well, something unexpected happened. There was a problem loading the Origin page, please try to reload it. Page. "

Fortunately, for experienced "Rotten Orange" users, this kind of "unexpectedness" is also reasonable. Going to the system disk and deleting the cache can solve the problem.

However, even the most experienced users can make mistakes when downloading games. Many players report that the download speed of Origin is extremely slow, and it is only for basic operations; sometimes the download progress bar will suddenly roll back to 0% and start downloading from the beginning, and all the efforts will be in vain.

What’s more, the download progress bar exceeded 100% and continued to rise, but there was no sign of the download being completed.

Coupled with common problems such as the offline friend interface, the inability to open the game, and the inability to load the game library, feedback on "rotten orange" problems seems to have become a daily task for the player community.

In fact, not only domestic players think "Rotten Orange" is "bad", foreigners also post every day complaining about the strange origin.

A steady stream of feedback posts on the Reddit forum origin section

Vice President Blanco also considered the issue of saving "Rotten Oranges". He said in an interview that EA Desktop will bring visual innovation through a new user interface, while giving players a "smooth and highly social experience" that allows them to play the games they want to play with the people they want to play with. people to connect with and provide the best space for that.

With no further information released, we can only hope that the last sentence is more credible than the "very, very fast" installation interface. Blanco’s emphasis on sociality is not wrong. "Orange" lacks too many social elements compared to Steam; but a platform that is difficult for players to use and whose friend interface is malfunctioning all year round must not be able to carry too many "social elements." Related Q&A: Battlefield 1 Orange Tips_Online login is currently not available. What should I do? This article introduces a solution to the "Online login is currently not available" on the Orange platform. I hope it will be helpful to everyone.

The Orange platform cannot be logged in, and "Online login is currently not available" is displayed. Solution:

Open "Run" - enter %appdata% - delete the Roaming and LOCAL folders All contents in the Origin folder.

Then start Orange again and try it if there is any problem!