Let me guess, by making games into a service - that's better, right?
They've been talking about it forever - and it seems to fit the EA profile perfectly.
ROTFLThe only way to fix the issue was to download a crack to be able to play my legally bought Steam version of Alice Madness Returns.
TLDR = FUCK EA!
ROTFL
I can't now remember which game it was, IIRC it wasn't EA but uPlay game that also refused to work without a crack.
In fact the crack was that good it became a part of the official patch, something like that. If only I could remember which game was that exactly, but I remember many sites wrote about the whole thing.
We need to persuade EA and Ubi to stop torturing us with uPlay and Origin somehow. But I have no idea how to make them listen, maybe someone does?