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Weird how we knew that'd happen as soon as they announced it.

Layers of garbage to play simple stuff.

Are they? Do EA games bought on Steam not require an Origin account any more? They did last time I checked, but that was a while ago, lately I've just been ignoring EA titles.

Yes and no, bought an EA game on Steam sale recently and starting it opens an Origin modal asking to update. AFAIK the options were 'update' 'auto update' and 'offline'. Offline did not work at all as you need to login in the next step.

Spent a while considering whether to just return the game, eventually gave in, updated, and made an Origin account.

I've asked Steam support to remove a purchased game from my list once. Not refund, just remove it so I don't ever see it again.

It was some ubisoft title that i bought, forgot 6 months about it, then started up and found out it requires UPlay. I have the same opinion about Origin.