So, Origin has gotten rid of "On the House."

[kane_magus]

Aside from if I ever reinstall The Sims 3 and/or 4 at some point in the nebulous future, On the House was pretty much the only reason I had to even remotely bother with occasionally booting up Origin (which I would do whenever I got an email via r/onthehouse via IFTTT saying that a new free game had been made available).

Apparently, On the House was replaced with Origin Access, some kind of shitty subscription service. "Just $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year."

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[owsf2000]

Having not given Origin even a second thought (the first thought being "EA? Hahaha. Nope.") I suppose I'm more surprised they were willing to give away freebies at all.

According to that reddit thread though, it's not that On The House was -replaced- with Origin Access. It was simply removed with nothing gained, as Access was already a thing before they axed it.

I'm guessing the suits were sitting around a table wondering how they could possibly make Origin Access more attractive without losing a penny. "Hey, why don't we take away the freebies and make them a part of Access?! THAT'S A GREAT IDEA!!!"

Well, nothing lost in my case, but I can't say I'm surprised they did this.