Aside from the ideological reasons for not installing the Origin client, are there others? I'm wary of clients such as these installing loads of additional software and wondering if the Origin client is guilty of the same?
Not a risk I am willing to take, no matter how good the deal may seem. What is very sad (for me anyway since I only want The Sims) is that the Sims is available on Steam, yet there will not be a Steam unlock code for it.