No, it's not doing badly as such, many people are forced to install Origin for the latest EA games, but it's nowhere close to Steam. Right now at this moment there are 5 million logged in, with a peak of 8 million users yesterday. It's not just a game distribution platform, but a market, trading forum, indie game publisher platform, screen casting platform, upcoming OS etc etc. EA has seen what a good digital platform can achieve, and now it wants in.