In an interview with Kotaku, EA’s Chief Operating Officer Peter Moore asks skeptical customers to give digital distribution upstart Origin another two years before it gets really good.

Moore claims that this extra time will allow EA to, “add social layers so there is value to the consumer, so it doesn’t feel like, in their words, ‘something that is mandatory that I don’t want’.”

Origin stumbled out of the gate when language in the end user license agreement suggested that the program could spy on how someone used their computer. EA’s continued denial to offer their games on the storefront of their biggest competitor, Valve Software’s Steam, also comes off as a lame tactic for attracting users.

Moore also stresses that Steam had a rough start, and boy, do I remember that.

Valve launched Steam in 2003 as a requirement to play the new and improved multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike 1.6. Downloading the client, creating a new account, setting up a new friends list and finicky server isssues–all just to play Counter-Strike like before–drove my friends and I up the wall at the time.

Then, Steam started offering a vast amount of games for incredible prices, improved their social features, and won the eternal trust of PC gamers around the world.

Whether Origin can have a similar rise to greatness remains to be seen.