What is wrong with origin?

Having the same issue. What I can tell you is that you can launch the games directly from the locations on your PC. That worked fine for me.

Okay, I'll try again. Have you registered your game to your Origin account?

Origin doesn't have any more issues than any other DRM platform. A lot of users do things like this:

-- Bought a game (on disk) way back when they had an aol email account. Registered the game using that email and their parents' mailing address.
-- Grew up, moved away, got a hotmail account. Bought another game (on disk) and registered it with that address and email.
-- Bought another game on disk, installed it, didn't register it. Now have a gmail account and live in a different state. Complains that the Origin account they just opened doesn't recognize their games.

Is any of this familiar?

Another problem some people have is that they've bought different games at different times under multiple Origin accounts.

I bought DAO on a Steam sale and copied the Steam key to Origin. I can install and play the game using either platform. I have an older EA game on a disk (never registered) that wore out - but since I kept the original packaging (with the CD key), I was able to register it to my Origin account and use it that way. I bought several ME DLCs (BioWare points, actually) through amazon and copied the keys into Origin.

Unless you actually bought a game through Origin, you need to input the CD key into Origin to register it to that account.

Hmmh I had no problem launching MEAMP yesterday night, but I saw many others had problems. They tried to log off/log on etc. but it didnt work. So something was off..

I think there was a a DDoS attack yesterday against the EA servers so that could have been your problem. If you are still having issues use the chat support for unlike Steam I found them to be competent and helpful. There might also be a faux DDoS attack right now with the amount of people trying to use online services and just the number of people trying to play a game is causing the servers to react as if it was a DDoS attack. I haven't had any issues with Origin recently, but I didn't try playing anything yesterday.

As far as DLC for Mass Effect 2 they haven't patched the game in years so it would take you to the old store because that is how you used to buy it. You just need to have the same email address for the forums and your account for it to register.

This is easily fixable. You can change the email address so long as you know your account info. I think so, anyway. I'd check but I'm too busy reinstalling ME2 (removed absolutely every trace of it from my PC) because I've been having non-stop crash issues on the Archangel mission.