RE: Origin

Nothing will happen to your game. If the game were on Steam, Valve could conceivably do the same thing since plenty of people have had games "pulled" from their accounts; likewise with Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

If you have any intention of supporting BioWare, then buy the game at release (or whenever you plan on playing the game), and if these allegations of Origin removing games become true for Andromeda, then I think you'd be more justified in the act then (and only then, not before). However, I seriously doubt that EA would just up and remove a high profile release like Mass Effect a few years down the line, especially since the Vault (EA's back-catalog of games) is arguably the most valuable feature of their Access program.

You do realize in the Steam ToS that Valve withholds the legal right to terminate the service (and take all of your games) at anytime should they feel the need? This is a standard practice for all digital video game ownership. In reality, we don't "own" these games. We merely are purchasing a lease to play them. As far as Origin is concerned, it's not different from Steam, UPlay, Microsoft, or Sony. As long as you don't delete your account, yourself, the game will always be there.

I've had my Origin account since the service opened and I've never lost any games I've purchased.

as you say, but since i can't see it with my very own 2 eyes the only way to know for sure is for me to test it out. the question is should i do it and is it worth it?

or you could pirate them if it did happen (as in they screwed you over big time to fund their get-rich-quick schemes).

OK, then don't buy the game. Just wait. You don't need us or some spurious claims about Origin to justify your caution; it's simply in your best interest to not buy this game the day it comes out. Wait for reviews or a sale or even the inevitable GOTY edition. It can only ever benefit you (if we ignore multiplayer).

Piracy, however, is a serious issue, and shouldn't even be considered except in the case of archiving, which, as we've established, isn't a problem for Andromeda. 

If it happens, and it's a game I care about, then perhaps.

Until then, I won't condone pre-emptive piracy.

I really don't get why people trust one major corporation that has screwed over their customers, but then says they can't trust another major corporation that has screwed over their customers.

EA and Valve only care about money, if they start taking away people's purchased games without a good reason such as a trade embargo by the Federal Government they won't do it because it would destroy the service for then they have a track record of doing. By creating that example people won't put any faith into their system and stop buying there and would kill the business. Just like with Greenlight people lost faith in the system and now Valve came up with a new system that people are already criticizing.

Edit:

Just for perspective, I bought a game on a Steam sale and it placed the wrong version of the game on my account for I only got the standard version, but I bought the GoTY.  After spending five weeks trying to get help with the problem I decided it wasn't worth anymore of my time since the amount of hours I spent trying to deal with the horrible customer support from Valve probably cost me more money in my time then what I paid for the game.  I also had Valve ban my forum account because when The Witcher 2 was released I said "I wasn't very happy I would have to download basically the game again for a patch" and the reason for my banning was that I was promoting piracy.

Right. It's not enough that he wants to steal, he wants our approval for doing it too?

EA will never delete your games if you never buy them.

The meat of the potential issue is that when you "buy" a digital download game through Steam or Origin, you are not buying the game, you are buying the "right to play it".  The game can be removed from your library when official support for that game ends and legally that is fine, because you don't own the game.

EA could, for example, pull ME3 off Origin when MEA comes out.  This would "encourage" you to "purchase" MEA, since you can no longer play ME3.  And then when Mass Effect: Sagittarius-B comes out, they remove MEA and the cycle continues.

That said, until it starts to actually happen, it's no excuse for pirating.

Physical copies doesn't remove DRM, DLC to play, 24/7 internet connection.

If that ever happen then PC will revert back to piracy,  a battle they already lost in the past and round 2 would be any different ?