EA's Origin Service Required To Play Battlefield 3

I just hope origin WORKS by the time BF3 comes out, I had to jump through hoops to get airborn working, which I bought through origin, and STILL can't get BFBC2 to install properly through it. Also tech support takes about an hour to get on live chat, and even longer by phone. *shudder*

I don't mind buying EA games on the EA service but shit, make it work.

Also I cannot convert my BF2 cdkey from the physical copy I paid $60 for, but its on sale for $5 on origin WITH every expansion, and they "have no system" to let me swap my key for the origin sale, nor can I register it through origin because it is a "pre-2009" cdkey for BF2?

Some work to be done, for sure.
 
Blizzards games require Battle.net, so I don't see the problem here. There are game companies as big or bigger then Valve, and I'm sure they'll be making their own service as well. Do I like it? Hell no, but there's a lot of companies doing this. Who didn't think that more then one game company would try to mimic Valve's Steam?

The problem with this is that Steam is very good on prices and sales. I doubt Origin will have any sales, and Blizzards .net doesn't have any either.
 
i just logged into my EADM account and it updated to Origin, i am still waiting for something bad to happen
 
TwistedAegis said:
Do you really base your game buying decisions on whether or not you can play them in the airport?
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Given that I fly 200+ days a year now, yeah, it factors in to my purchase decision making a bit.

Titles that require 'net connections for single player are flat out off my list of games to buy.
 
Ashbringer said:
Blizzards games require Battle.net, so I don't see the problem here. There are game companies as big or bigger then Valve, and I'm sure they'll be making their own service as well. Do I like it? Hell no, but there's a lot of companies doing this. Who didn't think that more then one game company would try to mimic Valve's Steam?

The problem with this is that Steam is very good on prices and sales. I doubt Origin will have any sales, and Blizzards .net doesn't have any either.
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Blizzard also only deals with Blizzard type games. When I can start adding Guitar Hero to my Battle.net than that argument works. The idea of having games under one Umbrella system is a good move, folks just don't want all these Umbrellas for all these different titles is all.
 
The King of Pants said:
Given that I fly 200+ days a year now, yeah, it factors in to my purchase decision making a bit.

Titles that require 'net connections for single player are flat out off my list of games to buy.
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What is it you do that you fly so much if I can ask?

Reminds me of Fight Club where the guy talks about you wake up at LAX, Seatac, etc etc
 
8du8 said:
Whats funny is people will say they wont buy it, but they will. You will buy it and you will like it.
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Nope. When MW2 came out as a crappy console port for PC with no dedicated servers, I didn't buy that. When GTA4 or 5 or whatever required SecuROM I didn't buy that either.

If these game companies want to do their very best to convince me not to buy their game, I'll find something else do do with my time. Like hope the other guy who still plays L4D2 has logged in.
 
123Lanoix said:
God you people are so fuckin dumb! can't you see this is the way games sales and the market is going in general? all your fucking games are going to require a digital distrubution method. So ea wanted to create their own service and compete with steam so be it. If you actually tried origins you will find out that its not any different than steam its light weight doesn't use much resouces and operates exactly the same as steam. You can even say steam is a form of DRM. Your complaining about nothing and what you should be concerned with right now is BF3 a good game or not ? Not the fucking distrubution method you dumb shits!
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Most uninformed piece of unintelligible garbage written on these forums all week.

1) DD is years away from being the exclusive method of getting a game, if ever. To believe otherwise is living in a delusion.
2) A large percentage of customers still prefer physical media.
3) ISP bandwidth caps are getting more restrictive, not less. So long as their are caps, DD will never become dominate.

As for Origin
Don't like or use Steam, will not be forced into using Origin either. I had planned on buying Bf3, but if I am going to be forced to use what is tantamount to an Always on DRM scheme, I will continue my boycott of the BF series that I have maintained since BF2. There are enough good games out there that I don't have to put up with a company treating their paying customers like criminals.

So in short if Origin is forced on retail copies, I will be cancelling my pre-order. Doesn't bother me one bit.
 
Ashbringer said:
Blizzards games require Battle.net, so I don't see the problem here. There are game companies as big or bigger then Valve, and I'm sure they'll be making their own service as well. Do I like it? Hell no, but there's a lot of companies doing this. Who didn't think that more then one game company would try to mimic Valve's Steam?

The problem with this is that Steam is very good on prices and sales. I doubt Origin will have any sales, and Blizzards .net doesn't have any either.
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Battle.net doesn't install on my computer and open vulnerabilities either. That said, B.net 2.0 is a massive pile of poo compared to B.net 1.0. :(
 
Funny thing is I was thinking of picking it up and trying it out, even though I'm not really that into shooters. Requiring me to make yet ANOTHER fricken account with an online service, and be online to play a single player campaign, is a turn-off.

Looking more and more like my gaming days are coming to an end.
 
Aluisious said:
Nope. When MW2 came out as a crappy console port for PC with no dedicated servers, I didn't buy that. When GTA4 or 5 or whatever required SecuROM I didn't buy that either.

If these game companies want to do their very best to convince me not to buy their game, I'll find something else do do with my time. Like hope the other guy who still plays L4D2 has logged in.
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There are hundreds to thousands of games that used SecuROM. I guess you didn't buy any of those either.
 
I just got an e-mail from EA. They are letting me have Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 2, or Medal of Honor for free since I preordered BF3. :D
 
Now only if any of those games were actually good.

But hey, free is free.
 
I'm OK with this. The recent EA insider deals (got Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm on the cheap) finally convinced me to try Origin. While I strongly prefer steam, I can live with Origin.
 
Isn't it ironic that its main competitor (Modern Warfare 3) will almost certainly be SteamWorks, given its predecessors? :D:D
 
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Now only if any of those games were actually good.

But hey, free is free.
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This is a joke, right? Mass Effect 2 is an incredible game, one of my favs of all time. Dead Space 2 is nice too.
 
Ashbringer said:
The problem with this is that Steam is very good on prices and sales. I doubt Origin will have any sales, and Blizzards .net doesn't have any either.
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Origin has plenty of sales. Also the game is available from other digital distributors, who also have plenty of sales.
 
Yeah, I have to defend Origin on this point. I bought Mass Effect 2 for $9 and recently picked up Crysis 2 for $20. Theyre not setting the world on fire with sales like Steam does a couple times a year but they do have some good deals from time to time. Cant fault them for that.
 
Holding off getting BF3 now, no mod support really made me sad. I love the Project Reality mod and I'd love to see the Project Reality mod use the BF3 engine. I really don't like the idea of EA using Origin, unless Origin does a similar WoW launcher where it's not advertising other games and just launching the game, then that's not too bad.
 
Any word if BF3 or Origin has a max install limit.

Don't really care, since I never was a fan of Battlefield games. Just thinking what the most logical strike 3 would be...
 
DeathPrincess said:
Valve require steam to play their games :eek:
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EA is not Valve...... They are fundamentally different companies with vastly different motivations. While they both chase profit, they do it according to different rulesets. EA is beholden to the shareholders, Valve is beholden to noone but themselves.
 
Spire3660 said:
EA is not Valve...... They are fundamentally different companies with vastly different motivations. While they both chase profit, they do it according to different rulesets. EA is beholden to the shareholders, Valve is beholden to noone but themselves.
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They are both beholden to profits.
 
Valshistixol said:
They are both beholden to profits.
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As they should be. Valve's strategy is to put out good games and support them long term. EA's strategy is to put out as many shitty games as possible and trick people into buying them, while simultaneously acquiring a few good companies to make a couple good games.
 
Question: Can you stop it from starting when Windows starts? I was able to. I'm not sure what the big deal is. It's not going to take resources that way. It's not any different than Steam (other than Steams huge library). Sure, they have a few kinks to sort out. But, they take in customer reactions and suggestions to make it better. Just like any other service.

You guys are brutal.
 
Do not want, not that I was going to buy it anyway. I've been buying games on Steam lately, because it simplifies shit. Why do they feel the need to complicate things and lock users into crap?
 
Ur_Mom said:
Question: Can you stop it from starting when Windows starts? I was able to. I'm not sure what the big deal is. It's not going to take resources that way. It's not any different than Steam (other than Steams huge library). Sure, they have a few kinks to sort out. But, they take in customer reactions and suggestions to make it better. Just like any other service.

You guys are brutal.
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Don't care how many resources it does or does not take. Point is, I don't want to be forced to install something that has piss all to do with the retail box I am buying. I don't use Steam either. The only justifiable reason they want origin attached to BF3 is DRM. I will not have any game on my computer that has always on DRM.
 
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Meh :confused:
I've avoided any games that required steam over the years, and this comes as no surprise. The fact that everyone for the most part seems to have accepted this type of game management system (steam) made it inevitable other companies would eventually jump on the bandwagon.
 
Holy Crap...this went from must get on launch to "Meh...I'll wait till it's $20...or if it comes to Steam" (Due to not being on Steam), to now "Skipping this game". Man EA really knows how to take the wind out of their own sails. First they kill off a major revenue stream for their top-teir titles, and then they try to push their Origin service forcibly onto people who want to play BF3. They seem to want to do what Steam did with Half-Life 2...but, I don't care how awesome BF3 is....it's not Half-Life 2...and will not sell people to get another online game purchasing service...The saddest part is that this game was designed for PCs...and now that not only will they be missing an enormous revenue stream (Steam) they are also going to push away people uninterested in installing yet another Game-Store. This is going to KILL sales for this game. EA can then use the crap sales of BF3 as an excuse to focus on console as clearly PC gamers aren't interested in their games....Nice Problem, Reaction, Solution you created on your own there EA...why do they hate PC Gamers so much?
 
You know what EA would have to do to make everyone happy and nobody mad?


  1. Release the game standalone just like BF1942. Even not putting it on Steam would have been acceptable.
  2. Release mod tools, just like BF1942
  3. Release dedicated server software (not server rentals), just like BF1942

Almost nobody would have had any serious gripes about the game or EA themselves.
There would be nitpicks, sure, but not the outcry that we see today.
 
fattypants said:
You know what EA would have to do to make everyone happy and nobody mad?


  1. Release the game standalone just like BF1942. Even not putting it on Steam would have been acceptable.
  2. Release mod tools, just like BF1942
  3. Release dedicated server software (not server rentals), just like BF1942

Almost nobody would have had any serious gripes about the game or EA themselves.
There would be nitpicks, sure, but not the outcry that we see today.
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We Have a Winner!

Exactly, we might nitpick things..but we would be buying it, playing it and happily nitpicking.
 
EA: BATTLEFIELD IS BACK, BABY!
Fans: Do we get 64 players?!
EA: Hell yeah!
Fans: SAWEEEET! How about jets?
EA: You know it!
Fans: WOOT! How about mods?!
EA: No. You're too stupid to mod BF3...oops, what I mean is that our tools are much too complex for simpletons like yourselves.
Fans: Um, ok. Well how about server software?
EA: Nope.
Fans: Well, that kinda sucks, but I'll still preorder on Steam.
EA: Eh, about that...
Fans: What?
EA: Not happening.
Fans: Fine, I'll get it on Amazon
EA: Why bother? You have to install our program to play anyway.
Fans: STOP THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW
EA: Also we have a lot of retailer-specific DLC in store
Fans: I SAID STOP
EA: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL THANKS FOR THE STOCK DIVIDENDS BITCH
 
DeathPrincess said:
Valve require steam to play their games :eek:
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Valve continues to support games long after they are out. You don't have to worry about your game still working, when a new edition comes out. EA on the other hand... well just look at their sport games. So when BF4 comes out, will BF3 still be supported? Will you even be able to play it online anymore?
 
fattypants said:
EA: BATTLEFIELD IS BACK, BABY!
Fans: Do we get 64 players?!
EA: Hell yeah!
Fans: SAWEEEET! How about jets?
EA: You know it!
Fans: WOOT! How about mods?!
EA: No. You're too stupid to mod BF3...oops, what I mean is that our tools are much too complex for simpletons like yourselves.
Fans: Um, ok. Well how about server software?
EA: Nope.
Fans: Well, that kinda sucks, but I'll still preorder on Steam.
EA: Eh, about that...
Fans: What?
EA: Not happening.
Fans: Fine, I'll get it on Amazon
EA: Why bother? You have to install our program to play anyway.
Fans: STOP THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW
EA: Also we have a lot of retailer-specific DLC in store
Fans: I SAID STOP
EA: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL THANKS FOR THE STOCK DIVIDENDS BITCH
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Pretty much this.

But hey, don't worry, buy the game anyway, that'll show us!! :p
 
DeathPrincess said:
Valve require steam to play their games :eek:
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Does Origin offers anything more than just being EA's online store?

Steamworks offers more than merely tying a game to Steam. They offer achievements and Steam cloud service.

So what can Origin bring to Battlefield 3?
 
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