Battlefield 3 Will Require Origin
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I love all the shit fits being thrown around. You the gamer brought this on yourself when you accepted steam. Steam was shit at first and yes has gotten better, but still don't get pissed at EA for trying to get a piece of the pie that Valve has been taking for years. They are just providing what the customers seem to want and they yank their products from steam to help launch their platform. Simple business 101, if your product is already offered somewhere else on a medium customers already have setup then simply introducing your own is just redundant because no one will install another redundant program. So enjoy the future of gaming you have so graciously ushered in to your HD's.
Well "Mass Effect 3" is being published by EA aswell, so they could add Origin registration to that too.the spud said:
I was planning on buying this for my 360 anyway ^_^
Steam already ruined Dawn of War 2 so there is no way in hell I am letting EA of all half baked, barely functional software put a Steam like program on my PC.
They can't even put out patches to fix their half finished games, do they really think I am trusting them with my bank details and giving them access to my rigs deepest regions?
HAH!
"I'm sorry Sir, but the £250 missing from your bank account was a transaction error on our part. It seem's when you chose to buy some £2.50 DLC for BF3 we accidentally pushed the decimal 2 spaces to the right. We will do our best to get your money back to you in the next 6 months,"
If I have to sacrifice bigger battles to prevent this happening I will.
Or Better yet, I'll cock slap EA harder by switching my Die hard support from BF3 to MW3.
Activision might be C**ts in the purest form but they have the decency to NOT force this crap on us and in all fairness their software isn't nearly as broken as EA's is.
Steam already ruined Dawn of War 2 so there is no way in hell I am letting EA of all half baked, barely functional software put a Steam like program on my PC.
They can't even put out patches to fix their half finished games, do they really think I am trusting them with my bank details and giving them access to my rigs deepest regions?
HAH!
"I'm sorry Sir, but the £250 missing from your bank account was a transaction error on our part. It seem's when you chose to buy some £2.50 DLC for BF3 we accidentally pushed the decimal 2 spaces to the right. We will do our best to get your money back to you in the next 6 months,"
If I have to sacrifice bigger battles to prevent this happening I will.
Or Better yet, I'll cock slap EA harder by switching my Die hard support from BF3 to MW3.
Activision might be C**ts in the purest form but they have the decency to NOT force this crap on us and in all fairness their software isn't nearly as broken as EA's is.
Okay, when I saw BF3 was coming out, I was like "cool, should be pretty good. Maybe I'll pick it up a few months after release when the prices have gone down".
Then, I saw it had been developed on PC, and I thought "perhaps I'll buy it on release; pay a few extra quid to show I approve".
Then I saw the screenshots and gameplay footage, and I decided "blimey, okay I'm pre-ordering this as soon as pay day comes around!"
Then I saw they were cutting it from Steam.
"Fair play," I thought, "I don't blame them for not wanting to put free cash in the pockets of one of their biggest rivals, although it would have been nice if they'd just admitted to that being the reason rather than invent this crap about Steam not being supportive enough".
Then I saw that it would require Origin. A dick move on EA's part, but unsurprising. Again, I was only very slightly put off - not enough to rethink pre-ordering the game.
"So what if EA want something to kickstart their new online service. They certainly need something to compete with Valve's behemoth of an equivalent! Besides, the competition could possibly drive down the prices of Steam games now that it has something similar to compete with... so if Origin has competitive game prices and is as functional as Steam, then why not try it?"
Then I saw the introduction price for BF3 on Origin. £40 for the standard edition. The Limited edition (which I think is £10 on top of that price on Origin) is over a tenner cheaper than that standard edition, on Amazon. At this point, I slapped myself for ever even thinking about giving EA another chance. On several occasions they've let us down: not patching far too many of their games to any standard quick enough (ie. BF2 was unplayable between patch 1.2 and 1.4, with a gap of several months between each; also the PC issues for Dead Space 1 haven't been fixed though they've obviously been identified because they are absent from Dead Space 2, etc, etc.)... and those ridiculous advertising campaigns (covered here: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/2794-An-Open-Letter-to-EA-Marketing ), to name a couple of those occasions.
I don't like EA. I never have. I don't like their marketing and business strategies. I don't like their approach to both the consumer and the competition, as well as the medium in which they create. This is just yet another thing to hold against them, in my opinion, and if it means I don't buy BF3 - at least not until it comes down in price as a physical copy - then that's my loss and EA's.
Then, I saw it had been developed on PC, and I thought "perhaps I'll buy it on release; pay a few extra quid to show I approve".
Then I saw the screenshots and gameplay footage, and I decided "blimey, okay I'm pre-ordering this as soon as pay day comes around!"
Then I saw they were cutting it from Steam.
"Fair play," I thought, "I don't blame them for not wanting to put free cash in the pockets of one of their biggest rivals, although it would have been nice if they'd just admitted to that being the reason rather than invent this crap about Steam not being supportive enough".
Then I saw that it would require Origin. A dick move on EA's part, but unsurprising. Again, I was only very slightly put off - not enough to rethink pre-ordering the game.
"So what if EA want something to kickstart their new online service. They certainly need something to compete with Valve's behemoth of an equivalent! Besides, the competition could possibly drive down the prices of Steam games now that it has something similar to compete with... so if Origin has competitive game prices and is as functional as Steam, then why not try it?"
Then I saw the introduction price for BF3 on Origin. £40 for the standard edition. The Limited edition (which I think is £10 on top of that price on Origin) is over a tenner cheaper than that standard edition, on Amazon. At this point, I slapped myself for ever even thinking about giving EA another chance. On several occasions they've let us down: not patching far too many of their games to any standard quick enough (ie. BF2 was unplayable between patch 1.2 and 1.4, with a gap of several months between each; also the PC issues for Dead Space 1 haven't been fixed though they've obviously been identified because they are absent from Dead Space 2, etc, etc.)... and those ridiculous advertising campaigns (covered here: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/2794-An-Open-Letter-to-EA-Marketing ), to name a couple of those occasions.
I don't like EA. I never have. I don't like their marketing and business strategies. I don't like their approach to both the consumer and the competition, as well as the medium in which they create. This is just yet another thing to hold against them, in my opinion, and if it means I don't buy BF3 - at least not until it comes down in price as a physical copy - then that's my loss and EA's.
This approach didn't work particularly well for Rockstar, or Games For Windows Live; I'm genuinely curious why EA thinks it's going to be the exception. Because it's bigger, and can't be ignored? Because taking its toys away from Steam and going home in a snit is an expression of its authority in some executive's mind?
Is there any word on if this even requires a separate install on top of installing Battlefield 3, or are we simply logged into their servers? If it turns out to be the latter then it's no different from what we do already in games like Bad Company 2. If it requires installing any software specifically for Origin in addition to the game, then I'll pass. I don't feel like putting up with a potential resource hog and Origins inevitable growing pains.
Another thing I'd like to know is if a connection is required to play single player? If that's the case then I'll happily not buy anymore EA games (not that many were worth buying anyway). If not then we can at least be thankful for that much.
I think we need to learn a bit more about what requiring a connection to Origin entails before damning them completely.
Another thing I'd like to know is if a connection is required to play single player? If that's the case then I'll happily not buy anymore EA games (not that many were worth buying anyway). If not then we can at least be thankful for that much.
I think we need to learn a bit more about what requiring a connection to Origin entails before damning them completely.
Kinda funny thing I've noticed: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.305627-EA-Confirms-No-Battlefield-3-on-Steam
People were saying there that "oh don't worry, just buy it in a store! You won't need origin to play it!"
And now that you do.....
People were saying there that "oh don't worry, just buy it in a store! You won't need origin to play it!"
And now that you do.....
For a game that's trying to drag us away from CoD, they're sure making us jump through a lot of hoops.