instead of bf3

[Worgen]

its not the size, its who runs it and having another one to have to have running in the back ground

Ask yourself this:

How much is this really affecting the gameplay and my enjoyment of the game?

The answer is, clearly; very very little. You can just turn Origin off when you stop playing and not have it auto-launch when you boot your PC. Honestly, when you just ignore it, I expect that you'll barely notice it's there.

So yes, because of that I'll still get it. I won't actively endorse Origin, I probably won't actively use it and I don't like it either, but in the end I doubt that it's going to negatively affect my experience all that much.

Personally Rage looks boring and

Did you follow the Behind the Scenes series?

its still another thing to start up and stop when I want to play, not to mention that doing a digital thing like this is hard, people dont seem to think it is, but it is, microsoft still hasnt got it right and games for windows has been out for years, steam started out pretty sucky also before they worked it out and they still have some trouble with big launches on it, origin is a brand new one of these and bf3 is shaping up to be a huge release so what are the odds it will even work when the game is released

 

[C95J]

I might be a console player.

I won't whine about smaller map space, as long as I get planes or jets, I'll be cool

Yep, that's the thing I am looking forward to as well, the maps are going to be huge, smaller than the PC maps or not.

If I was getting BF3 for my PC though, I wouldn't care about having to use Origin to play it. I mean, if something as trivial as that is stopping you buying the game, then obviously you had very little interest in it anyway.

 

[Sephren468]

I will be getting it regardless its the only good looking online shooter coming out this year. Rage looks like it will have a pretty good SP and Dead Island looks line fun coop, but for competitive BF3 looks to be the best. Never been a fan of Gears and MW3 looks like a joke from what I have seen.

 

[Mechanix]

Doesn't bother me really, I'm still getting it on PC. There are some other things coming out that I'd like to give a try though, if I could afford to buy them all. Resistance 3 looks cool, and I would like to play the MW3 campaign just to see the end of the story.

 

[Lawyer105]

Course I am still getting BF3. MW requires you to install Steam and so does every other Valve game. I see no issue here with installing Origin. Its already installed actually, 106 MB isn't much at all.

its not the size, its who runs it and having another one to have to have running in the back ground, if I did get it chances are I would end up putting it on my steam list so I could have the steam overlay but I dont know if I would want to do that with origin running in the back ground also, not to mention I wouldnt be surprised if ea did something so it wouldnt run with the steam overlay at all

steam is begrudgingly accepted ea shit is still ea shit and I didnt like having the ea dl thing on my comp, this seems a bit more intrusive so I might decide to just not fuck with it at all

Also, the scary shit in the terms of service. Like the "cancel your account and delete all your games" one (sure, you have to not log in for over a year, but still...). Or the "we can install spyware and track every program you use and use the data for anything we like" one. I'm not going to pretend to be a huge steam fan. I've raged against them often enough. But damned if I'm going through worse for a sub-par EA (who I hate anyway) system. For one game.

{conspiracy hat on} I think this is about wrecking the PC version sales, then giving up on PC and focusing on consoles and, to top it all off, blaming it on piracy rather than their own stupidity and telling us it's our fault! {/conspiracy hat}

In the mean time, I'll spend more time with ARMA II, Space Marine, Planetside 2 (whenever it comes). I'll consider TOR if Origin isn't required. I'm even still playing BF:BC2, so they can shove it.

 

[No_Remainders]

I'm gonna get it, but on 360.

If Origin had an even semi-decent friend system, I'd consider it on the pc, even if it is Origin, but the friend system on Origin is shit, so it can fuck off.

 

[Cowabungaa]

its still another thing to start up and stop when I want to play

Sounds an awful lot like First World Problems:

Honestly, just answer the question I posed; how much does that affect the game and your gameplay experience? Well, honestly? Aren't you just making mountains out of molehills here? Because I think you, and many other people, are. Really just look at what you typed there; another thing to start up and stop, oh my heavens a couple of mouseclicks extra. Really?

As for it sucking, mind you that Origin isn't exactly a new thing. EA had a download service for ages (which, for ages, was very crap), they've just rebranded it now and added a deeper store function. Even still, yes it can still suck, and as you've noticed I'm not defending Origin either. But as long as it doesn't affect your gameplay experience that much, because there's no indication we'll need it for multiplayer servers ala Steam; why do you even care?!

 

[cgmetallica1981]

I've been saving all my money for Gears of War 3, Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3, and Skyrim, all on the Xbox 360, because I'm not going to waste more money upgrading my PC for now. If I had more money saved the games I would get are Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Red Orchestra 2.

 

[Poopster]

of course i'm still getting BF3. So what if it requires origin to play? as long as it lets me play BF3 so be it and people should stop being lazy that is all...

 

[Worgen]

its still another thing to start up and stop when I want to play

Sounds an awful lot like First World Problems:

Honestly, just answer the question I posed; how much does that affect the game and your gameplay experience? Well, honestly? Aren't you just making mountains out of molehills here? Because I think you, and many other people, are. Really just look at what you typed there; another thing to start up and stop, oh my heavens a couple of mouseclicks extra. Really?

As for it sucking, mind you that Origin isn't exactly a new thing. EA had a download service for ages (which, for ages, was very crap), they've just rebranded it now and added a deeper store function. Even still, yes it can still suck, and as you've noticed I'm not defending Origin either. But as long as it doesn't affect your gameplay experience that much, because there's no indication we'll need it for multiplayer servers ala Steam; why do you even care?!

which leads me to beleave that origin will be crap since a dl service is hard to do, it took steam awhile to get good and games for windows has been around years and is still shit

 

[Cowabungaa]

which leads me to beleave that origin will be crap since a dl service is hard to do, it took steam awhile to get good and games for windows has been around years and is still shit

But you barely have to use it. Just buy your game physically, and all you'll have to download is the occasional map-pack if you actually buy those.

Again, you're just making mountains out of molehills. Just barely pay attention to Origin and play the game. It's not like you'll have to put up with some GFWL-esque shitty matchmaking system, seeing as BF3 gets dedicated servers and all that.

 

[Worgen]

which leads me to beleave that origin will be crap since a dl service is hard to do, it took steam awhile to get good and games for windows has been around years and is still shit

But you barely have to use it. Just buy your game physically, and all you'll have to download is the occasional map-pack if you actually buy those.

Again, you're just making mountains out of molehills. Just barely pay attention to Origin and play the game. It's not like you'll have to put up with some GFWL-esque shitty matchmaking system, seeing as BF3 gets dedicated servers and all that.

I dont know, its ea, they have a tendency to fuck stuff up and really you could say that any drm is just a mountain out of a mole hill, you could say that people complaining about the attack on used games is a mountain out of a mole hill, the thing is, you get enough mole hills and you get a mountain

 

[Cowabungaa]

I dont know, its ea, they have a tendency to fuck stuff up and really you could say that any drm is just a mountain out of a mole hill, you could say that people complaining about the attack on used games is a mountain out of a mole hill, the thing is, you get enough mole hills and you get a mountain

Heh, y'know that makes sense. Enough molehills make a mountain, true. However, let's just focus on the problem of BF3 here and again, is that really such a big problem? Is your enjoyment of the actual game so much hampered by having to turn an application on and off again when you stop playing? Is it really? Is the game itself negatively affected by it? How else will it affect your enjoyment of BF3?

 

[archvile93]

I dont know, its ea, they have a tendency to fuck stuff up and really you could say that any drm is just a mountain out of a mole hill, you could say that people complaining about the attack on used games is a mountain out of a mole hill, the thing is, you get enough mole hills and you get a mountain

Heh, y'know that makes sense. Enough molehills make a mountain, true. However, let's just focus on the problem of BF3 here and again, is that really such a big problem? Is your enjoyment of the actual game so much hampered by having to turn an application on and off again when you stop playing? Is it really? Is the game itself negatively affected by it? How else will it affect your enjoyment of BF3?

What I'm concerned about is the precedent it could set. If this works for EA, then there's a chance that every single publisher will make one of these for themselves. It would be a massive hassle to remember which games were where, and turing them off and on as you want to play, not to mention if your username and password aren't uniform across the board.

OT: I was on the fence about this game from the start, but this cost them a sale. Sadder still, I wouldn't have bought it on steam anyway, so it's not like they would have lost anything to Valve. I can't help but feel they're just shooting themselves in the foot trying to solve a nonexistent problem.

 

[Worgen]

I dont know, its ea, they have a tendency to fuck stuff up and really you could say that any drm is just a mountain out of a mole hill, you could say that people complaining about the attack on used games is a mountain out of a mole hill, the thing is, you get enough mole hills and you get a mountain

Heh, y'know that makes sense. Enough molehills make a mountain, true. However, let's just focus on the problem of BF3 here and again, is that really such a big problem? Is your enjoyment of the actual game so much hampered by having to turn an application on and off again when you stop playing? Is it really? Is the game itself negatively affected by it? How else will it affect your enjoyment of BF3?

it might, the dl manager that ea used with the sims 3 bugged the hell out of me and it managed to break so when I loaded up the game it would always crash

 

[Cowabungaa]

What I'm concerned about is the precedent it could set. If this works for EA, then there's a chance that every single publisher will make one of these for themselves. It would be a massive hassle to remember which games were where, and turing them off and on as you want to play, not to mention if your username and password aren't uniform across the board.

I'm not defending it either, and yeah it's a hastle, but is it really that big of a hastle that plainly just won't get games? That no matter how brilliant a game is and no matter how much you would love it, you won't get it because you have to turn something on and off. This, again, just sounds like a real First World Problem to me.

And it's not like the situation is changing that much. For a crapton of games you already need accounts, that ain't a new thing and has been going on for years. Now they just bind those accounts to online stores. That's basically all that's happening. All they're trying to do is make you buy stuff, and they added something to do just that, but it's not like you have to. I ain't buying BF3 from Origin, that's for sure.

it might, the dl manager that ea used with the sims 3 bugged the hell out of me and it managed to break so when I loaded up the game it would always crash

Yikes, well that is something that should be addressed then, if Origin ends up suffering from it as well. In the meantime, shouldn't we just wait? Plus there's one thing you don't have to worry about; at least BF3 won't spam DLC/expansions as The Sims does.

 

[Worgen]

What I'm concerned about is the precedent it could set. If this works for EA, then there's a chance that every single publisher will make one of these for themselves. It would be a massive hassle to remember which games were where, and turing them off and on as you want to play, not to mention if your username and password aren't uniform across the board.

I'm not defending it either, and yeah it's a hastle, but is it really that big of a hastle that plainly just won't get games? That no matter how brilliant a game is and no matter how much you would love it, you won't get it because you have to turn something on and off. This, again, just sounds like a real First World Problem to me.

And it's not like the situation is changing that much. For a crapton of games you already need accounts, that ain't a new thing and has been going on for years. Now they just bind those accounts to online stores. That's basically all that's happening. All they're trying to do is make you buy stuff, and they added something to do just that, but it's not like you have to. I ain't buying BF3 from Origin, that's for sure.

it might, the dl manager that ea used with the sims 3 bugged the hell out of me and it managed to break so when I loaded up the game it would always crash

Yikes, well that is something that should be addressed then, if Origin ends up suffering from it as well. In the meantime, shouldn't we just wait? Plus there's one thing you don't have to worry about; at least BF3 won't spam DLC/expansions as The Sims does.

I wouldnt be so sure about that, I have a feeling one reason that they are going to origin is so they can spam more dlc crap for it