Origin Required To Play Battlefield 3

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[QUOTE="Blacklight2"]Have to have steam running to run steam games. What's the difference?Grawse

No one wants 1000 clients for all thier games?

I was obviously exaggerating. Since you have D2D, I think you have steam to, and now origin is on top of that. That's 3 so far, I don't know if you have impulse or not but that's another 1 and if publishers keep doing this who knows where we may end up.

Im not buying it now, not at release anyway. I didn't think it looked that great its just BC2 to me.

Ill stick with Rage and RO2.

[QUOTE="Blacklight2"]Have to have steam running to run steam games. What's the difference?Slashkice

Origins sucks. Steam doesn't.

But at least it isn't GFWL.

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No one wants 1000 clients for all thier games?

GD1551

I was obviously exaggerating. Since you have D2D, I think you have steam to, and now origin is on top of that. That's 3 so far, I don't know if you have impulse or not but that's another 1 and if publishers keep doing this who knows where we may end up.

Have to have steam running to run steam games. What's the difference?Blacklight2

There isn't one. People just act like Valve is the greatest thing to ever exist.

BF3 is like the one game I'll have on my Origin account then.

[QUOTE="Blacklight2"]Have to have steam running to run steam games. What's the difference?Phoenix534

There isn't one. People just act like Valve is the greatest thing to ever exist.

Expected.

Valve does the same with their games, and so do other developers as well. I dont mind this at all. At least it isnt GFWL.

I think Origin is all right it installed BC2 in no more then 2 hours.

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Source

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There has been some confusion over how EA's new Origin service will be integrated into Battlefield 3. Battlelog plays a big part, with the ability to browse servers and join a game directly from the browser. But according to DICE's Daniel Martos, Origin will be required in order to play Battlefield 3 if the game is bought in retail. We don't know whether this is true if the game is downloaded through a digital download service other than Origin, but we suspect Origin will be required no matter what.

Birdy09

EA is taking it too far now, they're really forcing Origin upon their customers. Plus, as the article stated, it'll take some extra resources to run Origin alongside Battlefield 3. Thoughts? Opinions?

You drive a... very good point. I'm wasn't excited about not being able to use Steam for BF3 but its really not evil on EA's part to do so....

Im not bothered by having to use Origin to run BF3, however the lack of server browser in-game is quite disappointing.

You don't have to run things from D2D to play them. Just sayin'. And BTW, it's Valve's fault that the game is not on Steam.

DarkLink77

I'm not saying you need to run all at once them, but having to use so many different services everytime you want launch a game will get old once/if it starts to pile up. It seems though that it's fine for origin and not for GFWL.

You don't have to run things from D2D to play them. Just sayin'. And BTW, it's Valve's fault that the game is not on Steam.

DarkLink77

As long as i don't have to pay extra for anything i love it!

Im not bothered by having to use Origin to run BF3, however the lack of server browser in-game is quite disappointing.

Dante2710

wait we join a server in game?

wait we join a server in game?eboyishere

[QUOTE="eboyishere"]wait we join a server in game?Dante2710

;)

and i was asking if it was gone

I don't care. I already have Origin and some of my Steam buddies on it installed on my computer, but I know the Steam stalwarts will annoy anyone who doesn't consider Steam to be God. Plus their recent $5 sale proved they could dish out some sweet deals like Steam, so I'm hopefuly future DLC won't be a rip off and they can do better with that "direct support" they were talking about.

I do kind of hate using EA servers (completely unreliable and I expect nothing less then a worldwide crash on launch), but eh.

I don't trust EA with anything involving networking. I hate how their games use log-ins and a lot of crap even in console games, and I've had lots of troubles with Bad Company 2 disconnections.

So I'm not sure what I'll do. I'll just wait for a heavy discount I guess.

Not a big deal.. but still pretty annoying. I hope other large publishers don't start mimicking this.

Shogun 2 Total War and Empire Total War requires Steam, so does a lot of other games.

Where's the problem?

Wasdie

Ok that's kinda lame. I really hate having more than one service in my PC.tagyhag

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[QUOTE="Blacklight2"]Have to have steam running to run steam games. What's the difference?lawlessx

There isn't one. People just act like Valve is the greatest thing to ever exist.

I thought Origin did auto-updates too. I haven't bought anything yet so I wouldn't know for sure.

Why do people defend this nonsense? Although it's not a deal breaker, I still find this inconvenient. I'm still buying the game regardless however. I just don't understand why I now have to have steam AND origin both running.

Something about Origin having a limited timeplay (about two years) came up sometime ago, I hope it wasn't true

Something about Origin having a limited timeplay (about two years) came up sometime ago, I hope it wasn't true

LookAnDrolL

According to EA they won't do that, they just put it in for legal reasons (what those reason are is beyond me).