EA's Origin

[Reg]

Well you'd better be prepared to forget about any PC games published by EA then.  This Origin thing isn't going away and I think it's very unlikely that any of their new games will ever be available on Steam.

[Thrawn]

Well you'd better be prepared to forget about any PC games published by EA then.  This Origin thing isn't going away and I think it's very unlikely that any of their new games will ever be available on Steam.

Arrrrrrr

*cough* Sorry, something in my throat.

But the obvious solution aside I have no problem skipping games published by EA after my horrible experience with trying to use Origin.  Tons of other games I can spend my money on.

[Reg]

If I'd had the same horrible experiences with Origin you guys had I'd probably feel the same way. I got on board Steam ages later than most of the people here just because I hated the idea of a program monitoring me while I played my game.

[Ratman_tf]

Bought ME3 today. Filled out a fuckton of information just to get it to install. Encountered the dreaded Origin install, and my first thought was "Another password to forget. Wonderful."
My next thought was "Ah, it's using my TOR account, or sommat. I'm already registered:"
My next thought "This is gonna be scrapped in a few years when EA's next DRM Darling comes out." 

[Sky]

So everything went smooth for me. Bought the game, it preloaded just fine, good download speeds once I kicked the old lady off her laptop.

BUT THEN!

The pre-order wouldn't unlock! I am boycotting EA and anything they distribute through that STEAMING TURD of a "service".

I mean, seriously. I'm not going to get that 73 seconds back. 12:01:13 unlock my fucking sweaty sack, you pig-fuckers.

[kildorn]

Just proxy it. It takes like, 2 minutes. :P And maybe someday publishers will stop being douchebags about worldwide releases.

[Kageru]

Well you'd better be prepared to forget about any PC games published by EA then.  This Origin thing isn't going away and I think it's very unlikely that any of their new games will ever be available on Steam.

I can accept that. EA seems to spend most of their time putting out sports games, cheap movie tie-ins, and buying up good game studios which they then neuter in the interests of the lowest common denominator mass market.

Thanks to Steam it's not like I'm short of things to play.

[Paelos]

Origin actually does us a favor in one way. It isolates the EA high-fructose-corn-syrup of gaming into one corner.

[tgr]

Pity it leaves Ubisoft and Focus Interactive still in the loop.

[tmp]

EA is upping their game and preparing a new SimCity, though

[Thrawn]

EA is upping their game and preparing a new SimCity, though

Yeah, this could be an issue for me as well.  (on the same page that I post I'd have no problem dropping EA games  ) Although I'm currently betting on it being so dumbed down for "mass appeal" that it won't even be an upgrade over 4 + mods.

[tgr]

I'm assuming we'll look at a mixture between CitiesXL, and Sim City Societies. I have little to no faith in them actually making a non-suck version of Sim City.

[Kageru]

I bought sim-city 4 on the last steam sale, buoyed by fond memories of many hours spent playing the earlier versions.

2 hours later I began to wonder if I was a much less demanding gamer with fewer options to burn time. I don't remember it being quite that dull.

[amiable]

Well you'd better be prepared to forget about any PC games published by EA then.  This Origin thing isn't going away and I think it's very unlikely that any of their new games will ever be available on Steam.

A.   I can live with that.

B.  If I really want a single player game I could just purchase a box...  Or find an "alternantive service" on the intertubes to provide it to me.

C.  Blizzard doesn't put their material on steam, but I am willing to purchase through battlenet because it is a good experience and I know the product will be high quality.  The same cannot be said of EA games.

[luckton]

Yeah, about SimCity 5...


Go fuck yourself, EA 

[tgr]

That's hilarious.

[koro]

So wait, is "Limited Edition" just another name for a standard copy, or is it somewhere in between a standard copy and a DDE?

[luckton]

So wait, is "Limited Edition" just another name for a standard copy, or is it somewhere in between a standard copy and a DDE?

It's the pre-order only edition.  Hence the 'limited' tag.  The standard edition, which will sell after release, won't have any of the shit listed in the pic.

[koro]

But will undoubtedly cost the same as the "Limited" edition, then.

 

[luckton]

But will undoubtedly cost the same as the "Limited" edition, then.

 

But of course, and post-release, everything on that list can be DLC'd for double the cost 

[MuffinMan]

It's amusing to me that I won't want any of that bonus stuff in my SimCity.

Isn't it a bit early for pre-orders?

[Segoris]

I'm waiting to see their tie-in with SimCity and Facebook/iOS applications.

[tmp]

It's the pre-order only edition.  Hence the 'limited' tag.  The standard edition, which will sell after release, won't have any of the shit listed in the pic.

The way i see it, it's called "limited" because you don't get the full architecture sets

[schild]

I am unbelievably happy that EA has made it so easy to boycott every single thing they do.

[Paelos]

I am unbelievably happy that EA has made it so easy to boycott every single thing they do.

Yeah I'm in that boat as well.

[Nebu]

I am unbelievably happy that EA has made it so easy to boycott every single thing they do.

I assumed that you were a Mass Effect fan.  Apparently not.

[schild]

My hate for halfassed shortsighted competition for Steam is greater than my mild enjoyment of mediocre sci fi with shitty action.

[Thrawn]

My hate for halfassed shortsighted competition for Steam is greater than my mild enjoyment of mediocre sci fi with shitty action.

Don't forget that the recent Bioware/EA track record consists of Dragon Age 2 and SWTOR.  Makes it hard to be very optimistic about ME3.

[amiable]

My hate for halfassed shortsighted competition for Steam is greater than my mild enjoyment of mediocre sci fi with shitty action.

Don't forget that the recent Bioware/EA track record consists of Dragon Age 2 and SWTOR.  Makes it hard to be very optimistic about ME3.

Yeah that house has really gone down since its halcyon days.  EA really does have the reverse-midas touch.

[5150]

As an aside has anyone actually worked out how to register your Bioware account (which already knows my Bioware games) and/or older EA titles (such as Battlefield 2/2142 etc in Origin?

I googled it which resulted in about 4 different 'registration form' web pages, none of which worked and you dont appear to be able to submit a ticket to EA support anymore (cant find the support form via the website, I found it by google and never got a reply - not that I've ever had a helpful reply to an EA ticket anyway)

It almost like they dont actually want people to use Origin, otherwise why make it do damn difficult to register your games!

[luckton]

[caladein]

As an aside has anyone actually worked out how to register your Bioware account (which already knows my Bioware games) and/or older EA titles (such as Battlefield 2/2142 etc in Origin?

I googled it which resulted in about 4 different 'registration form' web pages, none of which worked and you dont appear to be able to submit a ticket to EA support anymore (cant find the support form via the website, I found it by google and never got a reply - not that I've ever had a helpful reply to an EA ticket anyway)

It almost like they dont actually want people to use Origin, otherwise why make it do damn difficult to register your games!

Just plug the CD key in the application just like you would on Steam.  Should be Gear Menu -> Register My Games Redeem Product Code.

I was able to add Alice, DA:O and Awakenings, Red Alert 3, ME2, and Shank from the Steam keys.  My Sims 3 retail key also worked.  Some obvious ones might not work though, like Mass Effect 1 (or Hellgate London retail).

[Sky]

Just got the email with my pre-order codes for ME3.

 

[tgr]

Just 2 years late.

[Sky]

2 years and 2 weeks, to be exact.