Origin, who's on it?

I just preorded BF3 on it, let's make an Origin ID thread.

The service seems pretty basic right now. I don't see it being a problem when BF3 rolls around.

Feel free to post your Origin IDs in this thread. This post will be updated with them.

Forum Name	Origin ID
ThePlague jcap Freelancer ejburke Amit Mr Buckshot StankBacon Phopojijo cheezdue hobojoe Guardian Dark Navi Red Baron Limited seanthelawn Caboose001 Nero BobtheGreatII Zeph neuro	tearshade jcap14 Freelancer852 ejburke Amit9821 machoTS stankboxxy PhopoJijo cheezdue HoboJoe422 TC-Guardian darknavi DELTA_011692 Limited55 SeanTheLawn ReconV17 Joshflighter BobtheGreatII zeph_solaris neurol0gical

Join the platoon:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../BF3Beta-1.png

You can add some more recent EA games to Origin if you bought them on Steam or bought physical copies. I added BC2 using the key I got from Steam, and they'll ask you which version you bought - the regular or the digital deluxe. I wish I wasn't so damned honest, but it's not like I'll ever play that game again or know what the difference was.

I'm on it by default. Anyone who has an EA account is automatically an Origin member. I just installed Origin and paired my Steam BC2 to Origin. I really like the interface of Origin.

Btw, you shouldn't pre-order BF3 until the Physical Warfare pack comes to North America.

fuck that shit.

all this means is i'll never play an EA game again. simple as that.
just like games using that GFWL service is a deal-breaker for me as well.

i can't be bothered to have all that crap shoved in my face.
obviously, the only reason they come up with this shit, is because steam charges for their distribution service. (AND ITS PRETTY DAMN CHEAP TBH)
it's just another 'i want more money' shitprogram, which will most likely, fail.

Don't be a fool. You don't have to use Origin to play EA games except for Origin exclusive titles.

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Originally Posted by neuro

fuck that shit.

all this means is i'll never play an EA game again. simple as that.
just like games using that GFWL service is a deal-breaker for me as well.

i can't be bothered to have all that crap shoved in my face.
obviously, the only reason they come up with this shit, is because steam charges for their distribution service. (AND ITS PRETTY DAMN CHEAP TBH)
it's just another 'i want more money' shitprogram, which will most likely, fail.

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Disc version.

And GFWL is even worse, at first it didn't even have a digital download centre and it loves to fuck up your single player game saves without any cloud backup.

as long as Origin doesn't end up being a game-crashing data-corrupting system-crippling mess (like GFWL and previous EA DRM), then there's no issue with using it.

add machoman btw (lame username I know)

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Originally Posted by ejburke

3rd World Solution: poop in the water you drink from.

By the way, you can add some more recent EA games to Origin if you bought them on Steam or bought physical copies. I added BC2 using the key I got from Steam, and they'll ask you which version you bought - the regular or the digital deluxe. I wish I wasn't so damned honest, but it's not like I'll ever play that game again or know what the difference was.

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Digital Deluxe just gives early unlocks like the M1911 and M1A1 and some vehicle perks. If you've played for long enough, there's no more difference.

plague: whoops, add machoTS, that was my clan tag

e: my key for BC2 was standard edition and I redeemed as Deluxe so that might be a plus for new buyers.

Does delux mean it comes with specact and Vietnam?

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Originally Posted by ThePlague

Does delux mean it comes with specact and Vietnam?

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lol you wish. Just early vanilla BC2 unlocks, which don't really make that much difference (except maybe the M1911 which pwns the M9 newbs)

anyway confirmed this "reuse Steam key" works for MoH as well, but not Crysis 1 or Warhead.

seems like I have to re-download, so probably not gonna bother with Origin for now until BF3 comes out.

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Originally Posted by Amit

Don't be a fool. You don't have to use Origin to play EA games except for Origin exclusive titles.

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So what big EA games are coming out without requiring origin? BF3? ME3? um...

(fuck EA, not buying their games until this dies)

Why are you guys so down with this? You wanna play games. Play them. BF3 doesn't require Origin. And only the Digital Deluxe version of ME3 requires Origin.

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Originally Posted by Amit

Why are you guys so down with this? You wanna play games. Play them. BF3 doesn't require Origin. And only the Digital Deluxe version of ME3 requires Origin.

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You can't buy either on steam, not interested (not that I care about either games anyway :haw:)

as much as I like Steam it's far from a perfect service.

more often than I'd like, the Steam window can freeze and become unresponsive for at least 10 seconds, and many of those times it just outright crashes and requires a restart. This happens more on Windows 7 for me than on XP.

multiplayer in offline mode is inconvenient (I do a lot of offline ad-hocs) on many Steamworks games, to the point that I had to save console commands in a text file so I could pull them up any time. Sometimes, the login in offline mode may fail (not often, but it can happen), rendering the games useless until you can get an Internet connection and re-enable the "remember account info".

Browser-based logins don't have a "remember on this PC" option.

Some Steam game launchers (i.e. RB6 Vegas) may actually validate, then exit right away, and then launch a second executable to start the game. Since the secondary executable isn't directly linked to Steam, then the overlay can't be enabled, making the Steam part kind of pointless.

Non-Steamworks multiplayer titles don't let you join a game through the friends list. This is something Xfire has corrected for most games.

For Europeans, it can often be a lot cheaper to buy the disc retail versions of non-Steamworks titles than to buy a Steam version as the Euro/GBP prices give one a heart attack.

bottom line is, Steam isn't heaven. A game not being on Steam is no loss as long as I get to play the game without intrusive DRM or crap performance, I don't pay a fortune, and most importantly I have fun.

About Origin, I just managed to activate Warhead but not the original Crysis on it (using Steam keys) by registering directly through the EA account website, not Origin (which rejected both keys). Somehow the original Crysis shows on my account on the website as being registered along with Warhead and BC2 and MoH, but refuses to show in Origin while the others are fine.

Origin's Warhead launcher is also able to launch my Steam client if it isn't already running in order to run the game itself, but it doesn't seem to be able to do the same with BC2 and MoH.

Has anyone here actually tested Origin's technical features such as download speed and stability versus Steam? I don't have the time (and possibly bandwidth) to try those out yet till the BF3 beta releases.

I remember when Amit was downloading the Alpha of BF3 he was crying because he wasn't getting the same speed as Steam usually does. I haven't actually installed any games on Origin yet, because they're all registered on Steam and all that jazz, but it seems like a half decent program.

Yeah. Usual Steam speed: 1.2 mB/s. Usual Origin speed: 840kB/s :gonk:

There's no option to choose a download server for Origin either so I have no clue where it's downloading from. Stability is the same as Steam: never crashes. It is faster than steam when loading up and loading pages, but it's not even doing half of what steam does.

so now that bf3 is nearing release we should all post our username, because like it or not, BF3 requires origin.

mine is StankBoxxy (or StankBacon, im not sure) ... add me.

pyongftw

Hit me up ladies. Cheezdue

HoboJoe422

Both added :D

Just a reminder to all you people to join up on the Battlefield Modacity Platoon since the Open Beta is now live for everyone:


http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../BF3Beta-1.png

TC-Guardian

darknavi

how exactly do I join the group?

E:Also my id is DELTA_011692

Added to first post.

I've played 3 games and have 6 kills, whos up for a game :D:D

Limited55

I've already sent a few friend requests to people in that Platoon group.

My origin name is the same name I use for everything: SeanTheLawn

Added :)

Origin is same: BobtheGreatII

i'm neurol0gical

also, origin is fucking terrible.
who the fuck thought it'd be a good idea to set the websites and shit in it to fucking FRENCH when i set the language settings in origin to fucking ENGLISH

i fucking hate EA so fucking much.

why the fuck am i even installing this piece of crap.

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Originally Posted by neuro

also, origin is fucking terrible.
who the fuck thought it'd be a good idea to set the websites and shit in it to fucking FRENCH when i set the language settings in origin to fucking ENGLISH
i fucking hate EA so fucking much.
why the fuck am i even installing this piece of crap.

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Because someone thought it would be a good and secure way to set up plugins for a browser that go straight to executables.

zeph_solaris

Tres mas added.

You can now change your Origin account easily, with no hassle.

Forgot to tell you, I changed my Origin name to Amit9821 last week. Update first post, plz.

Updated.

Been having a blast with BF3 so far.

Gotta say Origin's not bad considering it's still in the early stage of release. GFWL has had four years to develop, and still manages to be worse than Steam was back in 2004.

I never had any issues with Steam until AFTER they made that major overhaul. Now it drops my connection sporadically for no immediately apparent reason, or just refuses to sign in on start-up entirely. Oh, and the voice chat lags the shit out of games.

Yeah, I'd say Origin is ahead of the curve for beta software. Works just fine for me.

TeeKup is my account.