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.
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.
You can't buy either on steam, not interested (not that I care about either games anywayOriginally Posted by Amit
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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
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.
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