Posted June 03, 2012
orcishgamer: Origin will "pick up" installed games it offers and just adds them to its client. I'm not sure how to prevent this but it doesn't necessarily mean it has any new activation built in, just that you can launch it from there (and maybe patch it, not sure about that one as typically you need different patch versions for different game builds).
This is why non-Origin games, such as Spore, show up in Origin after you install them.
It will actually patch them as well since Origin doesn't add any DRM it just installs the normal generic patches if your missing themThis is why non-Origin games, such as Spore, show up in Origin after you install them.