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Posted January 23, 2013
A while back there was an irresistible sale on Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning and both its DLCs on Amazon.com. Since the game never goes on sale on Steam, I jumped at the chance but the tradeoff was I would now need to deal with the Origin client, something I've avoided up until now. It was going to happen anyway sometime down the road for Mass Effect 3, so last night I downloaded the installer with the game assets and the origin client from Amazon and installed it all. The install and patching worked just fine. So far so good.

This morning I wake up and wake Windows up and try to fire up Origin. It won't log in. I get an "unknown error has occurred" try again message. So I try again, a bunch of times. No joy. Google time. Lo and behold tons of people have been reporting this same issue for I guess probably various reasons for over a year. I didn't spend a lot of time on this. I closed my browser and booted back into OS X. Maybe it will work all by itself next time I boot to Windows. Maybe not. Maybe it will let me play my game even if it can't log in. Maybe not.

Origin did not make a good first impression here.
Posted January 23, 2013
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Posted January 23, 2013
i installed it to play the free battlefield 1942 they had. I was expecting the worst but it went ok, no errors, nice clean interface. Looked nice, not that i'll use it because gog and steam are enough for me, but it seemed nice.
Posted January 23, 2013
I installed some software today, too. Pretty crazy.
Posted January 23, 2013
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TheJoe: I installed some software today, too. Pretty crazy.
Yes, but did it actually work?
Posted January 23, 2013
I also installed it to try Battlefield 1942. What surprised me was that it kept redirecting me to the browser store to look up the free games and demos. That was weird. Other than that I had no problems. That may be a factor since I rarely used it after that and launch it once more around a week ago.
Posted January 23, 2013
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dirtyharry50: snipety snip
"Thou shalt not worship false idols"

Although Id very much like to play BF3, Steam-GoG duality is enough for me.
Posted January 23, 2013
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dirtyharry50: A while back there was an irresistible sale on Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning and both its DLCs on Amazon.com. Since the game never goes on sale on Steam, I jumped at the chance but the tradeoff was I would now need to deal with the Origin client, something I've avoided up until now. It was going to happen anyway sometime down the road for Mass Effect 3, so last night I downloaded the installer with the game assets and the origin client from Amazon and installed it all. The install and patching worked just fine. So far so good.

This morning I wake up and wake Windows up and try to fire up Origin. It won't log in. I get an "unknown error has occurred" try again message. So I try again, a bunch of times. No joy. Google time. Lo and behold tons of people have been reporting this same issue for I guess probably various reasons for over a year. I didn't spend a lot of time on this. I closed my browser and booted back into OS X. Maybe it will work all by itself next time I boot to Windows. Maybe not. Maybe it will let me play my game even if it can't log in. Maybe not.

Origin did not make a good first impression here.
What OS?

I have it installed on my Win7 64 bit rig and it's been pretty stable for me. My only complaints are that the store has some functionality that needs to be tweaked and it seems to like disconnecting at random times. The latter isn't a huge deal, since it automatically goes into off-line mode and doesn't affect your game session at all. I was reluctant to use it for a long while, but finally went for it when I got a stellar deal on KoA as well. In many ways, I find it a smoother experience than Steam.
Posted January 23, 2013
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dirtyharry50: A while back there was an irresistible sale on Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning and both its DLCs on Amazon.com. Since the game never goes on sale on Steam, I jumped at the chance but the tradeoff was I would now need to deal with the Origin client, something I've avoided up until now. It was going to happen anyway sometime down the road for Mass Effect 3, so last night I downloaded the installer with the game assets and the origin client from Amazon and installed it all. The install and patching worked just fine. So far so good.

This morning I wake up and wake Windows up and try to fire up Origin. It won't log in. I get an "unknown error has occurred" try again message. So I try again, a bunch of times. No joy. Google time. Lo and behold tons of people have been reporting this same issue for I guess probably various reasons for over a year. I didn't spend a lot of time on this. I closed my browser and booted back into OS X. Maybe it will work all by itself next time I boot to Windows. Maybe not. Maybe it will let me play my game even if it can't log in. Maybe not.

Origin did not make a good first impression here.
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Coelocanth: What OS?

I have it installed on my Win7 64 bit rig and it's been pretty stable for me. My only complaints are that the store has some functionality that needs to be tweaked and it seems to like disconnecting at random times. The latter isn't a huge deal, since it automatically goes into off-line mode and doesn't affect your game session at all. I was reluctant to use it for a long while, but finally went for it when I got a stellar deal on KoA as well. In many ways, I find it a smoother experience than Steam.
I'm running it on Windows 7 64 bit too. It's a very clean environment just for gaming. That is the only reason I boot to Windows, is to play games there. The one utility software running is Microsoft Security Essentials which I put on since I do sometimes browse the Web for game info while there. I use Firefox for that. Other than that, it's just games and nothing but games.

I want to like it actually. I liked the uncluttered interface well enough. I wasn't impressed with the store. They need to work on that but neither does it bother me. I just want to play the game I bought without any hassle and maybe I will be able to in offline mode anyway.

Maybe the servers were briefly down for maintenance or something. I'll try it again today and see how it goes and then I'll try the game offline if it won't login. As long as the game works, good enough for the time being.
Posted January 23, 2013
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dirtyharry50: I'm running it on Windows 7 64 bit too. It's a very clean environment just for gaming. That is the only reason I boot to Windows, is to play games there. The one utility software running is Microsoft Security Essentials which I put on since I do sometimes browse the Web for game info while there. I use Firefox for that. Other than that, it's just games and nothing but games.
Very similar to me. I use MSE and FF as well. This rig is mainly for gaming, so has very little else installed on it as far as other software goes. Hopefully it was just a glitch, but it should kick you right into offline mode anyway if it can't connect to the server.

I might be tempted to uninstall and reinstall it, making sure to install as admin (if you didn't do that originally).
Posted January 23, 2013
Kind of tempted to try it out for Amalur for 5 €..
Posted January 23, 2013
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dirtyharry50: A while back there was an irresistible sale on Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning and both its DLCs on Amazon.com. Since the game never goes on sale on Steam, I jumped at the chance but the tradeoff was I would now need to deal with the Origin client, something I've avoided up until now. It was going to happen anyway sometime down the road for Mass Effect 3, so last night I downloaded the installer with the game assets and the origin client from Amazon and installed it all. The install and patching worked just fine. So far so good.

This morning I wake up and wake Windows up and try to fire up Origin. It won't log in. I get an "unknown error has occurred" try again message. So I try again, a bunch of times. No joy. Google time. Lo and behold tons of people have been reporting this same issue for I guess probably various reasons for over a year. I didn't spend a lot of time on this. I closed my browser and booted back into OS X. Maybe it will work all by itself next time I boot to Windows. Maybe not. Maybe it will let me play my game even if it can't log in. Maybe not.

Origin did not make a good first impression here.
Update your BIOS; I wasn't able to run Origin for over a year after I'd bought the original Mass Effect, but was in constant communication with an EA rep during that time (even sent me a boxed version of Mass Effect as compensation).

One day, I happened across a post on the EA forums that suggested updating the BIOS, so I did that and lo-and-behold; Origin works.
Posted January 23, 2013
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dirtyharry50: Origin did not make a good first impression here.
Personally but the only issues I ever had with Origin was new games not appearing in it :

Bought Alice from without Origin... no game... contacted support told me to wait 24 hours... 12 hours later the game appeared.
Bought ME3 Retail registred it in Origin... no game... same thing contacted support told me to wait games appeared after several hours.
And finally same thing with ME3 Final Cut (whatever its name was) which only appeared several hours after the "official" date.

But apart from that, once the games are "finally" there, it works like Steam except it's more "transparent" when you go to offline mode.
Posted January 23, 2013
Well I rebooted into Windows and it started up just fine. So, no idea what the problem was there but all is well now.

By the way, they are offering quite the sale on a good number of games until the 28th for anyone wanting to check it out. Battlefield 3 is going for $12., a lot of other titles for $10., etc.

I am kind of tempted to try Battlefield 3 for that price.
Posted January 23, 2013
Origin was down this morning (UK Time), you could kind of log in and play your games but couldn't go online with it. When it came back up the checkout on the store side of things was down for another few hours.

Best way to check as they don't have a service update is check the Battlefield 3 status. If their servers are down for PC then Origin in most cases will also be down.

However, after you run a game for the first time you can start stuff offline, you can even just double click the startup exe file in the install directory to launch a game and it doesn't start the Origin service.

Battlefield 3 status for future reference :

http://www.ea.com/servers/battlefield3?websso=1
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