I like the fact that Origin automatically adds previous retail purchases. I can toss my copy of Battlefield 2 now.

Actually choose of language in origin quite simple - for older games it depends on language of client. If client english it download english version, if client russian - it download russian version (assuming russian version exist). For newest games like ME3 origin always download russian version 'coz they region locked.

I'm going to boycott Mass Effect 3 until I finally buy it, maybe a few years from now.

lol that's an oxymoron if i've ever heard one...

and why bother waiting? the Origin requirement isn't going to go away, you know.

I'm in Aus, so that regional pricing thing isn't really all that good. :P Russia gets regional pricing with Steam too, the new big thing instead of a VPN is becoming friends with a Russian and getting them to gift you BF3. Even paying an extra 50% you'll still save around 40AUD on the game.

As to old boxed versions, that's iffy. I have Battlefield Vietnam and someone used a keygen and registered my copy back when BF: BC2 did that "bonus gun for old players" deal. When I brought the issue up, the EA rep added the gun to my account, but didn't add the serial. So now my BF:BC2 account is completely stuffed, some days it works, some days it doesn't. EA cust serv is the worst on the planet, I've had better luck with Microsoft and they're pathetic. :P Too late. MoH looks to be Origin only, same with BF3 and ME3. Origin exclusive as in still in stores, but the only digital store you'll find it in will be Origin.

From what I've read around here it went from great (origin release) to pretty bad (lately, due to outsourcing). Now it seems to be pretty hit and miss if you even get some decent help from the CS. (although response time is probably still quite a bit better). But yes, from what I hear Steam certainly could do with faster support.

Have you read Google's ToS? Origin and Steam are pretty bad, but Google is flat out scary. You can install a Google search app on a phone, and that app will trawl through your contacts and files, upload everything to Google servers, then build profiles on each person there. Next time you log into Google/Gmail, or you create an account, you'll find a list of every contact you have sorted in communication frequency with copies of everything you've ever said. They're on par with Facebook for knowing more about you than you do. :P


Nah, there's been a few USA court cases about that. Can sum it up as "If you click agree, you've signed away every right you have". Granted, if you have a lawyer and enough money to take on a big company then feel free to stand up for your rights, but the likelihood of a them winning is around as big as their income. Exactly as big, actually. :P

There's usually a little "Except as required by law" which used to be included, but now they're basing their document (and hence laws) in another country, Cal, USA seems to be popular. When you hit Accept, you're agreeing to operate under the laws of the state and country named, and for all legal matters to be settled in one of those courts. It's better not to read them, that way you get to live in bliss and pretend everything's right with the world.

I don't like to explain jokes, but I was trying to be funny. I don't actually boycott it.

As I've explained before, with DRM games I have quite a different approach to buying than DRM-free ones. I don't buy them to backlog, only when I decide to play the said game. Hence I minimize any problems the DRM may cause to me in the long run, and I probably save money as well because the prices tend to go down over time, not up.

Plus, I don't currently have HW to play Mass Effect 3. The same didn't stop me from buying e.g. Witcher 1-2 though, but being DRM-free I could just pile them into my increasing backlog and forget about them, even if I end up not playing them until 10 years from now.

It could be also I was getting nervous about the Namco Bandai vs CDPR court cases, whether they could have meant CDRP is forced to put DRM back, or apply regional pricing, or whatever. Otherwise I might have left the waiting for proper HW.

With e.g. Cryostasis and Grimrock, I probably wait until I have the hardware even though they are DRM-free.

Yeah, I remember :D

But what I do not understand, is that how is it possible? How can the overlay behave like that? I've tried to do some research about it, but no one seems to know...

And as for me, I like Origin 100x better than the previous EA client ;)

Of course you remember.. we played it together. =P And you sir.. well, your aim is as bad as mine.. Also what I looked at this morning galaxy readiness was dropped from 55% total to 54%. I mean.. do the reapers really fight back. =)

Well, at least I know to get out of the way when there's an incoming rocket xD

(Just joking, btw)

what about you and enemy grenades. ^^

While I got you two here! How about adding me to Origin for some wicked ME 3 multiplayer?

SimonG597

I liked it more than Steam when running it was optional. Now the newer EA games make you run it all the time, so they're both the same to me.

I dislike both.

Sadly true. They really need to choose between making customers use the client and making customers.