PaleFolklore
Member
I'll still buy it but it won't be for at least a year down the line when I can pick it up for $10-15. It's amazing how wildly my opinion of EA has changed this gen.
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SHOCKING NEWS: Mass Effect 3 will be an Origin-Works game.
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njean777
Member
Meh I havent had a bad interaction with Origin, then again I dont go posting on Bioware forums or on EA forums. I dont like that they ban people from their games (that they paid for). Hopefully they get that mess sorted out soon. But I wont be buying ME3 at launch since I dont really care for the universe.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
See, I just don't want to risk it. I very rarely go on the BSN or EA forums, but when I do, I get banned for saying piracy is bad.
8 years after the Steam equivalent arrives.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I simply can't trust EA with the keys to my content.
Furreal.
Do you mean with Origin, or with games you bought through Origins? I agree with the latter, since those games don't require any silly program to launch. If ME3 requires Origin to run, that might not be the case.
LumpOfCole
Member
I don't mind the Origin client in actually using it. The UI is fairly lightweight and not obscene. It even lets me easily change the install directory of the games themselves, and the game installation files.
But will I ever buy anything using the Origin store? No. Hell no. Not after seeing those double charge / triple charge nightmares a few months back surrounding BF3, and how customer support for Origin acts in relation to them.
But will I ever buy anything using the Origin store? No. Hell no. Not after seeing those double charge / triple charge nightmares a few months back surrounding BF3, and how customer support for Origin acts in relation to them.
CerebralTiger
Member
Just as expected. Will be getting it day 1 on Origin.
It's EA + Bioware + Mass Effect + Origin. It's like the perfect combo for getting a "haters gonna hate" on GAF.
Bad post.
The latter, I guess. We'll see how ME3's campaign works.
Well, Yay consoles then.
One thing I've always wondered. Does EA have our PSN & XBL passwords? With how it tries to log us into the EA account/servers? That's been bugging me lately. Checking their site, I found out I had an EA account without knowing (or remembering) it. Then I reset the password, it had stuff about PSN/XBL accounts, too. Little concerning.
One thing I've always wondered. Does EA have our PSN & XBL passwords? With how it tries to log us into the EA account/servers? That's been bugging me lately. Checking their site, I found out I had an EA account without knowing (or remembering) it. Then I reset the password, it had stuff about PSN/XBL accounts, too. Little concerning.
Winnie the Pimp
Member
damnit i don't wanna have to get it for consoles... 
but i will, don't want to install Origin just for this game... plus i won't support the Steam hate by EA!
but i will, don't want to install Origin just for this game... plus i won't support the Steam hate by EA!
damnit i don't wanna have to get it for consoles...
Then don't. I don't want to use Origin, but I'm a PC gamer before a Steam gamer so the choice is easy. You lose a lot more by playing on a console than by using Origin. As another GAFFer once said, consoles are the worst form of DRM.
Quicksilver4648
Member
OMG this is absolutely... not surprising. I think everyone knew it was going to happen. This doesn't really bother me since I am not exclusive to a single client.
Is this really even news ? I fully expect other publisher will follow suit with similar requirements in the future. Steam is working fine for many right now though. Down the road I'd expect to see an activision pipe and maybe even a squareenixeidos pipe. Ubisoft pretty much already has one of their own.
i have ME1/2 on steam and was successfully able to get them both on origin for nothing.
ME2 cd-key registers, and ME1 had a key but doesn't register, i had to contact EA support and it took about 15 min and they added it to my origin account.
bring on ME3.
i used to be steam-only but i'm slowly getting over it. i'm not about getting +1 on my steam games list or showing my steam friends im playing a game or getting steam achivements (though i do enjoy all those things). i'm about playing great games. origin does have some problems, but it hasn't been around long.
i figure more DD competition will be coming anyways (with exclusives) so have to get used to it. <3 blizzard.
ME2 cd-key registers, and ME1 had a key but doesn't register, i had to contact EA support and it took about 15 min and they added it to my origin account.
bring on ME3.
i used to be steam-only but i'm slowly getting over it. i'm not about getting +1 on my steam games list or showing my steam friends im playing a game or getting steam achivements (though i do enjoy all those things). i'm about playing great games. origin does have some problems, but it hasn't been around long.
i figure more DD competition will be coming anyways (with exclusives) so have to get used to it. <3 blizzard.
Night_Trekker
Member
I love how they make it sound like they want to put it on Steam, but Valve's TOS are just too strict and unfair to a company that just wants to deliver the best product to the consumer. Who the hell do they think they're kidding?
FieryBalrog
Member
I'll never understand Steam zealots. Never.
I haven't even used Steam in 4 months despite gaming heavily on my PC. All the stuff I was really into wasn't on it.
I haven't even used Steam in 4 months despite gaming heavily on my PC. All the stuff I was really into wasn't on it.
sometimes GAF confuses the he'll out of me.
we have threads which are hundred pages long trying to discuss which version to buy. comparing FPS, resolutions,pixel counts etc etc. Going on as if those small differences will some how totally change there gaming experience.
Yet, today so many will pass the superior pc version because they don't want to download from a different store.
GAF tells me now that graphic performance is so over rated.
we have threads which are hundred pages long trying to discuss which version to buy. comparing FPS, resolutions,pixel counts etc etc. Going on as if those small differences will some how totally change there gaming experience.
Yet, today so many will pass the superior pc version because they don't want to download from a different store.
GAF tells me now that graphic performance is so over rated.
You're making a huge generalization off of a few posts. You say "so many', I say "lol who?". Only a few have claimed that they'll avoid Origin in favor of the consoles, there is no mass exodus. You're trying to drag certain things into this argument that have nothing to do with it.
No. Just don't.
Cause its not like EA is the most anti consumer publisher in the industry and people are wary of using their services or anything...
It's not like a forum ban will completely lock you out of your Origin account and all of your games and there isn't anything you can do about it... Hell, you don't even have to be the offender to have your account randomly banned as we've seen in the past too.
That's why I pass.
childplease
Banned
Made my decision to not purchase it easier.
Origin is a train wreck.
Origin is a train wreck.
Syphon Filter
Member
Origin sucks,no buy.
I'd rather not deal with Origin. My saves are on my 360 anyway so that was most likely going to be my preferred method at release; I'll get the PC version down the road. Nothing more, nothing less.
Garrus Vakarian
Member
Considering Origin maxes out my connection with downloads while steam struggles to use half of it, I'm more than ok with this.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I bought the Mass Effect comics, so clearly I'm willing to subject myself to worse things than Origin to experience the series.
There's no way I pass on ME3, EA be damned. I have no beef with them hording their games to their service. Origin itself has given me no issues, and I'm not really one for taking righteous stands when it comes to video games anyway.
I can't imagine why some of you are going to take 720p ~30fps console versions instead, as if using that as an alternative makes any damn sense at all.
One of those choices is being made on an open platform with many different competitors, for starters.
I can't imagine why some of you are going to take 720p ~30fps console versions instead, as if using that as an alternative makes any damn sense at all.
One of those choices is being made on an open platform with many different competitors, for starters.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Don't remind me of what I've (also) done...
I own the Collector's Edition of Mass Effect 2 for PC and 360. And I've ended up buying 3 copies of Mass Effect 1. And I own most of the DLC for Mass Effect 2 on PC and all of it on 360. I have spent so much money on this series, I might as well tolerate Origin for the finale.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Multiple copies of the game and DLC is pretty solid insanity. I own a copy of each game on PC (CE of ME2), all of the DLC for both, all three novels, and all of the shitty, awful comics. I also put in an order for the fourth book due out soon, the new art book, and the fourth comic in the current series. I will buy the next comic too.
We're sick.