It has just been announced that PC users who buy a retail copy of Battlefield 3 will still be forced to use the EA’s digital distribution service Origin to play the game. It is not known whether buying the game on another digital distribution site will still require you to be connected to Origin, but at this point I wouldn’t bet against it.
The Battlefield series was basically designed for the PC and it kind of pisses me off the way EA is treating their loyal customers this way. EA who wants Battlefield 3 to compete with Call of Duty seems to be making one bad PR decision after another.
CD Projekt RED who released the Witcher 2 earlier this year did a great job by refusing to force a DRM on people and were lauded for it. EA has gone the opposite way and seems to want to frustrate the PC fans who helped make this game what it is today. What do you think, will this affect the way you purchase the game or is this not a big deal?
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well to be fair i think this is great!
i have played in the alpha with origin an think it has a very good but simple set up, for me steam is a waste of time, valve is so piss poor a 5 year old can get hacks runing on cs or mw2, aslong as there still gona use punkbuster and keep on top of the forever growing hackers then am all for it,
for those of you that dident get to play the battlefield alpha, before you start moaning “oh but i need my steam it has all my games”!, well all you need to do is run this insted of steam, simple its not hard to load a diffrent program lol