And it’s only going to get worse because EA has two massive PC game releases coming in the next six months: Star Wars: The Old Republic on December 20, and Mass Effect 3 on March 6. Those are both near-guaranteed million-sellers and will probably require Origin. I’ve already pre-ordered SW:TOR through Origin because I like digital download for games (I’m a big Steam fan as well) but if this pans out as being true, I may just go to the store to get ME3.
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BF 3 is a good game and while Origin sucks (even more if the invasion of privacy things is true, which I doubt) it’s worth putting up with to play.
Mass Effect 3 will require Origin to play, fyi. That includes retail physical copies.
Doesn’t matter if you get the game from the store or from digital download. You will still have to use Origin to run the game. It launches from the Origin web browser. Very strange for me to get used to, but Battlefield 3 is pretty cool.