I uninstalled Origin after the beta.
If you don't give people any other choice than to run the program, what are you expecting?
So you have a choice to install steam or not if you want to play: Half-Life 2, Portal 2, Team Fortress 2, Left For Dead 2 and Counter-Strike Source?
I don't see how that is in any way relevant to the topic at hand, or even my post.
I wasn't raising my opinion on the Origin platform, I was merely pointing out that it's nothing to be surprised at. BF3 is currently a very desirable game. The Beta requires Origin to play. Lots of people want to play the beta, therefore lots of people are forced to use Origin. It's not at all indicative of how well Origin is being received, merely how desirable the games requiring the platform are.
I don't see how that is in any way relevant to the topic at hand, or even my post.
I wasn't raising my opinion on the Origin platform, I was merely pointing out that it's nothing to be surprised at. BF3 is currently a very desirable game. The Beta requires Origin to play. Lots of people want to play the beta, therefore lots of people are forced to use Origin. It's not at all indicative of how well Origin is being received, merely how desirable the games requiring the platform are.
I hope you don't need origin for the disc version because Im getting kinda sick of being forced to use steam or origin if you want to play the game.
Bad news for you, the disc version will also require you to make use of Origin. So whether you like it or not, you're going to be using Origin either way![]()
What I really blame in this instance for making everyone's life more complicated is the fact that every Publisher wants in on a piece of the online distribution market
Instead of using one converged platform, they opt to use proprietary locked down portals to distribute games to maximize profit and sure, it works, but do any of them ever stop to ask if we, the audience they sell to like have 3 - 5 Background portals running on our systems the whole time
And before someone mentions that you can elect to have them startup manually, that may be even worse, pre loading a loader makes no sense