Origin auto-adds Steam-purchased EA games

This is fantastic for those days that Steam doesn't want to work...Oh wait...Nvm Origin is the one that has issues...
My mistake...
 
Oh No!

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Actually Origin has been doing this since the beginning. I have 2 Bad Company 2 copies, one I bought in a shop and the other was on Steam with all the extra stuff. I have never activated the one on Steam, instead I used my old one's key along with the keys from the extra content. But since the beginning Origin knew I had 2 BC2 copies.

I was curious what would happen if I install a pirate EA game, so I installed Sims 3(the only pirate game I could find and the only one I wouldn't normally play), but nothing happened. I left it there for 2 weeks before I formatted my PC.

So while Origin magically know what game you purchase in digital format from another vendor, it doesn't react to a pirate game.

But let me know when a game I buy in a store magically appear on Origin...
 
RaFi said:
Actually Origin has been doing this since the beginning. I have 2 Bad Company 2 copies, one I bought in a shop and the other was on Steam with all the extra stuff. I have never activated the one on Steam, instead I used my old one's key along with the keys from the extra content. But since the beginning Origin knew I had 2 BC2 copies.

I was curious what would happen if I install a pirate EA game, so I installed Sims 3(the only pirate game I could find and the only one I wouldn't normally play), but nothing happened. I left it there for 2 weeks before I formatted my PC.

So while Origin magically know what game you purchase in digital format from another vendor, it doesn't react to a pirate game.

But let me know when a game I buy in a store magically appear on Origin...
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If it doesn't use an EA account, it's not going to be automagically added. At least this is the trend I've noticed.
 
Lycanthrope said:
If it doesn't use an EA account, it's not going to be automagically added. At least this is the trend I've noticed.
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That's actually common sense. If your serial isn't tied to an EA account, how in the hell would EA be able to add it to your Origin account? Don't think RaFi thought it through very well.

Just find it odd that my BC2 didn't appear in Origin. It would explain the magical appearance of NFS:HP, though. Pity, I thought I was getting a free game. :P

This wouldn't be due to Origin scanning your PC, because if it finds installed EA games, how should it know it's your game and not someone else who uses the computer's game?
 
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