Fuck thats a bargain. Bet they just wanna collect email addresses required for origin then spam prior to crysis 3's release.

Good price for the game... shame Origin is soo bad.

Got it off steam for $3 during the Winter sale, worth the extra $2 having it on steam

Yes that and I've uninstalled Origin because they stuffed up Battlefield.

I'd rather have games not be forced to use either steam or origin. If I buy a game on CD I don't want to have to keep logging into steam / origin. One off online activation I'm ok with, but not this constant bullshit. No wonder people pirate stuff.

I'd rather have games not be forced to use either steam or origin. If I buy a game on CD I don't want to have to keep logging into steam / origin. One off online activation I'm ok with, but not this constant bullshit. No wonder people pirate stuff.

i'm pretty sure you can play most games on steam in offline mode

Everyone is quick to say that, but what exactly is soo bad about Origin?

This was me this morning:

Ooh Crysis for a dollar, I'll get in on that.
...Install Origin...
...Origin is updating...1%...100%...Done

Origin window disappears then nothing - it seems to be installed and running in the background for over 10 minutes, but no ui, no cpu disk or network access, alt-tab nothing, just sitting there.

Kill process, Uninstall - uninstaller hangs.
Kill process, "Origin is now uninstalled!"...err OK.

Re-download, reinstall
...Origin is updating...1%...100%...Done

Exactly the same thing as before, EA Fails.

Tried that and it still froze, but I'm giving it another go after a reboot.

Edit: reboot must have worked. It's starting now, though the first impressions don't fill me with confidence.

Everyone is quick to say that, but what exactly is soo bad about Origin?

Everytime I load Origin it bugs out and I can't start my games. So i click around and try refresh the screen so it's not jumping everywhere.
When I load Origin my whole computer freezes and net drops out. Takes about 2 mins to get back to normal.
There are always massive updates, the downloads are slowing down as more people jump onto Origin.
When your game files are out of date or corrupt, on steam you can validate files and it will download what you need. On Origin it downloads the whole game again from scratch (grrrr).

And EA have ruined the Battlefield franchise.

$1 doesn't seem worth the hassle to install Origin, plus I've already got Crysis on Steam. I've managed to avoid Origin so far but I really want to play the new Sim City game.

How did they ruin battlefield?

Battlefield 1942 was very open field based combat, maps were big, much bigger than BF3. The combat was paced and not as intense as FPS's are going these days. BF2 was very good stuck with the big map theme and many vehicles and loadouts, and modernised it which was a good step forward.

BF3 is very pretty game, but thats as far as it goes. The maps suck, too small. Most of the maps are corridor based COD type. I like the destructable buildings but that doesn't cure the crappy maps.I bought the deluxe version and I played it solidly for about 2 months and just gave up, the map was too small got boring and fights became repetitive.

Both games had issues but the map design is where it loses it for me. My most hated was Operation metro, just walls of people running into each other (fail). I bailed when close quarters came out and haven't bothered with the rest of the dlc's cause I've lost faith. I now play ARMA 2 and Planetside 2.

Ozzy, bf3 has bigger maps than any of the previous games. Operation metro is one out of like, 20 maps that is small LOL. Fuck i hate the internet sometimes. Anyway if you got problems with origin get a good computer, mine works perfectly and iv never had a problem with it. Crysis for $1 is awesome as well

I've already got it on Steam so I won't bother getting this, even for $1.

But as others have said, I've yet to experience any issues with Origin. The overlay is nice and non-intrusive, super fast download speeds and I've yet to have a crash or run into any issues you guys have faced.

I have no doubt it has it issues, as does Steam, but I feel it is 'the thing to do' to just rip on Origin because it is EA, when I have nothing but positive feedback from my time using it.

uPlay on the other hand is useless, intrusive and slow as shit.

Anyone notice that ausgamers has an affiliate link?

http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/thread.php/3015864

Are you new at this internet stuff?

that's not really how it works greazy; maybe by the time your ban wears off you'll have thought about it some more and next time you won't post such a needlessly offensive comment... by the way, did you even read any of the comments above your post? Most of them are sharply critical of Origin.

whats your battleog username ozzy?