Origin

Origin, is it me or is it utter crap? it keeps asking me whether I used the same account to activate my BF3... and the activation screen keeps running without any progess. Oh I can feel my hate for EA rising

From my experience with the beta only, I have to say Battlefield 3 deserves a 10/10, it is a masterpiece. Origin on the other hand deserves 5/10 or even less, it's a disaster.

Mash up these two scores together and the average result isn't too good for both DICE and EA.

origin should be abolished, its just greedy EA trying to push a rotten product in which they hope to grap a share of the market steam mostly controls.

Oh I could swear all day long, AND I knew that Origin would be an issue the day I got my hands on BF3, allthough I was hoping that with a hard copy of the game I'd get away from using the utter waste of programming.

if you are trying to say that EA isn't greedy sunsabitses, please do so. It would be ok, If they did so with a product which matches somewhat the quality you'd expect from a COMPETING alternative.

if you are trying to say that EA isn't greedy sunsabitses, please do so. It would be ok, If they did so with a product which matches somewhat the quality you'd expect from a COMPETING alternative.

shyco

if you are trying to say that EA isn't greedy sunsabitses, please do so. It would be ok, If they did so with a product which matches somewhat the quality you'd expect from a COMPETING alternative.

shyco

I still find people insane for disliking Origin and not commenting about battlelog...it's like complaining about taxes when you have an atomic bomb heading your way.DanielDust

If EA wanted to compete with steam...wis3boi

[QUOTE="wis3boi"] If EA wanted to compete with steam...Renevent42

[QUOTE="Renevent42"][QUOTE="wis3boi"] If EA wanted to compete with steam...wis3boi

It's not just you, it never properly downloaded the bf3 beta for me, and I'm told messed up downloads are a known issue that a lot of people experience.

I passed up that 8$ bulletstorm deal over the weekend because I don't trust origin to be able to download it properly.

I have not had any issues yet with Origin, which is wierd because I expected to hate it with a passion.

Orgin is alright,I have no issues with it at all.

I'm finding the download process just as good as Steam's...consistently get 2+mb's a sec download rate. Renevent42

Origin is fine; Battlelog on the other hand is an utterly disaster; I hope no EA game will use Bsattelog again...

I haven't had any problems with Origin. In fact, I really like it.

Origin, is it me or is it utter crap? it keeps asking me whether I used the same account to activate my BF3... and the activation screen keeps running without any progess. Oh I can feel my hate for EA rising

shyco

[QUOTE="shyco"]

Origin, is it me or is it utter crap? it keeps asking me whether I used the same account to activate my BF3... and the activation screen keeps running without any progess. Oh I can feel my hate for EA rising

XIntoTheBlue

You don't have to make the process that long. Go to battlelog, find match, click join, game launches into match. Done.

You know what, I like it. I always have Firefox open anyway, so Battlelog is just another tab. It's easy to track your friends and see who's online, drag them into a party, join a game.. and ALWAYS on the same team and in the same squad, btw. Very nice. The stats page is massive, and for someone like me that's addicted to these games and their stat tracking, I find the site unbelievable. I peruse the dog tags I've been awarded or the ones i've stolen, to see what other people have. Check my basic stats, see all the stuff I'm close to unlocking or awards I'm about to get, etc.

And Battlelog itself.. finding and joining servers. You know what, it may not be as ideal as a simple in-game dedicated server browser like CoD4, but I WILL take having to open a browser window for servers considering how ridiculously easy it is to join in on your friends and in the same squad, or party up and join the same server at the same time. The trade-off to me is very minimal. The browser ITSELF is actually not bad at all. It refreshes server info very quickly, and when you click on it, gives you all up-to-date info unless it's changed.

Another benefit is that the game loads in the background when you join a server. So you only switch to the window when the game is ready, and quite frankly I think that's fantastic. I HATE loading up a game, having to deal with the terrible splash screens every time (unless they can be disabled, which I always do), logging in to whatever system the game uses, trying to find a server, inviting your friends to it, making sure you're on the same team and squad. With Battlelog, you just switch to the game window and you're in.

The *only* thing I really don't like so far with the system is the Origin requirement. Why? Battelog does everything the Origin client does, or so it seems. It'd be nice to be able to run the game entirely through Battlelog and not have to have Origin running in the background.

Anyway, I know that was kind of long, but I just wanted to give some specific reasoning as to why I actually enjoy using the system. I've been playing BF3 extensively; over 20 hours, in fact. So I've been spending a lot of time with the system, and in terms of functionality and layout, I really have no complaints. It might be very different from what we're used to, but I don't mind it at all.