Origin will be required

[Anarchy1]

zh1nt0 said that Origin will be required on Twitter.



Does this change anyone's plans for buying the game? I was going to cancel my Origin preorder and get it through Amazon if Origin wasn't required, but now it looks like I will stick with Origin.

[Vreki]

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No, I kind of expected it to be this way.
Actually it confirms that retail games can be registered to Origin, otherwise it could not be an requirement.

[Infernalis]

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30% uses on E8400... That + firefox, no wonder I had some lag.

[TrooperJac]

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Not good - I don't want any superfluous crap running on my system. Another tick in the 'no' box for BF3.

[jimykx]

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lool i bet that you can run the game and quit origin after joining a server

[Infernalis]

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Perhaps, if it's like BC2 you can alt+tab and close it, though I don't like to alt+tab because when I return to the game I have some artifacts (some textures take times to come). It's annoying nonetheless, now you have to close 2 things and if you're on bad server and want to change you need to relaunch your web browser + Origin. Superfluous crap are the right words.

[jimykx]

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are you kidding!? i hope they make an in game browser lol....

[Anarchy1]

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30% uses on E8400... That + firefox, no wonder I had some lag.

Yeah, it loses quite a bit of CPU on my system, but it didn't hurt my performance (and doesn't in any of the games I play on it, like Crysis 2). Hopefully they do get it fixed though.

are you kidding!? i hope they make an in game browser lol....

No in-game browser

[jimykx]

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Yeah, it loses quite a bit of CPU on my system, but it didn't hurt my performance (and doesn't in any of the games I play on it, like Crysis 2). Hopefully they do get it fixed though.

well but it does hurt my performance for sure xD. when you have an old system you have to suck up every single power you can

[Rambo]

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Wtf no browser? what next we choose our weapons from Activision?

[CptainCrunch]

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Yo dawg, I heard you liked browsers so we put a browser in your browser so can browse for servers while playing on servers.

Crunch

[stilla-killa]

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Wow some of you are ridiculous. SO what if you need Origin to play BF3. But not getting the game because of that is just hard headed. How many of you all said the same thing when Steam first came out. Get used to it. This is the direction things are going.

[RangerXML]

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Color me surprised. I could of told you that BF3 was going to require Origin months ago...in fact I made the Origin buddy (sticky) list above months ago because I had a strong hunch EA would do this. No more having to repopulate your buddy list for future BF games, look at how well Steamworks games worked out with buddy lists in games like the Call of Duty series.

[jimykx]

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Color me surprised. I could of told you that BF3 was going to require Origin months ago...in fact I made the Origin buddy (sticky) list above months ago because I had a strong hunch EA would do this. No more having to repopulate your buddy list for future BF games, look at how well Steamworks games worked out with buddy lists in games like the Call of Duty series.

people just did not wanted to believe. it's called hope

[Anarchy1]

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Wtf no browser? what next we choose our weapons from Activision?

No, now your browser is your browser. There is still a browser, just instead of a normal browser in-game, it's in your browser. Just open up your browser, log in, and then click on the link to the browser. The server that you selected from the browser should now load straight from your browser. If you like, you can probably use the Origin browser to browse servers on the browser, but you probably won't be able to join it from that browser. You could need to take the URL from the server (the browser assigned each server a URL in the alpha), and then open that URL in your browser, and it should take you to the server in the browser, which you can then load from your browser.