Ultratwinkie said:
I tried it to test out my graphics card's potential.
Testing out graphic card potential with BF3? wow thats an odd choice of a test.
also, where is your avatar gone?
RealRT said:
Nice one, I expected something much less meaty, like Peggle.
Now the game itself is a piece of shit, but you can't argue with free stuff.
ech, during the Dead Space for free giveaway there was a reddit thread about it and people were asking for battlefiend to be next. Origin representative that is quite active there said he "will ask about it". and here the next game was battlefield. ANd now on reddit the same representative is saying "your welcome" so yeah, i think it was basically a choice by demand.
CpT_x_Killsteal said:
Well to be fair, L4D2 and RO2 are still frequently played games and the latest in their series, whereas BF3 is one iteration old (I don't know about it's multiplayer so i can't say anything there) with half the maps and guns locked behind premium. and with AAAs shutting down their old servers at increasing rates, I doubt BF3 will survive the release of the next iteration.
Well, if we go by fair, BF3 is more popular than BF4 in terms of people playing and is stil lvery active. It is also considered by many to be the "Better of the two", so its not like they are throwing old crap here. Battlefield was never about singleplayer really, so judging it by that only does not give you the full picture.
MinionJoe said:
Any application that installs with admin rights has the potential to bugger your system. Hell, I've got an old AMD system in the garage that was completely fucked by SecuROM from EA's Spore game back in 2008.
SecuROM was pure evil. However as far as admin priviledges goes, its microsofts fault really for not making the user priviledges adequate. when half of my problems NEED admin priviledges to function properly thats not really much of security your doing forcing (because on windows 7 and above you dont have a choice at all) you into inferior account that you have to go around and give everything admin priviledges anyway.
Metalrocks said:
origin is really not bad. i personally had no issues with it. in fact, i at times prefer it a bit more than steam. already alone for the download speed. with steam it downloads between 600 to 800kbs. wile origin is over 800kbs, up to 2mbs.
Origin has gotten a lot better recently and they seem to be genuinely working towards making it good. From what me talking to one of their guys tells me is they are a semi-autonomi from EA and can work towards making things better for users.
They lie about download speeds though. Steam gives you actual download speed. Origin gives you unpacked file size speed. you download a file at 800kbps and then unpack it locally into game files which take more space than downloaded one, Steam reports the speed you download, Origin reports the size of unpacked files, thus it makes you look like you download faster but in reality your downloading the same and they just lie about it.
Hero in a half shell said:
I just use a regular sentence.
Something like "This is my 1st password for Origin" should do the trick, but I agree, any enforcing of limits on a password just make it easier to bruteforce a difficult password.
wont work. password cannot be longer than 16 characters. because fuck security Origin wants everyone to make similar passwords.