Crackers Cut Origin From Battlefield 3

[frehls]

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[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Peaceful protest works, circumventing their programming doesn't work and leads to even more draconian DRM.

Think you have that backwards. Peaceful protest sometimes works, usually with the government and very rarely with corps, whereas circumvention has been working just fine for 30 years.

See: Dr. King or Ghandi for reference on that point. Circumvention just leads to more tightening of the fist. Ignoring or sidestepping problems don't make them go away.

 

[Asehujiko]

Pointless, you can't play multiplayer with a crack and honestly, who in his right mind would want to play the single player of BF3?

If you have a valid cd key of course you can.
Try to skim the article next time

For now. How long do you think it's going to last? EA isn't going to let this stick around. Before long, people with cracks will only be able to play SP.

Origin isn't the authentication service for BF3. This shortens the start up procedure for the game from
Start Origins > Wait till Origins in finished displaying you an advertisement for BF3 > Start application > Start battlelog > Start game
to
Start battlelog > Start game
It isn't the battlelog circumventing crack, that one was out a week before release.

- and you don't mind dumping randomly patched .EXE files onto your PC -

Aside from the fact that I can't even say whether or not it actually works [and even if I had Battlefield 3 installed, I wouldn't risk testing it]

So what you are saying is that you saw something, didn't do any research and posted some unbased fearmongering about viruses? Because real pirates having scurvy* automatically means internet pirates having internet diseases?

*pirates were the least likely people to have scurvy on account of generally being coastal raiders that resupplied constantly.

 

[targren]

See: Dr. King or Ghandi for reference on that point. Circumvention just leads to more tightening of the fist. Ignoring or sidestepping problems don't make them go away.

King and Ghandi are the exceptions, not the rules. See: "Occupy Whatever" for reference on that point. It won't be going away in the face of circumvention NOR protest. The only thing that will make DRM go away is if gamers nut up and stop buying games (good luck with that) whereas circumvention at least lets you un-break what was deliberately broken.

 

[BoredRolePlayer]

Well, it surely works, Razor1911 is one of the most known cracking groups. However, I still don't get why people hate the Origin. I know that EA's license agreement seems a bit seedy, but this it has been this way for a long time - last time I remember was exactly the same issue with Hellgate:London - and EA never had overused their rights or invaded someone's privacy. It's there just in case, not to steal your personal data and credit card info. I use Origin, and it's quite nice, even though the interface is in dire need of some more love from engineers and designers, but hey, Steam wasn't exactly flawless when it came out either - as a matter of fact, it received much more hate, lot of it deserved.

I don't remember valve pulling there games from stores going "If you want to play our game use OUR service"...well in a way they do with steam works. But the point is since EA is pulling there games from steam so you HAVE to use their service is annoying. And you have crap like this

"The Hidden Springs content will only be available through the Sims 3 store using SimPoints. That means that if you want to buy Sims 3 through Steam, you should probably grab it while you still can. Several other Sims packs are available through Steam currently, but history has shown that once EA puts up a piece of DLC that's available exclusively through its own storefront, the game gets pulled from Valve's store. Don't be surprised if The Sims 3 disappears on August 25."

That was from The Sims 3 news page about The Hidden Springs DLC. Isn't that cute that we have now come to crap like this?

 

[redisforever]

Well, ok, Razor1911 is generally trustable...but I don't recommend cracking your games anyway. I had to once, because that was the only way to make my legit copy of a game work with Windows 7, but whatever.

 

[Jandau]

Well, I wouldn't know about the crack, seeing as how I have zero interest in BF3, but Razor1911 is pretty much a household name as far as cracking games goes. If they really made the crack, then it will work and it won't be virus infested. Assuming, of course, that it's not somebody pretending to be the Razor team...

 

[Fasckira]

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I love you for this, and Im going to link people to this very post whenever I read more knee-jerking over Origin, explains it perfectly.

If anything Origin has been pretty damn clear with everything they've done and are doing, more so than Steam.

On the subject of games like Battlefield 3 being Origin only, people seem to forget that games like Half Life and Tf2 are Steam only...

 

[Dragoon]

-Snip-

Well done good sir this is right and more people should read it. This whole Origin thing is being blown way out of proportion, it really isn't that bad and as people have said it's still early days and it should improve with time.

 

[Twilight_guy]

I wonder why people don't post stories about cutting games out of Steam? Oh yeah people don't have an irrational hated of Valve and their huge monopoly only EA.

Pirates being pirates. Nothing new. Not much to say beyond, saw it coming.

 

[Giest4life]

I wonder if DICE had made an office pool with people betting on when Origin would be cracked?

 

[gigastar]

If the next C&C is any good i may go out of my way to do this just to not have Origin.

I love C&C, but dislike Origin to the same extreme.

Or maybe EA will admit that it cant force everyone who wants to play its games to have EA accounts or Origin and release it on Steam too.

Fuck im optimistic.

 

[Wharrgarble]

I just wish there was a way to opt out, that's all. It's not downloading the program that I mind, I just don't feel comfortable with it routing through my data. I don't really care whether you think what they're doing is "evil" or "harmless". I want the option to say no.

In the mean time, EA should have seen this coming (if they hadn't already). There's been a lot of opposition to Origin, and with their most recent issue with German Law, I'm curious so see where things will go from here.

 

[Something Amyss]

if you really find Origin so intolerable, maybe the best move is to just avoid Origin-dependent games altogether.

Unfortunately, not purchasing the titles seems to be beyond the gaming market's capacity.

 

[Stainlesssteele4]

If you purchased the game, you have all the right to modify the game in anyway you see fit. That includes cracking the game to avoid EA's snooping.

 

[Zerazar]

If you purchased the game, you have all the right to modify the game in anyway you see fit. That includes cracking the game to avoid EA's snooping.

Ethically I would agree. But I don't think their EULA agrees.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

http://www.gb93.com/site_images/2011-05-27/peewee.jpg

Crack is wack kids.

But I still wont be getting it just because I know that EA will probably ban everyone using it under something from the ToS.

 

[vxicepickxv]

If you purchased the game, you have all the right to modify the game in anyway you see fit. That includes cracking the game to avoid EA's snooping.

Ethically I would agree. But I don't think their EULA agrees.

Got it, so every country that says EULAs are unenforceable can get away with it, but the USA can't.

 

[erztez]

If you purchased the game, you have all the right to modify the game in anyway you see fit. That includes cracking the game to avoid EA's snooping.

Ethically I would agree. But I don't think their EULA agrees.

Aaaand an EULA has the legal standing of used toilet paper in most civilized countries(that means not-US, for those of us slower than average).

For example, where I live, the copyright law clearly states that I am able to modify software in any way I see fit, after I bought it.
Sure, I can't make copies and sell them, but that's about it.

SUCK IT, EA!

I've run a server emulator to play C&C4, I've cracked every EA game that came out in the past 4-5 years. Did I download them of the bay full of pirates? No. I bought them. But I don't like DRM and I get rid of it when possible(read: always).

 

[erztez]

If you purchased the game, you have all the right to modify the game in anyway you see fit. That includes cracking the game to avoid EA's snooping.

Ethically I would agree. But I don't think their EULA agrees.

Got it, so every country that says EULAs are unenforceable can get away with it, but the USA can't.

Dang, ninja!
Still, it bears repeating.

EULAs don't mean shit outside the US.

Just to make sure, one more time.

EULAs don't mean shit outside the US.

There. Get it now?