Crackers Cut Origin From Battlefield 3

[Bad Cluster]

2.Now, first of all, it's ProgramData, not Program Files. ProgramData is a directory that primarily contains cached data from some of your programs.

Just to clarify, Program Data is user specific folder and its used by some software to store settings, cache and history. Firefox saves everything in that folder for example, if you don't have your privacy and cookies settings on default settings, all your recent activity will be stored in Program Data folder.

Program Files on the other hand is the folder where program installations are located, it is
rarely used to store configuration files and cache.

If you are trying to say that Origin accessing Program Data isn't such a big deal as if it was accessing Program Files so people stop confusing the two, you are wrong.
I apologize in advance If I misunderstood your intentions.

As for Origin, just create a separate user for use with Origin, and set its permissions so it only capable of accessing files essential for Origin functionality, the game you are playing, and Windows/drivers. After that just run Origin using "Run as different user" with that "special" user you just made. Only problem with this, it is a bit too much to do for an average PC user.

 

[Michael Hirst]

So once again the official product is more tedious and has less advantages than the cracked version. Good to know.

 

[Callex]

Snippety

Finally! Someone who knows what they're talking about. It's embarrassing the amount of knee-jerking there is whenever the origin topic pops up.

You can't personify a corporation. They're all out to make money, it's just some have bigger PR budgets than others...

 

[ZeZZZZevy]

Why should I have to install a completely separate library for EA games because they decided to get in on the DDC 4 fucking years late?

So what you're saying is that no other company (aside from Valve) from now until the end of time is allowed to go DDC (in a competitive way) from now till the end of time? What kind of sense does that make? If EA didn't pull their games from Steam Origin wouldn't be any kind of competitive with Steam. Even if it was theoretically a better service people would have no reason to switch programs since Steam works fine.

OT: This wasn't really unexpected, steam was cracked forever ago. EA will eventually figure out how to combat this and ban the people who try to play online with the crack.

 

[Bek359]

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.

Steam is DRM, and a fairly pain-free version, as DRM goes. It also is not spyware. I think this explains things nicely.

 

[Sprinal]

Ahhh hackers/crackers You guys restore my faith in Video Games all the time.

Seriously if you look at games that do not have DRM they do not not sell.
Look at Minecraft. over 2 million purchases. What is DRM good for? Getting cracked in a week.

SO there we have it. end users beating corporations.

 

[Dirzzit]

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?

This crack allows you to.

 

[Vornek]

I think it's sad that I trust these "crackers" more than I trust EA.
ah well, not getting BF3 anyways. it doesn't have the thing i loved the most about BF2. "singleplayer" vs bots.

-V

 

[x-machina]

I picked up Red Orchestra 2 instead because I refuse to support Origin. No regrets Red Orchestra is a great game.

 

[ZeZZZZevy]

Why should I have to install a completely separate library for EA games because they decided to get in on the DDC 4 fucking years late?

So what you're saying is that no other company (aside from Valve) from now until the end of time is allowed to go DDC (in a competitive way) from now till the end of time? What kind of sense does that make? If EA didn't pull their games from Steam Origin wouldn't be any kind of competitive with Steam. Even if it was theoretically a better service people would have no reason to switch programs since Steam works fine.

Is that what I said? Because what I could have sword I said was this.

My problem with it is that I've invested so much into steam already and I really don't want to sign up to anymore money pits.

Why should I have to install a completely separate library for EA games because they decided to get in on the DDC 4 fucking years late?

Also the whole thing about them being able to refuse to allow you to reinstall games a year after your first installation kind of puts me off. Certainly doesn't put much faith in buying download only content from them.

CONTEXT. Don't quote people out of it.

What prevents you from having Steam and Origin? Last time I checked they could coexist quite nicely. My understanding of your post was that you didn't want to get Origin because Steam came first, to which I replied that doesn't make much sense, since getting Origin doesn't cut you off from Steam and having some games on a different service really isn't that much of a hassle. (Also how is another service a money pit? All it's doing is essentially splitting up where you're getting certain games from)

I didn't cut you out of context, I just shortened your post to the main point I was responding to. If I misunderstood what you said, I apologize.

 

[Antari]

While I don't exactly support the use of it. I do trust Razor1911 more than I do EA. If anything on track record alone.

 

[ph0b0s123]

-snip-

Actually this is exactly what I was expecting when I first read the stories about EA's EULA. Hence my reaction is not a knee-jerking as even this scanning by the program is more than I want a program on my system to do. Not becuase I have anything to hide, but because I do not find it acceptable for a company to force this on consumers. It's another step down the road of the games makers holding all the cards.

I cannot think of any other system that takes as much data as Origin in a non optional way. Even the collection of hardware and software data from your system by windows and steam is optional. The only time it's not optional in windows is for activation and in that case it is a hash for hardware change comparison that is sent. They cannot see from that hash what you have on your system just whether the systems hardware has changed dramatically promoting a new activation.

So even though I adore Battlefield games and have brought all previous ones, I won't be playing this one, until EA make the transmitting of the data it scans on my system optional.

Not all PC owners have no backbone, just most of them....

 

[Tanis]

EA says: Crack is whack!

Son of a b...You ninja'd me, you ninja'd me good.
Good Sir.


OT:
I'm on the fence.
On the one hand I'm all OMG...ROW ROW FIGHT THE SPYWAR!
On the other hand...can't you just buy the game for console instead?

 

[mjc0961]

*snip*

"Hey guys, EA actually is needlessly scanning files that they don't need to scan just like you think they are, but you're totally overreacting! They aren't reading any of the files (except the few times where it is reading some of the files but just pretend I didn't mention that)! In short, Origin is pretty much doing all the things you're mad that it's doing, but you're still totally overreacting! And remember, other programs do it too [small](please don't notice the opt out option in other programs please please please)[/small]!"

Yeah, so which branch of EA do you work for again?

*snip*

Now this is some quality posting. Well done, sir. Both on intelligent thinking and on not buying Battlefield 3 at all as long as EA is still doing this instead of buying and cracking or pirating it.

It's also sad how many people are being tricked by that other guy's post. I'm starting to think we might be the only two people who actually read the entire thing.

 

[Warforger]

But people don't like EA, and EA has shown it doesn't like its customers. So it'll be fun to see if that changes things.

Yes, there are corporations out there that absolutely hate their customers that they make it their goal to piss them off as much as possible. Such a successful business model.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

Isn't suggesting using a crack a no-no? I'm just asking.

He did say he was pointing out that its been done rather than endorsing that someone does it.

 

[Legendsmith]

However, I still don't get why people hate the Origin.

It's a keylogger.

Steam wasn't exactly flawless when it came out either - as a matter of fact, it received much more hate, lot of it deserved.

Steam wasn't and still isn't a keylogger.

 

[TheGuy(wantstobe)]

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?

This crack allows you to.

So long as you've registered your legit CDkey with EA so that the BF3 authentication servers recognise you yeah you can play online.

As has been pointed out already all this one does is shorten the startup sequence from

Icon>origin loads>sign in to origin>select bf3>battlelog opens>sign in to battlelog>multiplayer

to

Icon>battlelog opens>sign in to battlelog>multiplayer

 

[Agayek]

Seems fitting for the title of this thread.

 

[GiantRedButton]

I like how the people who whine that Origin violates their privacy are more than willing to download a random file from some group the only know by name.

Seems like the crackers could make a killing if they just put some spyware in the cracked files.

Razer has been building a good rep for almost as long as ea did.