jackpipsam said:
Honestly they give it away 100% free, on your account forever.
From my understanding services like Origin, UPlay and Steam are basically rental services. You pay them money (or in this case none) for a product, but you can use it only as long as their service continues. You do not technically own anything in your library because they can still remove it from your library, and if the service ever goes down there is the very real chance you will lose some, if not all, of your games. I admit I'm not sure how it shakes out with offline mode, but I assume you still have to validate at least once per install, but please do correct me if I'm wrong. At the end of the day, it's DRM, and while I will say Origin is better than Steam on some fronts (refund policy and such), they're all a ripoff at the end of the day, especially if you live outside the US because $1 =/= ?1. Until it's free from somewhere like GOG where I can download the actual installer I can't consider it to be "free forever".
