Titanfall Free on PC For 48 Hours

[Vrach]

Irrelevant. The time doesn't pause. Which would be a great innovation even if it means that you get less time. It would at least be your own time when you're comfortable.

Ah, you mean you want 10 hours of actual game time. True, that could be cool, but this is a good step from Steam's free weekends, especially for those with shitty internet connections (I'd normally download something like that overnight, thus losing a whole day of playing - so this system gets me about twice the possible game time - and that's assuming I find out about it right away). Just download the game, then fire it up when you know you're gonna have some free time to sit down and play it. For the purposes of a trial (and that's really all these things are and should be about), that's good enough imo

Now if you'd excuse me, I need a shower after speaking in defense of Origin/EA

 

[Ravesy]

Got to wonder about the size of their player-base if they're giving out free trials this soon.

Considering the amount of time I have to wait just to get into a 4V4 multiplayer match you could be on the money. Even when it does eventually find enough players it turns out that the matchmaking has expanded the search for missions ive already played. It took me about 10 attempts just to actually play the last mission...

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

meh, ok i guess

*goes back to buying a shitton of games on the steam summer sale*


since titanfall takes up 50 gb of disck space i dont even think a normal free weekend would work at all, unless you have an insanely fast connection

 

[elvor0]

Title got me to think at that they were offering people 48 hours to download and keep it forever.

That would been much nicer...

what is it with The Escapist and having misleading thread titles recently?

Pretty sure that was against the rules.



So, yea, here I thought Titanfall was download within the next 48 hours and keep it forever-free, but nope, just another misleading title.

I wouldn't say it was misleading, just open to interpretation. Steam uses "free for 48 hours" quite often for 2 day trials, so I assumed this is what it was.

 

[Metalrocks]

meh, ok i guess

*goes back to buying a shitton of games on the steam summer sale*


since titanfall takes up 50 gb of disck space i dont even think a normal free weekend would work at all, unless you have an insanely fast connection

it took me a whole day. origin downloads pretty fast. faster than steam.

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

meh, ok i guess

*goes back to buying a shitton of games on the steam summer sale*


since titanfall takes up 50 gb of disck space i dont even think a normal free weekend would work at all, unless you have an insanely fast connection

it took me a whole day. origin downloads pretty fast. faster than steam.

it depends on your conenction, i dont think BF3 downloaded any faster than my steam games

 

[kajinking]

Thanks to AT&T I have a 150Gb limit per month and ungodly slow download speeds so this is a no go for me.

 

[mirage202]

Have to give em credit where it is due, well played EA, well played.

 

[ExtraDebit]

Got to wonder about the size of their player-base if they're giving out free trials this soon.

Usually, on Steam, the free weekend multiplayer games are the ones that have been out for a while and have a declining player-base (sa Payday 2, Guns of Icarus, etc).

Of course, it could also mean that EA has new DLC in the pipe and want to get more people for that (sa Payday 2/Big Bank).

It's real bad, the game is extremely repetitive with no sense of progression. I myself only played it for a week and haven't log back in yet.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

meh, ok i guess

*goes back to buying a shitton of games on the steam summer sale*


since titanfall takes up 50 gb of disck space i dont even think a normal free weekend would work at all, unless you have an insanely fast connection

it took me a whole day. origin downloads pretty fast. faster than steam.

it depends on your conenction, i dont think BF3 downloaded any faster than my steam games

I downloaded Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition and Skyrim respectively on Origin and Steam, got 9.2MB/s on Origin and only 3.2MB/s on Steam. Same connection, I even paused one and the other to see the difference. I think EA just has a better overall connection, at least for me.

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

meh, ok i guess

*goes back to buying a shitton of games on the steam summer sale*


since titanfall takes up 50 gb of disck space i dont even think a normal free weekend would work at all, unless you have an insanely fast connection

it took me a whole day. origin downloads pretty fast. faster than steam.

it depends on your conenction, i dont think BF3 downloaded any faster than my steam games

I downloaded Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition and Skyrim respectively on Origin and Steam, got 9.2MB/s on Origin and only 3.2MB/s on Steam. Same connection, I even paused one and the other to see the difference. I think EA just has a better overall connection, at least for me.

well i dont think ive experienced much difference

altough if you consider your download speed is too slow on steam, you can try chaging from which server you download your games on your steam settings

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

**Snip**

I don't consider it slow, just slower than Origin, and I've messed with the settings before. I'd say its mostly a case-by-case thing and not something everyone gets.

 

[truckspond]

So it's a steam free weekend.

Since I have no interest in Titanfall unless they make it free to keep playing forever or add an offline single-player campaign then this will not make me start playing. I got my fix back in the demo anyway

 

[Metalrocks]

meh, ok i guess

*goes back to buying a shitton of games on the steam summer sale*


since titanfall takes up 50 gb of disck space i dont even think a normal free weekend would work at all, unless you have an insanely fast connection

it took me a whole day. origin downloads pretty fast. faster than steam.

it depends on your conenction, i dont think BF3 downloaded any faster than my steam games

I downloaded Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition and Skyrim respectively on Origin and Steam, got 9.2MB/s on Origin and only 3.2MB/s on Steam. Same connection, I even paused one and the other to see the difference. I think EA just has a better overall connection, at least for me.

well i dont think ive experienced much difference

altough if you consider your download speed is too slow on steam, you can try chaging from which server you download your games on your steam settings

the same here. with steam i get around 800kbs wile origin downloads at around 1-2mbs. same connection. and i already tried different settings on steam.

 

[RicoADF]

could Origin finally be setting itself up to be a worthy rival to Steam?

No. As long as Origin only sells EA games, it will never be a rival to anything. Some shops can get away with only selling their own brand when it comes to things like fashion, but that doesn't apply to games where people don't care who made a game but simply whether they think it will be fun. It doesn't matter how attractive Origin may become, if I can't get the game I want there I obviously can't shop there.

Origin actually does have non EA games. It's not as extensive as steam but to be fair steam is how much older?

Glad to see origin learning and adapting, even if you prefer steam this competition is good for us the consumer, glad to see origin, gog, gamersgate and green man gaming giving steam competition.

 

[Dandark]

Isn't Titanfall the game that had 34GB of sound files you had to download? It would take me more than 48 hours just to download the whole thing, never mind play it. Plus I don't want to deal with Origin.

Sorry EA but I still don't trust you.

 

[zumbledum]

its a good move and its nice to see EA trying to copy steam , maybe they are getting the idea of providing service is better. but the fundamental issue of why i dont have origin remains. i do not want to live in a world where every single dev and publisher has a front end program running on my PC, i want no more than one , i have that one. they need to provide their service without requiring a front end for me to use it, like gog does.

 

[Michael Tabbut]

Title got me to think at that they were offering people 48 hours to download and keep it forever.

That would been much nicer...

To be fair, their aforementioned On The House program is exactly that.