RE: Origin

If I have to get a DRM copy of a game, I usually buy at the main distributer or developer. ARMA copies at Bohemia Interactive (no ARMA3 cuz its a Steam-Game*), Dragon Age at EA, Mass Effect at EA.

I also first bought the Dragon Age Origins Ultimate at Steam, but it is crappy packaged. DLC not included and you have to hope Bioware keeps the offline downloads up. No support, they link to EA for support and EA does only support their Origin version.
The only other proper copy of Dragon Age Origins is available at GOG.com.

p.s. and I agree the Origin support is really good. When DAI came out and I couldn't play it in German because they check the location and only that language is available or optional English, they put another German only copy into my account

*with that I mean it is so heavily integrated into Steam you couldn't even run it without. Not just mods, multiplayer and drm.

Steam users have reported losing games from there digital library as well.

You can easily contact support for any issues or to get games restored to your account.

Hell customer support is where Origin destroys Steam as you can actually talk to an official support person live within 5 - 15 minutes for any issues.


I've used Origin since pretty much day 1 and have never had an issue.

Brazilian laws would also protect people here in case EA goes crazy.

During a transfer of some Sims games the EA assistant told me that yes, EA does remove games from your library, but that would mean not playing them for 5 or 10 years. That's why it tracks when you log in and the last time you played.

Exactly. It's THAT rare because how many of us would just let games sit for 5 or 10 years and not log into our account? Just ask EA support. They will explain it.

This is if you don't log in to your account for 5 or 10 years. How many of us will do that? 

Yeah that's what the EA support told me. It's the account. That's why they partly keep track of activity. I was still waking up earlier and didn't explain that properly lol but yeah if you ignore your account, then the games will go after 5/10 years. Someone else got it wrong I guess or misunderstood and thought it was the games even if you log in, but no they just don't want to remove really old accounts with unused games taking up space.

I bought RA3 before Origin existed and linked it to my old EA account to get a special helmet in Warhammer Online. They had this DRM to call home and activate the local copy. That was much worse than using the Origin client, because you were sitting on your DVD and couldn't use it or call someone via phone in the US.

I was wondering that RA3 code didn't make it into my current Origin (still that useless DVD in my shelf). The normal redeem method in Origin failed as the code was already registered.
10min chat, attached a picture of the DVD to my case and now I have it in my Origin account as well.

aside from not playing the specified game since 2012 were you logging into origin periodically? see my greatest fear is not logging into origin itself for 5-10 years the question is will the games i bought in my library be still there or will they be permanently deleted? if you get what i am trying to say.

Best guess is that any Origin licenses would be enforceable. There are precedents against EULAs, but those were about"shrink-wrap" licenses. Those wouldn't apply to a game purchased on Origin, since you have to agree to the EULA before executing the purchase.

Yeah, the EU and the US aren't in the same place on this stuff. Dunno where the UK will end up.