I hope they rethink this with Battlefield 4 and use some kind of in-game menu and server browser. This feels cheap using my Google Chrome to launch the game.
Having to launch Battlefield 3 games from my web browser is dumb
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You're new, but just realize that Battlelog is the greatest thing to ever happen to a game. It's amazing once you get over the shock of how completely different it is.
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I can forgive the web based aspect...
my problem is that the damned game which I'd been excited to play for a while now, crashed my entire PC the first time I loaded it, while I was still in menus.
Ugh
my problem is that the damned game which I'd been excited to play for a while now, crashed my entire PC the first time I loaded it, while I was still in menus.
Ugh
balloonshark
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This is going to create a problem for me. I force my browsers to run sandboxed with Sandboxie. This means if the sandboxed browser starts another program it will also run sandboxed. The tweaking never ends...
Edit: This solution may work. http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12929&highlight=bf3
Edit: This solution may work. http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12929&highlight=bf3
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Youre doing it wrong!Yeah, I found it silly as well.
Steps to playing a game of BF3 (from what I remember, it has been a long time)
Launch Origin
Launch BF3
Launch BF3 server browser
Launch game that goes back to already launched BF3
Barfo is right too
I simply surf on over to my favorited browser BF3 battlelog link (usually from ATOT ()
) choose a server to play in. One click from there and Im in a game.But I will confess that I too thought it was stupid when it first released, before I realized its true potential.
I specifically avoided buying because of the Origin and browser requirements, it was one of the harder games to let slide in that year but did it anyway.
There's no need for that requirement other than to force origin on to their customers, if they release BF4 standalone or on steam then I'll most likely get a copy, otherwise no sale.
There's no need for that requirement other than to force origin on to their customers, if they release BF4 standalone or on steam then I'll most likely get a copy, otherwise no sale.
So you dont mind being "forced" by a game to use Steam, but it offends you to be forced to use anything else? I guess we wont be seeing you in BF4.
You do realize that EA's Origin and Valve's Steam are both DRM, right?
PS-Origin would be required even without the battlelog feature.
Why does everyone turn this into a Origin vs Steam all the god damn time, YES of course I realize they both have DRM elements to them, I'm not retarded.
The point is that I have picked my digital distribution platform of choice, I picked steam, mostly because it was there first and did it right. I have little bias for steam or against origin I just happen to have picked steam.
I have one mobile phone and one network, I have one internet connection, I have one electricity supplier and I have one gas supplier, I have one movie rental service and I have one digital games distribution service.
WHY?
Because their function is to service me and provide me access to what I want and need, if someone stupid idiot wants to start a new phone network and everyone who wants to communicate across that network needs to buy a 2nd mobile phone exclusive to that network I'm not going to carry around 2 phones just so I can call that network, it's join the rest of the club or fuck off.
And if Origin had been here first and been done well, and I'd picked that as my platform of choice, and Valve came along 2nd and released Half Life only for steam I would be refusing to buy Half Life for not being Origin compatible.
This isn't Steam vs Origin which everyone ALWAYS tries to force into the discussion, it's about services not being exclusive and locked down to proprietary systems.
I like that Origin exists, it adds competition to steam and creates a free market, I don't use it primarily because I already have a digital distribution platform and I don't need or want a 2nd, or a 3rd or a 4th or a 5th or an Nth.
Well then you can stop wishing for BF cause it aint gonna happen.
I hate when people whine about Origin becuase its required to play a game, then turn around want the same game released on Steam. WTF?!?!? Its especially laughable when most of them go on to talk about how Steam is soooo superior to Origin.
If the first thing to come along were always best then we would all still be driving Model T Fords. Passing up a great game you really want to play simply because its on another distribution service seems silly to me, but to each their own I suppose.
Your analogy of buying and carrying two phones is ridiculous. Origin is a free app for goodness sakes.
All forms of DRM suck, but IMO origin sucks slightly less than steam simply because it functions better.
Steam is far more like a retailer or a restaurant than a utility; but even when it comes to utilities you usually have more than one choice. When a different gas supplier starts offering "supergas" that provides some sort of benefit to you; you might switch. That's how a free market works, everyone's trying to offer something unique to entice customers. And so they compete.
Sorry my last post was a rant, the things EA do make me really mad sometimes.
I wouldn't carry 2 phones even if one was free, based on the same principle alone, it's stupid that you need to use 2 utilities to achieve the same goal just because the owners of the utility have an agenda they want to force on you.
There's only ONE reason they do this, because they can. They'll get away with as much of this rubbish as you'll let them, eventually you'll need an "EA" chip on your motherboard to play BF7.
The free market only works in ways that consumers allow it to work in, if you're principled and say "wait a moment, trapping me into origin isn't necessary" and then decide to avoid it, then you encourage EA not to do that in future and we get a much more open and healthy platform that benefits us ALL in future.
And for all of you who support Origin as your preferred platform, I'd suggest you avoid buying any games which valve release which are locked to steam, I think that's equally as bad (just to prove this is not a "steam/valve is better" issue)
Simply put, I behave in a way in which, if everyone behaved that way, we wouldn't have to worry about which platform a game is released on, anyone not releasing on all platforms equally would suffer lost sales. I don't care if I'm the only person on earth doing it and it makes zero practical difference, it's called a principle for a reason.
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I wouldn't carry 2 phones even if one was free, based on the same principle alone, it's stupid that you need to use 2 utilities to achieve the same goal just because the owners of the utility have an agenda they want to force on you.
There's only ONE reason they do this, because they can. They'll get away with as much of this rubbish as you'll let them, eventually you'll need an "EA" chip on your motherboard to play BF7.
The free market only works in ways that consumers allow it to work in, if you're principled and say "wait a moment, trapping me into origin isn't necessary" and then decide to avoid it, then you encourage EA not to do that in future and we get a much more open and healthy platform that benefits us ALL in future.
And for all of you who support Origin as your preferred platform, I'd suggest you avoid buying any games which valve release which are locked to steam, I think that's equally as bad (just to prove this is not a "steam/valve is better" issue)
Simply put, I behave in a way in which, if everyone behaved that way, we wouldn't have to worry about which platform a game is released on, anyone not releasing on all platforms equally would suffer lost sales. I don't care if I'm the only person on earth doing it and it makes zero practical difference, it's called a principle for a reason.
/rant
Go to battlelog, find server, drop in when game is loaded. Unless you REALLY like loading screens, how is that not better?
Because Origin is not smooth, it runs like crap, the browser is very slow, and overall EA creates horrible products that they don't support yet I keep buying them........
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Bah, 19GB download, so I leave it on overnight to download and wake up to see it is only 6% complete. Hopefully by the time I get home from work tonight it will be at 12%! :\
KT
KT
Wrong. Not all Steam games have DRM. http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_steam/page1
Besides, most of us already have Steam, and don't want another system.
Yes, there are some games released on Steam that are completely DRM free, the majority aren't.
The arguments against having another DD store are rather silly. "Oh, I already chose my DD platform" Nope, you didn't choose it at all. It was forced on you by Valve. You just don't remember the internet being all outraged when it happened for HL2. "We already have Steam, we don't need another store!" So, since we already have Wal-Mart we don't need any other large retail stores right?
The same people that love steam are always the ones that cry about ISPs have geographic monopolies. One choice in some areas is great, but in others it is bad...
Fine by me as long as you arent whining about a game unavailable on steam. I have both and havent had much of an issue either, but would prefer them both to go away.
Even if the games listed on that link are themselves DRM free, I dont see what that has to do with the conversation. Both Steam and Origin are at their root forms of DRM.
The problem with them going away means we have to either go back to the disc based system or what? Where would we get our content? DD is great, but with it comes DRM platforms. We could pray for a gog type system, but that isn't going to happen.
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