Origin - game added by itself

[Qbah]

Hi folks,

Did this happen to anyone else? I bought Need for Speed Hot Pursuit a long time ago on Steam (sometime last year I guess? I'm quite sure it's even way back in 2010), played it for a bit after that and never came back to the game. I recently bought Crysis 2 on Origin, just to see how the service works (it was cheap too) and thought it's OK actually. It's the only game I ever bought on Origin and played using Origin.

But, today I fire up Origin to look for the ME3 demo, go to My Games tab and see NFS HP there... "Purchased" this Saturday. WTF? I check the CD-Key and sure enough, it's the one from Steam.

I did NOT add any game to my Origin account on the weekend. I did not even spend more than 20 minutes total at my PC this weekend! The hell EA? Did I ask you to touch any of my games and add them to Origin? NO! I do not f**king want anything else than Crysis 2 in there! If I want to, I'll do it myself! I got plenty more EA games, I hope they won't get a "bright" idea and add those too! Plus I have to call them to get help re. Origin No email...

Did something similar happen to anyone else?

 

[Necc]

So did you find the mass effect 3 demo?

 

[Destiny]

Are both games saved in the same EA game folder?

Or maybe a family member or friend was using your computer and added it to orgin to play it because they are more familiar with origin and not steam?

Kids do the darndest things nowadays...

I have Crysis on Steam and it was never added to Origin - and it still has not been added to Origin... (They are in seperate parent folder for EA games...)

 

[The Boston Dangler]

it happens once in a while. once, i was installing stalker: soc (retail box) and i guess i had steam running at the time because steam took over the installation and downloaded its copy. it never happened again

 

[Qbah]

No, I did not find the ME3 demo.

No, NFS HP is in a completely separate folder and drive. Hell, it's not even installed (just copied from a previous Steam install from like late-2010?).

No, nobody else had access to the computer. I was out most of the weekend and there was nobody else at home.

The only thing connecting the two (Origin and NFS) is that of course it's the same EA account. There's the Autolog or something in the NFS games, if I remember right, so back in late 2010 I used my EA account to login to it.

I have not touched the game since then... And especially not on Saturday.

 

[Buz]

Yes! This happened to me today. I just googled and found your thread.

 

[Qbah]

Weird, more and more people are reporting this:

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/8107195.page

Don't mess with my account or games EA!!!!

 

[gorcorps]

/firstworldproblems

 

[-Slacker-]

/firstworldproblems

Hear that guys? Until you're starving in a dumpster and dying of aids and thirst, you can't complain about anything else, ever. Gorcorps says you can't.

 

[you2]

Is there any sort of negative to this - if not why does it matter ? I suppose there might be an invasion of privacy issue; but if you actually run the game and it registers itself with origin then I'm not sure it is spyware (as oppose to origin scannign your disk to find games).

If no harm then no foul ?

Btw did EA ever fix the banning problem folks were complainig about (quote someone on the forum; get ban and then no access to games)?

 

[pontifex]

i assume like most EA games, you have to login to their servers?

It's probably seeing those games and adding it to origin because it's an EA game.

 

[Qbah]

Is there any sort of negative to this - if not why does it matter ? I suppose there might be an invasion of privacy issue; but if you actually run the game and it registers itself with origin then I'm not sure it is spyware (as oppose to origin scannign your disk to find games).

If no harm then no foul ?

Btw did EA ever fix the banning problem folks were complainig about (quote someone on the forum; get ban and then no access to games)?

I did not run NFS for more than a year. The only EA game I have launched since Origin was introduced is Crysis 2. They just decided to add a game I played more than a year ago which I did NOT get through Origin, to Origin. Why? I did not want this.

 

[Qbah]

i assume like most EA games, you have to login to their servers?

It's probably seeing those games and adding it to origin because it's an EA game.

I have other games from EA to which I logged in using the EA account:
- Mass Effect 2
- Dead Space 2
- Dragon Age 1
- Dragon Age 2

None of them showed up (which I'm happy about - I bought them on Steam). I do not want to have anything changed in my account unless I say it's OK, how hard is that to understand?

 

[waggy]

interesting.

how is EA getting the info? that's what i want to know.

 

[gorcorps]

Is there any sort of negative to this - if not why does it matter ? I suppose there might be an invasion of privacy issue; but if you actually run the game and it registers itself with origin then I'm not sure it is spyware (as oppose to origin scannign your disk to find games).

If no harm then no foul ?

Btw did EA ever fix the banning problem folks were complainig about (quote someone on the forum; get ban and then no access to games)?

interesting.

how is EA getting the info? that's what i want to know.

When you start the game, even through steam, you have to log in with an EA Account. When you input your key, it's then linked to that account. I'm assuming they're trying to condense all of their semi-modern games onto origin so if you have a valid key on file for your account, it'll show up as of now. AFAIK it does nothing but show up in your list of games on Origin, and shouldn't even be installed until you tell it too. I do believe theres a way to hide or disable games showing up in Origin though, because I googled how to remove the BF3 Beta from showing up in my list after the full game was released.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

EA accounts were converted to Origin accounts. They probably consolidated your games. They're pulling the data from the EA servers. Origin is just the client so when you log on it's displaying your updated list of games.

Like if you bought a game via steam webstore vs steam client.

 

[Raduque]

Ok, how about this one: Bought Alice: Madness Returns on Steam. DID NOT log into my EA account in the game. DID NOT manuall add it to my EA/Origin account. Yet, it's in Origin.

DID login to Crysis2 (purchased from D2D). Crysis2 is NOT showing in Origin.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Ok, how about this one: Bought Alice: Madness Returns on Steam. DID NOT log into my EA account in the game. DID NOT manuall add it to my EA/Origin account. Yet, it's in Origin.

DID login to Crysis2 (purchased from D2D). Crysis2 is NOT showing in Origin.

Sounds like Steam and EA talk to each other. Not too surprising that Steam would register your purchased registration key with EA.

 

[Qbah]

Ok, how about this one: Bought Alice: Madness Returns on Steam. DID NOT log into my EA account in the game. DID NOT manuall add it to my EA/Origin account. Yet, it's in Origin.

DID login to Crysis2 (purchased from D2D). Crysis2 is NOT showing in Origin.

Crysis 2 doesn't have an EA account. It has a Crynet account.

But games like Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 2, both Dragon Age games - they do. Yet they do not show up for me somehow?

In any case, I do NOT want this to show up. Did I ask for it? No. Did EA tell me they will do it? No. Would I approve if they asked? No!

 

[gorcorps]

Crysis 2 doesn't have an EA account. It has a Crynet account.

But games like Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 2, both Dragon Age games - they do. Yet they do not show up for me somehow?

In any case, I do NOT want this to show up. Did I ask for it? No. Did EA tell me they will do it? No. Would I approve if they asked? No!

I'm still utterly flabbergasted by how much this bothers you. It didn't install anything extra, you already have Origin installed which is the part that NORMALLY bothers people, and you only have one other game. You have one more icon in Origin than you normally do and that's it.

 

[BD231]

This sounds like a problem better suited for EA's online help center :hmm:

 

[Qbah]

I'm still utterly flabbergasted by how much this bothers you. It didn't install anything extra, you already have Origin installed which is the part that NORMALLY bothers people, and you only have one other game. You have one more icon in Origin than you normally do and that's it.

I don't like anyone changing my stuff without asking or even telling me first? What's next, every Origin game gets 1 machine install limit and I find out after a system wipe? Or they add demos of games I may like based on what's there already on my list? Or they start posting to Facebook I'm playing this and this game? WITHOUT TELLING ME?

I'm surprised you can't understand that my stuff is for me to manage. As is my privacy?

 

[mindcycle]

I'm still utterly flabbergasted by how much this bothers you. It didn't install anything extra, you already have Origin installed which is the part that NORMALLY bothers people, and you only have one other game. You have one more icon in Origin than you normally do and that's it.

I have to agree. This doesn't sound like a privacy issue. I don't think they were scanning your drive or anything like that. It sounds like EA pulled a serial # that was associated with your EA account and added the option to download it through your Origin account. The activation servers must be tied into Origin now, which are both operated by EA. You could double check with EA but it seems logical that's what happened here.

 

[Qbah]

I have to agree. This doesn't sound like a privacy issue. I don't think they were scanning your drive or anything like that. It sounds like EA pulled a serial # that was associated with your EA account and added the option to download it through your Origin account. The activation servers must be tied into Origin now, which are both operated by EA. You could double check with EA but it seems logical that's what happened here.

I am quite sure that's what happened, as the game's not even installed. Based on me logging into Autolog 18 months ago, they added the game to Origin this Saturday. But I did not ask for it D:

 

[mindcycle]

I am quite sure that's what happened, as the game's not even installed. Based on me logging into Autolog 18 months ago, they added the game to Origin this Saturday. But I did not ask for it D:

I understand, but this is EA we're talking about..

I just refuse use Origin altogether to avoid any potential hassles. Same with GFWL. I just started buying games off Steam last year and it's somewhat annoying to have games start auto-updating randomly, then having to disable that feature for every game (my wi-fi isn't great and it starts causing performance issues while gaming when stuff is downloading in the background) Among other things like offline mode not working in some cases. But overall I find it much easier to deal with than Origin, GFWL, and the like.. However, if given a choice, i'll bypass online DRM completely as it's still not 100% there IMO.