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Battlefield 3 - ian - 08-24-2011
EA's Origin EULA turns sinister
"Under the title of 'Consent to Collection and Use of Data', the clause states that by installing Origin you are giving EA permission to 'collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer, operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware.'
Which is to say, if you want to play Battlefield 3, or any other game that will require Origin to run, you're going to have to agree to that."
Origin is complete bollocks. fecking EA. I am ashamed to admit I once quite liked them and defended them at times but this.....this is crap. forcing you to agree to these terms?! bah..
Battlefield 3 - Aoyagi - 08-24-2011
Well, you could as well read through this. It's written by someone who didn't have a chihuahua brain in their head though.
Battlefield 3 - Fletcher - 08-24-2011
I've withdrawn my pre-order since there is no longer server browsing, I'd need to use Origin, and I hate EA in general. I'm not exactly boycotting, but I'm throwing my opinion in with my wallet. I'm just going to use the preorder to either buy beer or gold in WoT.
Battlefield 3 - Cawdor - 08-24-2011
man I was 100% sure that I would get it. Then this bleeding origin crap happens.
Looks like I'll only play this on cracked servers then.:(
Battlefield 3 - BaconSoda - 08-25-2011
I still fail to see where a hardware survey is at all a bad thing. If Origin has this information and your game crashes, then EA can actually send the information about how your hardware interacted with the game and what caused the crash, making fixing bugs easier. Can you remember a time you decided not to provide that information to an error report for Valve, Mircrosoft, NCSoft, Blizzard, or whoever? It kind of just takes the annoying clicking out of fixing things.
Then we can really take into account that this has been happening for over a decade now. Valve's page linked says similar things to Origin's EULA. They will share information which does not identify the user. Origin will share information that does not identify the user. That article should be renamed to "EULAs: we should have bothered to read them in the first place."
But don't play the game because of negative hype. That's fine.
Battlefield 3 - Linkus - 08-25-2011
It really doesn't make much of a difference.
If EA truly wanted to know what was on your machine, they'd be able to find out extremely easily.
I can understand folks getting annoyed as overall the internet is marching towards more restrictions but that is natural.
The internet has boomed and with it have come the problems that plague such a widely connected system. It'll get more regulated, then start to ease.
Battlefield 3 - ivr56 - 08-25-2011
' Wrote:man I was 100% sure that I would get it. Then this bleeding origin crap happens.Server Files will be GSP only like BC2 most likely. To stop this type of activity.
Looks like I'll only play this on cracked servers then.:(
You wonder why now we have this sort of situation.
Also Fletcher, there IS server browsing, server list joining, friend server joining and server favourites. Ontop of VOIP, Chat, Group chat.
From anywhere in the world where you have a web browser actually
Battlefield 3 - jxie93 - 08-26-2011
Did I mention the netcode in Alpha wasn't much better than BC2?
Battlefield 3 - ivr56 - 08-27-2011
' Wrote:Did I mention the netcode in Alpha wasn't much better than BC2?Comparing old Alpha code versus Full game.
Your argument credability ended their.
Battlefield 3 - ian - 08-29-2011
' Wrote:Also Fletcher, there IS server browsing, server list joining, friend server joining and server favourites. Ontop of VOIP, Chat, Group chat.
From anywhere in the world where you have a web browser actually
yeah you can talk to people on a web broswer at anytime at all. you might not be able to play BF3 from said machines though! 'cause you would need to download all the files for it again which would take awhile.
VOIP = people use skype, TS3, ventrillo still.
chat + group chat = nothing new, can be possible even without battlelog/origin.
server browsing + server list joining + friend server joining + server favorites = nothing new and could EASILY be put back into an in-game server browers. no reason not to.
BaconSoda. the Origin scanning stuff, maybe you didnt read properly but it is NOT just hardware. you are giving them free access to scan your computer for anything they want that isnt just limited to hardware such as what you download, where it came from, if you are sharing it etc etc
Valve may do the hardware but they do not scan anything but that wheras Origin will.