Really? *does some google-fu* Thanks for telling, I didn't know. The last time I launched the client was over a year and some.

How does region locking work on Origin?

I travel a lot (will rarely stay in one location more than a handful of months) and most EA games seem to have very regional pricing, etc. Steam locks me out from purchasing games on their site because I'm not physically present in the country of my billing address.

Is Origin equally special to global nomads?

Why do newbies defend something that gives them nothing?

Yeah, they only milk old franchises, they don't experiment or risk at all! They never do anything new!

Unlike some other company, that made Mirror's Edge, Dead Space or Dragon Age!

Oh, wait...

Really, that's so fucking stupid EA is always the scapegoat, when Activision and Ubi are doing the same, and often worse things and are getting away with it without a problem.

and showing Gaben as someone better than EA is so retarded I can't even...

It's not only a problem with payment (I don't know if payment still is a problem! But 2011 you only had localized payment options = credit card has to fit IP)... Origin is much, much worse. You can't even choose the language of the store. It will always be in the language of the country where you are. You're now in Vietnam (that's what your profile says)? Store is vietnamese. Good look navigating when you can't read shit. You move to italy tomorrow? Store is italian. Russia? Learn cyrillic characters. Oh, and learn to live with russian only games. No english version for you, if you're in Russia.

This is a known issue since at least 2009 (it wasn't even called Origin back then). No way to change this. Language changes work for the client, but the store ignores them completely. Official support answer: Sorry, we can't change this.

Just google 'ea origin language'. There are plenty of threads on different forums, full of people asking how to change the store language. EA doesn't care. They just say they can't change it. Problem solved...

Yeah, origin is evil. I somehow am not in the mood to install some EA spyware. So I guess Dead Space 3 will go unplayed by me.

Eh... That doesn't sound good. =( I'm in Vietnam and when I accessed the Origin store, it was in English and displayed dollars as the currency. It seemed to direct me towards Singapore, though, so I'm not sure if those dollars are US or SG, seeing as Vietnamese Dong is fixed against the US dollar. I assume the issue would only get worse because my primary credit card is from one country, my billing address (for that card) in another and my IP is in a third.

Thanks for the reply. It seems like none of the client based digital services would work for me.

Odds are, they'd get banned and lose their games if they complained about it to EA.

Personally, I am saddened that the name of a great game company... Has been degraded to a Steam-knock-off with poor support and strict DRM from hell.

EDIT: Wrong Origin thread.

Okay reading this I'm not installing Origin yet...
A pity I would love to have played the SIMS 3 for a change.

You can install Origin and setup your EA Origin account and then redeem the keys via your account on a web page. For UK users go here :

https://www.origin.com/uk/login

Login and on the left is an option to redeem your codes and it pushes it through to the client within a few minutes.

Elsewhere round the world I guess you will have to go to your regional web address.

Managed to easily redeem my keys yesterday afternoon via the client so the initial rush has now passed by the look of it.

If the download freezes right click the little orange Origin icon beside your clock and left click exit. Leave it a few minutes until Origin is closed fully and then when you restart it will resume from around the same spot it stopped.

If you kill Origin with Task Manager while it is still pausing the download after exit it will start again from scratch when you next logon.

Hope this info helps a few members get their games activated.

I had the download reset happen to me on downloading the Sims 3, where it went down from 75% to 50% once.

However, Origin does have some features that Steam is sorely lacking, and vice versa, but we all knew that.

- Redeeming keys online
- Managing downloads in the overlay
- Actual people you can talk to in customer support instead of a canned response after a week

Unfortunately, Steam has such a large market share and Valve doesn't care about improving Steam at all (or fixing obvious bugs) that I doubt Valve will feel the need to compete.

All of Origin's many, many problems are dwarfed by all the borderline illegal data-mining going on.

I certainly got off to a bad start with Origin.

Downloaed, opened the .exe, a loading bar appears... and gets about 3/4 full before giving an error message and closing. Over and over.