The Old Republic Doesn't Require Origin

A post to the Star Wars: The Old Republic Website by community manager Stephen Reid clarifies that while the digitally distributed edition of Star Wars: The Old Republic will be exclusive to EA's recently announced Origin service, Origin will not be required to activate retail copies of the upcoming MMORPG, nor will it be required for patching:
While Origin will be the exclusive digital retailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic (in other words, if you want to buy it online and download it, you’ll do so through Origin) that does not mean that Origin is required for you to access or play The Old Republic.

Origin is a digital storefront, and the desktop application is there to give you quick access to Origin exclusives and deals.

However, you won’t need to launch the Origin application to run The Old Republic, nor will you patch the game via Origin. Once the game is on your hard disk, you’ll be connecting to our servers to patch and launch the game, and Origin does not have to be running to do that.

To answer another question - boxed versions of the game will include the client on DVD(s).
Thanks Eurogamer.
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I'm not going to go back and forth for a page over this but that's not what you said initially, you said the concept of a Steam sale was a new one.

No, that's not what I said. I said Steam having frequent sales was a new concept. Yes, Steam had sales before that, and even had sales "periods" during things like holidays, etc. But they didn't have sales anywhere near as frequently as they do at present.

I guess the misconceptions seems to be over the term "frequent". If you consider holidays sales and a few monthly sales frequent, ok, fine, then perhaps I chose the wrong term. But if you look at the number of sales they've had over the past few months, and compare that to the number of sales they had over that same period a year or two ago, you'd have to agree that it's increased substantially.

I hope Origin follows suit but they are only selling EA games so I'm not sure the incentive is necessarily the same for them to do so.

Perhaps not, but what's the incentive for Steam to do it? Getting more people using Steam and selling more games, isn't it? Wouldn't EA want more people using Origin and to sell more games?

Incidentally you can disable this or just simply go offline

Can you disable it? I didn't see any option to do so when I checked the settings. Not sure that going offline really satisfies my criteria of "if I'm online" . But yeah, I'd like to see the invisible mode. Same with an "appear offline" mode, and an "appear offline to specific user" mode. If they are going to implement a full IM client within Steam, you'd think they'd steal some of the better ideas from the various IM clients already in existence.
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