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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Re: The Old Republic Doesn't Require Origin Jun 17, 2011, 11:29
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Publishers are in business to make money, so they'll try and do so, certainly. Can they make more money by making their games digitally exclusive to Origin? I guess we could speculate, but I doubt any of us have numbers to back it up. I'm hoping not.

I don't really need numbers and I'm not trying to convince you. It just makes sense. They keep more money by retaining control over the price and not having to payout to other vendors to sell their games for them. I'm not claiming it will happen overnight or that they will be successful, just that it is where they want this to go.

What do you see as the something we can do about it? I find it hard to believe that complaining on Blue's forums it going to have any impact on EA's business decision(s).

Inform others, bitch, whatever. Anything is better than nothing at all. Information posted on a single website isn't limited in exposure, that's the power of the Internet. Dice/EA didn't change their recent DLC kerfuffle because everyone kept quiet and was apathetic about it. If you're going to complain and tell other people about it then generally it helps to do it before its an accepted practice.
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