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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Bhruic wrote on Jun 17, 2011, 12:21:
I don't see how you can actually support this argument. Again, this would be true if every game was increasing in price, but as long as your games are competing against other games, increasing your games in price just means people will flock to other games.

I've already addressed the idea of "games competing with other games" below, they don't exist in a vacuum where everything is valued equally both in terms of price and quality. Even if you're correct and its just somehow the big publishers by themselves that's still a worse situation than we have now.

But yeah I don't want to repeat myself for 2 pages so we'll agree to disagree at this point.
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