We are very happy and proud to be able to give you Battlefield 1942, the game that started it all. Now available for free* on Origin as a digital download for the first time, everyone will be able to download and play this original PC game that helped define DICE and the multiplayer shooter genre.
Karl Magnus Troedsson, Vice President and General Manager of DICE, has a message to all of our fans:
“Since the beginning, the reception to the Battlefield series has been incredible thanks to our amazing fans. Every day, we strive to provide our community with great games and new ways to play as evident with Battlefield 3 Premium. We wanted to thank our fans who have supported us throughout the years with a chance to go back and play the game that started it all.”
Ant wrote on Nov 6, 2012, 08:27:
Did anyone tried old mods with it like Desert Combat? Do they work?
shihonage wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 23:35:
You saw my repeat mention of DRM and contrasted it with my original post, representing it as "WAHH", and implying that it didn't have DRM reference in the first place.
ViRGE wrote on Nov 6, 2012, 06:39:RailWizard wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 21:56:I never did care for Desert Combat. I like my BF1942 like I like my ice cream: vanilla.ViRGE wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 21:16:DangerDog wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 15:55:On the one hand this means the noobs getting it for free won't be flooding the existing servers, but it also means the existing 1942 community won't be getting any fresh blood. I have to wonder at this point whether everyone wouldn't just be better off on Origin.
Here is the explanation for why the origin version doesn't work with the disc based version.
MordorHQ Post #81
Guess who's not coming to dinner....
RailWizard wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 21:56:I never did care for Desert Combat. I like my BF1942 like I like my ice cream: vanilla.ViRGE wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 21:16:DangerDog wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 15:55:On the one hand this means the noobs getting it for free won't be flooding the existing servers, but it also means the existing 1942 community won't be getting any fresh blood. I have to wonder at this point whether everyone wouldn't just be better off on Origin.
Here is the explanation for why the origin version doesn't work with the disc based version.
MordorHQ Post #81
Guess who's not coming to dinner....
Everything else about Origin is equal or worse, though. But as one person noted, when everyone gets to do what they want, apparently no one opts for customer service.
Julio wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 17:18:But that's a good thing
Won't that show everyone that 1942 was better than BF3?
Verno wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 16:16:
The guy who quoted you was and that's who I was responding to. If you read my post then you would know I even said it was in response to the general complaint about DD clients using system resources.
Slick wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 19:18:
you know how much of a knob you're making yourself sound like right? So it's not okay for there to be any soft-drink companies out there that don't "conform" to the Coca-Cola specification...
anti-competition much? fucking commie! since when is competition bad for the consumer?
it's funny cause you come off sounding like the biggest STEAM corporate hack i've ever heard. how much money you make everytime you say that STEAM is the only service anyone should use? oh right, you're fighting AGAINST this stuff... riiiight...
ViRGE wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 21:16:DangerDog wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 15:55:On the one hand this means the noobs getting it for free won't be flooding the existing servers, but it also means the existing 1942 community won't be getting any fresh blood. I have to wonder at this point whether everyone wouldn't just be better off on Origin.
Here is the explanation for why the origin version doesn't work with the disc based version.
MordorHQ Post #81
Prez wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 20:40:
BF1942 had me hooked for months despite my lifelong aversion to multiplayer games; it was that good. Eventually though it got tiring have a 10 to 1 death:kill ratio.
As far as requiring Origin, however, no thanks. I don't buy into the whole conspiracy theorist silliness about it being malware or spyware (like Verno said, it functions similarly to Steam in that regard) or that it being from despicable EA makes it automatically bad per se. You really don't need to fabricate stuff to make Origin appear bad though; by simple factual comparison to Steam it sucks so bad that EA ought to be discounting games that require it by 50% just for users having to put up with it. It is awful in every sense of the word - every bit as bad as the horrid Games For Windows Live abomination to me, though not in exactly the same ways.
I'm not opposed to a viable competitor to Steam (choice is always good) but Origin isn't even in the same league as Steam. Even if it was, I'm a one-stop-shopping, all-my-eggs-in-one-basket kind of guy, so I'd be sticking with Steam regardless. EA is probably losing considerable money by not releasing all of their titles on Steam.
DangerDog wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 15:55:On the one hand this means the noobs getting it for free won't be flooding the existing servers, but it also means the existing 1942 community won't be getting any fresh blood. I have to wonder at this point whether everyone wouldn't just be better off on Origin.
Here is the explanation for why the origin version doesn't work with the disc based version.
MordorHQ Post #81
J wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 14:26:
Now everybody can join in
shihonage wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 15:43:Verno wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 14:51:
Yeah I don't really get that one either, seems like a spergy nitpick. The shittiest laptops still have 2GB of memory, people really need to let it go. I don't really care if Steam or Origin use 200MB of memory, I have more than the OS and an active game running can ever use. I care more about the info they collect than the resource footprint.
Yes, let's keep on telling big companies that it's OKAY to install their particular brands of remotely-updated DRM and potential malware(it's all about trust, right?) instead of having them conform to Steam. There's plenty of room in systray yet!
Yeah. To each their own.
killer_roach wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 14:42:shihonage wrote on Nov 5, 2012, 14:21:
So they are still trying to get people to run their Steam knock-off next to Steam in systray huh.
I am not buying any games that use Origin exclusively. Conserving system resources and the amount of DRM shit that constantly runs in background.
Did you know that Dragon Age installs its own Windows Service just to d/l Dragon Age DLCs?
Uninstalled that too. But it left the service behind.
If you're that worried about Origin's system resource usage, shut down Steam when playing an Origin game. (Origin uses less resources anyway.)