Origins Ditches Discs [Mar 31, 2014, 08:53 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The Origin
website announces EA's online store is dropping physical discs and going
online only (thanks
VideoGamer.com). Word is:
Starting April 4th Origin will be going all digital. This means the entire Origin game store will be entirely digital downloads for PC and Mac.
What does this mean for you? If you're among 99% of our users, absolutely nothing. Your shopping experience hasn't changed one single bit.
But if you're that 1% who still desires a physical collection, we want to let you know that Origin won't be able to fulfill that need beginning April 4th. We’ll still be here when you transition your gaming habits to the wonders of digital downloads.
Digital is fast and convenient. Origin’s focus is to give gamers the best experience, and going all-digital will make that possible.
xXBatmanXx wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 11:01:
You open a support ticket, and they convert your keys to digital only keys.
That doesn't make sense, I have BF3, and all dead space games on disk. In origin there is an "activate disk key" option just like steam, and the game simply installs from the disk.
The point of having a physical copy is in case of poor connection (my ISP sucks and takes forever to download a full game), retaining a historical copy to install and play at any time as consoles get to have, but no more on PC is retarded (something purely downloadable digital is less meaningful).
This comment was edited on Mar 31, 2014, 11:19.
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