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[vivanto]

Hello!
I've got the CE retail preordered and got some concerns about origin if it's anything like steam. My home setup is a notebook with the ODD removed and a hdd caddy in its place, while I'm using an ssd in primary. This leaves me without a functional optical drive for now.

Is it possible to simply activate the game via origin with the keys provided in the retail box and have it downloaded and installed immediately, or do I have to have the disc in it for first-time activation? The steam titles that I've got as retail required a first-time disc install and only allowed digital download after that.

Failing that, how strong is the copy protection of the disc? AFAIK legally - with restrictions - I am allowed to make one copy of the disk, which would be made from my other PC - which has an optical drive - and have the game install from a virtual drive.

I know both of these sound a bit retarded and counter-productive, and if none of the above is possible, I'll just have to take out my caddy and put the odd back in (I couldn't get a hold of an external rack which supports slimline sata port), but I'd like to avoid that. Not just for lazyness or inconvenience but it'll also cause a range of other problems.

On a slightly related note, as I ordered the CE, can I (and am I allowed to?) do the same with the soundtrack disk? I assumie it has weaker copy protection so digitizing the soundtrack for personal use shouldn't be a real problem.

[stu_]

I have a fair few EA games backed up on Origin that were purchased via Steam, Was just a case of copy paste the cd key into Origin and it detected it on my system.

So i'd say yes it more than likely is possible.

Oh and if you have older games you want to add to Origin.

activate.ea.com/activategame.do

-edit-

Contrary to popular belief Origin is not the enemy it's a pretty good tool.

Modifié par stu_, 25 février 2012 - 08:54 .

[Skullheart]

The first days of origin were bad. But now it looks like a decent program (but it's still using your data to conquer the world).

At the end, EA won't have more data about you than facebook already has.

Modifié par Skullheart, 25 février 2012 - 09:17 .

[vivanto]

That's reassuring, thanks for the fast replies!

I don't have any particular problem with origin itself, other than it is redundant with steam, ubisoft's what-they-call-it and some other similar services. From a business perspective I see why EA wanted it, but as I'm a user, I represent the user's perspective. And I'm not on facebook.