According to the description of the game, which is planned to be released on all current playgrounds (Steam, EGS and Origin), the pre-order content and additional content will be identical (either in the standard edition, or in Gold and even in the Ultimate edition). However, taking into account the need to support your gaming platform, is there a prospect in adding materials for pre-order or for the status of "veteran" in your native Origin platform (taking into account the balance between players of different platforms for filling content)?

The game will use origin no matter what store you buy from so I guess the benefit would be not having to have more than one store open to play.

I think the best solution would buy it where most of your friends are playing. easier to connect and such ^^

I did steam because most of my PC gaming buddies play on steam

@DJ_Englishman For what it's worth, i started messing around with the EA desktop beta when reinstalling BF3/4 again last week and it's a pretty decent step up from origin. (granted, that's not saying a whole lot as it generally needed two passes to install DLCs correctly. Desktop app did it first try)I've generally had the same friends list issues as mentioned by others on origin, and the EA desktop client pulled my steam friends list and for the short time i dabbled, did actually correctly show who was online and offline (with people on mixed platforms), as well as common games people have installed.That said, it's a beta and my test time is limited, so ymmv.Going to be checking again later tonight most likely, will see if it holds up again.

@ragnarok013 Oh, i found some bugs tonight :grin:Short short version, BF3 didn't register the DLCs and had to be reinstalled via origin, BF4 worked fine (apart from some weirdness with pings on server select), and BF5 had amnesia and wanted to start me a rank 1, at which point i panicked and went back to origin and thankfully cloud save restore was an option.The UI and social stuff is a big step up though, and i can hardly knock a beta for being buggy on the other stuff.Looks like it's going in the right direction vs origin at least.(i also like the video play in the background on the game pages)In fact, going to go play some BF4 again right now most likely.

Advantage in buying PC Battlefield 2042 in Origin in comparison Steam and EGS.

13 Replies

IICookieGII
Seasoned Veteran
4 years ago
Looks as though this is not in the roadmap currently.
Noodlesocks
4 years ago
The game will use origin no matter what store you buy from so I guess the benefit would be not having to have more than one store open to play.
Bluehydrax
4 years ago
I think the best solution would buy it where most of your friends are playing. easier to connect and such ^^
Alekero
4 years ago
@Bluehydrax if someone got playing friends...
Hori-Si-Tsun
Seasoned Traveler
4 years ago
@Bluehydrax this would be true if they are not on origin, as origin friendslist is alot of times just not working, alot of times its even offline for some and online for others on a lan, then a few days later @ the next lan, some of the players that was offline last time are now online and viseverca, its completly random. You can still join same server ofc, but since u cant change teams its hard to make sure you get to play with eachother instead of against eachother
GrizzGolf
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I did steam because most of my PC gaming buddies play on steam
DJ_Englishman
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@GrizzGolf wrote:
I did steam because most of my PC gaming buddies play on steam
Steam for me too. Origin overlay causes too many crashes for me whereas steam overlay is a stable experience, for me. I may risk a stab at EA Desktop during the beta, but I won't be holding my breath. EGS is, well, EGS.
Fringerunner
4 years ago
@DJ_Englishman For what it's worth, i started messing around with the EA desktop beta when reinstalling BF3/4 again last week and it's a pretty decent step up from origin. (granted, that's not saying a whole lot as it generally needed two passes to install DLCs correctly. Desktop app did it first try)

I've generally had the same friends list issues as mentioned by others on origin, and the EA desktop client pulled my steam friends list and for the short time i dabbled, did actually correctly show who was online and offline (with people on mixed platforms), as well as common games people have installed.

That said, it's a beta and my test time is limited, so ymmv.
Going to be checking again later tonight most likely, will see if it holds up again.
ragnarok013
Hero+
4 years ago
@Noodlesocks wrote:

The game will use origin no matter what store you buy from so I guess the benefit would be not having to have more than one store open to play.

@Noodlesocks I own every Battlefield from BC2-BF5 on both Origin and Steam and I'm getting 2042 on Steam. Steam launches the Origin thin client so it's not really saving much if any memory using the full Origin client alone plus I like Steam's user experience much better that Origin. Regarding EGS, I won't even use that platform for free games.

@Fringerunner regarding EA Desktop I won't use it until it gets out of Beta due to the issues I saw reported at launch with older titles like BF3. BF3 happens to be the Battlefield title I play most so I'm sticking with the more reliable clients.
Fringerunner
4 years ago
@ragnarok013 Oh, i found some bugs tonight :grin:

Short short version, BF3 didn't register the DLCs and had to be reinstalled via origin, BF4 worked fine (apart from some weirdness with pings on server select), and BF5 had amnesia and wanted to start me a rank 1, at which point i panicked and went back to origin and thankfully cloud save restore was an option.

The UI and social stuff is a big step up though, and i can hardly knock a beta for being buggy on the other stuff.
Looks like it's going in the right direction vs origin at least.
(i also like the video play in the background on the game pages)

In fact, going to go play some BF4 again right now most likely.