You can relax, It's not over.

"MiSFiT203;c-16450745" wrote:
Origin being forced on us is just another attempt to stop piracy.

first you needed disks to play, then they found ways to clone disks, so then you needed serial numbers and disks, they then found ways to find serial numbers. now you need origin, but they found ways around that too. hence the reason we now have online bonus features such as the ingame gallery. ways to force people to stay connected yet entice people to want to buy the game for use of the online features. it only gets worse from here.

its just the world we live in now. sad but true.

alot of my life i spent working for carnivals and living at them. no internet access, which would suck these days cause i cant even play games i paid for. thankfully im not living there anymore. cause that would suck, gaming was my only passtime.

Origin’s main purpose isn’t to stop piracy but for EA to stop the expenses EA had by selling the games on discs through physical stores or to Steam or Amazon by selling the games as digital downloads via them.

The copy protection on discs was always problematic because even the aggressive Securom from Sony couldn’t stop piracy. But online games have much better methods. Those methods can be avoided by pirates too though. But often this is discovered and the cheaters are banned. So trying to cheat in online games is risky for us.

I guess that almost all games will be online sooner or later. The only exception is maybe small games for kids. But soon even people who live far from cities will have cheap WiFi and internet too. For the game companies this means that by making all games into online games they can use the games for advertising and tell their customers about new games and products too. Also the idea about games as live services mean that the game companies want to sell subscriptions to gamers too. EA does that already through EA Access. But EA Access is like similar services from other game companies likely to be expanded a lot in the future.

Also the competition between the game companies is likely to increase because the market for games and gaming is expanding on all platforms. So new game companies arise all the time. But Origin, Steam, Uplay and other similar services from Microsoft, Amazon and other big companies mean that the biggest companies are likely to buy most of the smaller companies and become huge.

For us it means that we likely will have more and better games to choose between. Prices will likely go down. But we will be offered so much that we will buy much more too. So the huge game companies will almost certainly win anyway.