EA's Origin Will Drop Physical Releases On April 4

GG3 writes: "Publisher EA has announced that its online service Origin will be going fully digital, starting April 4, 2014. No more PC games will come in physical format on the store. "

[ATi_Elite]

Steam has an OFFLINE mode!

Origin DOES NOT
(at least last time I checked)

STEAM FTW!

[MRMagoo123]

origin has an offline mode if you have the games from piratebay instead of origin.

[porkChop]

But Origin does in fact have an offline mode.

And you seem to forget that Steam's offline mode didn't work properly for years until Valve finally got it right a while back. Valve used to even make jokes about it in the changelogs for Steam with messages like "Offline mode finally fixed (for real this time)".

[Ducky]

Origin has an offline mode.

You could also play older origin games without even needing origin to be running, which is something that steam doesn't allow you to do.

[nutcrackr]

Origin has offline mode, Start BF3 in offline mode and you get a single player menu :)

[incredibleMULK]

that would be awesome,......if I could log in.

[R6ex]

Had my Origin account hacked once. Took me a full month of hassling EA before they let me log in again. Phew! Luckily I don't have many games with them. 99% of my games are on Steam. I feel safer with Steam. Furthermore, Steam allows me to share my games with my family members. Cool!

[lets_go_gunners]

This really sucks for people like me outside of the US/Europe..I normally just wait till the retail copies appear like a week after they release in the states now I have to purchase codes from amazon cause origin is literally a parasite to anyone living in a 3rd world country.

[porkChop]

You can still buy physical copies from retailers. You just won't be able to order physical copies from the Origin store itself.

[lets_go_gunners]

Really? Article scared the hell out of me. Thought I had to go to hell and back just to play Dragon Age: Inquisition .

[Soldierone]

In that case I have absolutely no use for Origin.

[annus]

I had no idea you could even buy physical copies from Origin.

[_FantasmA_]

Good thing I ignore any game with the EA logo!

[mydyingparadiselost]

I have never, and will never, use Origin. Change all you want EA your digital platform is a heap of crap on a turd throne.

[Activemessiah]

Installing Origin is like giving my PC a new form of cancer.

[KillerPwned]

This was the only thing Origin had going for them since when they have a deal say on Battlefield 4 it would be on all platforms and not just the PC version. Boo EA boo!!!!