In BF3's favour, however, is that it's famous for its excellent online play and a genuine purchase key is needed to play in this manner. On a related note, if you click on Origin's link to the BF3 manual (which isn't in the box), you are directed to a ZIP archive full of pictures of multilingual disclaimers. However, with the game hitting bittorrent days before launch, it would appear that efforts in preventing game copying have backfired. It has not instilled much goodwill towards EA's Origin which is intended to be the publisher's equivalent of rival Valve's Steam which is a highly-commended game manager.ĮA insists on using the online connection as part of its Digital Rights Management - a hugely-contentious process designed to reduce piracy. We tested this by unplugging the internet connection and also buy opening the drive tray to see that the disc was well and truly stationary despite the game continuing to download.Ī very expensive, stationary, redundant disc.Īt the time of writing no one from EA was available to comment on a reason or a fix.
Despite plenty of cynical advice from helpful, "you're doing it wrong" respondents, it's clear that you have to be online to install the game, and that if it says downloading, it really is downloading it from the internet and not from the disc. Clearly some people are not having the issue. It's not certain how common this problem is thus far but threads can be found on EA's own support site, and many other sites. Not what you want to see after rushing out to buy a disc.
However, rather than say installing, Origin tells us that it is "downloading" and indeed, even if the disc is in the drive the software starts downloading from the internet in its entirety. Many people, who like me, went to buy the disc in order to avoid an 11.4 GB download, are finding that once the terrible Origin host software is installed from the disc (this is promptly followed by a new version of the software being downloaded and installed from the internet directly afterwards) Battlefield 3 seems to start installing. With the recent launch of Battlefield 3, many people are at risk of busting through their internet caps because of an installation bug on the disc-based PC version.
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