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Electronic Arts is auto-adding EA titles that were purchased from Steam to a user’s EA Origin account. According to what we have been able to uncover, a number of Origin account holders have seen Dead Space 2 and Mass Effect showing up in Origin as games that they own
i can personally confirm this - started up origin today to find medal of honor was on it - and i bought that in the steam sale.
Oh....that potentially stinks.
Firstly.....how is it doing it? my privacy concerns are currently going into over-drive!
Secondly.....Does it remove the old title from Steam?
Thirdly.....Does it double-up on disk space or just add the game from the steam location?
Now, I wonder if it will add my retail (non-Steam, non-Origin activated) Dead Space 1 on it's own....hmmm
no , its asking me to redown MoH in origin and i use different email adresses for both steam and origin , and no its still on steam
Wow......I can see them getting a major outcry over this......there is already a contingent of users who either hate Origin or plain refuse to use it......and then they start nosing around your HDD.....
Double-installs.......you could take advantage of it. Create a new Origin account and then let it dupe your EA steam games onto it.....sell origin account and profit.
But if you already had it on Steam why would you download it again anyway through Origin - EA aren't forcing it onto your PC as well.
Luckily, EA have stated that it isn't snooping around your HD, but using the e-mail address associated with your Origin account, and that of the e-mail you may have registered a game with.
Linky.
Whether it can be believed or not is another matter....
except that i never registered MOH in the first place.....
I can see EA using this as an exit strategy for steam.
I was afraid of that.....but I would like to think that (at least in the UK) our consumer rights may stop them forcing us from one platform to another......Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
Unfortunately all legislation is a bit thin on digital economics. EA could easily argue that since they're providing a migration path free of charge, then consumers aren't being disadvantaged/locked out.Quote:
Originally Posted by shaithis
ofc - if they still harvest information if origin is removed then its a breach of the data protection act
I know no-ones posted on here for a month, but I thought I'd add that Origin added my Dead Space 2 from steam to it's library, and marked it as installed. Trying to launch Dead Space 2 runs it in steam. It's a pretty stupid to imo and hopefully they'll adjust it. Other than that, I'm glad that they add it to my Origin library too.
I don't think it is anything to be worried about. When EA and Steam fell out I took all of my EA activation codes and added them to Origin and now a number of my EA games are registered to my Origins Account, but I haven't installed them. I think this is just making it easier for people who want to move games from Steam or other services to Origin, if such a person exists.