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BF3 Origin Requirement Already Hacked Out |
Listed in: News Tags: bf3, EA, origin
Battlefield 3 was a massive, massive launch, with 5 million copies sold in the first week. While the majority of players were able to get into the game fairly easily, a significant number reported major problems with EA’s Origin service. One report I read had nearly 30 steps taken by the player just to fire the game up for the first time. These problems seem to have fallen mostly on PC gamers, though console owners did have a bit of issue with crashing Origin servers blocking new registrations.
EA’s plan, of course, was to loop new players into their proprietary Origin system. Why let Steam take some of your profits when you can force players into another system, especially when you know they’re going to buy your game regardless of the hassle? Naturally, some players were very unhappy about the requirement, which once again unfairly impacts those that game on their computers.
It didn’t take long before a group of hackers, known collectively as Razor1911, hacked the BF3 client and removed the Origin requirements from online play. If you want to play Battlefield but don’t want to deal with Origin, it’s now a possibility – though EA will likely kill the functionality as quickly as they can.
The crack is not engineered to give players a free copy of the game, and works only on retail copies purchased legitimately from an online or brick and mortar shop. Here’s a statement from Razor1911:
“This release is dedicated to our fans worldwide who bought this game on legal way and don't want to install the trojan from Electronic Arts to play online.”
As a console gamer, I couldn't care less about having an Origin account. I don’t have to suffer through using a browser to access the game, nor do I have to run some garbage program in the background just to play my favorite titles. I talked a bit about how annoying the Origin setup was in my PoV piece earlier in the week, but it’s been pretty smooth sailing for us console players so far.
But if you’re a PC gamer and you’re fed up with Origin’s ridiculous EULA or computer-bombing capabilities, it looks like the solution is out there. Just don’t be surprised if you end up with some sort of disciplinary action – EA will probably come down hard on hackers in the hopes of sending a message.
Via Gamasutra
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PC is great. Can play on Ultra setting with my AMD six core 1100T, Velociraptor HDD, and ATI 5830, but a bit laggy thanks to that video card I guess.
360 version works great with my ixtreme MAX burner. Playing online.. had to pay like 800 points for online pass.
Didn't bother with PS3 cuz my PS3 is having the red light overheat issue.
DUPLEX apparently got it working on 3.55 tho.
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Duplex is doing a good job to make it working on 3.41 and 3.55, both, not just for 3.55. I test that. :)
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Correction. You could NOT care less. If you could care less then you at least care a little in order to be able to care less then you currently do.
"EA will probably come down hard on hackers in the hopes of sending a message."
False. They wont do a damn thing and can NOT do a damn thing about it. All they can do is attempt to block access. Only illegal DISTRIBUTION is something you can crack down on.
As always, digital copy protection only hurts the paid customer!
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Tosh.0, dude it's illegal to modify the software within the eula. Within that contract it's granting you access to things such as EA servers. Everyone who is connecting without a valid licence is tress passing on their servers using a crack which is hacking since it's falsify information. You can do w/e u want with your software, u just can't sell or use it to access private property w/o permission, especially big businesses.
I believe that qj has this all backwards. All it's doing is enabling people to gain full access to their personal property. SO if you would like to create a private server or join one, you would need this crack to enable your client.
Razor won't have FBI or PI's on behalf of EA investigating them for this, they've done nothing wrong, it's the players who would illegitimately gain access to the servers who are breaking the law.
So expect a ban hammer if they can counter act this hack.
So:
Using crack on EA server = ILLEGAL
Using this crack for personal/private use = LEGAL
sit ubu sit, good dog.
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I simply stated EA can't do anything about it's CUSTOMERS using this little crack.
I never said anything about PIRATING SOFTWARE not being illegal.
EA can not "come down hard" on anyone who legally bought the software. Period. It also wouldn't be worth their time.
Foster didn't get anything backwards. What he posted is exactly what you just said. It lets CUSTOMERS play their game without the garbage.
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And in most cases, you'd be right. Except that this hack only works for paid copies of the game, which means EA can void the Online Passes of anyone that is shown to have used the hack.
You'd have to buy another copy to play online.
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"All they can do is attempt to block access."
I misunderstood your use of "come down hard" if that's all you meant.
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I condone ways to bypass Origin, its not user friendly when people HAVE to use another piece of software to play a game. This happens with Steam and its currently the only thing I don't like about it.
But, knowing EA and its... current policy, will come down with many lawyers and pull another... what was that PS3 hacker's name controversy.
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