![]() ![]() Titles you've purchased appear under the My Games tab, and each game's associated picture icon features a Ready to Download button. Games you've purchased from Origin appear as large images on the My Games Tab.ĭownloading games from Origin is simple enough. EA has already said its upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO will be exclusive to Origin. Whether that means those games won't also be available on Steam when they launch is another question. You won't find any of those preorder offers available through Steam. You can go to Origin to put money down now on would-be Call of Duty-killer Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3, and the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" game. EA also seems to have made preordering its upcoming games an Origin exclusive. The Sims 3: Buccaneer Bay expansion is one example. Origin, though, currently offers a few titles that Steam does not. With game offerings from almost every major PC publisher, Steam boasts roughly 1,100 games to Origin's 150 EA titles. ![]() At the moment Origin carries EA published games exclusively, with regular and special-offer prices matching those of the EA games for sale on Valve Software's market-leading Steam service. ![]() It functions as a digital storefront from which you can download PC games directly to your computer, and is essentially a more fully developed version of EA's existing EA Download mini application. ![]() On the surface Origin offers few surprises. You can download the 34MB app at We can report that its basic features work as intended, but it also introduces many questions about the future of digital game distribution. Origin's home screen, for now the only place to preorder the Battlefield 3 for PC download.Īs promised, Electronic Arts' Origin gaming service went live today. ![]()
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