{"id":7852,"date":"2012-01-13T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7852"},"modified":"2018-07-11T20:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T20:15:16","slug":"mass-effect-3-origin-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/mass-effect-3-origin-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect 3 Origin Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10860\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10860\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10860 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/masseffect3large-S-e1427433462347.jpg\" alt=\"Only EA's Origin for digital downloads.\" width=\"390\" height=\"244\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Only EA&#8217;s Origin for digital downloads.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JAN. 13, 2012 \u2022 BioWare has announced to its large player community that an account with EA&#8217;s Origin digital distribution service will be required to play any PC version of Mass Effect 3 \u2013 retail and digital copies. In addition, Mass Effect 3 will not be available via Steam. After registration via Origin, a constant online connection will not be required to play the single player portion of Mass Effect 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Mass Effect 3 is significant test for both Origin and Steam. To date, there has been widespread reluctance by many gamers to maintain multiple digital distribution clients on their PCs. Steam has a well-deserved reputation for doing no harm, and the fear is multiple distribution clients will not play nicely with each other. If Origin can co-exist without problems, then that will give EA a leg up on future exclusive releases. If Origin causes problems, then the unintended result will be to redirect sales to console versions of the game.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAN. 13, 2012 \u2022 BioWare has announced to its large player community that an account with EA&#8217;s Origin digital distribution service will be required to play any PC version of Mass Effect 3 \u2013 retail and digital copies. In addition, Mass Effect 3 will not be available via Steam. After registration via Origin, a constant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110,78],"tags":[53,85,256,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13468,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions\/13468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}