Yet another Origin related rant!

Phil99 · 7 Apr 2013 at 13:02

So, I want to chill out a bit on a Sunday afternoon, play some FIFA online on the PS3 while my girlfriend plays around with one of her cities on Sim City on the PC. No problem I thought, we have legitimate copies of both games, so why not?

Well, Origin thinks otherwise. Both games are paired to the same Origin account and so that's a big fat NO as far as EA are concerned. I can't log in when she's playing Sim City, and if I'm already logged in on FIFA she can't load her cities.

Great, yet another step forward for gaming! Thanks Origin!

chaparral · 7 Apr 2013 at 13:32

Phil99 said:
Great, yet another step forward for gaming! Thanks Origin!

It the same with steam games on the PC

I own over 200 games on steam but only one can be played at a time..
So if I have a mate round I can't let him play any of my steam games at the same time on my other PC...so am stuffed..

They really need to allow something like Netflix does,,I.E allow 2 or 3 logins at a time on a single account

kedge · 7 Apr 2013 at 13:45

The whole point of these DRM game clients is one legitimate account and one unique key code sold per game, so only one user at a time. Been like this for a while now.

Phil99 · 7 Apr 2013 at 14:45

chaparral said:
They really need to allow something like Netflix does,,I.E allow 2 or 3 logins at a time on a single account

Agreed. This surely has to be a legitimate use-case. If we were both wanting to play the same game simultaneously then I could see the issue, but it seems a bit of a ridiculous situation to be in that everyone in a household needs to have a license for every game, especially on different platforms. In future I'll be creating separate accounts for each game wherever possible.

Mr Men · 7 Apr 2013 at 14:49

Can't you unlink the PS3 details from your origin account?

Phil99 · 7 Apr 2013 at 15:24

Mr Men said:
Can't you unlink the PS3 details from your origin account?

Apparently I can, but according to the person I just spoke to on the EA support live chat I need to call an 0870 number and speak to someone to do this. Will call them next week and try and sort it, thanks for the idea