do i still need origin to play?

[i know kung fu]

if i do, i'm just tying yet another account to a purchase like buying uplay games on steam, it's just pointless extra drm. it's nice to have cards and stuff but i don't think it's worth it unless it works without origin

[blackfirefly]

Yes you do.

[F8RGE]

Yes, it'll just run in the background.

[TKGX]

lol yes making the move to steam pointless also >EA

[Wrinkly]

Unclear at the moment, but the following suggests not.

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/electronic-arts-officially-announces-that-it-will-publish-games-on-steam-jedi-fallen-order-the-first-game/#more-131709

Lastly, players will not be able to transfer your Origin games to Steam (or vise versa). However, the publisher is working on enabling cross-play between the Origin and Steam versions.

[Zeromix]

Originally posted by Wrinkly:

Unclear at the moment, but the following suggests not.

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/electronic-arts-officially-announces-that-it-will-publish-games-on-steam-jedi-fallen-order-the-first-game/#more-131709

Lastly, players will not be able to transfer your Origin games to Steam (or vise versa). However, the publisher is working on enabling cross-play between the Origin and Steam versions.

Wrong, it is clear. :)
You can find it on the right side, if you scroll down:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172380/STAR_WARS_Jedi_Fallen_Order/

[AkiraJkr]

Originally posted by Wrinkly:

Unclear at the moment, but the following suggests not.

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/electronic-arts-officially-announces-that-it-will-publish-games-on-steam-jedi-fallen-order-the-first-game/#more-131709

Lastly, players will not be able to transfer your Origin games to Steam (or vise versa). However, the publisher is working on enabling cross-play between the Origin and Steam versions.

^ I highly doubt Origin will be needed if they are working on cross-play between the two. I mean, WHY do cross-play between the Origin and Steam if Origin is gonna be used right?

Right?

[Tarc Novar]

Originally posted by Wrinkly:

Unclear at the moment, but the following suggests not.

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/electronic-arts-officially-announces-that-it-will-publish-games-on-steam-jedi-fallen-order-the-first-game/#more-131709

Lastly, players will not be able to transfer your Origin games to Steam (or vise versa). However, the publisher is working on enabling cross-play between the Origin and Steam versions.

Yes.

Originally posted by Product Page:

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required.

[i know kung fu]

what's the point of ea access on steam then? just to show your steam friends you're playing ea access stuff you could've gotten on origin, and will still be opening origin to use? are my current origin saves compatitable with what will become steam versions of apex? seems a bit weird since premier is still origin exclusive afaik

[Rai]

I'll never understand why PC gamers have become so lazy that the concept of using more than one single application on their computers is a dealbreaker for them. Like clicking things is too much work for you all. Man you kids would not have survived in the TeamSpeak or Ventrilo, or GameSpy arcade days lol.

At the end of the day, it is a video game. No one is entitled to play video games. If you want to play it, you'll do what you gotta do to play it. If you want to complain, well, there's essentially nothing anyone could do to stop you from doing that.

[Zeromix]

Originally posted by LANCERZzZz:

I'll never understand why PC gamers have become so lazy that the concept of using more than one single application on their computers is a dealbreaker for them. Like clicking things is too much work for you all. Man you kids would not have survived in the TeamSpeak or Ventrilo, or GameSpy arcade days lol.

At the end of the day, it is a video game. No one is entitled to play video games. If you want to play it, you'll do what you gotta do to play it. If you want to complain, well, there's essentially nothing anyone could do to stop you from doing that.

The point for me personal is the following:
If i want to play a game on Uplay, i need to run this launcher and still need to wait, till the game is patched etc.

Steam is the only application i´m runnning all over, so if I want to play a game from another launcher i need to start that one and need to wait, till the game has updated.

[Psykodelik]

Originally posted by LANCERZzZz:

I'll never understand why PC gamers have become so lazy that the concept of using more than one single application on their computers is a dealbreaker for them. Like clicking things is too much work for you all. Man you kids would not have survived in the TeamSpeak or Ventrilo, or GameSpy arcade days lol.

At the end of the day, it is a video game. No one is entitled to play video games. If you want to play it, you'll do what you gotta do to play it. If you want to complain, well, there's essentially nothing anyone could do to stop you from doing that.

Speaking of kids, back then you didn't even need launchers to play games, nowadays you need 2 launchers minimum with its telemetry to launch, update game two times and play games. So your teamspeak or gamespy days are proof that this kind of practice doesn't live long enough.

[Rai]

Originally posted by Psykodelic:

Originally posted by LANCERZzZz:

I'll never understand why PC gamers have become so lazy that the concept of using more than one single application on their computers is a dealbreaker for them. Like clicking things is too much work for you all. Man you kids would not have survived in the TeamSpeak or Ventrilo, or GameSpy arcade days lol.

At the end of the day, it is a video game. No one is entitled to play video games. If you want to play it, you'll do what you gotta do to play it. If you want to complain, well, there's essentially nothing anyone could do to stop you from doing that.

Speaking of kids, back then you didn't even need launchers to play games, nowadays you need 2 launchers minimum with its telemetry to launch, update game two times and play games. So your teamspeak or gamespy days are proof that this kind of practice doesn't live long enough.

I think your logic failed to connect there. The days when there were no apps for games? You mean when there weren't really any online games other than Quake, and certainly no voice chat? If you'd prerfer that to having options, then idk what to tell you

[Cherrycat]

From what I've been seeing it seems maybe not.

[Rai]

Originally posted by Zeromix:

Originally posted by LANCERZzZz:

I'll never understand why PC gamers have become so lazy that the concept of using more than one single application on their computers is a dealbreaker for them. Like clicking things is too much work for you all. Man you kids would not have survived in the TeamSpeak or Ventrilo, or GameSpy arcade days lol.

At the end of the day, it is a video game. No one is entitled to play video games. If you want to play it, you'll do what you gotta do to play it. If you want to complain, well, there's essentially nothing anyone could do to stop you from doing that.

The point for me personal is the following:
If i want to play a game on Uplay, i need to run this launcher and still need to wait, till the game is patched etc.

Steam is the only application i´m runnning all over, so if I want to play a game from another launcher i need to start that one and need to wait, till the game has updated.

Yeah, I'm still failing to see how that's not just some meaningless first world problem. You can set all of those apps to launch when you startup your computer so they all update alongside steam. But yeah, that's part of being a PC gamer is that things need to get updated.

I mean, there's a reason more people play on console. It's cheaper, easier, and much more accessible to people who don't like dealing with computers such as yourself

[Kein Zantezuken]

Literally on the store page:

"Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required."