DO I NEED TO BUY AGAIN?

[сефнан]

I had bought BF4 on Origin. As the EA games have come to Steam, do I need to buy BF4 again on Steam or can I just connect my Origin and Steam account?

[☆ƧQυiяяєL♫]

Two completely separate platforms.

Its comparable to Playstation and Xbox, one game releases on both consoles, you can't play a Playstation on an Xbox console and vice versa.

Yes, you will need to buy BF4 on Steam

I'm not sure about multiplayer crossplay as some games do support multiplayer crossplay, which means I can play a multiplayer match through my Steam account with/against other players on different platforms such as consoles and other non-Steam gaming clients

[reg1s7]

Answer from other subforum:

Originally posted by Ogami:

Users already asked EA Support.
The answer was a flat " if you want those games on Steam, you need to buy them again on Steam".
Thats it.

We talking EA here.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by ☆ƧQυiяяєL♫:

Yes, you will need to buy BF4 on Steam

You dont need to buy the game again. Just play the one you have. Its the same game everywhere.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by сефнан:

I had bought BF4 on Origin. As the EA games have come to Steam, do I need to buy BF4 again on Steam or can I just connect my Origin and Steam account?

No. The steam version still launches through Origin as well. It's just being put on steam as another outlet for sales.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by es3826:

Answer from other subforum:

Originally posted by Ogami:

Users already asked EA Support.
The answer was a flat " if you want those games on Steam, you need to buy them again on Steam".
Thats it.

We talking EA here.

In all fairness, it's not only EA. Ubisoft does roughly the same and I'm pretty sure the Gog version of The Witcher doesn't grant a Steam key either.

[сефнан]

Originally posted by Fiddle:

Originally posted by сефнан:

I had bought BF4 on Origin. As the EA games have come to Steam, do I need to buy BF4 again on Steam or can I just connect my Origin and Steam account?

No. The steam version still launches through Origin as well. It's just being put on steam as another outlet for sales.

Then how do I link my Steam and Origin accounts?

[Kargor]

Originally posted by сефнан:

Then how do I link my Steam and Origin accounts?

To my knowledge (but I may be wrong, as I don't have any newer EA games yet), when you launch an EA game that you bought on Steam, it asks you to log into your Origin account. That's about it.

I don't think you can "link" accounts in any other way, but you can always check your Origin account to see if there's a new setting. I highly doubt it, though.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by сефнан:

Originally posted by Fiddle:

No. The steam version still launches through Origin as well. It's just being put on steam as another outlet for sales.

Then how do I link my Steam and Origin accounts?

By buying the game on Steam.

Why not just play it on Origin?

[Le' Fat Cat]

No

[☆ƧQυiяяєL♫]

A Steam game is a Steam game.

A separate "client" is a game launcher, it appears to be part of Steam, but it's not.

Origin, Uplay, Rockstar and other game launchers have worked this way when game launchers (Origin, Uplay, Rockstar, etc) were introduced and were being bundled with their Steam game version years ago.

It's not a "new advert" tactic as Steam newbies claim it to be.

You sign into the game launcher which usually requires you to sign up for a Origin, Uplay, Rockstar or wherever account, that's the only "linking" that game launcher does for the Steam game version.

There is no "game share" linking between two separate platforms, unless the non-Steam game is added as a "non-Steam game" through the Steam client and played that way.

[Satoru]

Just add a non-steam game shortuct to steam if you really realy really need an icon to click

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by сефнан:

Originally posted by Fiddle:

No. The steam version still launches through Origin as well. It's just being put on steam as another outlet for sales.

Then how do I link my Steam and Origin accounts?

You don't. They're the same game. it's just being sold on steam also as another outlet for sales. You don't need to buy it on steam if you already have it on origin.

[EnzoExtendo]

I think what he's getting at is if Battlefield 4 is crossplay with Origin users. I'd like to know that myself.

[Snapjak]

Originally posted by tsorakin:

I think what he's getting at is if Battlefield 4 is crossplay with Origin users. I'd like to know that myself.

Of course it is since

Originally posted by Fiddle:

The steam version still launches through Origin as well. It's just being put on steam as another outlet for sales.

[刀持ち]

Originally posted by es3826:

Answer from other subforum:

Originally posted by Ogami:

Users already asked EA Support.
The answer was a flat " if you want those games on Steam, you need to buy them again on Steam".
Thats it.

We talking EA here.

that sucks, now if they say yes you own the game but for a small admin fee you can have a steam key as well, i would be willing to pay that admin fee, but this is ea which fuels the growing movement that states do not buy cloud based stuff games, software, music, movies and books, as one day it could simply disappear.
These cloud based distro/streaming companies simply have you by the balls, and without a physical platform independent backup you loose out if they decide to change it or withdraw it..