That depends on where you buy them. On Steam, yes - a lot of them will require Origin. On Origin, well that speaks for itself.
On GOG however… They don’t, as far as I am aware. But of course those are not the latest games, just stuff like The Force Unleashed (1 and 2) Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy etc.
Have a look, and >especially< the ones that are labelled GOOD OLD GAME are Origin free since you know, DRM free and all
That said, a portion of the sale does go back to the rights holders (as I believe) So if EA is the rights holder for a particular game (which I don’t think they are for all the Star Wars games) they will get some of your bakta… I mean money.
Meh, I might have said the same about EGS before they gave GTA V for free (and technically still EGS-free with Heroic)
Origin had a good price on SW Squadrons so I’m fine with the purchase:
But there’s a thing where PCVR games use different runtimes depending on where they’re bought. I use Oculus/Meta, and want games going through their runtime for lowest latency. Squadrons on Origin allows for Oculus runtime, but only presents SteamVR for the Steam version (SteamVR adds overhead on Oculus headsets and Oculus runtime needs to be running anyway).
I tried and avoided EA App (new Origin) back then; EA App might be mandatory now, but this looks interesting.
Genuinely surprised there’s a movement against the new EA App, I seem to have had a unicorn experience where everything works better for me now than what it did when I had Origin. It’s not the greatest launcher of all time either way, but still
I find it absolutely incredible that Origin is DESIRED in this case. The new thing must REALLY be bad. Origin was the most universally hated DRM thing I’d ever heard of until now. This is legit the first time I’m hearing of its replacement, as I haven’t bought from EA since origin went live.
I think Ubisoft has been worse in my experience. Twice I’ve had to go through their support for the same game I bought on steam that wouldn’t launch because it claimed I didn’t own it. It even went off again after the new Ubisoft launcher and I’m just not going to go through it all again. I only have it now for Star Wars outlaws
I had to rebuy The Division 2, Far Cry 6 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint because I lost access to my Ubisoft account email. Even though I could prove I bought all three for that account with PayPal receipts and emails, it took three weeks of back and forth with their tech support before they just said “Nope” and stopped talking to me.
Luckily, I was able to buy them all on decent sales so not a huge outlay, but makes you wonder if inefficient customer support fuels additional sales.
Had the same experiencee with Rockstar for RDR2. Eventually got another copy on a sale and registered it on a new email with their launcher.
youre in a post apocalyptic mostly hostile world with warring factions. no matter the start youre a fucking punching bag for 90% of enemies so its tough, but combat experience and robotic limbs make you a menace. you can hire/free people to join your little party, build bases/live in towns, and just kinda do what you want. world state changes make it pretty cool as the world reacts more than most games. i guarantee you lose at least 1-3 saves before you get the hang of things, but its loaded with content if you enjoy build your own adventure stuff. 350h played between like 5 good saves
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