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Origin Goes Live for Mac, Nears 40 Million Users

by William D'Angelo, posted on 11 February 2013 / 1,949 Views

Electronic Arts digital service Origin has gone live today for the Mac. There are about 50 titles available for the service on Mac, including Batman: Arkham City and Dragon Age 2. The service also includes cloud save storage.

Electronic Arts also announced that the service has nearly reached 40 million registered users for the PC and iOS. This is up from the 30 million users in October 2012. However it is not known how many of these are active users.

Electronic Arts also offers "Dual-Play" for select titles. When you purchase the title on Origin for one platform, the title will be free for the other platforms on Origin.


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7 Comments

strike101
strike101 (on 11 February 2013)

as if most users willingly installed origin , it was a mandatory install for most EA games , it's like microsoft boasting windows 8 sales.. whereas most people who bought a new computer was complaining about it and requesting downgrade to Win7

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ganoncrotch
ganoncrotch (on 12 February 2013)

it would be more like Microsoft boosting sales of windows CE back in the dreamcast era when a load of games on the Dreamcast were powered by it, it's not that people cared or wanted that service, it just happened to be what powered the games underneath.

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SwansVanTerif
SwansVanTerif (on 11 February 2013)

If a game requires "Origin" to be installed, I will not buy it.

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ganoncrotch
ganoncrotch (on 12 February 2013)

tpb versions of such games don't have the same requirements cough :D

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ganoncrotch
ganoncrotch (on 12 February 2013)

lol I had to make an origin account to play Mass Effect 3 but after that game complete forgot what it was because I had made a new email address to link it to since I didn't want their spam emails offering junk 100000 times more expensive than anything on steam annoying me, so yeah I'm one user there o/ go EA u da best.

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thewastedyouth
thewastedyouth (on 13 February 2013)

I hate Valve, they are going down!!!

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Argh_College
Argh_College (on 11 February 2013)

i mean playing games on it. 1m at best.

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Argh_College
Argh_College (on 11 February 2013)

i have to be in Origin to play Dead Space or any EA game so yes... lol. Probably 1 milion Active Users at best.

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Argh_College
Argh_College (on 11 February 2013)

lol i had Windows 7 and just upgrade to Windows 8. Hate about win 8 is non sense, only childish people are acting like that, its the best OS out there, 7 is a joke compared to it. much faster and safer.

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halil23
halil23 (on 12 February 2013)

The force in the red hand is strong with this one. >_>

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ganoncrotch
ganoncrotch (on 12 February 2013)

XP fo life!

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