Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I got this game as part of a promotion and I have enjoyed BF and MW games for many years now but this game angered me so much that I'm officially not buying anymore EA products after I'm done with BF3. Why? Jon Molle said it best and here's my experience: - The game is fine but it's the installation and the required software that upset me the most. > Accept EULA, install Origin, Re-accept EULA once again, finish installing origin > Create Origin Account, sign-in ... okay fine. I would have rather to use Steam but whatever > BF3 didn't install yet, I open up the game from the DVD drive and it goes through authentication and then boots up another origin client, it tells me that I'm signed on, on another computer. So i close both origin apps and re-launch the game. > go through about 15 confirmation screens then install... > Spend about 30 minutes installing 2-DVD's (that's normal) > The game finishes the installation, but automatically updates. > Click play anyways, so it sends me to the website > Accept TOS once again, and subscribe to battlelog forcefully (in its own way) > Have to install battlelog plugin for browser > Restart browser, try to launch the game from battlelog, does nothing but wait until the game is updated (I just wanted to try campaign mode) > Wait until 4gb of updates are done... > While waiting look over promotional thing in the box for the gun club, go to the gunclub website to subscribe while waiting > Origin server's are slow, downloading at about 700kb/s, I thought they were suppose to be faster than Steam? I average much higher than that on other sites. > Finally I can play the game, game loads fine > Play game, game looks funky with an HD 6950, not sure why... > Load the game again, works fine, play the game -- everything seems OK. It took about 3-4 hours to install this game from DVD's thanks to Origin and other crapware. There's so much crap involved with DRM and installation that it makes this game not worth getting legitimately. I thought that people were over-reacting to Origin and all that but it is what it is. Do not waste your time with it. BF3 is a fun game but ask yourself, is it worth wasting 4 hours installing all of this? I'm not buying any other EA game until they completely remove or make Origin and related applications optional. I didn't like EA before, now I really don't like them. Before you say that this review was not helpful, please understand that this is meant as a protest, not as a product game review. Excellent game, terrible company behind it.