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From GOG's EA EULA:

"Access to Software, Online Features And/Or Services:

An EA/Origin Account, including the acceptance of EA’s online Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (available at www.ea.com), the installation of Origin client application (www.origin/about.com)(or superceding download management software) as well as acceptance of the Origin (or superceding download management software) End User License Agreement, may be required to access the Software

Sorry if I misunderstood some legal lingo or plain old English.

But isn't this DRM?
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bluezapon: From GOG's EA EULA:

Access to Online Features

But isn't this DRM?
These seem to be the decisive words.
Ohh so it's just really talking about online stuff?

There is a comma right after "access the Software".

This is the rest of the text:

"may be required to access the Software, online services and/or features and to download and apply Software updates and patches(if any)."

This comma made me think the EULA was listing

-Access the Software
-Online services
-Features
-Updates/patches

As things that MIGHT require Origin.

But that's not the case? All offline stuff requires absolutely no Origin?
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bluezapon: But that's not the case? All offline stuff requires absolutely no Origin?
Trust me: if you would require an Origin account to access your games bought on GOG, the guys here would have burned down GOG's HQ in Warsaw already.
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bluezapon: But that's not the case? All offline stuff requires absolutely no Origin?
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BreOl72: Trust me: if you would require an Origin account to access your games bought on GOG, the guys here would have burned down GOG's HQ in Warsaw already.
xD

I guess. The wording in the EULA just seemed a bit fishy.
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BreOl72: Trust me: if you would require an Origin account to access your games bought on GOG, the guys here would have burned down GOG's HQ in Warsaw already.
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bluezapon: xD

I guess. The wording in the EULA just seemed a bit fishy.
EULA's usually are.
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bluezapon: I guess. The wording in the EULA just seemed a bit fishy.
It's simply a relict of the EA Origin EULA.
Only in case you want to use online features (MP), you need an Origin account.
Normally, if you would have bought your game on Origin, you would need an Origin account also to download your game and to access other services that Origin delivers (friend lists, etc).
But since you bougt the game on GOG, the EULA only matters in regard to the online (MP) part.
If you don't plan on playing online MP (asuming, the game in question offers that option at all), you don't need Origin.
DRM is about restricting usability in practice, not in theory. Legal (or quasi-legal) documents that tell the purchaser that they can't do this or that with the game don't mean anything if there's no software- or hardware-based enforcement ensuring that you can't do this or that (without going to a lot of trouble, at least). Those integrated enforcement mechanisms (e.g. Denuvo) are the DRM (which could just as well be called DRE, since "management" is a euphemism in this case); the words in a boilerplate legalese document that few read -- and which are often partially unenforceable in a lot jurisdictions anyway -- are just that: words.

EDIT: Obviously, if any of these games required any particular store launcher to even be able to download or install the game, that would be DRM. But again, boilerplate EULA. EA clearly didn't even bother to adjust it much, if at all, for the versions of their games sold here.
Post edited August 10, 2020 by HunchBluntley