The web can provide additional information helpful to Origin users. Registration is completed automatically when you obtain a license from our website. The Registration ID is designed to be a 'Web Serial Number' – most of the Technical Services require you register your Origin first. We've got the Serial Number for product identification and an encrypted version of that in the form of a License, but why a Registration ID? The License encodes the same information as the Serial Number as well as other computer information in a more obscure form (the Serial Number is stored as plain text). The answer - though far from perfect - is a License. In a perfect world, that number might be sufficient, but when we found our software on servers around the world for anyone to download, we were concerned that we should do something to protect the product we develop and sell for our livelihood. Combined, the fields tell us what Origin you have - useful to the user looking for Tech Support or looking for an upgrade or a patch. Origin is now available in English, Japanese and German. The old Serial Number is still there and is carried forward as you upgrade to newer versions, but it has now expanded to include additional fields indicating the version, the product level and the language.

Now we have Serial Numbers, License, Registration IDs, and more.

6.41 FAQ-671 What are Serial Numbers, License and Registration ID?īack in the 'good-old-days' Origin could be installed with a seven digit serial number and you were good-to-go.

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