I bet EA's Origin forces you to be online to play the game then.
Sidenote, a curse on EA for misusing Origin's old name for their fail service. -_-
Honestly don't know, my comp is online pretty much all the time anyway.
As to your other point, couldn't agree more.

Origin deserves something better than to become the name of a game service.
This thread is rather pointless anyway, you are only supposed to pirate Bethesda's and Ubisoft's games and nothing else, everyone knows that. ^^
You forgot EA too.