Too bad Tigger, i think you will be frustrated trying to join in late, cause by then majority of people will have flairs, missiles, bombs, etc... unlocked. I know I would be irritated by getting killed with these unlocks or cause you didn't have them.
I don't know that the big deal is with origin, like others have stated, you don't need it, just launch the game and use battlelog to pick a game type. That easy. Now, does anybody know how to turn off all the notifications when somebody is on or offline? Cause with so many of you in my friends list on both origin and battlelog, gets a little tedious.