I believe it's confirmed to require Origin.
I'm also not real up on EA these days. The way they've treated Dead Space, their arrogant stances on all the fuckups with Sim City and Battlefield 4 (games I did not play, but nevertheless their stance on not fixing the bugs and problems is well documented) and now their unwillingness to put a single player campaign into what could have been a really great new IP are all warning signs to me.
Why make an interesting sci-fi themed FPS and then reduce it to dudebro status? The answer is simple: EA knows that dudebros will buy and play the game, and they'll make their money and nothing else matters.
People can case on Gears of War, but at least they didn't shrift on the campaign elements. People may not LIKE the campaign or world of Gears, or it may be terrible at points, but at least they put effort into it (until Judgement, which I still liked but recognize exactly what it is).
EA is acting a lot like Sony acted during PS3 launch.
Or like Square-Enix acted when they were conceiving, promoting and releasing the Fabula Nova Crystalis saga.
Or like Nintendo is acting right now.
Not willing to acknowledge they are making mistakes, spinning everything so that none of it is their fault, and all but spitting in the eye of their loyal consumers with every public statement.
It astonishes me how these companies just don't pay attention.
Also, no PS4 release is shady as fuck. EA must not have confidence in the product to take the kind of one time payout required in this day and age to guarantee exclusivity for Microsoft platforms. The long term dividends would have been FAR greater to go full on cross platform.
But then I suppose they would have to actually put effort into making the game more than a polished beta multiplayer military murder sim w/robots.