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Origin $20 off coupon [Expired - EA states they're honoring games]
- Thread starter Wario64
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Kane Zakharov
Banned
Sent both of you an invite, name: BalanceThisCrap. Planning to change the name, but Origin won't let me right now.
brotkasten
Member
Alice is in pretty much every Steam sale. It was 75% off in the summer sale, I think.
Canis lupus
Member
We should have a GAF Origin friendlist now.
Dreams-Visions
Member
ook then. I guess I'll just wait.
not like I was looking to play any of the games I grabbed anyway. I guess I did it because I could.
Boaty McBoatface
Member
I feel like I did EA a favor, I finally installed Origin on my PC.
You're welcome, EA.
Seriously, I got so much shit, I don't even know what a FIFA is. :lol
This made me laugh more than it probably should lol, good work!
Stronghammer22
Member
Quick question, if I download the games on my laptop and wish to transfer them to my gaming computer, how do I go about it? Is it similar to Steam, in that I can just copy + paste somewhere?
The One Who Knocks
Member
There is the possibility that they'll make a mistake if they try to fix the code.
EDIT: I just noticed I forgot to get the Mirror's Edge DLC, oh well. Eight games on Origin is enough.
EDIT 2: Is there anyway to transfer games across accounts actually? Because that would make everything much easier to manage rather than signing in on lots of different accounts and downloading the games seperately. I'd ask EA support but supposedly they're down.
TheContact
Member
I'm upset I went to bed after thinking 3 was the max I'd be able to get =( Wanted Sim City 4
It's one of those right place right time deals. If you just happen to look on GAF or another website when these things are live you make out like a bandit, otherwise you don't.
My final loot list:
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
Mirror's Edge
Simcity 4 Deluxe Edition
Crysis
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3
Bulletstorm
Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight
I would also buy Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit but I didn't do it before going to bed, looks like it's too late now.
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
Mirror's Edge
Simcity 4 Deluxe Edition
Crysis
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3
Bulletstorm
Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight
I would also buy Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit but I didn't do it before going to bed, looks like it's too late now.
It's in there, but when I try to play the addon it says that I must write the code. And it says it's invalid.
ColonelColon
Member
I just found this screencap of a chat with Origin customer service:
I wonder if they'll also try to find people who created several accounts. I have 9 different accounts now
Time to download the games before they do something...
Ruh oh
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
Aw shit EA's sending us to the shadow realm
The Wizard
Member
So it's over and I can still keep the games? Downloading like a madman just in case.
They wont ban. Otherwise i and hundreds of other people would of being banned for doing the same thing a year ago when it happened over the AU/NZ Origin.
Snkfanatic
Banned
The Faceless Master
Member
i own more games on Origin than on Steam!
The Wizard
Member
Removing the games would be okay, banning people would be a shitstorm.
I believe this is inaccurate. Almost all of these games, even if they do not require origin to run, do use securom. So ea can always blacklist the keys in securom and then you can no longer activate the game unless you download a crack (or install it now and then never uninstall it). People saying ea can't do anything because they gave out keys are mistaken.
At the same time, I highly doubt ea will do this.
Mavromatis
Member
EA can remove your games. They removed Battlefield 3 of an IGN Promo from my account earlier, they can do the same with these games.
Wok
Member
This also happened with Valve and Puppy Games: a subscription can be removed.
graywolf323
Member
EA has had this happen before with getting some I believe $10 and under games free and they didn't revoke them
that's how I got SimCity Societies & Mercenaries 2 free
that's how I got SimCity Societies & Mercenaries 2 free
Yeah, they won't ban potential future customers.
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
It was only for US/Can.
Revenile
Member
I have a feeling the removal of any games will almost be dependant on how many seperate transactions were made on an account with the coupon code, I'd highly doubt one or two transactions would be messed with, but some, with like 20 transactions, those will probably be the main targets of any kind of punishment.
Boaty McBoatface
Member
Glad I got ME2 and Dead Space out of this, but looking at all the people who have multitudes of games makes me wonder what I did wrong; I couldn't add any more games after the first 2, even when changing browsers. Something to do with me having an Aussie account?
It was only for people who registered a (or 9) US/Can accounts
See above.
The chat reps are idiots, so take what they say with a giant grain of salt. I asked them to move a game I had from one account to another, said it could not be done even after I had proof of others doing it. Finally said it could be done and they would contact me in 3 days after it was done. That was 4 months ago and it never happened. So yeah I'm not that worried.
The Wizard
Member
Anyone else had problems with Origins downloader? Randomly tells me it's run out of disk space (When I have plenty spare) and pauses the download. When I resume it's sent me back by around 10% downloaded.
I've got word alerts set for "price mistake", "free", etc. If one gets set off, I get an e-mail.
Ha, how do you do that? That would be really handy.
So far I've been lucky in getting in a lot of these deals because I have no life and F5 forums all day.
The first night you could apply the code multiple times on multiple items in the same cart. They fixed that sometime during the night/early morning though.
Mavromatis
Member
I think this was a record day for Internet Explorer too. I used it a lot as a secondary browser. And now it'll wait for another chance like this to be used.
