if you bother the chat rep enough and keep asking to get bumped up to a level 2 rep, you might get something done.
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Origin $20 off coupon [Expired - EA states they're honoring games]
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if you bother the chat rep enough and keep asking to get bumped up to a level 2 rep, you might get something done.
Impeccable
Member
Might be an issue between you and their server, when I was downloading my games it was maxing my connection (2MB/s).
Alastor Mused
Neo Member
Shift 2 is dling at that speed, Luckily Saboteur and Bulletstorm gave me the need for speed at 2 mb/s.
AdawgDaFAB
Member
For some reason, I was only getting 700 kb/s - 1.2 MB/s when downloading last night. However, if I put multiple games to download, I would get that same speed for all of them simultaneously. I ended up with 3-3.5 MB/s total while downloading. I wonder why it did that.
that1dude24
Member
i got bad company 2 and burnout paradise
woo!
woo!
Erik Kain over at Forbes.com wrote a piece on the coupon.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/10/14/ea-accidentally-gives-away-free-games-with-origin-store-coupon-glitch/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/10/14/ea-accidentally-gives-away-free-games-with-origin-store-coupon-glitch/
SRTtoZ
Member
Yea im Dling Dead space right now (or trying to at least). With steam I normally get about 5-6mb/s.
Pack it up, we all going to jailz
ChoklitReign
Member
Origin is abhorrant at downloading. I started to DL Hot Pursuit really early today and I turn off my monitor as usual. 10 hours later, it was at 10 motherfucking percent. It briefly lost internet connection. I was able to download The Saboteur in 2 sessions but that took half a day even at 1MB/s (the most I can get from the long router distance). Now how am I supposed to play my free game?
I remember someone made that on 4chan by the name and address.
EDIT: I like how everyone in the comments is saying they just did this just because it is EA. No it isn't, it's because of free games.
bigace33
Member
Wow, this guy is snitching big time. Now EA has no choice but to make examples of people. If my account get's banned I am going to be angry beyond belief. 2 of my Mass Effect games are on Origin and I plan on doing another complete play through at some point in the coming years.
Yeah, I started downloading DA:O, saw that the fucker was like 15Gigs and downloading at crawling speeds. yeesh.
SRTtoZ
Member
They might have certain games on different servers or certain bandwidth allocations per game. I started DLing about 6 games and Origins is the only one at 2mb/s and climbing while all the others are 400mb/s or lower.
edit: damn, DA:O at 8mb/s.
WTF is with this Bad Company 2? Launch the game finally after updating it for 3 hours and the thing doesn't let me go online until I enter my "EA Account" settings, which for some reason isn't the same as my origin account, then it wants me to input a serial number for Vietnam but doesn't allow copy/pasting. Turrible.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
What a stupid article. Comparing taking advantage of a broken coupon with paying for Humble Bundle?
I don't even see what would make this guy want to write that. In both cases people are jumping on good deals, in one case it just happens to be a deal where things are free.
Mavromatis
Member
He needed a starting point to write on Indie games, he used this unrelated one.
It's like he's saying that people would never exploit indie bundles. Did he forget how sleazebags used to buy up Humble Indie Bundles for 1c so they could do Steam trades. It's why you have to pay $1 minimum in many indie bundles now to get a Steam key.
EA might have just taken it down until they fixed all of the loopholes.
I bet if origin did a pay what you want bundle it would have been hugely successful too. He's over-thinking the people hate ea angle.
edit: Steam sometimes has pricing errors people that people take advantage of, and a lot of people buy steam keys from places like greenmangaming to get games way cheaper at launch. I guess that means people hate steam too.
Mavromatis
Member
19.99$ is a lot of money for a game that you thought you would never play in your life.
edit: Think about if they let you bundle 5 of those games together for 5-10$. I'm sure people would have payed.
So far Spore Creature Creator and My Sims won't install. I'm also downloading Littliest Pet Shop for my daughter, but don't have much hope of it working either.
The saddest part is that I was guilt tripped into buying a game to counterbalance these freebies that don't appear to be playable.
The saddest part is that I was guilt tripped into buying a game to counterbalance these freebies that don't appear to be playable.
Crap! Now all my Origin games say Install or Download! Why can't I play anything now!!! WTH EA!
Nabs
Member
Is this your first time using Origin?
$19.99 for one old game or $0 for 20.
A pay what you want bundle would have been smarter.
dragonlife
Member
lol?
Nope. I have all The Sims 3* stuff (including pre-order for Seasons) on there for my wife. (Though this is my first time outside of that.) She also has a lot of extra stuff from The Sims 3 website.
*When it came available on Steam I considered converting, but found out I would have to purchase everything again and decided against such a huge sum.
Edit: I'm going to see if she can load The Sims 3 now. If not EA is getting one helluva complaint.
Were they all installed already?
Truespeed
Member
Well played, EA. Allow us to download your games thinking we're getting them for free and then hit us up for the activation code when it comes time to actually play them. And to think we thought we were playing them all along. EA got game and gamed us all.
He's... not accustomed to using Origin it seems. I've installed and played several games already.
zerokoolpsx
Member
I couldn't launch Mass Effect from Origin after downloading it. Was able to launch it from the launcher instead. Is this the case with all Origin games? Its not a deal breaker, but double clicking on the game doesn't start it lol.
Mirror's Edge runs without Origin for me
Red Blaster
Member
Nigh all of the games run outside of Origin so even if EA are dicks and take everything away they'll still be usable
zerokoolpsx
Member
Never used Origin before. Thought it was like Steam.
Oh that's cool to know. The less DRM, the better.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
All of mine are still working fine launching from Origin.
Hmm, mine always just says "Launching [Game]" and then nothing happens.
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
can people still launch bullet storm. cuz i still can't. curse you GFWL.