EA Botches Origin Coupon Giveaway

[antipunt]

It was very quickly discovered that the code EA handed out was not a single-use code but could in fact be used over and over again to download as many games as the holder wanted. Even worse, or better depending on your perspective, the coupon codes could be used by anyone, not just the intended recipient, to download as many games as their bandwidth would allow.

Ok wait wait wait..hold up.

Is anyone else just completely utterly dumbfounded by how stupid this is? Some people seem to be siding with EA because they were 'nice' but honestly this was just irresponsible. I feel for the people who took the survey but got jipped because of their stupidity.

 

[BernardoOne]

They deserved it. That was a noob mistake. Its not very hard to do a single use coupon. So yap, I congratulate everyone who got dozens of games with this. I would have done the same if I has in America/Canada.

 

[Rex Fallout]

Guess they just didn't get enough war assets.

You sir. Deserve all of the internets for today.

 

[Baldr]

EA has a list of who they gave the survey to and can easily look up to see if the code has been used on the account already or not. EA should honor those codes for 1 free game, regardless of the screw up with the other codes.

Ironically, if EA is doing what they should be they won't have that list, because legal surveys are usually required to be anonymous.

There no law requiring surveys to be anonymous. Still they selected a select group of people. I know researches do it quite often for key demographics. They may not know which survey went to a particular person, so it is still anonymous, but they can tell if they sent them a survey, but they won't know if they completed it. The odds of a complaint from someone who was sent the survey but never took it is pretty low.