EA Launches, Kills Mass Effect 3 Preorder Offer on Origin
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Deal seemed to good to be true. Still cancelling it early pisses me off. I have no problem with a company trying to go head to head with Steam. I don't think Valve should have a monopoly over digital distribution, as much as I love Steam, but Origin just doesn't come close. When I heard about this deal, I thought it was a good way of competing with Steam. Maybe in the short run they might loose money (is Battlefield 3 still selling well?) but in the long run it may have helped foster better client relationships, which down the road woould mean more people willing to use their service. Whatever, all I can hope for is better service from EA or these games making it onto Steam.
You probably wont. What you should have done is waited to pre purchase it. Pre purchase offers generally last till the games actual release.tony2077 said:
Moral of the story: Always hold out until the last minute with digital distribution pre purchases for the chance of a good deal such as this. It's what I generally do.
WOW!!!
Absolutely amazing that they pulled the plug on this offer. I was NEVER going to give origin a chance, because it did not offer anything I couldn't find better else where. I pre ordered mass effect 3 for this deal alone, if it wasn't for this deal I would not have ever installed Origin...ever.
I took this as a sign that EA was starting to see the light of day, and because of that I was willing to give them a chance. I already have the deal so I will play both games, but when it is done, I will uninstall origin, and not re install it until I feel they know how to handle Online Digital Distribution properly.
Absolutely amazing that they pulled the plug on this offer. I was NEVER going to give origin a chance, because it did not offer anything I couldn't find better else where. I pre ordered mass effect 3 for this deal alone, if it wasn't for this deal I would not have ever installed Origin...ever.
I took this as a sign that EA was starting to see the light of day, and because of that I was willing to give them a chance. I already have the deal so I will play both games, but when it is done, I will uninstall origin, and not re install it until I feel they know how to handle Online Digital Distribution properly.
Can we just make a list of all the idiotic moves EA have done so it's on hand whenever anyone asks why the Escapist doesn't like EA?
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That was my first thought. It's EA. There are no Battle Field 3 codes!TLS14 said:
At first I was second guessing my decision to dodge origin, I mean, two NEW games for 60 bucks?!? Then I read that part. Glad I passed.
I never preorder games, but I was going to do this deal when I heard about it a few days ago, but I figured it was better to wait to see what would happen with this bonus because it seemed too good to be true. I thought EA would pull something similar to the last preorder wtf with the free copy of Battlefield 1943. Color me surprised... EA backing out of another preorder bonus. Supposedly the people who ordered will get their offer honored, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
This is really starting to shed light on how stupid and broken the preorder bonus craze really is. Bait and switch, or bait and screw.
This is really starting to shed light on how stupid and broken the preorder bonus craze really is. Bait and switch, or bait and screw.
I'm waiting for the next news story about how all the people who were promised a free copy of BF3 instead got a lovely boot in their ass when EA decides that they, once again, don't want to fulfill their end of the deal. Then when pressured about it they make the consumers they outright lied to jump through hoops to get the game they were promised and then EA will have the balls to say that it was our fault we didn't get what we were promised and that we should be thankful for them even givin it to us.
technically speaking since this is origin, there isn't any actual boxantipunt said:
i guess you could sell the code but it's not really clear how you would prevent fraud through that system without something like valve's transfer system being an intermediary
good thing i stay far away from ?A and origin all together. ME3 will see my pc once origin is gone like for, forever.
(i know, will never happen)
(i know, will never happen)
I can see the news...FelixG said:
EA is branded as terrorists for bringing down a commercial airliner, and all employees are detained in Guantánamo. EA is defunct, and the TSA is confiscating all optical disc media from all passengers, and it is forbidden to bring one onto an aircraft.
Thanks, EA.
