Origin Sale Takes up to 70% Off Titles
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Are you connected through a Proxy or VPN?Scars Unseen said:
Also, your account might be defaulted to the Japan region for whatever reason, Call Origin support and hope you get the one that speaks english.
OT: Took them long enough to post meaningful sales on games that have already come and gone. Don't get me wrong, good things are good, but it's a bit dishonest to sell off the base games only to slap prospective players with "SURPRISE PAYWALL!!! DLC FOR ONLY $60!!!" Which is the case for BF3, Sims, and a couple others.
Not to mention that you can't really do shit with the base game alone unless you buy the Premium.idarkphoenixi said:
But cool - now, start expanding your library and making this a common thing, not something worthy of a surprise.
Btw, is this US only or does everyone qualify?
Yeah so creepy uncle EA finally flashes a jagged yellow grin and in his softest possible voice offers you a candy, and that makes him.... nice? This is eerily reminiscent of when a bastard that does their lover wrong gives flowers to make nice.
Okay, so I'm being a tad hyperbolic, I know that. I'm just not convinced they've changed their spots and throwing doggy a bone doesn't undo years of kicking doggy in the ribs. Once bitten, twice shy.
Okay, so I'm being a tad hyperbolic, I know that. I'm just not convinced they've changed their spots and throwing doggy a bone doesn't undo years of kicking doggy in the ribs. Once bitten, twice shy.
Well, seems like I'm not one of those people to who (or whome?) EA wants to sell anything. I can't find anything on sales and the link in OP just sends me back to the empty homepage.
I'm still not comfortable giving them any money or using their service.
Especially since just last year [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/117725-Origin-Boss-Says-Steam-Sales-Cheapen-Intellectual-Property] one of their executives scoffed at the idea of sales for digital games.Icehearted said:
Well it's likely defaulting to Japan because I'm in Japan. I'm American and working on an American military base, but physically I'm in Japan. I don't pay for a VPN and don't trust my credit card info over the free ones.Ympulse said:
As for calling Origin support, I have little confidence in that route. They still won't even merge my two Origin accounts(that are only separate because my Bioware and EA accounts were registered to different email addresses when Origin started) or move my Mass Effect 2 DLC to the Origin account that actually has Mass Effect 2 registered to it. Unless part of EA's apparent heel face turn is to fire all their previous customer support agents and replace them with people that actually support customers, I doubt I'll make any headway through that department.
Don't be fooled.
EA is still crap for PC
Got Dead Space 3 with the humble bundle.
Got hit by a bug that's been reported for 7 months and was very easy to reproduce.
Actually got hit by it twice!
No text chat, no push to talk.
Everything's giving me to impression that they just don't give a damn.
The humble bundle was a nice enough gesture for me to give origin another shot.
They just blew it.
EA is still crap for PC
Got Dead Space 3 with the humble bundle.
Got hit by a bug that's been reported for 7 months and was very easy to reproduce.
Actually got hit by it twice!
No text chat, no push to talk.
Everything's giving me to impression that they just don't give a damn.
The humble bundle was a nice enough gesture for me to give origin another shot.
They just blew it.
Origin is still spyware. Games for cheap on Origin is still games (albeit cheap) attached to spyware.
And EA will still arbitrarily close down your account (no refunds) if they feel grumpy that day and take notice of you. This is why so many people create a separate account for each Origin game they play, so that they only lose one game at a time.
So no. Even though I might have had hopes for Sims 4, I will not play it. Why? Origin.
No sale, EA.
238U
And EA will still arbitrarily close down your account (no refunds) if they feel grumpy that day and take notice of you. This is why so many people create a separate account for each Origin game they play, so that they only lose one game at a time.
So no. Even though I might have had hopes for Sims 4, I will not play it. Why? Origin.
No sale, EA.
238U
Tsk tsk tsk. Such fickle quitters.
For this spawning pool of EA hate, to see such positive consideration is very disappointing. Where is the "Of course they are doing a sale now, they just did the bundle to make it LOOK generous, but purposely left out DLC, and now follow up like a drug dealer with an on site sale on DLC as well as other stuff to get people hooked? Evil Empire Evil Empire"
In all seriousness I was not on the BURN EA bandwagon. I still cannot effectively use origin until they abandon their "you must abandon your rights" policy, the same as steam. But I still buy console EA titles. It is good to see something try to knock steam around so that the misconceptions around steam can be corrected and competition will keep such DD platforms in check and hopefully correct and prevent further policy abuses and anti consumer practices.
For this spawning pool of EA hate, to see such positive consideration is very disappointing. Where is the "Of course they are doing a sale now, they just did the bundle to make it LOOK generous, but purposely left out DLC, and now follow up like a drug dealer with an on site sale on DLC as well as other stuff to get people hooked? Evil Empire Evil Empire"
In all seriousness I was not on the BURN EA bandwagon. I still cannot effectively use origin until they abandon their "you must abandon your rights" policy, the same as steam. But I still buy console EA titles. It is good to see something try to knock steam around so that the misconceptions around steam can be corrected and competition will keep such DD platforms in check and hopefully correct and prevent further policy abuses and anti consumer practices.
Interesting.
I guess it's a bit of a shame that pretty much all EA games released right now do not interest me at this point. Not only because they're made by EA, but because they're boring.
I already played the few I was curious about, so... good luck to 'em I guess.
I guess it's a bit of a shame that pretty much all EA games released right now do not interest me at this point. Not only because they're made by EA, but because they're boring.
I already played the few I was curious about, so... good luck to 'em I guess.
Let's see, I can buy your older games which have been discounted just enough to be at a sensible base price for a years old game, and all I have to do is join the botnet you're setting up to make positive comments about EA online. Where o' where do I sign up?
what???? no way. it cant be true. dint they say that it will ruin the industry?? is ?A starting to learn and going to the bright side?
does it mean i can like them but hate ubi? that sure is a very good step in to the right direction.
does it mean i can like them but hate ubi? that sure is a very good step in to the right direction.
Unfortunately that doesn't matter much. All of your data is constantly being collected anyway. Origin doesn't make a difference anymore. It still doesn't mean that we should support it. We should do whatever we can to protect our privacy. But it's getting increasingly more difficult.Uriel-238 said:
