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Pmj1989 on 03/06/2014 - 04:25 origin.com (2085 clicks)

Lots of games 70% OFF Sale
The Sims™ 3
The Sims™ 3 Worlds Bundle
The Sims™ 3 Dragon Valley
The Sims™ 3 Master Suite Stuff
The Sims™ 3 World Adventures
SimCity™ Societies
MySims™
Mass Effect™ 3
Mass Effect™ 2
Battlefield 3™ - 100% OFF
Battlefield 3™: End Game
Battlefield 3™ Armored Kill
Battlefield 3™: Aftermath
Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2
Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 SPECACT Kit
Battlefield Bad Company™ 2 Vietnam
Dragon Age™ II
Dragon Age:™ Origins
Mirror's Edge™
SPORE™
Dead Space™ 2
Dead Space™ 3
Dead Space™ 3 : Awakened
Crysis® 2 Maximum Edition
Bulletstorm™
Medal of Honor: Airborne™
Medal of Honor™
Medal of Honor™ Digital Deluxe Edition
Medal of Honor™ Warfighter
FIFA 10
FIFA MANAGER 12
Bookworm® Adventures
Zuma's Revenge™
Insaniquarium™
Rail Simulator
Alice: Madness Returns™
The Saboteur™
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™ DLC Bundle
NHL® 09
Bejeweled® 3
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™
Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3
Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane’s Wrath
Command & Conquer™ 4 Tiberian Twilight
Peggle® Nights
Need for Speed™ ProStreet
Need for Speed™ SHIFT
Need for Speed™ Undercover
Syndicate™

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  • Ebany on 03/06/2014 - 04:43

    That's a crap load of games, if only they had the new Dragon Age listed. Good deal though, +1 & thanks for posting. Now to Origin so I can sort out my wishlish :)

  • Mixhael on 03/06/2014 - 05:13
    +10

    Nice deal OP… Now if only we didn't need Origin to play them.

    • Letrico on 03/06/2014 - 08:42
      +9

      Origin is fine. It is even better than iTunes. At least it doesn't freeze on opening.

    • jee on 03/06/2014 - 15:49
      -2

      i will give it a miss.. am on AGL and quite happy with them.. :P

      • jee on 04/06/2014 - 09:09

        haaa..
        the lost art of sarcasm :(

  • pensionday on 03/06/2014 - 06:19
    +1

    Thanks. Been waiting for fifa 10 to come on sale

  • Jack D Price on 03/06/2014 - 06:26
    +2

    EA is DESTROYING their IP!!!!!

    • Jonc on 03/06/2014 - 15:36

      Why do you say that? Just about all the games above are the previous generation games and not current titles (which is a shame for me)… but I don't see this as destroying there IP, I see it was trying to squeeze as much sales out as they can for their older titles.

      • CyberGenesys on 03/06/2014 - 15:48
        +1

        Neo's statement was probably a general observation of the decline in quality for each sequel EA publishes. I am inclined to agree, for any given game 'n' then n+1 will be crapper in some way, or deviate away from the roots of the original. eg Dead Space, Army of TWO, BF Bad Company, Need for Speed etc. For other games (particularly their sports games) they do nothing to improve the sequel but re-release the original with a new roster.

        • Charity on 03/06/2014 - 22:12

          you still buy it, so that is all they need to do. If you didn't blindly buy it, the company might be forced to improve.

        • Agret on 04/06/2014 - 00:44
          +5

          No he's referring to when Origin was new they said they would not run 70% off sales like Steam because it devalues the IP and damages the brand

          http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-06-06-david-demar…

          Q: One of the things that Steam does is this random deep-discounting of software, and it works well for them. Do you see that as something you want to do?

          David DeMartini: We won't be doing that. Obviously they think it's the right thing to do after a certain amount of time. I just think it cheapens your intellectual property. I know both sides of it, I understand it. If you want to sell a whole bunch of units, that is certainly a way to do that, to sell a whole bunch of stuff at a low price. The gamemakers work incredibly hard to make this intellectual property, and we're not trying to be Target. We're trying to be Nordstrom. When I say that, I mean good value - we're trying to give you a fair price point, and occasionally there will be things that are on sale you could look for a discount, just don't look for 75 percent off going-out-of-business sales.

          Q: Isn't that in some sense an old-school way of looking at it based on cost of goods? When your cost of goods is basically your transaction costs and your server costs. Even when they discount a game by 75 percent, they're still making money on it. It's not the margin that's important, but the total amount of revenue that's coming in. If by discounting it that much on a weekend they then kill the sales going forward, or they kill the sales in retail stores for the packaged versions, that could be a concern. But Gabe has said that as far as they can tell when they've done that it hasn't affected sales in other channels.

          David DeMartini: Actually, Gabe will usually say it improves sales in other channels because if the game is good there are some water-cooler moments and it has a spring-up effect. Without revealing too much, what I'll say is one way to deal with aging inventory is you do deep discounts like that. There are other ways, which I can't really talk about, of dealing with product as it ages over a period of time, where you present a value to the customer and you engage them in your service on a going-forward basis. We don't believe in the drop-it-down, spring-it-up, 75 percent off approach, but we've got something else that we do believe in that we'll be rolling out.

          But I absolutely understand your point, and I'm not not-hearing what you're saying. We don't have the old-school approach that you're describing; we're all about building as big a universe as we can, and there are multiple ways to build the universe. One way is to discount the price, the other is to form a longer-term relationship with them and draw them in that way.

          Q: I do think the downside of what Steam does might be damage to the brand.

          David DeMartini: Also what Steam does might be teaching the customer that "I might not want it in the first month, but if I look at it in four or five months, I'll get one of those weekend sales and I'll buy it at that time at 75 percent off." It's an approach, and I'm not going to say it's not working for Valve. It certainly works for Valve; I don't know if it works as well for the publishing partners who take on the majority of that haircut.

          So I guess when he's saying

          We don't believe in the drop-it-down, spring-it-up, 75 percent off approach, but we've got something else that we do believe in that we'll be rolling out.

          He means 75% is out of the question but 70% is fine

      • hiverious on 03/06/2014 - 23:45
        +2

        Neo's statement is a cheeky reference to head of EA Origin claiming that Steam sales damaged the value of IPs in the eye of the consumer (why would you buy a game full price when you could wait for a sale on steam?) and that Origin would not have similar sales.

    • Pacify on 03/06/2014 - 15:45

      wat?

  • RefusdClassification on 03/06/2014 - 07:03

    Are the prices cheaper on the US Origin store? Is there an advantage to using the VPN trick. I have to hurry to to work so I don't have time to compare now.

    • mj1989 on 03/06/2014 - 07:38
      +1

      I beleive greatest prices in Russian Origin

      • Letrico on 03/06/2014 - 07:51

        Russian origin purchase may have missing language pack. It depends on the game itself.

        • mj1989 on 03/06/2014 - 08:14

          Would be good reason to learn russian )))))))))

  • bought on 03/06/2014 - 08:21
    +24

    oh not that origin… thought gonna get 70% off my electricity bill… lol

    • Jonc on 03/06/2014 - 15:37

      Hahahaah, IF only!… That would be a sale I'm sure just about every one would be very interested in…

    • Charity on 03/06/2014 - 22:15
      +2

      this Origin deal adds to your electricity bill

  • pakon29 on 03/06/2014 - 09:10
    +3

    Wish ME3 dlc would get some discounts for once.

  • star chasm on 03/06/2014 - 09:17

    I'm reluctant to buy any of these in case Origin gives them away for free in the coming weeks.

    Dead Space, Plants Vs Zombies and Battlefield 3 so far - pretty much anything could be next!

  • CyberGenesys on 03/06/2014 - 10:11

    Dead Space™ 3 : Awakened

    Damn that was an epic addon, if only the rest of the game was made in the same style :( ie more like Dead Space

    • [Deactivated] on 03/06/2014 - 17:24

      Is it also co-op?

      • CyberGenesys on 03/06/2014 - 17:37

        Yup.

      • CVonC on 03/06/2014 - 18:39

        but DS3 is already coop.. Awakened is just DLC pretty much isn't it?

  • FrankMcFuzz on 03/06/2014 - 11:00
    +2

    Has anyone noticed how many "3" games EA have?

    • dadeadman on 03/06/2014 - 21:33

      Today I was at dicksmith and telling my friend that there are so many 3 games. I guess we are in 3rd generation of awesome games.

      • FrankMcFuzz on 04/06/2014 - 11:19

        Which is ironic because the 3rd game in the franchise is usually the most disappointing, whilst 2 is the best. Don't believe me? Here's a list.

        Uncharted 3
        Gears of War 3
        Mass Effect 3
        Halo 3 (though 1 was best, 3 was still the most disappointing, Fable follows this same method)
        Assassin's Creed 3
        Banjo Kazooie (Provided Nuts and Bolts counts as 3)
        Resistance 3
        Battlefield 3 (though it hardly counts because it gets more disappointing every year)

        That's all I can really think of at the moment. But that's a lot of examples of "Great Second game, not as good third game" franchises. They still usually rock my socks though. But stakes usually get way too high in the second game lol.

    • Agret on 04/06/2014 - 00:48
      +1

      Guess they really do work differently to Valve….

      • FrankMcFuzz on 04/06/2014 - 11:23
        -1

        Mass Effect 3? Battlefield 3? Dead Space 3?

        Three 3's.

        3 + 3 = 6.

        6 - 3 = 3

        Half Life 3 confirmed.

  • penthius on 03/06/2014 - 15:19
    +1

    thanks OP , good post, but I think Battlefield 3™ - 100% OFF - deserves a post on its own ;-)

    • pawan1993 on 03/06/2014 - 18:41
      +2

      It's already been posted as an "On The House" deal from EA.

  • smarter_fool on 03/06/2014 - 15:41
    -2

    I initially thought it was an Origin Energy deal

  • EggMan28 on 03/06/2014 - 15:55

    Any of the BF3 DLCs worth getting at price ?

  • Captain Obvious on 03/06/2014 - 18:11
    +1

    As per usual, DLC points purchases (eg Bioware Points) totally excluded leaving consumers to be shafted in DLC pricing

  • [Deactivated] on 03/06/2014 - 21:08
    +1

    Not bad at all, but Admiral Akbar stirs loudly in the back of my mind.

  • [Deactivated] on 04/06/2014 - 00:31
    +1

    Mass Effect 3 is marginally cheaper on amazon.co.uk (by about $1) if anyone cares.

  • sandsay on 04/06/2014 - 04:53

    I remember how much I loved The Sims (original) at a young age. I must have been 10 or something.

  • SpaceInvader112 on 06/06/2014 - 13:33

    I highly recommend Mirror's Edge if you have missed playing it. One of the best platformers that really stood out with its distinct visuals, soundtrack and cool (albeit clichéd) story.

    • FrankMcFuzz on 10/06/2014 - 10:05

      I have heard really mixed reviews. Even though I have the game and can formulate my own opinion, its based solely on preference. The rumours for Mirror's Edge 2 are slightly disturbing; the game didn't do nearly as well (as it should've) as to justify a sequel. Sometimes I think EA is puffing the crazy grass.

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