Just got in the email:
"Be one of the first 8,000 customers and you'll score 50% off your next purchase*."
Use Promo Code: RUSHSALE
I'm not exactly sure what qualifies as "Popular" but the newsletter takes me to:
http://store.origin.com/store/eaapac/en_AU/home/?sourceid=au…
You can read the newsletter online at:
http://ebm.em.ea.com/c/tag/hBPSDKSB8K$luB8gHiUNbReY2Ya/doc.html?&t_params=
I want to neg this, but it is a bargain after all to some. The reason for negging is because of all the negative experience I had with Origin. It is just a failed system as compared to Steam and other P2P gaming clients.
You can see the frustration on Reddit, Whirlpool and other forums. So I think this 50% off is just to pull people back into their crappy system and screw us once again! No thanks.
A friend of mine is presently getting screwed by EA. He got double-charged, contacted his bank, they agreed and refunded him one charge and now EA has decided to completely ban him from Origin. He has lost access to /all/ his games and they refuse to talk to him about the issue. They're also very not contactable in Australia.
Wont touch an EA game now. Don't care what it is.
gotta make there money back some way for all for all the free games they lost when they had the 2 for one deal ;) or else managment will look bad!
If you really want a EA game dont pay the over inflated prices Origin charge Australian gamers.
Use a site like this http://www.g2play.net/store/home.php
Battlefield 2 Complete, only $7.50. Seems like a pretty good deal.
everyone got it for free a few months back
Dont get Battlefield 2 Complete!!!
Battlefield Bad Company 2 which is the next evolution of Battlefield 3
On special occasionally for $9.95
Um…no it's not. BC2 is the last game prior to Battlefield 3, but BF3 is the newest, and a continuation of the story in BF2, not BC2.
Crysis 2 $79.99 ROFL. I just bought it for $9.90 plus shipping on eBay.
it brings the bf3 b2k expansion down to $12 which is alright.
Isn't B2K listed in the exclusions posted by CarbonTwelve above though?
the discount code worked. so idk.
Bah, I'm negging. It's simply false advertising to say there's a sale on 'popular' games and then in the fine print exclude the popular games.
Bah, boycott these fools. Overpriced crap on a failed system, which the only way to sucker people into using it is by releasing their crap as exclusive to origin.
Personally I have a shit tonne of other games to play without even looking at another EA game.
So speaketh the clueful.
FANTASTIC DEAL!!! I'm definitely going to join, right after I shoot myself in the foot and jump in the pool with a 1 tonne rock tied to my neck! Yaaay!
Maybe if it wasn't on Origin, I would consider this…
Screw Origin.
I remember when STeam first started it was pretty shit too.
I reckon Origin will improve - not hard I know off a low base - but it will get better over time…
Yeah, I agree. But it is annoying that we'll have to have many of these systems running…
" Offer is not applicable to pre-order titles, points, timecards, Warhammer, Ultima Online and Play4Free items, Warp, Shank 2, The Sims 3 Master Suites Stuff, Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect 3 N7 Digital Deluxe, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning�, The Sims 3 Showtime, The Sims 3 Plus Showtime, The Sims 3 Showtime Katy Perry Collector's Edition, The Sims 3 Hidden Springs, Battlefield 3, Battlefield 3 Back to Karkand, Battlefield 3 SPECACT Kit & Dog Tag Bundle, Battlefield 3 Promo Bundle, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning� - Weapons & Armor Bundle and non-EA published titles including Saints Row The Third, Street Fighter IV and Dead Rising 2: Off The Record."
So… It's valid for "popular" games, except for this list of basically all the popular games…