expired EA Origin - 50% off Store Wide
This was posted 9 months 10 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
T&C:
*Offer expires september 1, 2012 at 07:00:00 am AEST. Valid only for one-time purchases of PC digital download products from origin store at www.origin.com and the origin client software (www.origin.com/au/about). Value of discount will be deducted from product list price at time of purchase. Excludes Star Wars® The Old Republic™, The Secret World, The Sims™ 3 Katy Perry Sweet Treats, The Sims 3 Showtime Katy Perry collector's edition, Battlefield™ 3 Premium, Kingdoms of Amalur and Battlefield 3 pldcs, pre-orders, Valve games, virtual currency, game time codes and select partner titles distributed by Origin. Valid only in Australia. Offer may not be substituted, exchanged, sold or redeemed for cash or other goods or services. May not be combined with any other offer, gift card, rebate or other discount coupons. Retailers, distributors and employees of Electronic Arts inc. And their agencies/affiliates are not eligible. Void where prohibited, taxed or restricted by law.
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- +2 votesliveyourlife on 15/08/2012 - 12:04 ¶
I did a copy and paste. I will rewrite it for you though.
Main post edited.
+8 voteswalletinspector on 15/08/2012 - 12:39 ¶Why is everyone negging this deal because there are exclusions?
People dont go negging when jbhifi do 10% of computers and dont include apple for example.
Origin gets a lot of undeserved hate, competition will make everyones precious steam better.
Ill probably consider getting NFS The Run and Dragon Age 2. But I should try get through my backlog first.
As for negging the deal, I agree.
As for competition, this is NOT competition for steam. They aren't even trying. They are just using the exclusive game distribution to force it on everyone.
I would welcome a legitimate attempt to compete with steam rather than just screw people over.
- walletinspector on 15/08/2012 - 13:48 ¶
It isnt proper competition at the moment but the way its positioned it will be. They just need to get some other big publishers to put their games on there and we have a competitor and they have said that they are trying to do so.
I know EA are a horrible company and I personally dont like them but its really going to be the closest thing we will see competing with Valves monopoly.
I dont think they will get anywhere but have to give them a chance and if they get any sort of market share or following it might make valve pull their finger out their bumb and add some more features or add them quicker.
- +1 vote
What features exactly are you after?
I do have issues with steam, but I don't think lack of innovation is one of them, they are fairly continuously adding new systems (like item store, green light, linux).
My issues are:
1: Regional F******* pricing.
2: Possible arbitrary (changing terms, valve's discretion) account lock out.
3: Multiple steam directory locations
4: Better offline support
5: Optional not-upgrading or downgrading version of single player games
6: Optional DRM Free games… on the top of my head anyway.
+3 votes"Origin gets a lot of undeserved hate"
Out of the three games I have on there they have ALL had issues that have needed their useless customer support.
Mass Effect 3 wouldn't activate with my retail key. After 3 different attempts with customer service I finally got it activated (2 days that I couldn't play with about 3-4 hours of my time wasted).
SWTOR would activate but because I preordered I was guaranteed Beta Access. They sent me a beta key but what do you know it didn't activate. Took an hour of trying to explain the customer service person what the bloody hell a beta is and finally got it.
Battlefield 3 activated fine but is held down by the bs web page that makes you join a game.
I have 93 games on Steam. Never had a single issue.
I believe the hate is justified.
Origin are trying but not capturing anyone's interest. Latest updates turn it into more of a steam clone with zero of the community and support.
Without a supportive community, they have zero hope. The history of EA shows they often burn their users for the sake of restrictions and profit.
Best to support those who give back.Just look at what Valve announced yesterday for TF2, for free, which will be released tomorrow.
+1 voteAethelbert on 15/08/2012 - 14:51 ¶+1 for decent price.
Difference between JB exclusions and EA exclusions is that EA can control the prices of its games whole JB doesn't get much leeway with Apple products.
BF3 for $25 is awesome though.
-1 votei remember i was like YESSS when i receive this email hours ago i went directly to bf3 premium to see it not change and then read the exclusions and was like uhh wtf store wide my ass
its just a bunch of shitty games no one wants that are half price like the guy above he bought nfs and dragon age 2
2 Horrible games
i loved loved DA 1 but DA 2 is complete trash and nfs hasnt been good since underground
+1 voteGreatWhiteHunter on 19/08/2012 - 07:39 ¶I look forward to buying the BF3 premium pack when they have a similar sale in a few months and have removed it is an exclusion…
Some good deals here with no waiting for postage…
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Funny how they say "Store-wide", which is a load of BS from looking at all those exclusions.
BF3 for $25 seems like a pretty good deal