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FREE: Battlefield 4 @ Origin Game Time (168 Gaming Hours)

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FREE: Battlefield 4 @ Origin Game Time (168 Gaming Hours)
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tightarse on 08/08/2014 - 08:03 origin.com (1301 clicks)
Last edited 08/08/2014 - 08:39 by 1 other user

Origin Game Time is back! It’s time to team up with your friends in Battlefield 4. The massive first-person shooter has joined our Game Time program. New recruits can now download Battlefield 4 to their Origin Game Library and get one full week — that's 168 hours — of non-stop action. All Origin users have until August 14 to add Battlefield 4 Game Time to their Origin Game Library.

Origin Game Time for Battlefield 4 is currently rolling out across the world over the next few hours. If you don’t see it available in your area yet, you will soon. You’ll be able to grab Battlefield 4 on Origin Game Time until August 14 at 10:00 AM PT, but once you’ve snagged it, you can download the game and start your 168 hour Game Time clock whenever you want.

Game Time for Battlefield 4 is the entire experience, available to play for one entire week. Go ahead, use your 168 hours of Game Time to complete the single-player campaign. Then jump into multiplayer and join your friends in 64-player warfare until the sun comes up… again and again and again. Your Game Time clock runs in real-time, whether you're in the fight or taking a break. but your progress and Origin Achievements will be saved if you want to keep your career going after your Game Time ends – buy the game and you’ll pick up right where you left off.

It’s easy to start your Game Time. Simply add the game to your game library and download the game. Don’t worry about the download times: Your Origin Game Time clock will not begin until you’ve launched the downloaded game for the very first time.

For those already in the Battlefield 4 fight, the new influx of Game Time recruits means new squadmates to team up with and new enemies to attack. You won’t be waiting long for your next fight. Level up and start scoring the awesome load-outs.

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  • Wagzy on 08/08/2014 - 08:12
    +3

    This usually means The games player numbers are down, but the main servers I play on always have queues. This won't be an influx of new players for all the old players as pretty much everyone has premium. I won't see one of the trial people.

    Also it's pretty neat that this isn't just tied to multiplayer and everyone can play the single player campaign. Yay EA and Dice for doing something good for once!

    • buzzlight9 on 08/08/2014 - 10:17
      +1

      Yep caught me haven't played it in ages… :P

  • hondo on 08/08/2014 - 08:38
    +3

    This would also bring hackers galore! You can easily create an origin account…. :(

  • miscbrah on 08/08/2014 - 08:50
    +1

    168 hours of game time sounds a lot different to 1 week free

    or maybe it's just me

    • tightarse on 08/08/2014 - 08:53
      +7

      168 hours of game time sounds a lot different to 1 week free

      24 x 7 = 168

      Just don't sleep :)

      • bensun_ on 08/08/2014 - 10:12
        +1

        Is it:

        a) You get 168 hours in-game time (so you could play 1 hour per day for 168 days)?, or

        b) Once you start the game, you have 168 hours in real time to play and the game becomes unavailable after 168 hours?

        • Rupture on 08/08/2014 - 10:13
          +2

          'Your Game Time clock runs in real-time, whether you're in the fight or taking a break. but your progress and Origin Achievements will be saved if you want to keep your career going after your Game Time ends – buy the game and you’ll pick up right where you left off.' - 3rd Paragraph down.

  • djevoultion on 08/08/2014 - 09:23
    +1

    Bring back Battlefield 3 for free :)

  • kirt on 08/08/2014 - 09:30

    Wish there was full controller support in this game for us home theatre gamers…fingers crossed they get it sorted for Battlefield Hardline.

    • virtualds on 08/08/2014 - 09:45
      +1

      hey kirt, can you explain what is full controller support for home theatre. I am just setting my home theatre. & also what PC games provide that support currently?

      • mrayner on 08/08/2014 - 10:00
        +1

        I use: http://store.steampowered.com/streaming
        Running from my gaming pc to the lounge HTPC running:
        http://store.steampowered.com/bigpicture/

        Then you can use MS XBOX 360 controllers to control everything.
        Search for games with full controller support:
        http://store.steampowered.com/search/?category2=28
        Not all games support it…

      • kirt on 08/08/2014 - 10:12
        +2

        When I mention full controller support, I am referring specifically to the fact that BF4 does actually have controller support for about 95% of the game, but to not be able to use the controller for the other 5% (menu navigation; selecting a load out; driving; team controls; screen icons etc) makes it a deal breaker…see here:

        http://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-4/Battlefield-4-on-PC-w…

        As far as other games, I have personally found that there is excellent native support for the majority of recent games, and for those that do not have support, you can use programs like Xpadder to simulate a keyboard and mouse and assign macros etc…great piece of software ;)

        These lists will give you an idea:

        http://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998&category…

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_XInput_suppo…

        Controller support will be getting more commonoplace IMO with Steams Big Picture now available, and with the release of the Steam Controller.

        • SuperMatty on 08/08/2014 - 13:57

          @kirt I completely agree that you should be able to use the control method you want for these sorts of games, but in BF4's case I'd expect most controller-wielding people to struggle mightily against opponents using mouse+keyboard. Certainly should be a functional option though, especially since there are Xbox and PS versions.

          A controller would be fine for single player, although BF4's single player campaign isn't exactly stellar :)

          Side note: DICE have a history of struggling with custom controls - In BF3 it straight-up ignored some of my mappings for certain actions, as if the default keys were hard-coded under the hood. Very confusing when the settings screen tells you it's one key but it's actually another. Also when you remap a default key to a different action, but pressing that key actually performs BOTH actions simultaneously. Pretty frustrating.

        • CyberGenesys on 08/08/2014 - 14:17
          +1

          @SuperMatty:

          controller-wielding people to struggle mightily against opponents using mouse+keyboard

          Haha so true, I struggle as a KB+mouse player against other KB+mouse players, at least with a controller I know what I'm doing … which is losing ;)

        • kirt on 08/08/2014 - 14:25
          +1

          @SuperMatty:

          most controller-wielding people to struggle >mightily against opponents using mouse+keyboard

          Yeah I guess I should've made it clear that I was mainly referring to singleplayer.

          Saying that, I still occasionally jump on BF3 on my PC playing as engy or assault with the Xbox controller, and nearly always come away with a positive K/D ;)

        • CyberGenesys on 15/08/2014 - 12:19

          @SuperMatty: Actually, I had believed that KB + mouse were better simply since that is what all the PC gamers say. I recently started playing MP BF3 with a controller and my scores have never been higher. I even got a 12 kill streak, a streak is something I had never obtained with a KB + mouse. I guess the moral of the story is try it and see.

  • umoddbro on 08/08/2014 - 09:33

    Anyone know roughly how big the download is? I might be close to finishing my usage this month :(

    • Gigilyano on 08/08/2014 - 09:57
      +2

      24 - 30 GB apparently.

      edit: it increases with each DLC but base game should be around 24GB

  • tsunamisurfer on 08/08/2014 - 09:53
    +5

    Applying for 1 week leave now.

  • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2014 - 10:01
    +3

    So this is a 7 day time limited trial? Or can you use the 168 hours non-consecutively (eg: over several months)? Not sure if this is really a deal here if it is the former.

    • Rupture on 08/08/2014 - 10:19
      +1

      Third paragraph down: 'Your Game Time clock runs in real-time, whether you're in the fight or taking a break…' This seems to allude to it being time limited to 168 consecutive hours, whether you're in game or not.

  • Kambo_Rambo on 08/08/2014 - 10:16

    Your Origin Game Time clock begins when you first launch the game after it’s been fully downloaded and installed. Once started, the clock will continue to run whether you’re in the game or taking a break.

    In the FAQ

  • lilchonk on 08/08/2014 - 10:29

    Phew and here I thought it was actually fully free after buying it last week.
    I'm fairly new to the game so if anyone wants to play together sometime add Ruskilou to your origin!

  • WalterPPK on 08/08/2014 - 10:54
    +12

    Keep in mind it has only been a month since EA/Origin were caught installing SecuROM spyware without authorisation as part of their Sims 2 giveaway. If anyone grabs this, can you please check to see if SecuROM is installed alongside it? I for one will be steering clear of them for now.

    http://www.reclaimyourgame.com/content.php/387-Sims-2-Ultima…

    • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2014 - 15:40
      -6

      What you think Android is? One big piece of Spyware built into an OS

      Get used to it guys

  • ShamelessBargains on 08/08/2014 - 11:42

    Might give the campaign a crack over the weekend, still waiting for bad company 2 to be free :)

  • KiLLUMiN4Ti on 08/08/2014 - 13:25
    +1

    Thanks TA :-)

  • MrZ on 08/08/2014 - 14:52

    Dammit, already at 170/200GB for the month now… with 1 week to go until reset :( I have to admit though, I'm starting to like Origin more and more lately. BF3 for free, then this, plus the new SimCity "trial" (4 hours free gameplay). Steam doesn't really give you any of these options.

    • CyberGenesys on 08/08/2014 - 17:13
      +2

      EA releasing trials of their games. Makes sense since most of them are either crap or full of bugs. I've been burnt many times buying a game early and at full price only to discover it is a barely finished wreck of a game.

      As to free games, they have a lot mistakes to make up for.

  • beeze on 10/08/2014 - 00:32

    Good find, enjoying SP campaign

  • prinzw on 10/08/2014 - 14:17

    Question, does the one week free game time start from the time of launch the game (e.g. I download and launch it on 13 August and get a following free week playing) or until 14 august anyway?

    • legelas on 14/08/2014 - 03:34

      yes it starts when you first launch it

  • supbah on 10/08/2014 - 22:16

    I have bf3 already installed along with punkbuster. Do I have to reinstall punkbuster when installing bf4?

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