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Was browsing through Amazon and found this on special 75% off their regular price. Unfortunately, I never could tell if a game they're selling is Steam or not, unless its mentioned on Ozbargain. From a quick look at the forum page for this game, I get the impression that it uses EA Origin.
Still $5 for a decent game is not too bad.
great price but bit worried about the 20 odd bad reviews which seem to centre around invalid activation codes like this one
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars done with ea, January 14, 2012
By J - See all my reviews
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Wasted hours of my time just trying to get the damn thing to work, the product key didn't work. chatted with pretty awful tech support who wasted my time as well.
I will never pay for an ea product again.
or this one
I purchased this game for $5 through Amazon software download. Everything went well and the activation key was included. After the install, the game installed some kind of security/anti-piracy checker. It told me to enter my serial number. I used the serial number given to me by Amazon which is located in the download folder. When I tried to use it, I get the wonderful message about an invalid serial number. I cannot play the game and there is nothing on Amazon or the EA website about this. DO NOT DOWNLOAD because your serial key may not work.
UPDATE: 1/14/2012 @ 10:44AM(PST): Amazon sent me a new activation code. It is still invalid!
UPDATE #2: 1/14/2012 @ 3:14PM(PST): Amazon sent me another new activation code and it still failed! I requested a refund.