Battelfield Bad Company 2 suddenly appeared in my Origin account

EA's answer to steam. Their DRM platform like Uplay is Ubisoft's DRM.

it is nice to have that game in my account. its just weird that it is just there. Even the Games "on the house" still require to "buy it" for 0 €. And normaly you get some email or notification. And it acually still cost 9.99€

thx for the info. just googled it and i dont seem to be the only one where that happened. still no explaination to find though

possible. i have bf3 too (when it was "on the house"). also i think might has something to do with the recent document leak. maybe some sort of gimmik to reasure customers. or some generous hacker is just throwing free copies around :-)

do you own a hardcopy of the game ? or have it played before? i think it might be that they just activated the old copies on origin (if you used the same email for your origin account)

good idea havent thought about that. honestly i cant remember if i did use the same email for the game and my origin account.

just looked nope not the same.

to edit 2 . thanks for the offer but its quite unlikely that we would play at the same time ( i am in germany its like 04:14 in the morning here)
i dont have the vietnam addon either

i agree among the best. so much more stuff to destroy in comparison to bf3 and bf4. also the singleplayer was quite fun too.

The only game i have ever actually bought for origin was bf4 the rest of my origin games come from humblebundle and "on the house" promotion and i never preorder anything. Really no idea why its there.

i will attemp to use my supernatural powers to call upon the god of video games to grant you your wish. Sadly he is quite the unreliable bastard and might not do anything or even worse (shudder) add another copy of bejeweled to your account.

lots of times its to promote new releases. like when thy gave away bf 3 shortly before bf4 came out (if i remember correctly. Or as you mentioned Dragon Age Origins shortly before Dragonage Inquisition came out. Between big releses they tend to give away older stuff like recently C&C Red Alert 2 (great game)or those boring puzzle games ala peggle.

i never had the deluxe edition or the addons and they also dont show in my account. i had the vague idea they just finaly activated my old copy to my account ( but i am not sure if i used the same data for bc2 and origin). has been quite some time since i played it.

i had it on retail and coulndt aktivate it on origin either. in case you have origin installed you might want to take a look at your game libary (in case you used the same email for origin and bc2)

weird right? no notification or anything for me and it say it was added on 18.Oktober 2015
same date with you i assume?

i am just used to ask the comunity first. generaly you get a quicker response and maybe get the attention of people who might have the same problem now or in the future. but good idea ill do that. (honestly i where iam from we generally dont count on technical support to provide any useful information)