This promotion/offer has now officially ended. Hope you got your games and if you didn't, I'm sorry. Game on.

NOTE: You need patience since support takes around 30-40 minutes to take your ticket.

Yes, I know this is steamgifts, but I also know you like free stuff. Origin or EA (don't know which in particular) is celebrating a one year anniversary or something like that, and they are giving away one out of three games for free. The games are: Dragon Age: Origins, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Spore.

The requisites to get the game are:

  • Own at least one origin game.
  • Have your account location set to US or Canada.

EA won't check your IP, so just by changing your location works. How do you do this? Head over to EA's site, click in your account name in the upper right corner, go to "My Account" and edit the regional settings.

Once you are done with this, head to the help section. Where it asks "WHAT GAME DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT?" you have to look for the game you want out of the three previously named, after you selected it, click "Contact Us".

Under the "WHAT TYPE OF ISSUE ARE YOU HAVING?" section you should see three boxes to complete, the first one with the name of the game, the second one titled "CATEGORY", where you should select "Technical support", and finally the one titled "PLATFORM", where you should select "PC". After doing this, click where it says "Live help" and wait until you get contacted by the support representative. You should tell him/her that a friend of you told you that they were giving away a game for the anniversary and you want to know if the promotion is still going on. If it is you'll be asked for some information to check your account and then you'll be asked which game you want and receive an origin redeemable key for the one you selected.

That's about it, enjoy.

tl;dr: If you want either spore, battlefield: bad company 2 or dragon age: origins for free read all the above. If you don't, then press control + F4.

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If you have Shank, BF BC2, Crysis, Spore, Sims, Mass Effect, NFS, Burnout, Alice, Dragon Age and some other EA games on steam, you can copy CD key and redeem it on origin as well.

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Damn, my shank came from HIB IV.

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Click on Shank in your library, on the right side you should see something that says "CD Key"

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Doesn't have one mate.It only has DLC and other shit.
or do I have to install it?

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It should. My shank is from HIB too and it does have the CD key thingy.

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Start the download then right click to look for the cd key

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Thank you, I wasn't aware of this fact.

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NVM thanks. I installed it and got the cd key :)

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Dead Space 2 :)

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OKEY ALL , THIS IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE I HAD THIS INFORMATION FROM LIVE CHAT

We appreciate your interest towards the promotional offer for Origin Anniversary. However, I am afraid to say that this offer is expired now. It was valid from June 21 12:00 AM CST till June 23 11:59 PM CST. I request you to keep an eye on the upcoming offers and we thank you for your patronage

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I'm wondering if we can do this twice, so we can get 2 games.

Anybody else would like to try?

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Sounds not right.

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Nobody is forcing you to do it, and it's not worse than the IGN prime exploit that most people on the site used anyways.

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Please wait while we connect you to the next available advisor.Your approximate wait time is 198 minutes.

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Anymore games?
Already own BC2 and Spore and DA:O aren't all that appealing, otherwise I might try this.

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Nope, they are only giving those away.

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DA:O is a good game !

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Dude, get Dragon Age. It's excellent.

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Another way to exploit the system and make Origin less appealing by getting free promo codes.

But if they think their client will be better than Steam anytime soon, then by all means spread this around to everyone who prefers Steam over Origin and want to prove that Steam should be chosen over EA's beta client. Yeah, it's still in a beta stage, unlike Steam which first developed in 2003.

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Live chat aint available...

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this.

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+1

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wait time 61 minutes.....lol

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Yes, I did say you needed patience ^_^

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Yep ^_^

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Wait time 201 minutes for me

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just pirate the game instead?

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Or get it for free... Legally...

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by lying

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True ^_^

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Yup ofcourse.

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why is it a lie if your from US and have a game on origin?

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Is this not scamming or at least lying?

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no, they are really doing this i think

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It´s the internets, right? ^^

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Doesn't matter, it's real people on the Internets and you are on the Internets that what you are in real life.

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At most it'd be lying about your location. And if EA cared about people lying they would check IP's.

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Your approximate wait time is 298 minutes.

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Thank you for contacting EA

Please wait while we connect you to the next available advisor.

Your approximate wait time is 55 minutes.

ROFFLE!

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Mine is 180 minutes and now 1/2 the games I have on origins will not run. LoL

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Mine is 180 minutes and now 1/2 the games I have on origins will not run. LoL

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I've cheated Origin too many time already to do this, lol.

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lol no thanks

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+1.

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tl;dr

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Added.

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This is what they sent me for an activation e-mail

I figured I'd do this since I have the sims on steam and an old EA account I could convert. Apparently they don't want my business.

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Why don't you just click the link? :b

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"Your friends at Origin"

Sooo apparently you have some friends there :D

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tried to verify my account, got the same email without any links.

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Same and I was trying to subscribe to the newsletter to get the email about the free game, but the dumb thing won't click! And when I saw the "Your Friends at Origin" I said to my friend next to me. "I have no friends at Origin or EA I hate them all."

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Can you email them? I gotta go sleep LOL.

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lol +1

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possible to receive bf 3?:D

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na. only those 3 games

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Your approximate wait time is 132 minutes.

FUCK YOU EA!

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68 minutes! yeaH1

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Those bastards are making you wait to get a game for free ? The sheer audacity ! ;)

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Damn... This looks like some kind of easter egg. LoL

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188 minutes D:

Just sent an email in case i don't get a response in chat.

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sucks to be u

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Says no one is available for Livechat. How do you get on the waiting list?

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Go to the ea site.click contact us. choose the game of 1 of those games.at the catagory.choose technical support. pick pc under platform. than you can click live chat and wait...

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I was wondering why I didn't get an e-mail, and I went on my account and saw that opted out of promotions. Oh well...

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I did something similar like this to get Dead Space 2 and Crysis 2 for free. ^_^

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Crysis 2 was free before? O:

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No. I did something tricky with Origin. :3

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:3

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Funny, I didn't have any games in my Origin library, and got an email with the promo code a few days ago.

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lol

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Finally got Battlefield: Bad Company 2. told them a friend told me this and is the promotion running and told them what game i want and what origin account to put it in.

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what account to put it in? what do u mean by that exactly? don't you mean origin account?

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You put in your origin user name. that's your account's name. you see it on top right

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just got my game.

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Was gonna do this but the wait time was over 200 minutes...Seeing as I already own all three games (DA and BC2 on 360) I don't really care too much anyway.

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