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.

12 years ago*

Comment has been collapsed.

I can't it stops working after "Contact Us" :/

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I own those games so....meh

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Just got my copy of Spore :)

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks. Got Dragon Age :D

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

This is awsome, got mine.... Thanks for sharing :)

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks got mine about 2 hours ago but forgot to post :/
Worked, would rather a steam copy but beggars cant be choosers,

SS of BC2 http://oi47.tinypic.com/2wf8zm8.jpg

Thank you @OP

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Can you tell me how did you activate it? was it through the website? i can't seem to be able to activate it through origin nor the site.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Never had to activate it,
The EA rep simply "credited" it to my account,

However from playing bf3, you can simply activate the game by
1)Login through origin client
2)Top right hand corner there is a sprocket
3)Redeem Code
4)Download & install

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thing is, i can't just redeem it from the client, as it tells me to activate it through a site in EA, when i do that, there seems to be an issue with that specific web page D:

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

ty i got bc2 :3

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Your approximate wait time is 204 minutes.

What the hell. Have you guys waited THIS long?
Also is 11pm how is this even possible.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I went from 184 to 108 minutes wait time in the last 30 minutes. I'm guessing they get a lot of people looking for support at this hour. Especially if there are many of us trying to get a free game.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

yeah, got me 2 hours of waiting, but I played for 1:30 of this time, so it's really acceptable

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Mine said around 65 minutes but I had to wait around 20.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Gosh dang it. I don't have anything on Origin. Gosh dang it.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

As someone in the first page said if you have Shank from the humble bundle you can activate it and it counts too.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Got dragon age origins in an alt origin account and I decided to make an official origin account for me with the same name as my steam account XD.

I'll ask for DA:O again since it's the only one I like. Thank God I have Alice MR to get the cd key from.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

i just got dragon age origins, but it's a russian version. that's not a problem for me, because russian is my mother language, but i'd still prefer an english version. is it possible to change game language from russian to english?

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

There was several options for language choice. The english option had several other languages in the option.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

This. When you activate the serial they give you, there's a multi-language version.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Quick question, does anyone know if in Bad Company 2 I can either A) play with friends from Steam or B) activate the game on Steam as well? Couldn't find a straight answer anywhere.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

No you cant activate it on steam, just origin. And yes everyone can play together no matter the platform.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

This. Platform doesn't matter. The game has a friend system built in, and servers are not from steam.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks, my main concern was just if I could play with friends through whichever means.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you! I will try it and post the results later. But thanks in advance and for sharing such promotion!

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Done! Downloading BC2. Thanks again!

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Took a little over an hour but I got my free game. The service rep added it directly to my account.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

just got a copy of BFBC2 from origin
\o/

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Same here ^^

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Waited a little over an hour and got BF:BC added directly to my account- turns out they're not giving away keys anymore. And to those who just saw this thread, the person I just spoke to (Arun) said that the promotion will end in a few minutes. :P

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

did anyone do this without having any game in origin? lol (or had played bf3 beta before?)

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank I just got Dragon Age Origins.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks man! I just got BF:BC2!

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Could have been Ctrl+W instead

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I already have Spore, so Im waiting on chat support for DA:O. Hope my computer can run it lol

Edit: Got it thanks man! Now Im downloading

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

If it can't at least you didn't pay for it :)

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

200 minutes. wow.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks, I just got BF:BC2 :D

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

got mine thanks

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Hello, my name is Borat, I'm from Kazakhstan, but now I live in Pakistan. Can I get a free game you capitalists ?

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Yes, of course you can Borat.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

thank you, I'll send you my wife to you

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Closed 12 years ago by BananaNation.