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Origin $20 off coupon [Expired - EA states they're honoring games]

Nairume

Banned
If I have no interest in Dead Space or Dragon Age or Sims or Battlefield or another racing game and I already have Hot Pursuit and Mirror's Edge what's worth getting.

Sabateur is kind of neat, and Darkspore is both solid and can actually be played on Steam without ever having to go through the Origin client.
 
How is everyone getting multiple games here? I used it on one game and now all others are saying invalid promo code. I fucking used it on some game i already owned in steam too cause i was thinking i could get a bunch.
Some are able to get it working multiple times via loopholes, others got a ton last night when it made any game in your cart <$20 go down to $0.
 

Nabs

Member
Not sure what the conditions are for this to work. Here are the directions I followed:

1) Use a new incognito/private window.
2) Add the game you want to get to your cart.
3) Apply the code. If the cost of the game isn't reduced to 0, then the code doesn't work with that game.
4) Click checkout.
5) At the screen where it asks for new account info, LOGIN at the top of the screen.
6) At this point, if you're asked for your CC info, you can't use the code for that game.

When trying to get the Mirror's Edge DLC, it asks for my CC info when I log in. However, for Simcity 4 Deluxe, it did NOT. It might depend on the game, but the main thing is this: just because you can't get one game to work, doesn't mean it won't work for any other games.

Yeah, this is perfect. Follow the directions.
 

SapientWolf

Trucker Sexologist
It's not invalid. I was just able to get Spore, Karkand, and somehow another 4 from my saved shopping cart in Chrome from last night. It wouldn't apply the coupon to multiple games earlier today but it took my shopping cart from last night lol
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I'm really not interested in anything else but I was able to get Back to Karkand for free...Huh. I added Spore and Karkand, it would apply the coupon to the cheapest one, Karkand, so I removed Spore and it saved Karkand as $0.00. Doesn't seem like this will work for Close Quarters and Armored Kill. I tried to get Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack but it said "Payment Authorization Failed" in the same Chrome instance I got the 4 from last night on, so maybe that was it? Anyway, I don't really care!

I'm honestly dumbfounded by this all, but thank you EA.
I find the lack of Dragon Age II on all these lists to be hilarious. People don't even want it for free.
 

DarthWoo

I'm glad Grandpa porked a Chinese Muslim
Missed out on most of this, but did get NFS:HP and Shift 2 Unleashed. I've been trying the Chrome incognito window and logging in using the top link instead of the boxes on the page, but it always brings up the CC info request on every game I've tried after.
 

Speevy

Banned
Most of these games won't run on my computer, I'm not interested in many others (and I can't sell them to other people), and I have the rest.

Meh.
 

Xyber

Member
Not sure what the conditions are for this to work. Here are the directions I followed:

1) Use a new incognito/private window.
2) Add the game you want to get to your cart.
3) Apply the code. If the cost of the game isn't reduced to 0, then the code doesn't work with that game.
4) Click checkout.
5) At the screen where it asks for new account info, LOGIN at the top of the screen.
6) At this point, if you're asked for your CC info, you can't use the code for that game.

When trying to get the Mirror's Edge DLC, it asks for my CC info when I log in. However, for Simcity 4 Deluxe, it did NOT. It might depend on the game, but the main thing is this: just because you can't get one game to work, doesn't mean it won't work for any other games.

Tried this 2 times and nothing, waited a couple of minutes and then it suddenly worked with C&C 4 that didn't work 15 minutes ago. Weird.
 

GraveRobberX

Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
So, looks like I'm done, to many invalid codes

From this:

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To this:

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Now I have a:

PS3 Backlog
PS+ Backlog
VITA Backlog
Steam Backlog
Origin Backlog

Jesus!
 

isual

Member
for those of you with an invalid promo code, OS3874XVC still works.
This is what you have to do

1. get game that's under 20 bucks
2. don't log in, add to cart
3. checkout
4. login after you've checked out
5. profit
 

DarthWoo

I'm glad Grandpa porked a Chinese Muslim
So, looks like I'm done, to many invalid codes

From this:

jq4Jtl.png


To this:

KSO5Nl.jpg


Now I have a:

PS3 Backlog
PS+ Backlog
VITA Backlog
Steam Backlog
Origin Backlog

Jesus!

I'm in the same boat. Got PS3 backlog of probably three dozen games, Steam backlog of a few dozen, only two new Origin games today (but still have ME3 to get through), 3DS and DS backlog, and I suppose a Wii backlog that I'll almost certainly never get back to. It's just there for when my nephews visit now. Of course, to top it all off, I spend most of my free time playing STO.
 

inky

Member
LOL you guys.

Meh, I'm not even going to try. Sadly enough I already own most of the games you guys are posting with the exception of stuff like Shift or Mercenaries which I'm never going to play anyways.
 

fokkusu

Member
Could you elaborate? What is a US address: email or physical? Where do you input it?

I had already one EA-account, that I have all other games. I had also another EA-account, not used at all before this (I am not sure what address it has, but used msn.com email).

I logged in to the US store using that http://store.origin.com/?ipr=ty url. Inputted some random Texas address when doing check in.

The Spore is visible now in my secondary account (only that game).
 

Nokagi

Unconfirmed Member
Hmm does anyone know what directory these games install into on Windows 7? Installed C&C Red Alert 3 but doing a search it only shows game saves I can't find the actual game files anywhere. I've never had this problem before I guess it's some funky way Origin installs games?
 
for those of you with an invalid promo code, OS3874XVC still works.
This is what you have to do

1. get game that's under 20 bucks
2. don't log in, add to cart
3. checkout
4. login after you've checked out
5. profit

That doesn't work for me, quite annoying as i would of liked Crysis Warhead. If i had found the link to the US site earlier today i could of got all the games...
 

Wario64

works for Gamestop (lol)
Hmm does anyone know what directory these games install into on Windows 7? Installed C&C Red Alert 3 but doing a search it only shows game saves I can't find the actual game files anywhere. I've never had this problem before I guess it's some funky way Origin installs games?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games
 

GraveRobberX

Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
LOL you guys.

Meh, I'm not even going to try. Sadly enough I already own most of the games you guys are posting with the exception of stuff like Shift or mercenaries which I'm never going to play anyways.

For me is double dip on Origin games

I have most of these for the PS3

Have them if I ever upgrade my PC, (if PS4 doesn't wow me)
 

CatPee

Member
Hmm does anyone know what directory these games install into on Windows 7? Installed C&C Red Alert 3 but doing a search it only shows game saves I can't find the actual game files anywhere. I've never had this problem before I guess it's some funky way Origin installs games?

Should be in Program Files(x86)/Origin Games.
 

daevv

Member
Ive managed to make a new gmail and origin account on my phone but the Origin store is crap on iphone. Hope I can get some goodies after work (4 hours) before it over all together. :(
 

Crayons

Banned
It's not invalid. I was just able to get Spore, Karkand, and somehow another 4 from my saved shopping cart in Chrome from last night. It wouldn't apply the coupon to multiple games earlier today but it took my shopping cart from last night lol
yMNjy.jpg

I'm really not interested in anything else but I was able to get Back to Karkand for free...Huh. I added Spore and Karkand, it would apply the coupon to the cheapest one, Karkand, so I removed Spore and it saved Karkand as $0.00. Doesn't seem like this will work for Close Quarters and Armored Kill. I tried to get Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack but it said "Payment Authorization Failed" in the same Chrome instance I got the 4 from last night on, so maybe that was it? Anyway, I don't really care!

I'm honestly dumbfounded by this all, but thank you EA.

I said goddamn.

I'm still stuck with Payment Authorization Failed, got 6 games.
 
Hmm does anyone know what directory these games install into on Windows 7? Installed C&C Red Alert 3 but doing a search it only shows game saves I can't find the actual game files anywhere. I've never had this problem before I guess it's some funky way Origin installs games?

You can set it from the Settings.
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Ledsen

Member
So I did the trick to get games on my EU account, used a fake US adress and my main account... didn't stop to think that I might get banned... what do you guys think?
 
It really is random. I tried to grab a copy of SimCity 4 with the new method you guys said and it didn't let me get the game. I tried one more time and well, goodbye forever. I HAVE SC4 BITCHES!
 

2MF

Member
So I did the trick to get games on my EU account, used a fake US adress and my main account... didn't stop to think that I might get banned... what do you guys think?

I think you should create a new account, possibly with a different email address. Then who cares if they ban that account.

Oh and if you have gmail and you have x@gmail.com remember that x+whatever@gmail.com (with an actual "+" symbol) also goes to the same account but is treated as a new email address by Origin. But if you want to be cautious you may want to use y@gmail.com instead (an actual new account).
 
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