EA accidentally gave away thousands of free Origin games

Someone at EA will have some explaining to do.

On Saturday, EA began giving gamers a special promo code if they completed a survey. The promo code was supposed to be good for one free download from the Origin digital download store.

However, as gamers quickly discovered, the code was not secured properly, and was good for as many games as your bandwidth could handle, for free.

Additionally, the code worked for Canadian Origin account holders, as well, and it didn't matter if you ever took the survey or not.

The code was out there for at least a few hours, prompting users to download all they could during the loophole period. One Redditer posted a screenshot of the 90GB worth of games he was able to download and boost his collection.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 16 Oct 2012 12:08

shummyr

Oooops......

16.10.2012 12:51 #1

Crimson_Prince

I'm impressed by how careless these companies can be

logic is an enemy and truth is a menace

16.10.2012 14:58 #2

wolfniggr

Damn, it would have been nice to get in on that. Oh well.

16.10.2012 19:32 #3

borhan9

I would have loved to have get in on this.
But on the other thing i wonder what is going to happen to the guy from Origin that made this lil boo boo :P

Edited by DVDBack23

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17.10.2012 06:56 #4

hearme0

Yeah..........my fiancee's brother told me and bought his game about 20 minutes before. Then 1 minute after telling me, he checked and came back to say that it must have been patched.

Asked how he knew and said it was Facebooked early on.

I say that Facebookers are F'ing IDIOTS for violating the "word of mouth" rule. It's not "word of Facebook"..............Duh!!!! Facebook junkie LOSERS screwed this one for the most of us that are generally on top of EVERYTHING.

17.10.2012 12:36 #5

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