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EA accidentally gave away thousands of free Origin games

article published on 16 October, 2012

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, ... [ read the full article ]

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shummyr
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_ 		16. October 2012 @ 12:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Oooops......
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Crimson_Prince
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_ 		16. October 2012 @ 14:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm impressed by how careless these companies can be
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wolfniggr
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_ 		16. October 2012 @ 19:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Damn, it would have been nice to get in on that. Oh well.
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borhan9
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_ 		17. October 2012 @ 06:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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
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hearme0
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_ 		17. October 2012 @ 12:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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.
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