EA Store deal: Selection of 9 games at £4.99 each!

dirtydog · 10 Oct 2009 at 14:40

D'oh, too late.

starfighter · 10 Oct 2009 at 14:46

Not a bad deal but I aint signing up to EAs crappy download service. Steam or box for me.

Rambo89 · 10 Oct 2009 at 15:06

Cheers finally picked up Mass effect, burnout and dead space and for £12 i cant complain, great bargain there even if i have to use ea's rubbish downloader

MikeHunt79 · 10 Oct 2009 at 15:08

dirtydog said:
Hmm, wiki says

what a load of ****, I think I'll avoid EA stuff from now on...

afraser2k · 10 Oct 2009 at 15:23

dirtydog said:
I've ordered Burnout Paradise then, seems rude not to for a fiver. I guess I'll find out if I can still play it in future

Only problem on the PC is they still haven't released the Big Island DLC for us yet.

Very good price for the game though since I enjoyed it a lot.

Kenai · 10 Oct 2009 at 15:27

How many activations will the code for Burnout be good for?

Tempted but i'll be doing a reinstall of 7 at the end of the month, no good if the code says its already used when i came to reinstall it...

Tobes · 10 Oct 2009 at 15:51

Go out and buy a bottle of coke. Sign up to the coke points website. Add the code from the coke bottle. Then redeem the points for £5 off EA store. Then get a free game.

I just need to go and buy some coke.

jas72 · 10 Oct 2009 at 15:57

i've got Paradise for PS3 great game one of my most played

anti5580 · 10 Oct 2009 at 16:07

I really want to buy some games off EA but the download limitations bugs me. I've read a few articles on how to backup the file contents so that you can reinstall it at a later date but it's just hassle. I would much prefer this on Steam.

Sleepery · 10 Oct 2009 at 16:18

Hmm...are any of these steam activatable games? If so, just buy it, get the key, and activate it on steam?

Edit - link doesn't work for me, just brings me to a blank page in the EA store

MikeHunt79 · 10 Oct 2009 at 16:29

Tobes said:
Go out and buy a bottle of coke. Sign up to the coke points website. Add the code from the coke bottle. Then redeem the points for £5 off EA store. Then get a free game.

I just need to go and buy some coke.

Nice idea, I accidentally a Coke bottle. Is this bad?

Kenai · 10 Oct 2009 at 16:33

Seems you need 20 points for £5 off at EA, a 2L bottle is 3 points - that's a lot of coke to be drinking for a free game, would cost you more in coke than it saves you

dirtydog · 10 Oct 2009 at 16:44

Sleepery said:
Hmm...are any of these steam activatable games? If so, just buy it, get the key, and activate it on steam?

Edit - link doesn't work for me, just brings me to a blank page in the EA store

These are the games you can activate on Steam, so I think the answer is no.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-WUSF-3601

As for the link, just go to the EA store front page and you can navigate to the games from there.

Sleepery · 10 Oct 2009 at 17:18

dirtydog said:
As for the link, just go to the EA store front page and you can navigate to the games from there.

I did try to just browse to the games, but none of them are a fiver

maybe it's where I'm browsing from or something, but Mass Effect is showing as € 19.99

Kenai · 10 Oct 2009 at 17:26

http://eastore.ea.com/store/eaemea/cat/offers/categoryID.14365500 edit - oh nvm, thats the same link as in OP

If you're getting prices in Euros instead of Sterling i'm guessing you're in Ireland or something and it's entirely possible the deal is only for the UK, which is why you can't find it.

Sleepery · 10 Oct 2009 at 17:27

Yep, that's what I figured. Gits.

tripitaka · 10 Oct 2009 at 17:35

Cool, Mass effect for £3.74 with the 25% code. I'll live with their crappy DRM for that price.
10% Quidco cashback too - I make that a mighty 37 pence.

jaggafeen · 10 Oct 2009 at 18:07

tripitaka said:
Cool, Mass effect for £3.74 with the 25% code. I'll live with their crappy DRM for that price.
10% Quidco cashback too - I make that a mighty 37 pence.

mass effect is a bargain.

Calneon · 10 Oct 2009 at 18:27

Sleepery said:
Hmm...are any of these steam activatable games? If so, just buy it, get the key, and activate it on steam?

Here is a list of retail keys which also work on Steam.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-WUSF-3601

So no, none of the ones on offer will work on Steam.

StarSolitude · 10 Oct 2009 at 18:46

Dead Space and Mass Effect = £7.48, sweet! But I need answers regarding the EZ Download Manager... do you need to run the EA program if you want to play the games? Or can you just uninstall it and still play the games? I have no interest in an EA download manager, only the games.