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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:08PM Ahmedz said

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I already got all of them.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:10PM shafnitz1 said

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If only there were another code system they could have used on the 360 to make downloading content like this less confusing.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:30PM evilkoala said

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SUUURRRE, some "magical" system...
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 5:25PM Diemer said

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I think I have a solution:

Every game should create a unique 16 digit code assigned to your specific online persona (something of a hash between your gamertag, the current solstice, and the blood/alcohol percentage of Nicole Richie todays date in 2006). This code when entered, confirmed, and re-confirmed could then be used to access a central database of content. Once into the database you could enter your gamertag and your password as a single string, backwards, as a second form of authentication to download your content (assuming, of course, that your xbox live vision cam has taken a snapshot of your face to be processed on the backend for that extra bit of protection).

8-10 weeks later you will receive a key for a safe-deposit box at a Wells Fargo in Duluth, MN which will contain an HD-DVD containing your DLC.

Easy...right?
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 6:32PM Uncontrol said

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Dan, Nintendo isn't going to be happy about you stealing their ideas.
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Posted: Feb 25th 2010 12:10PM felickz said

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AWW i knew i shouldn't have thrown the HD DVD in the trash!
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:13PM Halwende said

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Is it the same "EA Nation" account thing used in Need for Speed SHIFT? If it's not, I'm gonna get grumpy and shake my fist at EA... while I buy ME2 anyway... *ahem*
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 7:04PM baby sea tuna said

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Sounds like a McPhailure to me
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Posted: Jan 27th 2010 6:26PM ashleydb said

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Yes, same accounts used in pretty much all their games since Sports 08-ish. Mirror's Edge, 1943, Burnout Paradise, etc.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:14PM (Unverified) said

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Just wait until you try to get the DrPepper DLC codes working, unghh!
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:14PM Funkmaster General said

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I don't understand why this has to be ridiculously complicated.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:42PM alexmlowgmailcom said

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How else would they get their laughs?
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:45PM Kattleox said

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They thought: "What made MGS4 so great?" and all came to the same conclusion: KONAMI IDs! So why not try to mimic it?!
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:49PM Debley said

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Properly because MS charge for it, EA/BIoware thought they would save millions on MS's charging policy for EVERYTHING.
Still getting ME2 for xbox though, so lucky you MS you get money anyway maybe not as much but hey, moneys money to you, thats all you see. not people wanting fun playing a game. just targets to make money off of.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 5:17PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said

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Charlie, STFU. EA screwed up on this one, not Microsoft you idiot.

And why the hell are YOU complaining? It's your mom's money, not yours.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 6:34PM philmcfail said

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Ugh...I just entered all of my promo codes onto a new account. WHY EA? WHY!!!
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:17PM Vcize said

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I don't understand why these companies feel the need to control as much as they can get away with, making things 10x more complicated for the consumers.

Hey EA, there's already a whole streamlined mechanism for redeeming DLC codes built into XBL that's so simple an artard could do it. Why are you not just using that?
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Posted: Jan 27th 2010 6:32PM ashleydb said

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Charliekrad might have had the right idea in the post above...
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:17PM (Unverified) said

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EA...just tie the games into Live and cut all your involvement. Yes, I've got an EA Online account, but it's ridiculous.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:20PM iFester said

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Welcome to the Konami fiasco of 2008 EA.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:24PM (Unverified) said

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funny how setting up a konami ID almost led me to not play the game, but of course i had to give kogima the chance and im glad i did.

dont remind me. ""you must set up konami ID to play the beta, but we arent going to have enough servers to even handle the filling out of the form online, ultimately helping to crash the beta at first.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:21PM smakus said

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NEVERMIND, WE'LL JUST STEAL IT. THANKS EA!
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:23PM potato said

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Thanks EA, for making this convoluted and completely unnecessary. MS seems to run a tight controls on things to make the Xbox experience smoother, maybe banning additional required signups should be part of their policy.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 7:25PM philmcfail said

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I know, why couldn't the 360 version codes be linked XBL so we could just activate it from the system itself (not through game but dashboard).
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Posted: Jan 27th 2010 9:28AM Prox said

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I agree. My roommate and I got this game last night and we both balked at this "sign up for some EA website stuff" part at the beginning. As a result of this stupid, time-consuming method of obtaining DLC we may never get around to downloading the bonus content.

No big deal here, however, as the DLC all seems to be stuff that makes your character overpowered.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:25PM (Unverified) said

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is this just the thing with a lot of EA games now ?
mirrors edge, dragon age....

what is the ultimate point of it for them ? collecting and selling email addresses i suppose ?
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:25PM Assmar said

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I don't know if it's easier on PC, or if as a PC user I've just grown accustomed to backward ass confusing installs.
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Posted: Jan 28th 2010 3:22AM monster215 said

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definitely the latter. PC gaming logic/install forces you nearly every time to tinker with the dammed games.

ie delete the stupid BioEngine file on a regular basis.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:27PM Chief Oddball said

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OK, I figured all this out...but wow. Overcomplicated IMO.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:27PM robob1988 said

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Streamlined. EA.. hahaha when did Joystiq become a comedy club. =) Not that its super relevent, but people with the battlefield 2 and 2142 booster packs STILL have trouble getting their stuff working. They came out like 3 or 4 years ago.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:29PM (Unverified) said

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It was easy for me. Signed onto the Bioware social network, hit redeem promo codes, put the 3 different codes I had in and when I started the game up I was able to download all 3 packs.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:33PM Modok said

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pc or xbox360? i did this all this morning and it gave me .exe files. so...?
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:38PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah those .exe files are for the PC version. For 360, when you start the game up it automatically detects all the DLC you can get from the codes you entered on one of the EA/Bioware sites and you can download them from there.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:38PM arkweld said

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same here. If you played Dragon Age, just log in to your Bioware Social account, select register game, select ME2 from the games menu and follow the redeems.

The ridiculous thing is setting up an EA account to match your 360 account and all that crap. Nowhere near as streamlined as Ubi's Uplay. Why have two separate accounts for the same company to begin with? If you have an EA account you shouldn't need the Bioware account and vice versa.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:40PM (Unverified) said

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And you have to make sure you're using the same email address for the EA account and Bioware social network that you are for your 360, or it won't work. If you use the social site, when you hit redeem code it will tell you what email you're using and if it's the same as your 360.
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Posted: Jan 27th 2010 6:38PM ashleydb said

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"If you have an EA account you shouldn't need the Bioware account and vice versa."

You don't, they are the same thing... unless you used different email addresses to sign up for different accounts at some point...

The worst thing is the messaging. It's confusing to refer to EA Nation Account, BioWare Account and any other terms that get used for the same thing.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:32PM BananaBoat said

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It took me half an hour to get everything set up. After setting up an EA account, and punching in the code for the cerberus network, I had to reboot my 360 once to make the first DLC download (it was stuck at pending), then repeat that process for the second download pack (the pre-order bonus one). Once each pack was downloaded, I had to reboot so that I could get the message in the game. In other words, it was 4 or so reboots before I was ready to play.

Frustrating, but ultimately worth it.
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Posted: Jan 27th 2010 6:39PM ashleydb said

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I think your 360 is dying...
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:32PM teira said

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I think I have three of these accounts. (Mirror's Edge, DA:O, Dr. Pepper) I don't remember the credentials. I really don't want a fourth. Damn you, EA. Damn you.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 5:32PM Jayeffaar said

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You seem to have missed the point of this post: you're not supposed to create a new account for each game. That's what is getting people in trouble here. Once you have one EA account, you're good to go for all their games. And yes, it's still a pain in the ass.
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Posted: Jan 27th 2010 2:05AM teira said

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It's not that I thought I had to keep making new accounts, it's that I could never recall the account information. Thankfully I was able to dig up whatever I used for Dragon Age this afternoon.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:33PM Fhaze said

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I made this mistake.
Spent 2 hours on the phone getting resolved.
Was able to download the content, however my cerberus network is now saying it needs to be activated and my code is invalid.
Time to get back on the phone...
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:38PM wcarnation said

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The trappings of excess finally rear their bloated heads.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:47PM (Unverified) said

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More like EA would feel stupid that they wasted all that money developing EA Online just to dump it.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:38PM TheDarkWayne said

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I would be more upset if i wasn't sure they'd put all this crap on the marketplace for sale eventually anyway. I think i'd rather just pay for this shit then deal with EAs horrible customer service, I still haven't been able to link my Bad Company profile to my EA account, i can't imagine it will be easy to sort this shit out.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:40PM TheDarkWayne said

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geez is anyone getting the You Did It! message way more frequently than usual? it took me 3 times to post that
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:44PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah, it's been showing up a lot today.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 5:00PM (Unverified) said

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Yes! It did it on my first three post attempts, yet I never received an email to allow my posts to show up. What are the chances that I'm typing to myself now...
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:40PM (Unverified) said

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...

I entered a fake email to play the 'Army Of 2' demo... Now i have a bad feeling my Gamertag is linked to that addy in the eyes of EA. God, i hope i'm not screwed.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2010 4:49PM WMcPete said

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After all the trouble redeeming my codes, I found I am unable to import my character from ME1... I am totally pissed off at this game before I have even started playing it yet. Anyone else totally screwed with the character import on the Xbox due to switching HDDs or original console?

Here is a link from Bioware's forum regarding this problem...

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/107/index/777943/1#779165
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