Pre-order Battlefield 3 on Origin, get Dead Space 2 for free

by David Hinkle on Sep 16th 2011 5:20PM

That free game that Origin is offering for a Battlefield 3 pre-order? It's totally Dead Space 2! So now on top of early beta access and a host of DLC, EA is offering even more incentive by offering a great game.

Of course, there's a catch: there's only a limited number of copies of Dead Space 2 available. It's really silly, considering the free copy is a download. What's the matter, EA? No more storage space in the old digital warehouse?

If you want to go with Origin, you've got until September 19 to pre-order Battlefield 3 for your free ticket to the nightmarish space-romp.

Source: Origin

Tags: battlefield-3, dead-space-2, dice, digital-distribution, ea, origin, pc, visceral, visceral-games

Reader Comments (61)

The downside is you have to use Origin. lol

@Domino2097

I installed it yesterday, MS Security essentials freaked the eff out.

@Domino2097 To me, when you've downloaded the game, it doesn't really matter where it was downloaded from. But that's just me.

@Assmar

Really? Essentials didn't do that for me. Origin will probably be like Games for Windows. Works fantastic for me but shitty for 90% for other people.

@Domino2097 Origin is AWESOME. You just type ANY retail cd-key and it downloads the game to your HDD. It does NOT need to be running in the background and installs the games completely DRM free. You can simply copy any origin installed game's folder to another computer and it will work!!

@TheTorch

You can do that with Steam too. And it does have DRM as I've now run out Crysis 2 Activation codes because I don't manually unactivated my serial code when I have to format my HDD.

@ComedyInK no you can't. Steam has certain advantages, but can't run a steam game without the client running in the background with a active login even on offline mode.

Wow..this was news a month ago...

lol really Hinkle...really?

@Slomoshun I preordered a month ago and haven't gotten anything about the free choice of games:

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/15/pre-order-battlefield-3-on-origin-and-get-a-free-game/

But DS2 was what i was gonna pick anyway. However, I'm just paranoid enough to think that I have to re-preorder to get the free game.

@Danthaman

Make sure the email didn't get deleted or sent to your junk mail. Contact the outrageously annoying EA support if you need to. I pre-ordered BF3 before this promo came out and I still got my choice of game to DL for free.

@Danthaman Hey, I just got off of live chat with Marvin from the Origin online support and he added the game for me to download. I pre-ordered a month ago.

@dkyzar Thats great, cuz my rep told me I had to re-preorder -__- which i did. I want my free game

Is there any way to give that copy of Dead Space 2? I will say no more, lest I be taken as a fanboy (which I am, I can gobble Steam's all day long). DAMMIT I'VE SAID TOO MUCH!

@Assmar
No, they don't have it yet, from what I can tell.

Wait, why is this news? They ALREADY announced that Dead Space 2 was one of the games you could pick. You already pointed it out in the first posting.

These BF3 promos make no sense!

Blah. Already pre-ordered this off of Newegg for $48.

Gaming fund is getting dangerously low...

Is the beta Access strictly for US customers? Only?

Download Mal-ware, Pre order game that will die a month after its release (MW3 will kill BF3) and get a random unrelated game.

What a weird promo.

@Rofler People are still playing BF2, I don't know what you're smoking.

@Rofler

Did Black Ops or Modern Warfare 2 kill Bad Company 2? Nope.
Go troll somewhere else.

@Rannxz I agree with your point, but MW2 came out *before* BC2 so including that makes no sense.

@Rofler

Because, you know, people can't play two games in the same day or anything...

@Apakal People like him pick up a call of duty and play it non stop till they reach prestige 15. Because you know, its important to show how little of a life you have with your prestige

@Rannxz NOPE. IT'S CHUCK TESTA.

@Rofler

Dude, if I had the ability to punch people through the internet, you'd be my first and only target for anything that may or may not go wrong in the world.

Heh, I never got any free game when I preordered BF3 on Origin a month or so ago. And I still don't have any email telling me about the free game I get for preordering BF3 on Origin.

Shenanigans.

@Zertoss

Make sure you didn't delete it, or make sure it didn't go to your junk mail..

Because you should have it. I pre-ordered BF3 before this promo came out and still got my choice of MOH, ME2 or DS2. Already had the first 2 so I got DS2.

@Zertoss Can't you cancel and pre-order again?

@Zertoss Cancel it and preorder it again or call them up and be like oh no you didn't

@Zertoss

I didn't either, i Pre-ordered on the 10th of august before anything was announced.

All i did was go to origin click the help button (?) and then "Live help"

I told the guy (i was talking to a Brandon) that I had purchased BF3 and did not get my free game, I think linked him the games promotion website, and gave him my order #.

He added the game to my account, i hit the little gear thign on origin and selected "refresh my games" and Dead Space 2 was in my games.

I rather get me some Starforce and TAGES games onto my PC than Origin.

sorry EA, you're gonna have to do a lot better than that.

they seem to be under the delusion that WE need THEM, which couldn't be further from the truth.

the last thing this industry needs is a publisher holding a single title hostage to force their agenda (Origin) onto customers who might otherwise never even think about signing up for. it's disgusting and says the world about EA and their respect for PC gamers.

bottom line: EA should be on their hands and knees begging customers to sign up, as they have not yet earned the right/established the credibility (like Steam has) to pull such an outrageous stunt.

@carg0 yes. because steam was an instant success. /s

nerd rage at it's finest!

@carg0

err. what?

here's the deal. YOU want bf3 and a free game, downloaded at YOUR leisure. YOU need to buy from THEIR service. BUT, that's only if YOU want to buy THEIR games. NOBODY said YOU had to.

sidenote: haters gonna hate. you can't hardly blame a company for trying to make money, imo.

@carg0

That established credibility steam has started with them forcing people to use steam if they wanted to continue playing counter strike. Don't just dismiss origin without even trying it, I HAVE used it, and although I won't be abandoning steam any time soon, I can say that origin is nothing but good hope for the industry. The more competition the better.

@carg0 I will never understand peoples hate and refusal buy a game just because they need to download a program that is not steam. I thought competition was a good thing?

@(Unverified)

Not when another service wants you to use THEIR service....and if it succeed then another one is going to appear, and another one, and another.....soon you are going to have 50 different services to buy games, and you´ll need all 50 of them if you want to play all your library... as i said before people NEVER see the big picture, i wish i could hear the comments of all the people that right now is saying: "cool!!! no problem" when they have to instal 50 different programs, they are going to be very happy.....sure......

I already own Dead Space 2 and Origin in the UK is £10 more expensive than retail. I love it when publishers don't seem to understand than digital distrubution should be at least the same price as other sources.

I'd be a lot more interested in this if Origin didn't spy on me. I can live without BF3, but if ME3 requires Origin, I'll be downloading a crack for the first time in many years. I will never install Origin!

nope. Boxed copy for me. I'm old school.

@iceveiled Dude
It's still gonna need to be connected to Origin

I pre-ordered bf3 on Origin a while ago when they had a promotion on Facebook where the next 2000 people who pre-order bf3 get ME2 for free.

So apparently if you preordered this before this special you cannot get it.

Atom: May I know when have you order?
Brandon: i ordered it Sep 2nd
Atom: I am afraid to inform you that the offer starts from today's onwards till 19 of this month.
Brandon: So what if I just cancel my preorder and then reorder it.....?
Atom: Yes please./
Brandon: so I have to cancel my preorder then reorder just to get this game?
Atom: Is there anything else I can help you with today?

yes their support is extremely helpful :/ ................

It should me illegal to offer limited downloads of digital goods. You want to limit a promo by time, fine, But saying there's X downloads available and no more, well actually that's a complete lie. Isn't there a law against false advertising?

@2late2die It's EA's property, they can distribute it however they want, with how many copies they want for this promotion.

I don't like it either, but it definitely shouldn't be illegal.

Limited copies? Really, EA?

They really don't seem to get digital distribution yet... they'll never beat Steam with regionally locked sales and limited preorder games. What a farce.

@Froody42

They basically mean it's a timed promo. I don't know why they don't just SAY that, but yeah.

I caved. I wasn't sworn against EA Origin or anything, but I'm not gonna sit around and miss out on these promos while I hope it comes to Steam. So far, I'm actually moderately content with Origin. Hoping this doesn't go downhill.

still not gona

@Mr Period
DADDY DADDY ME NO LIEK ORIGENN

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