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Battelfield Bad Company 2 suddenly appeared in my Origin account

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candorius

It was just there in my game libary without explaination (not that i mind fun game). I own a physical copy and played it quite a bit but that was before actual origin existed and later i was not able to activate the key on origin. Is it some sort of promotion? A glitch or something ? Again no appearent information to find why. Did it happen to anybody else ?

EDIT: Well it seems the riddle has been solved.

https://help.ea.com/en/article/origin-accounts-are-now-ea-accounts/

It seems that most people who have already owned a version of BC2 on steam or Retail had it activated on origin now as well. For BC2 you had to make an EA-Account which WAS kind of a seperate account to Origin. I was not aware of that. These two accounts now have been merged.

Thanks for all the participens with their info.

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Dragoneit

I didn't get it and I have BF3 and BF4

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justLynx

well there was another breach on origin, maybe someone hacked to ur account and bought it for you :]

Edit: btw, change ur password again
Edit 2: i got it too o_O sweet!

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candorius

already did . did you own it before too? on steam or retail?

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justLynx

yeah i played it on steam, maybe they finally synced it to origin

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candorius

https://help.ea.com/en/article/origin-accounts-are-now-ea-accounts/

seems that the ea-accounts you had to use for bc2 and the origin accounts actually where sepparate accounts that just recently have been merged ( a assumed both were the same well know it actually is so)

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justLynx

nice find, still nice of them to do this
gotta love origin

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candorius

while nice. its more in the realm of "about time"

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Drakonian

Maybe as an excuse for the leaked user Data

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Silverio

I have the batlefield 3 they gave some time ago and I never installed (well... I dont have origin installed either). If they give away Bad Company 2 i will install the thing. BC2 is very fun!

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candorius

appears that you will only get it if you have already owned and registered it on steam or when you had it on retail. i remember that you had to make an ea-account to play multiplayer. seems like i falsly assumed that the ea-account and the origin account are the same but infact both were sepperate until a few days ago.

https://help.ea.com/en/article/origin-accounts-are-now-ea-accounts/

so if you used the same email for bc2 and origin you might have it in origin already (no guarantythough)

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Silverio

I think they did the same with the bioware accounts.

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candorius

seems to be that way

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Loonatek

I just logged in my origin account ( i think after 1 year of never going on it ) and for my surprise i also have it in my account. Although i must say i have it on steam already so meh... but still, thanks i guess ea lol.

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candorius

well its practical for the people with the retail copy but yeah for those who already have it on steam its a nice gesture at best

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twisted6

Bad Company 2 required registering an account and loging in to play online, if you used the same email/details when they released the origin client they automatically added the game to it.

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candorius

Bump

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Closed 9 years ago by candorius.