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EA's free game code goes viral on Reddit

Monday, 15th October 2012 21:16 BST (Europe/London)
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A promotion by games company Electronic Arts offering users one free game allowed them to download as many as they wanted. The promotion was intended for those who completed a survey, presenting them with a code for $20 (
A thread was posted on social media site Reddit, where users said it had been possible to download dozens of games during a period of about 18 hours over the weekend. The promo code became invalid at about 09:00 on Monday. EA was unavailable for comment. One blogger, Max Woolf, described his exchange with the company's support service, posting a screenshot of an online chat in which he was told that users would be punished for multiple uses of the coupon. But on EA's official forum, Origin's community manager Sam Houston said the company would "honour all sales made with the coupon code over the weekend and hope fans enjoy their games". This prompted numerous comments on Reddit and other sites, including on a video games forum on Amazon.com and on Twitter.
Written by BBC News

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