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Post subject: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:43 am |
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Download limitations Users are given 6 months from the time of purchase to download a game. This period can be extended to two years, via the Extended Download Service, by paying a $6 US fee.[5] This is unlike most other digital distribution platforms which allow users to re-download their purchases in the future without limitations. There currently is no option for you to make a personal backup of the downloaded software. This means after six months that if you need to reinstall the software/game that you must repay the full price http://ea-download-manager.software.informer.com/wiki/http://www.megagames.com/news/html/cons ... ames.shtml
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:11 am |
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call me J-Lo ;-) |
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Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:54 pm Posts: 10761 Location: Making magic!
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 You see.....I feel even more dirty now for crawling back to EA...... Although they gave Gamecommunity free Beta keys, so they're actually awfully nice chaps, and jolly good sports!
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:02 pm |
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a norweigen silly curtain loving bitch |
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oh that is raining on my parade. so basicly its more of a 6 month rent option.... feckers
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:53 pm |
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Humping a Super Model |
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Yay for having a disk sat in a case! Still never understand downloads, £24.99 for limited edition, in a nice shiny box. £34.99 to have to use your own bandwidth at a speed dictated by them (last download i did from steam was only 7GB and took several days at a few kb/s) and BFBC2 is going to be a mother of a download, GLWT! 
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:00 pm |
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call me J-Lo ;-) |
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Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:54 pm Posts: 10761 Location: Making magic!
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Do we still have to have a disk in t'drive while all the techno geeks dont have to? Or do they have to put in an old AOL disk to make it work....? 
_________________ Yeah, but a good joke is a good joke - Lemon=GCHQ= It is JGC right? Or did i just piss my pants in front the geeks? - Wowyouareacow Just loading up now.... Stay Frosty
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:06 pm |
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it is I! Diabetes man! |
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Joined: Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:15 pm Posts: 14174 Location: anywhere but nowhere
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direct2drive...... unlimited downloads. no disk to find/break..have to put in drive.... the only draw back is patches have to be from them....  but mods work...... not that im bothered..ill prolly be dead by the first mod/patch
_________________   Went to a zoo, they only had one animal there, a dog............. It was a shitzu.... I’z leakin… bring amberlamps
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:09 pm |
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call me J-Lo ;-) |
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Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:54 pm Posts: 10761 Location: Making magic!
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Can I have your stuff. I can give my rig to Ian then 
_________________ Yeah, but a good joke is a good joke - Lemon=GCHQ= It is JGC right? Or did i just piss my pants in front the geeks? - Wowyouareacow Just loading up now.... Stay Frosty
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:17 pm |
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it is I! Diabetes man! |
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SO19Firearms=GCHQ= wrote: Can I have your stuff. I can give my rig to Ian then  so will you...ashton c anal pal!!!!!
_________________   Went to a zoo, they only had one animal there, a dog............. It was a shitzu.... I’z leakin… bring amberlamps
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:25 pm |
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Typical EA bullshit , but if you D/L from Steam you can make a backup to DVD or HDD . 
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:27 pm |
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:47 pm |
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CoolHandLuke=GCHQ= wrote: Leave steam outta this!  , Steam still keeps my games from years and years ago up to date ready for me to play, dosn't charge me a penny, I'd much rarther have this then having to keep all my cd's and cd keys safe, Also you can backup all the games I have in one easy file ready to be automatically installed when I format my PC, just one click and every game is installed and updated. 
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:00 pm |
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it is I! Diabetes man! |
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doordies a firm advocate of steam.
_________________   Went to a zoo, they only had one animal there, a dog............. It was a shitzu.... I’z leakin… bring amberlamps
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:00 pm |
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I Burn Insects |
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As jfk said. Just rebuilt a pc and whacked steam on and downloaded mw2, css, all half lifes, red orchestra and dragon age while I was at work, downloads fast enough for me!
And had bfbc2 downloading today too!
Job done
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:45 pm |
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call me J-Lo ;-) |
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BFBC2 would take me at least a day to D/L at 15gig, then DC etc.....i'm not sure I could manage this one click thing.... 
_________________ Yeah, but a good joke is a good joke - Lemon=GCHQ= It is JGC right? Or did i just piss my pants in front the geeks? - Wowyouareacow Just loading up now.... Stay Frosty
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Post subject: Re: BF Badcompany 2... be aware of ea download policy.. Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:54 pm |
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Yeah OK OK Steam is good , I recently Installed a RAID 0 and had my Steam games backed up to 5 DVD's, so that made less downloading  Steam Game List Battlefield Badcompany Beta Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty World at War Left 4 Dead Left 4 dead 2 Fallout 3 Frontlines - Fuel of War :p (never played it never got it to work ever :p)
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