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11 years ago

Battlefield 3 Activation key is lost

Hello, my here is my problem:

I've got battlefield 3 on an event when origin gives some games for free. so i grabbed it, it activated pretty fine, I've got 90 hrs on record for this game. last time i played it was april 2015. Then I've dropped bf3, and changed my OS (win7 to win10). Yesterday I've downloaded bf3 again, and when i try to launch it, i have an error from EA, which says: cannot activate bf3 on this computer with current origin account, it advises to find my key (which i can see in properties of the game in origin) and activate the game. Well, i did as it advised, tried to activate the key, (however, i had to create a new EA account, because the one i use to log in origin doesnt work, it says that the password is incorrect, although it's 100% correct.) and then there's another error: current product key cant be used to activate this game.

Please tell me, what should I do?

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  • I actually had this very issue on my second gaming PC after updating it to WIN10.  What I did was right click the BF3 icon in my games library and selected to run a repair.  I allowed the repair to finish, reloaded my library games by clicking on the top left menu "origin" and then "reload my games" and then I logged into battlelog and joined a server.  Origin did not ask me for a key again.

  • nope, have just tried. what is more, any game from my library (even zuma, which i've got from origin free games event) won't launch and the problem is the same. 

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