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Cat0189
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8 months ago

Cannot download Red Alert 3 - you don't own this game!

Hello, 

So back in March 2014 I bought Command & Conquer - Ultimate collection including a lot of games plus Red Alert 3.  Original CD like plastic case - I have receipt + Product Code. I redeemed the game in Origin app and worked fine. Than I went to EA App and worked. Than I did not played for a long time, and now I installed Win 11 on a Legion 7, and wanted to play. 

  1. I see my Library fine
  2. I can download and play C&C Tiberium Wars for example from the same collection.
  3. When I download Red Alert 3 after 1 minute I get error: 
  4. "You don't have access - We've canceled the download because you don't own this game. To play, go to the Game Hub to get the game."
  5. Contacted EA support, I tried clear cache, clean reboot, re-install EA app, Redeem Product code, than some Anubhav - suggested me to contact and blame the Retailer - TV shop, after 11 years!  Another support Govind - again clueless suggested to write here on forum. 

Please help. 

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  • Same issue here too;  I have the DvD stand alone original of Red Alert 3, and although the game appears in my EA App library, having been added a decade or more ago, I get the error message saying I don't own it when I try and reinstall. 

    Entering the DvD key again gives a window with multiple boxes of RA3 that all I can do is click on them to get a green tick mark, and then can't do anything else, even scroll the window up and down to look for an accept box. 

    EDIT: I just tried entering the key via the webpage version of my EA account, and it offers those selections too, however although you can get past it there, it just says the key is (unsurprisingly) already activated on my account, so no got there either.

    I'm currently trying to get Tech Support to understand that yes I should be able to download it, even if multiplayer has been disabled, no I can't Repair a game I can't install, no I've flushed the cache countless times...  Maybe they just want to annoy us to the point we purchase the Remastered collection...

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