Is NFS Carbon redeemable on Origin?
@Lunelli_98 wrote:Please read this other thread:
Weird to say the least. Can someone explain this?
Thanks
Different EA Help advisors have given me different explanations as to why certain older EA games on disc can no longer be redeemed to Origin. I have been told that EA Advisors have run out of Origin-compatible keys for these older games (but no explanation as to why someone at EA can't generate a new batch of a few more compatible keys so that EA customers who already own the PC editions of these games can redeem them on Origin); I have also been told that EA Advisors used to have a tool to convert the CD/DVD keys for these games into Origin-compatible keys, but that EA Help no longer has access to that software tool (I've never known a company to completely get rid of an internal business software tool even when it is phased out of general day-to-day office use if there is no replacement for that business software tool in place, but no explanation was provided as to why no one at EA has administrative access to this tool any longer).
@Lunelli_98 wrote:Yeah, I have bothered them a lot of times about it. Not only for NFS Carbon, but games such as Most Wanted 2005, bf1942 (only expansions packs), Bf Vietnam (2004) Nfs Underground 1 % 2 and so on.
I do think they have a digital version of Carbon "available" but maintaining it online might cost some and we know how EA can be about that. Cof cof BfV
Hope some day we get the chance of getting it in Origin
Need for Speed Underground, Need for Speed Underground 2, Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005), Battlefield 1942 - The Road to Rome, Battlefield 1942 - Secret Weapons of WWII, and Battlefield Vietnam were never available for download from EA, so there is no way EA Help could add these to your Origin library unless EA makes them available for download at some point in the future.
As for Need for Speed Carbon Collector's Edition, since it was was briefly sold on Origin (and was sold as a direct download for a few years on EA Store prior to the existence of Origin), there isn't a legitimate reason why you shouldn't be able to redeem it (the standard edition of Carbon was never available for download though). Some of us have Need for Speed Carbon Collector's Edition in our Origin libraries and can still download it.
