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Envie42's avatar
12 years ago

Island Paradise EP says available June 27th on my Origins Games page?

I preordered on June 18th and got my confirmation email last night that my product is ready to download. This morning I am attempting to download it from the 'My Games' page of Origin but the game is 'grayed out' and states it's available June 27th, not today, June 25th. Did I order the wrong digital copy or is there another issue I'm unaware of? I am unable to download my copy.

Thank you for help!

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  • EA_Spectre's avatar
    EA_Spectre
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    12 years ago

    Where are you located? Only US and Canada are releasing today, all other countries release later this week.

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    Envie42
    12 years ago

    I am in the US - Texas (it hasn't managed to secede from the Union yet fortunately!).

    I see that Europe and other countries are released on Friday, so that's not June 27th either, that's the 28th. Is it possible this is an Origin error? 😕mileysurprised:

  • EA_Spectre's avatar
    EA_Spectre
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    12 years ago

    Log out of Origin and back in again. If you still see the 27th, please get in contact with an EA Game Advisor.

    You need to log into the help page with your Origin account and then choose "Product", "Issue Type", and "Platform" to see the contact options. Please choose phone or chat as contact option.

  • Envie42's avatar
    Envie42
    12 years ago

    Ok thanks for the suggestion. I did log out and back in and it's still showing release date of June 27th at 6:00pm so perhaps it thinks I'm not in the US. 

    I will contact an EA Game Advisor for more help and report back here later today when It's resolved as I have to leave for work.

  • I finally got time to sit down and contact the EA customer support via the chat function (and a very long queue wait).

    They checked my billing information and the order and found everything to be correct for my pre-release order but my account is not flagged for proper download of the game. They said they are aware of this issue with some customers who ordered from EA and have forwarded the report to the developers to hopefully get a fix into the Origin client.

    Not real helpful in getting me playing the game today on release day but at least I've verified the problem is not on my end and that my order is correct.

    Hopefully this is helpful info for anyone else having the same problem - known issue! 

    I'll keep checking my origin client and hope it gets fixed soon. 😕mileysad:

  • Well it's the next day now, and I've reloaded my Origin client again only to find my copy of Island Paradise is still grayed out and will not allow me to download it. It still says it won't be avail until June 27th at 6:00pm which means my account and my order are still somehow flagged for Euro release even though I reside in the US and paid for this game with a US bank and credit card. 

    I don't want to sit on hold with EA customer service again, someone PLEASE fix this!!

    I can provide all order # and billing info via private message if someone would just contact me.

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    Envie42
    12 years ago

    Thank you for offering more support. I did that just now, completely uninstalled and removed Origin ... reinstalled it, let it patch updates and signed back in and the problem is not fixed - I still cannot download my copy of the game. It still states available June 27th at 6:00 pm. ☹️