In the past, downloadable content for certain EA titles required users to buy specific "BioWare Points" to purchase them. This applied to Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3. Years after the fact, EA is retiring the BioWare Points system, and will also be making the DLC that was exclusive to that currency free to obtain. On October 11th, EA will remove BioWare Points from its store, and in the interim, for users that do have leftover points can use them on Mass Effect 3's multiplayer packs, which still require them.

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[DarkCoffe64]

April fools was quite a few months ago, y'know

 

[CoolMe]

Will it be for all systems, even older ones like 360/PS3?

 

[The Catboy]

I am calling sus! Those bastards are up to something!

 

[k7ra]

downloadable content for certain EA titles required users to buy specific "BioWare Points"

You already can get them. I check ME2

 

[fvig2001]

Meanwhile they gave away the legendary edition to amazon prime members.

 

[cvskid]

checked on the xbox store and dragon age 2 dlc is not free.

 

[k7ra]

Meanwhile they gave away the legendary edition to amazon prime members.

Yeah, get it yesterday.
Sad thing that I onw original 1 and 2 game.
But now there only a way to get 3rd game only as trilogy for full price...

 

[eyeliner]

Yeah, get it yesterday.
Sad thing that I onw original 1 and 2 game.
But now there only a way to get 3rd game only as trilogy for full price...

Bummer I forgot all about it. I have the second one, but the first one is my thing.

 

[Deleted member 546149]

I am calling sus! Those bastards are up to something!

If we're lucky they just want us to buy Mass Effect 2 and 3

 

[FAST6191]

I am calling sus! Those bastards are up to something!

Normally yes. However here if I was going to do the whole betting thing then there were various countries and territories that strongly disliked abstracting currency away and also the lack of pay this rather than buy in more credit than you can use immediately (there is a reason you no longer see Microsoft points, Nintendo points and whatever Sony used for PSN back on the PS3 with everything being regional currency of choice).

Whether the time limits to change ran out (or are set to run out, about the time the three above ditched them then it is about the same as the grace period for most laws) or some bean counter at EA did the maths and realised it was not worth the hassle (if the points were not allowed to expire then it would potentially fall under an unfunded liability so they in turn have to keep however many say millions available indefinitely for it/note it for any loans they wanted to take out, same reason "lifetime warranty" is not a thing any more or at least not officially).

 

[tabzer]

What content for ME was locked behind bioware points? AFAIK, on PS3, for example, all dlc was locked via direct purchase on the PSN store.

 

[Stealphie]

Guys, this is Origin only. Title of this thread doesn't make it clear, but this is ORIGIN, PC only.

 

[RichardTheKing]

...They're not gonna patch ME3 to remove the godawful War Assets link to multiplayer success, are they...?
I still haven't played ME3 Legendary, so hopefully it's removed there.

 

[tabzer]

Guys, this is Origin only. Title of this thread doesn't make it clear, but this is ORIGIN, PC only.

Thanks. Wasn't sure if there was some secondary layer like Ubisoft liked to use in their games.

 

[Deckard5621]

Should be free on 360 too can’t buy most of the dlcs anymore anyways

 

[MadMakuFuuma]

Guys, this is Origin only. Title of this thread doesn't make it clear, but this is ORIGIN, PC only.

ah, ok then.

I bought the OG me1 and me2 on steam years ago, so no chance for me. thats no problem at all, because I also got the legendary for free on amazon, XD

 

[dh3lix-pooch]

Not sure if serious or trap.

 

[Stealphie]

Not sure if serious or trap.

why and how would it be a trap