RTS EA hands out Red Alert 2 + Addon for free

[Kane]

Downside is you need Origin.
https://www.origin.com/en-de/store/free-games/on-the-house

 

[Curious_Tongue]

EA's trying to keep people interested in C&C? or trying to keep people interested in Origin?

 

[SniperHF]

The latter, they usually have an "on the house" promotion every month or so.

 

[deuxhero]

And here I was hoping they where just giving away a standalone installer like they did for the past... 3 C&C games they gave away on an anniversary of the series.

 

[Ulminati]

Origin? No thanks.

 

[sser]

They also gave away Crusader, IIRC.

I hear Origin isn't that bad, but between Uplay, Steam, and Blizzard's thing, it's just platform glut.

 

[J_C]

Looking for Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge™?

• Wow, you guys are loving Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge™ On the House! The demand is so high that we need some time to cool down our servers. Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge™ will return to on the house very shortly. Thanks for being patient!

 

[anus_pounder]

 

[Astral Rag]

Like lambs to the slaughter

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

OpenRA should get round to Red Alert 2 at some point (before Grimoire's release).

 

[Kane]

EA's trying to keep people interested in C&C? or trying to keep people interested in Origin?

The latter presumably, but RA2 is p gud gaem.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

RA2 is p gud gaem.

Like you'd know, multiplayerfag.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Looking for Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge™?

• Wow, you guys are loving Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge™ On the House! The demand is so high that we need some time to cool down our servers. Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge™ will return to on the house very shortly. Thanks for being patient!

People taking such an interest in an "ancient" game is a good thing.

 

[J_C]

People taking such an interest in an "ancient" game is a good thing.

Sure, I'm just wondering how shitty the Origin servers must be if they can't handle this. I'm pretty sure not millions of people were trying to get the game, many gamer's today doesn't even now what is Red Alert.

 

[whatevername]

Once you play TA you don't even touch inferior games like C&C.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Once you play TA you don't even touch inferior games like C&C.

TA is the best budget-label version of C&C you can get, after Starcraft 1 & 2.

 

[Kane]

The deal is back: https://www.origin.com/en-gb/store/free-games/on-the-house

 

[Lyric Suite]

Once you play TA you don't even touch inferior games like C&C.

C&C was gud, stop sperging.

 

[ArchAngel]

I would download this if it didn't mean selling my soul to EA.

As it is, I will stay with Act of Aggression instead.

 

[Galdred]

The deal is back: https://www.origin.com/en-gb/store/free-games/on-the-house

Not anymore. It is Theme Hospital that pops up now

 

[GreyViper]

Dunno I still get the RA2 page. Got it, now I have few more games for 0,00$ in Origin.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Not anymore. It is Theme Hospital that pops up now

You can still get it, but its not easy.
Here's the link I used -

https://www.origin.com/en-ie/store/free-games/on-the-house

Apparently its different for France and Europe. The only downside I can see is that in your order history it says its still processing, but it appears to run fine.

 

[Zephyr Arsland]

You can still get it, but its not easy.
Here's the link I used -

https://www.origin.com/en-ie/store/free-games/on-the-house

Apparently its different for France and Europe. The only downside I can see is that in your order history it says its still processing, but it appears to run fine.

Hey thanks! Though I kind of hate Origins, free stuff is still free stuff.

 

[pippin]

I only had one problem with origin, but it had an easy solution.
The thing is that I don't really know if the games are properly optimized. There are patches and mods on the web and they work just fine with it, though.

 

[Gragt]

If it’s like any other old game, it shouldn’t require Origin to be running to play the game, only to download it.