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Multiple reports of a coupon code glitch at EA's online Origin store point to an exploit which allowed customers to enter a coupon code and receive $20 off an infinite number of games.

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It will be interesting to hear what EA has to say about it.

Update: This is what EA's Origin Community Manager posted on the EA forums. They will honor all sales made with the coupon code.
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Originally Posted by EA_QforQ
Hi everyone,

The coupon code is now expired; we'll honor all sales made with the coupon code over the weekend and hope fans enjoy their games.

Thanks,
Sam "QforQ" Houston

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/60/9040620.page#25426225

 

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Originally Posted by RussianHak

Lets be realistic here. How many hits my thread alone got then the rest of the net after. No way in hell they will be able to ban most of Origin's users.

As if millions of people exploited this. And then again, it's much more likely that they will just remove the games and revoke the keys.

 

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EA and the honest people lost today, but that's life. I hope people enjoy their games, I'll sure enjoy the one I got

 

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Originally Posted by dph314

I love all the people complaining as if they wouldn't have done the exact same thing if they had the chance.
I bet all the people talking about how wrong it is are just pissed they had the code and didn't use it in time, or didn't realize they could use it multiple times.
EA messed up. We didn't do anything wrong because we were using their own code. Put the ability in people's hands to get free software that is usually rather expensive and 99/100 people are going to do it. I'll admit I'm too weak to resist free games. I think many other people are obviously willing to admit that as well. There's nothing wrong with using what we were given in a way that the company itself allowed it to be used.

What's with this pirate mentality? You should only speak for yourself.

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Originally Posted by Polarghost

Is it just me or does EA and Origin somehow manage to always messes up their security when it comes to things like this. I mean the exploit so so terribly easy. Maybe they did it on purpose who knows.

Most likely not on purpose, but their entire promo code system is broken for sure. It seems that everything happened client-side and nothing was verified server-side, which would be a major flaw.