Origin sale offers Mass Effect 1 and Dead Space 1 for £3

By Robert Purchese Published 31 January, 2012

Sequels not much more expensive either.

You-hoo, PC gamers, there's a juicy sale going on over at EA's digital distribution shop Origin.

In the Origin sale, you can pick up Mass Effect 1 and Dead Space 1 for the rock-bottom price of £3.

Dead Space 2 will only set you back £7.50, Mass Effect 2 £10.

Dragon Age 2 and Mirror's Edge are £5.

The remaining deals worth noting are Bulletstorm for £7.50 and Spore for £6.

This Origin deal runs for "a limited time only".

Dragon Age 2 - another chance to talk about Dragon Age 2!

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  • Water1111 #1 4 months ago

    Amazon is also running a EA sale and everything is cheaper lol

  • Lunatic4ever #2 4 months ago

    10 for Mass Effect 2? Wasn't it even cheaper during steam sales?
    Well nevertheless, Alice for 15? Now that's quite interesting.

  • jetsetwillie #3 4 months ago

    grumble grumble.. generic stuff and internet nonsense about origin...

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #4 4 months ago

    I'd buy Dragon Age 2. Oh there I go, talking about it again

  • Bradach #5 4 months ago

    i love PC digital sales (regardless of the client)

    Edit: me too bertie, i liked the demo, don't understand all the hate it gets.
    Edited by Bradach at 31/01/12 @ 09:27

  • FireMonkey #6 4 months ago

    @Water1111 - "Amazon is also running a EA sale and everything is cheaper lol"

    So by 'everything' you mean 'Mass Effect 2' (and only if you ignore delivery costs)?

    Everything else listed in the article is cheaper on Origin than Amazon.

  • mccappind #7 4 months ago

    @Lunatic4ever All of those games were cheaper during steam sales.

  • G-Lord #8 4 months ago

    Guess it's finally time to get Dragon Age II. Fan reactions kept me from buying it back when it was released, but I still expect a very solid game.

  • FireMonkey #9 4 months ago

    @mccappind - "All of those games were cheaper during steam sales."

    That's nice. I'll travel back in time to buy them then. /s

    I guess the reason this is getting a mention when the Steam one didn't is that most people know of the Steam sales and check them out, but then everyone slags off Origin for being expensive. This sale is a good thing. Competition is a good thing.
    Edited by FireMonkey at 31/01/12 @ 09:36

  • Triggerhappytel #10 4 months ago

    Damn... I never do PC gaming, but I'm also tempted to join Origin and get Massy Fect for that price. Never played it and always wanted to, just not sure my laptop could run it.

  • uninspiredcup #11 4 months ago

    The problem here is that the default prices for origin are ridiculously high.
    The default pc game costs £29. On origin the standard is £40 (the price of a console game). The old Republic is £50 which is the most expensively prices game I have ever seen. For that reason, origin can get stuffed until it lowers the default prices to something reasonible as oppossed to just trying to take the piss.

  • mccappind #12 4 months ago

    @FireMonkey I was just replying to Lunatic4ever don't get your knickers in a twist.

  • StooMonster #13 4 months ago

    @FireMonkey delivery costs

    Amazon Prime. No delivery costs. Well, a fraction of the annual fee.

    Plus, isn't delivery "free" is you wait a couple of days anyway?

  • BigDannyH #14 4 months ago

    Great digital deals.

    Why don't we see more stuff like this on consoles? What do they have to lose that the PC doesn't?

  • FireMonkey #15 4 months ago

    @StooMonster - "Amazon Prime is a membership programme that gives you and your family fast and unlimited One-Day delivery for eligible purchases. For an annual membership fee of £49"

    No delivery cost, but you still have to pay for it.
    Even without the delivery costs, Amazon is only cheaper for ME2.

    @mccappind - Sorry, forgot the sarcasm tag. 8)
    Edited by FireMonkey at 31/01/12 @ 09:54

  • arcam #16 4 months ago

    @BigDannyH Why don't we see more stuff like this on consoles? What do they have to lose that the PC doesn't?

    Support of the retailers, apparently. However I tend to think it's because platform holders don't want people to get too comfortable with £3 games, for fear that it will devalue the £40 games that are still their bread and butter.

  • StooMonster #17 4 months ago

    @FireMonkey No delivery cost, but you still have to pay for it.

    Hence my comment "Well, a fraction of the annual fee."

    If you order a squillion things from Amazon each year, the next-day delivery fee gets close to zero. :)
    Edited by StooMonster at 31/01/12 @ 09:52

  • FireMonkey #18 4 months ago

    @StooMonster - Hence my coment "Even without the delivery costs, Amazon is only cheaper for ME2."

    Even without the delivery fee, you will spend more on these sale items on Amazon (except for ME2).

    Not trying to make an argument here, or try to make out that Origin is great (I prefer boxed products), just wanted to point out that the original comment by Water1111 of "Amazon is also running a EA sale and everything is cheaper lol" is VERY wrong.
    Edited by FireMonkey at 31/01/12 @ 09:54

  • Eraysor #19 4 months ago

    @FireMonkey This isn't competition though. You can't even buy DA2 on Steam, along with Crysis 2 and Battlefield and the upcoming ME3. It's just EA trying to monopolise the selling of their own games.

  • Darren #20 4 months ago

    Shame I already have them all but there's no denying that they're great value. Bulletstorm at £7.50 is a bargain as well; I really enjoyed that though I paid full whack for it!

  • Toothball #21 4 months ago

    This should be what EA do more often to compete, rather than removing their games from the competition. Perhaps these deals aren't the absolute best prices ever, but it's a start.

  • DwarfyP #22 4 months ago

    @Water1111 Mass Effect is £6.74 on Amazon that is NOT less than £3.
    Edited by DwarfyP at 31/01/12 @ 10:09

  • Negotiator1 #23 4 months ago

    Is Medal of Honor worth getting?

  • Flipper79 #24 4 months ago

    Dead Space 2 is also cheaper on Amazon and you don't have to get Amazon Prime for free delivery. Super saver is free and you'll likely only wait an extra day for delivery. Mass Effect 2 has pretty much run out of stock though.

    Edit: Looking like DS2 has pretty much run out of stock aswell. Oh well the Origin prices are good anyway even if they have been cheaper at other places at other times.
    Edited by Flipper79 at 31/01/12 @ 10:23

  • Zerobob #25 4 months ago

    Mass Effect 2 has been available for £10 for a long time, even on consoles. I remember picking it up at Argos a couple of Xmas' ago for £10 on X360. It's the bargain of the century when it comes to games.

    Shame these deals are PC only. Mass Effect isn't the sort of game I can comfortably play sitting in at a PC.

  • PlugMonkey #26 4 months ago

    @arcam

    Indeed. The platform holders have got the price of the console to claw back.

    It's something for people to consider when comparing the price of PC and console hardware - you will most likely NEVER see games this cheap on a console, even after the retailers die a death.

  • Water1111 #27 4 months ago

    Opens Origin
    Sales aren't in your region

    Amazon DIGITAL is still cheaper.

  • Eathanskies #28 4 months ago

    Ugh, no sale in my country. Horse shit.

  • jonfon #29 4 months ago

    DA2 for a fiver? Well that ain't half bad now considering I always said I'd wait for it to drop in price (after demoing a rental version)

    Edit : Bugger, I forgot, I'm a European, so 5 sterling = 10 euro (apparently).

    That's breaching the "Screw it, it's the cost of a pint" threshold. I actually have to think about it now (which means it's doomed to fall from my sieve-like brain and out into the ether, forgotten forever)

  • Spuzzell #30 4 months ago

    The games are Mass Effect and Dead Space.

    YOU DON'T BLOODY NEED TO PUT '1' AFTER THEM. MASS EFFECT 1 DOES NOT EXIST! IT'S JUST MASS EFFECT!

    Ok, I've clearly gone insane, I'll go lie down behind my desk and be back later.

  • Street89 #31 4 months ago

    I got ME2 for £5 when I bought something along with it in Game what seems like a year ago. Still not opened it and its for the simple reason that I want to play ME 1 first. Is that silly? or are the stories really that important?

  • Spuzzell #32 4 months ago

    @Street89

    You can't play ME1 first, because it doesn't fucking exist.

  • Street89 #33 4 months ago

    @Spuzzell I hope that isn't a spoiler.

  • rtk79 #34 4 months ago

    Euro prices, a sampling :

    Alice, Madness Returns = 25 euros
    Dead Space 2 = 10 euros
    Dragon Age 2 = 10 euros
    Bulletstorm = 10 euros
    Spore = 7,50 euros
    Mirror's Edge = 5 euros

    I see no logic in this.

    Silly EA.

  • Street89 #35 4 months ago

    @Spuzzell What is your problem? You don't need to get so wound up about a fucking number [snip - you've been moderated].
    Edited by Street89 at 31/01/12 @ 12:21

  • agparrot #36 4 months ago

    @Street89

    This doesn't need to descend into personal insults. I've edited your comment to take out your unnecessary name-calling. I was enjoying Spuzzell's funny fall into ME number insanity, and even gotyourmoney's character-wasting post on the subject, but there's really no need to get offensive.

  • Spuzzell #37 4 months ago

    @gotyourmoney

    Ah. A well put, and, ironically, concise argument.

    It falls down somewhat on the idea that, for PRECISION, you'd like to call a game by something OTHER THAN ITS ACTUAL NAME.

  • Street89 #38 4 months ago

    @Spuzzell You did notice that Eurogamer did the same thing as me though?

  • Street89 #39 4 months ago

    @agparrot Apologies! Diabetic - having a high blood sugar moment which makes me Rage 1 a little (sorry). It wasn't anything personal, I don't know if I were to describe Spuzzell as fat (I don't know if he is or not) so that was wrong of me to call him that if he isn't.

  • Ahskay #40 4 months ago

    @rtk79

    25EUR for Alice, Madness returns.

    That's just madness for a digital copy. It's in stores for 15EUR.

  • Irien #41 4 months ago

    Just for the record, when I checked the Dragon Age 2 price earlier, it was 7.50ukp not 5ukp. I was going to jump at a fiver, but 7.50 is in line with what Zavvi are charging for the Xbox version right now, and whilst PC version is slightly nicer, it probably doesn't warrant signing up with yet another game-download-service.

  • kevcampbell #42 4 months ago

    xbox 360 dead space for £3 please

  • Rack #43 4 months ago

    Sounds like a good deal for some of these games, but Origin? **** that.

  • Spuzzell #44 4 months ago

    @gotyourmoney

    Really old chap, please don't concern yourself, that's quite all right. I'm sure you've been busy rushing down to the deed poll office to numerate your first born childs surname to avoid confusion.

    I'd contend that "the first Mass Effect" is the way to say "the first Mass Effect", but that's mainly because it is.

    If I were to mention to someone I was considering playing Mass Effect again, I would be taken aback if they were confused as to which game I meant. I believe, in fact, if they replied "I'm confused. Do you mean Mass Effect 2?" I would regard them as just as retarded as if they had replied "I'm confused. Do you mean you're going to eat mud?"

    EDIT: And as it happens, I'm not fat.
    Edited by Spuzzell at 31/01/12 @ 13:29

  • Saxo #45 4 months ago

    very good deals. got must of them however. but might pick up dead space and bulletstorm.

  • darc #46 4 months ago

    Hey, they've finally got DA2 at an appropriate price point! :)

  • cw- #47 4 months ago

    Dead Space 2 is only £4.99 when you go on it's actual page to purchase it (and on Origin's home page)
    http://store.origin.com/store/eaemea/en_GB/pd/productID.200493200/

    Just the sale page says £7.50 O_o

  • ExcellentBenji #48 4 months ago

    Pretty sure I saw a new boxed copy of Mass Effect 1 for £3 in Game today. Either way, my PC is so ancient it can't run them. Any chance of the same deals on XBL? No, I thought not.