Want an EA Store discount code..? :/

..uh. Yeah.. *cough*

So I've been raging a lot at EA support lately, because of two things:

1. Three days after I posted my Bad Company 2 review, they patched the servers to have a load-balancing scheme that allows you to connect to any server from anywhere on the planet, with any kind of connection.

This is done so EA will save money on server space, being able to use overseas server space for load-balancing during peak-times. This lowers the number of slots they need to maintain at all times.

The drawback is that the game will always lag - either because you are on a server far away. Or because someone else in on a server far away while you're not.

It also invites cheaters. Lag-switching isn't very effective in this game - but it's certainly possible to exploit the warps from a solid cut-off. And the way the hit-detection is upset with a high packet loss at strategic times.

2. I'm a sad, sad person. Who are also really, really pissed off when publishers crash their games - after release - with the justification of earning more money.

But obviously EA isn't going to earn more money when their game doesn't play as it did on the demo. They're going to get a reputation for falsely advertising their online games, and using shitty server space in Mongolia!

..sorry. Where was I..

Right. So of course support can't really do anything for me. Even if they really are the only ones I actually can contact.

But - they have these discount codes for their store. Which would be great, if I WANTED ANOTHER EA GAME with lag! What's 20% off /nothing/, you damned... god..

..So if anyone is planning on buying something off the EA store anyway. There's Mirror's Edge, or NFS: Underground ..? Any of their horrible sports-games, I guess.. Then drop me a message in this thread - where you debase yourself terribly, and beg in a very convincing manner. Then I will give it some thought, and send you one of the two discount codes support had to spare.

There's one for 15% and one for 20%. I don't think they're keyed to my account, and they have no expiration date.

..seriously, though. First ones to ask gets them.