The "*" leads to a disclaimer that says the code has to be redeemed before the 31st of December and it has to be from the Origin SA store. No catch :>.

Got an error a lot of people were getting - the download would reach 100% and keep downloading, so at the end of the day I had downloaded 5.2GB of the necessary 3.9GB, and it kept going. Started up a thread on Origin with some screenshots, and now this