Battlefield 1 gets a massive price increase on Origin SA

[Gforced]

Did you guys see what people are talking about the reason for the price hike?
Looks like people buying SA copies of the game on VPN to get it cheap.

monk3ybusin3ss wrote:
Just a heads up.

I bought the game yesterday from the South African ORIGIN store.
The order was cancelled today and my ORIGIN account has been suspended.

I think they even raised the price on the SA store.

So apparently they are banning for VPN purchases.


Now, time to create a new account.
Will be sending out new friend requests.

https://forums.battlefield.com/en-us...igin-sa#latest

[ingeon]

Did you guys see what people are talking about the reason for the price hike?
Looks like people buying SA copies of the game on VPN to get it cheap.



https://forums.battlefield.com/en-us...igin-sa#latest

Thank for the clarity. Now it at last makes sense. I'll just tag it as another half @ss news article

UPDATE: Players from other countries using VPN to buy from the south african store at a cheaper price are too blame for the Price increase now it seems

[beans100]

Thank for the clarity. Now it at last makes sense. I'll just tag it as another half @ss news article

And here I was thinking it's to pay for over priced SA server hosting....

[Glordit]

Did you guys see what people are talking about the reason for the price hike?
Looks like people buying SA copies of the game on VPN to get it cheap.

Further along in that thread some posters said they had successfully bought from the Russian store and have not been banned. (yet) Also with no official word from EA, I would take that as a rumour.

[Grievous]

I don't understand why they don't confirm your location based on your credit cards billing address. This price hike has made it go from me knowing around 10 people getting the game to 0.