Old Fifas and Origin

[Bufman70]

Sorry guys! I have a big issue... Today I buied a copy of Fifa 14 on web, but when I try to install cd, it asks me origin account... I tried also to unzip rar archive inside the cd, but i tell me that the game has been used from another user.
What can I do?

 

[Bing Bing Wahoo]

If the code has already been redeemed, you're out of luck. FIFA 14 requires Origin / EA App.

 

[Bufman70]

Ok thanks, but Can I install offline in my pc on windows 10?

 

[*aLe]

No. Or, at least, not using the code that you got with the disc.

First of all Origin is not available anymore, and the EA app won't let you install games from disc (at least as far as I know).
Even if you could get hold of an old Origin installer, it would ask you to update to EA App upon first launch.
But even if you managed to keep Origin and tried installing the game offline, Origin would ask for the serial code upon installation and then for username and password of the owner upon first launch if it sees that you're offline.

The only way I know to have FIFA 14 right now (if you haven't bought a copy back then and don't have a code tied to your EA account already) is... THIS.

 

[Bufman70]

Thanks! Too bad, what a rip-off...
Anyway, this is absurd. I understand why you need an account to download the digital version, but not the physical version. There's no way I can't sell my second-hand video games (Fifa) because the other person, even with the original and the code, can't play on their PC. Another EA disgrace.

 

[*aLe]

Thanks! Too bad, what a rip-off...
Anyway, this is absurd. I understand why you need an account to download the digital version, but not the physical version. There's no way I can't sell my second-hand video games (Fifa) because the other person, even with the original and the code, can't play on their PC. Another EA disgrace.

Exactly. They should give us a way to remove the game from our library in a way that also "frees" the activation code in order to let someone else use it "as new": it can be done with phones worth several hundred (if not more than a thousands) Euros, and they are also tied to an account from which they need to be removed before being sold/transferred.
I can't see why they don't give the chance to "free" a game code (hardly worth more than... 20 Euros, given that FIFA 14 is 12 years old? Hell, I paid the physical copy 33€, NEW, during the week of release!) by removing it from one's library apart from pure greed.