I got Battlefield 4 Premium swag for PS3 by accident, without paying for it. This include all the special tags and knives, but not any new maps.
Here’s how it went down:
The other day, I was waiting for a friend to shower. This friend has BF4 on a disc, and he has a premium account. I decided to play BF4 while I waited, but I wanted to play under my own profile. I logged into PSN under my name, and when I started the game I got notifications welcoming me to premium. I thought it may have been a fluke because I was on his PS3, but when I got home I still had all the premium add ons (camos, portraits, knives, etc).
So if anyone has a friend with premium, try logging into your PSN account on their PS3 and see what happens.
Edit: Meant to have PS3 in the title, my bad.
I got it free on my Xbone.
I purchased it, it didn’t work so I called up MS and got my money back. This resulted in my loss of the license to play the maps BUT I still had the maps on my hard drive.
A week or so later I heard people were able to play the new maps so I called up MS and asked them to cancel my refund, especially since I hadn’t even gotten my money back in the first place anyway. They obliged.
I went to the xbone marketplace to redownload Premium and since, if you remember, I still had it saved on my hard drive, the option to select it was greyed out as if I had the license to play them as well.
So I called them back and told them that I want my money back for good because the option to purchase it was not selectable and I was simply fed up after being on the phone with them, trying every arbitrary attempt at fixing the problem for over an hour and a half.
The MS reps had no idea why I couldn’t access it but I came to this conclusion and I think it makes sense-
The issue was that EA doesn’t offer refunds for DLC but since this was a widespread issue (people requesting refunds for Premium) MS refunded me my money. Since EA never had anticipated having to give refunds for DLC there was no infrastructure to facilitate the process i needed to complete.
Fast forward a couple of days and I see I have all the perks of Premium like cameos, dog tags, etc. I then see my friend is in a game on a Premium map so for the hell of it I select and and alas! I’m joining him on Gulf of Oman! I then realized I can’t use the quick match nor the server browser BUT I can do a manual search for specific servers. I found a website that has endless lists of servers so I flip my iPad open and tap the shortcut to the site on my iPad’s homepage and search for whatever I’m in the mood for and I open the server search and input the respective numbers of the server I wanna join.
Works for me.
You can join straight from the battlelog app. Yesterday I joined my brother by tapping the arrow on the side of his name in the friends section of the battlelog app on my iphone. My ps4 automatically joined the game and put me in his squad. I didn’t know this was a thing, it blew my mind for a bit.
According to an EA rep EA don’t have the ability to refund any purchase made on the Xbox or Sony network as they don’t have access to their billing system, which makes an awful lot more sense then, the company that we bought this off doesn’t refund our customers and never thought they would have to refund our customers.
Xboxs [terms of service] ( http://www.xbox.com/en-IE/Legal/LiveTOU) does call out no refunds thou : " The sales of consumable currency or virtual goods are final. No refunds will be given. All consumable currencies or virtual goods are forfeited if your account is terminated or suspended for any reason or if the Services are terminated or discontinued for any reason."
Virtual goods are games and subscriptions btw
I have given up on contacting Xbox about anything to do with EA as soon as they hear that the game is EA they kick you to EA support no matter what the reason is. The last time they did this to me for an Xbox live error message, but as soon as they heard I was playing BF4, suddenly an issue they knew nothing about became an issue they had heard was caused by EA and I would have to contact them, so I contacted EA and they folks there did bring me through a bunch of account settings on my Xbox.com account page and fixed it. I should also advise that the issue was not limited to BF4.