EA Is Killing BioWare Points, So Mass Effect And Dragon Age DLC Are Now Free

BioWare Points. You remember them, right? Once purchased in “packs,” they’d allow you to buy DLC for BioWare games on PC that you weren’t allowed to just directly buy with real money for some reason. In October, EA will be phasing out the premium currency. The publisher has sent out emails to those with remaining Bioware Points in their Origin accounts, notifying them of the currency’s final days and that select Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC you once needed the points to acquire are, effective immediately, available for free. For everyone. Chalk one up for r/patientgamers.


Affected games, as per the email, are Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3. DLC for these titles is available under a big orange “Get it Free” button found in your Origin game library, under the selected game’s “Extra Content” tab. Other premium currencies, such as Battlefront II’s “crystals” and Dragon Age: Inquisition’s “platinum,” remain active.

Kotaku has reached out to EA for comment.

The exception to this nice surprise are the multiplayer packs for Mass Effect 3. Those will be available, as per the email from EA, “using Credits you’ve earned in-game” after October 11 of this year. The email assures those who spent money on the premium currency that “any content previously purchased using BioWare Points” will remain available.


As spotted on the r/Games subreddit, user AircraftSam89 shared an email they claim EA sent them regarding the expiring premium currency: “We’re reaching out to let you know that starting October 11, 2022, BioWare Points will no longer be available as a form of currency in the Origin store,” it states.


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