I too have a question I need answered before I even start playing this game. I just bought the same amazon pack of DA 1 & 2 with expansions and several downloadable content packs included; I entered the game keys and they registered fine for both-I went to where you enter the shorter keys for extra content, and they also succeeded. Now comes the problems, one of which is unrelated to the keys, but it's still odd-I downloaded the character creator to make a PC and get the free item for doing so in the game, but it refuses to upload the character to the internet-it says it did, it uploads, then is done, yet going online to view it, it says I've uploaded nothing. So anyway I open the game and view the downloadable content, and it all says it is all activated, yet none of it is AUTHORIZED!!! WTF? They gave me a key that activates content successfully but isn't authorized?!? What kind of ripoff scam is this? Nowhere does it tell me how to do anything else. I go back to the bioware social network, and I click on the info. for the content, and it tells me to download each file to my pc, then install then manually with these steps:
To access your content on the PC, please ensure you log in with the same account you used while redeeming this code on the social website. Once you have done this, your content will automatically start downloading the next time you log in with this account in-game.
If the content does not start downloading automatically in the game, please follow these steps:
Right click on the link below and select "Save Target As", or the equivalent in your browser. Save the .dazip file to your computer. If your browser tries to rename it to a .zip file, rename it back to .dazip after download.
Find the daupdater.exe application. It is usually located under \\bin_ship in your Dragon Age folder (for example C:\\Program Files\\Dragon Age\\bin_ship\\daupdater.exe). Double click on it to open it.
Click on "Select DAZIPs". Navigate to where you have saved the .dazip file and open it.
Now the .dazip file will appear on the Install tab. Select it on the list and click "Install Selected."
Now come more problems, because I downloaded the game with the origin installer, and I can't find anywhere on my hard drive that it put the game. There is no folder for it, there is no finding it with a search, there is no link to anything but the shortcut to play the game. The folder the above program is supposed to be in to install the downloaded files simply cannot be found, nor can my entire DAO folder!!! On the upside it finds my DAO character creator folder, and I found it easily myself, yet that helps none since that character won't even upload to the social network as it says it will. So I have no idea whether the PC I made in it will actually be available to use in the game-most likely not, because how would he have gotten there from the creator which refuses to upload it the website? Another WTF?!? Now it gets even better! It tells me when I try to manually download these files from the updater in the game that because my activated content is not authorized, that if I load the game and start it with any of these files in the game, then those save games will be corrupted/unusable/can't move the files between the games, etc. So this warning has me steering clear of even trying to hit the freaking PLAY button!!! I activated them already, and I also downloaded the latest patch, 1.0.5 or whatever, and I don't know whether it's going to tell me that all this content I PAID for and UNLOCKED yet is somehow BAFFINGLY UNAUTHORIZED althought it's a VALID KEY FROM BIOWARE is going to force me to be unable to save or transport characters and other files between games!!! Help me with all this crazy nonsense!! I am not stupid in any way and this bull just keeps me having to jump through hoop after hoop and NONE of these hoops leads to getting these files downloaded successfully and also AUTHORIZED!!! What are these people thinking?!? NEVER had I had to do so much garbage just to hit the play button, and it's been all day and I haven't even played it AT ALL due to this massive warning that IF YOU PLAY THIS GAME AS IS, BIOWARE WILL EAT YOUR SOUL or something to that effect *sarcasm off*-what I really need to know is WHERE ON EARTH did Origin put this game on my computer? My computer can't even find it yet it will launch it!?!? Also, some of the content pack files can be downloaded manually with .exe files, and I'm doing that as we speak. Some of them CANNOT and must be downloaded with the above mentioned installer that can't be found because the game cannot be found on my computer after origin put it in a dimensional pocket that the shortcut link can amazingly access yet no one else can, OR they must be downloaded by the game itself after launched, but THEY'RE not authorized with this WORKING AND VALID KEY FROM BIOWARE, so how am I supposed to get all this stuff I paid for into the game? I know I got it cheap, but this is the only reason I bought this game this way, because it came with all these EXTRAS! WHERE ARE MY EXTRAS?!? I am pulling my freaking hair out!!!