Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Global · Kinguin
- Live offers
- 68 offers · 17 stores
- Our pick
- Standard · EA App Key · Global · Eneba — €
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The free week is over and the shop pages have gone red: Battlefield 6 discounts of up to 50% are doing the rounds. If you spent the week playing it for nothing and decided you want to keep it, the Battlefield 6 price list shows what every shop is asking at any given minute. What a column of numbers cannot tell you is the part that actually costs people money here: on PC, this is not one product.
We are tracking 69 live offers across 15 shops, and they split into six formats. Two of them drop an EA licence into your account. One is a present you accept once and can never move again. One of them is not a purchase at all.
Six formats, and they do not all land in the same library
Same game, same week, six different things you can pay for. Here is where each one is actually redeemed and what the cheapest of each is asking today.
| Format | Where it goes in | Cheapest right now |
|---|---|---|
| Origin Key | EA App. Game sits in your EA library | |
| English EA Key | EA App, edition language pinned to English | € (with coupon GOCDKEYS10) |
| Standard | Depends on the shop. The listing says which | € |
| Steam Gift | Accepted into a Steam account, stays there | € (with coupon GCDKGamivo) |
| Phantom Ed. | The edition with the extra content, and the dear one | € (with coupon GOCDKEYS10) |
| Steam Account | Nowhere. You are handed somebody else's login | € (with coupon AUGGOC10) |
Standard on its own accounts for 35 of those 69 offers, so it is the word you will run into most, and it is also the loosest of the six. It means a normal licence and nothing beyond that. Where you type the code in depends entirely on the shop that sold it to you, which is why that middle column has a question mark on it rather than an answer.
Origin is called EA App now, and that is where the code goes
This is the trap for anyone arriving from the free week. Origin was EA's own store and launcher; it was renamed EA App, and the old name stuck to the label the shops use. So an Origin Key is not a leftover from a decade ago and it is certainly not a Steam code. You type it into the EA App and Battlefield 6 turns up in your EA library.
Which is fine, as long as you know it in advance. If your friends list, your hours and the rest of your shooters live on Steam, an EA code will not put this one next to them. English EA Key is the same code with the edition language set to English, worth a second look if that matters to you before you pay rather than after.
Today the cheapest of the two is over at , and the whole live list is on the page to buy Battlefield 6 key if you want to watch it move.
A Steam Gift is a present, not a licence you can carry
Thirteen of the offers are Steam Gifts and they behave differently from everything else on the page. Nobody sends you a code. Someone who owns the game sends the gift to your Steam account, you accept it, and that is where it stays for good: no resale, no passing it on to a mate who got bored of it before you did.
It is also the expensive door. A Steam Gift is asking € (with coupon GCDKGamivo) while an EA App code sits comfortably below forty euros, and you are paying that premium purely for the launcher the game ends up in.
AUGGOC10) for a Steam Account. You are not buying the game. You are being handed the login of an account that already owns it. No Family Sharing, no reselling it later, and if the password changes one morning there is nothing at the other end to complain to.One live offer per format, side by side
If you would rather see it with the shop names attached, this is one offer per edition and format, refreshed as the shops move.
The spread inside a single label is worth a glance as well. Standard runs from the high thirties to well past 150 €, and the copy at the top of that range is not a better one. It is a shop asking whatever it feels like for the same licence you can get at the bottom.
Does the 50% actually hold up?
Broadly, yes, as long as what you buy is a code. Steam sells the Standard at €, the cheapest EA App code is , and that is 48% below it. Take the Steam Gift instead and the same half-price story turns into something closer to a fifth off.
Two numbers not to mix up while you are at it. The prices above already have the shop's coupon applied, which is why they read lower than the sticker you first see. Our own monthly average is the shop-window figure with no coupon at all, and it has moved between 41,57 € and 50,13 €, sitting at 46,72 € today. The game has not collapsed since the trial ended. It drifts inside a band, and the free week did not knock the floor out from under it.
What we would actually put in the basket
Buy a code. There is one for PC, it is the cheapest of the six routes, and it leaves the licence attached to an account you control, which is the bit you will care about long after the launch noise dies down. If no code existed for your platform we would say so plainly, but here there is one.
If you specifically want the game on Steam, that is what Standard is for, and it is the one label where you have to open the offer before paying. The cheapest Standard is €, barely a euro above the EA App code, so choosing between those two is a question of where you want the game to live rather than a question of money.
On the game itself: Steam has it at Mixed, with 184.011 positive reviews out of 292.081, and the press average sits at 82 on Metacritic. Battlefield Studios developed it, EA publishes it. A fair chunk of that Mixed is about things no shop can fix for you, so read a handful of those reviews before you decide the discount is the whole story.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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