Support article, “What is The EA Downloader?
http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/ph … aqid=11083 — Steps to purchase/download: 1. Use your ea.com account to login and purchase. You don’t have to make a new one if you have one already. Pogo accounts or any ea.com account works fine. – your ea.com is not your bf2 account. 2. When purchasing it will ask you for your BF2 login nickname. Just enter the nick you want to apply EF to. You can change it later if you change your mind. This is sometimes called the GameSpy nickname or the BF2 nickname. Same difference. For example, if you play BF2 as Shawn then enter Shawn (not email) in the double field that asks for your GameSpy Nickname. Your GameSpy nickname is your BF2 name. 3. Download using the downloader. Make sure you don’t have your downloader logged into a second different ea.com account. I did that without noticing and thought I broke it. 4. Click install in the downloader when it is ready. 5. Play the game normally. You don’t need the downloader open, running or even installe
