EA make it clear that players have access to the full game during this time, and their progress is saved in both multiplayer and singleplayer modes, should they choose to stump up the price for the full game. The scheme, the publisher says, will be the first of many Game Time promotions. EA has offered many of its games for free through Origin in recent months, but the service's offers will have some way to go before they engender the kind of awe from PC gamers that Steam's summer sales have done in the past.