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DRM Broke Dragon Age: Origins For Days

Posted by Soulskill on from the hope-it-was-worth-the-pr-nightmare dept.

Martey writes "Ars Technica reports that a server problem with the DRM authentication servers has caused Dragon Age: Origins players to be locked out of any saved games that include downloadable content. Quoting: 'Thanks to a combination of DRM idiocy and technical and communications failures on the part of EA and Bioware, I (along with thousands of fellow EA/Bioware customers) spent my free time this past weekend needlessly trapped in troubleshooting hell, in a vain attempt to get my single-player game to load. The problem, it turns out, was the Bioware's DRM authorization servers.'" An update to the article indicates the problems have finally been resolved.

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  1. Once again... by exomondo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...legitimate *customers* get screwed. What's the bet the pirated version didn't have this problem?

  2. Re:"There is no right to play" by MisterJohnny · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do we really need to revel in its failure every single time a major game studio screws its customers?

    Yes.

  3. Re:Only affected the PC version by RoFLKOPTr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nuff said. Perhaps playing the game on the PS3 or 360 would be a better thing

    That's the stupidest thing I've ever read.

  4. Re:"There is no right to play" by Sabriel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The game corporations will claim that there is no right to play, and maybe even insert a clause that means roughly that into the EULA. It is their right: if you don't agree with their offer, don't buy it!

    Don't know which country you're in, but mine has a law concerning "fitness for purpose" that overrides anything a business puts in its EULA.

    Do we really need to revel in its [DRM's] failure every single time a major game studio screws its customers?

    (a) Yes. It focuses attention on the problem.
    (b) No. But hey, schadenfreude.

  5. Yes, they do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I got the legit collectors edition but run a pirate version with ALL the dlc even the promotion offers from other shops that I can't buy from.

    Yes, truly the pirate version IS the supreme version. And thanks to Bioware lack luster patches, it is 100% up to date.

  6. Re:Only affected the PC version by arkhan_jg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, he does have a point. I personally have largely switched to console gaming, despite the inferior graphics to my gaming PC, the imprecise controller and the noise, simply for less hassle.

    I can play single player games offline as much as I like. Even the DLC, bundled or not, works offline. I can even resell my game after I'm finished with it, instead of it being permanently associated with my email address! Imagine that. Legitimate PC gaming is absolutely riddled with DRM. Even steam games come with extra DRM on top, in addition to steam's stopping me sharing games with my wife while I also want to play.

    It takes real business genius to make the paid product worth LESS than the free version you can grab from the pirate bay.

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