DRM Broke Dragon Age: Origins For Days

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.

Comments

Once again...

[exomondo]

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

Re:"There is no right to play"

[MisterJohnny]

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

Yes.

Re:Only affected the PC version

[RoFLKOPTr]

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.

Re:"There is no right to play"

[Sabriel]

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.