DRM Broke Dragon Age: Origins For Days

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @06:03PM 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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Once again... by exomondo · 2011-04-13 18:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

...legitimate *customers* get screwed. What's the bet the pirated version didn't have this problem?
Re:"There is no right to play" by MisterJohnny · 2011-04-13 18:20 · Score: 5, Insightful

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