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[wellwhoopdedooo]

I pre-ordered the game, I bought Stone Prisioner and Warden's keep. I don't know exactly what I paid, but it was about $75 all told.

So, I'm playing happily through the game, got Starfang, it was awesome. I was really having fun.

This last time, I load up the game, and there's some "blah blah can't be authorized" message. Whatever. It didn't make me do a force load, so I thought everything was fine. I load the game, play for an hour or so, and in my first fight I noticed that my sword is gone. Looked back over my older saves, and they all had the same problem, since I'd always figured I'd just live with any mistakes that took up more than an hour of play so it wasn't worth it to keep old saves around. But that's not the point.

The point is, had I stolen this game, and stolen the downloadable content like plenty are already doing, bypassing with ease the restrictions that your paying customers live with, this wouldn't have happened. The people that are paying you are getting a worse product than your paying customers. Don't try to justify it with "support" or any of the other flimsy crap you try to justify this with. I've always paid for my games, I've got over 30 in my Steam list, and this is the thanks I get. You treated me like a theif right from the beginning, and the hamfisted and inept way you did it made me wish I was one. I might not start stealing, but I sure as hell am never buying DRM'd content again. It's always irritated me, done absolutely nothing to deter theieves and never will, and this is the last straw.

In closing, **** you.

[JigPig]

Oh hey thanks for coming out.

[crimsoncobra57]

^ This

[wellwhoopdedooo]

I am rendered defenseless by your cogent and intelligent counter-argument.

[WickedAwesome]

Cool story bro

[Eskarne]

Getting very attached to swords are we?

[Rubarack]

Yeah, DRM is pretty nasty in that it only affects paying customers, after the Spore debacle I'd have hoped we'd seen the last of this kind of thing. It's a little tragic how open people are to product sabotage here.

[marshalleck]

You're welcome.

[Shensi]

Am I on /v/? What's happening to this forum.

[dchalf10]

I feel your pain, i'm yet to attempt to play offline, but the constant threatening messages i get about being logged in WITH AN AUTHORISED ACCOUNT RAWR!!, at the menu lead me to believe that were i to attempt to play offline, all my dlc items etc would dissapear, feel free to verify anyone that ha tried, for a "no drm game" it certainly seems to be restrictive as to how you can play it...

[Eskarne]

I have played offline and my dlc items are still there

[dchalf10]

thats good to know, another question perhaps someone has the answer to. I found the folder where the DLC is located, do you know if you can simply back it up, then copy/paste into the directory and have it work?, I won't know until I re-install, but it would be convenient if i didn't have to download it each time

[Rishavs]

reading the first few posts shows quite well the current status of the forum hivemind.



anyway OP, yes it is irritating to have lost something you worked for hours to get. Maybe you should raise a support ticket with EA and see if it helps.

[imsayingit]

This get solved for me by manually restarting Dragon Age service while the game is on the main menu screen.



And, while i dont rage, i totally agree with OP. This drm has given me more problems than to my pirate friend who torrented it. I'm fine with DRM, as long as it doesn't interfere a bit with what im doing, and it did in DA:O.

[Schuback]

Lots of my peers are playing the pirate version. Seems fine to them as we're always talking about the game!!

PS. I'm playing PS3 original.

[VnTale]

Had the same problem. Easiest solution is to quit to main menu, log out from your account, log back in. Should fix all your saves and give you your items back.

And yes. Its annoying that it needs to authorize the content each time i load the game.

[ziphnor]

When i launch my game from steam and immediately click resume game, i get a mesage telling me that the game contains DLC content and that in need to be logged in with an account with access to these item. I am logged in of course as indicated at the lower left of the screen. This forces me to wait about 20-30 seconds until the game figures things out at which point i can load my game.

When i first encountered this i was somewhat upset as it would seem to indicate that i cannot load my save games offline? However i can see that others mention playing offline without problems?

Modifié par ziphnor, 14 novembre 2009 - 10:15 .

[kingnat]

This is the problem with DRM.

It really shouldn't be in there since we're the paying customer (and thus the only people penalised by it).



This is doubly true of the versions we get through services like Steam etc.



Has anyone gotten it through Impulse?

Stardock are supposed to have a have a no DRM policy, so I'm wondering if that means their Impulse purchases are DRM free too (like the excelent Sins of a Solar Empire)

[Draugkir_DS]

why do you people still buy from steam? really.. try direct2drive etc.. no issues with that drm crap.



I really dont get why you people love Steam crapovski drm policies..

[CyberFive]

kingnat wrote...

Has anyone gotten it through Impulse?
Stardock are supposed to have a have a no DRM policy, so I'm wondering if that means their Impulse purchases are DRM free too (like the excelent Sins of a Solar Empire)

Nope, they don't. They just have the policy to warn if there's any DRM in a game. Not sure if they have this warning with Dragon Age, since I wasn't allowed to buy it there because I'm from Europe. And Stardock doesn't have distribution rights for Dragon Age in Europe (but other games I can buy there without a problem).

[red_29A]

I only connected once to dl my dlc. Its still there. Retail version. It is annoying that it shows my email on the title screen all the time now, but meh. After jumping through all the hoops to play GTA IV offline I was nervous to purchase another game with online features and achievements, but luckily i had no trouble. It seems that all the new games have it. I guess the new generation of gamers needs to be told what their goals in a game should be. I find it kills the immersion just a little. At least in borderlands they had amusing names and gave you xp.

I use a cheesy $100 laptop for the interbutts. My gaming machine should never know its evils, and be slowed down by antivirus software and the like. Thats just me, but I run a tight ship on my pc, and never connecting it to the interwebs is something i take a little pride in.



tl;dr;

great game, retail version plays fine offline with dlc enabled.

at least for this nerd.

[casw265]

kingnat wrote...
Has anyone gotten it through Impulse?
Stardock are supposed to have a have a no DRM policy, so I'm wondering if that means their Impulse purchases are DRM free too (like the excelent Sins of a Solar Empire)

  I've purchased DA: origins from Impulse - and yes you do need to be logged in or else you will not have access to your paid DLC.   I am also not happy being treated like a criminal and the people who have pirated are not being affected.  There is no easy solution to game publishers and us gamers are suffering because of those who pirate.  KILL THEM!

Modifié par casw265, 14 novembre 2009 - 10:48 .

[Mithent]

DA (retail version) has no DRM, just a disk check. I just started the game, logged out, and loaded my save game - and all the DLC is still there. It doesn't go away once authenticated.



I'm guessing this must be a Steam issue rather than a DA issue per se?

[Eskarne]

Mithent wrote...

DA (retail version) has no DRM, just a disk check. I just started the game, logged out, and loaded my save game - and all the DLC is still there. It doesn't go away once authenticated.

I'm guessing this must be a Steam issue rather than a DA issue per se?

I have the steam version and I just tried the same as you, still all there.

[stubbieAussie]

I'm guessing this must be a Steam issue rather than a DA issue per se?

Absolutly....I downloaded Torchlight through Steam and I will never get another game from them.

Auto updates....no control over even if you dont want the damn update.

From here on in I will always get my games retail.

Modifié par stubbieAussie, 14 novembre 2009 - 11:18 .