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[Chris Priestly]

Datas_12 wrote...

Since I have a different EA email than here on BSN, and I'll have to create a new EA account to keep on posting here, is it possible to register the game to multiplie email accounts? Since my save files is on a different EA account, I'm wondering if I can register with the new EA account here, and on the other BSN account to play the game.

Is this possible?

You can get help synching your accounts from our Customer Service people HERE.

[Saber Wolf]

Thanks, I'll check that out.

[CptData]

So no way to adjust forum settings a bit, Chris?

I mean, I still can post here, in the News section and even in ME3!gameplay - but not in Multiplayer, Character Forums or Help & Support.
Why can I still post in the Gameplay forum? I'd love to exchange Gameplay for Characters ^^

[Pobatti]

Chris Priestly wrote...
[How to register Mass Effect 3, and/or activate Online Pass]
On Xbox 360, Online Pass is activated by taking the separate Mass Effect 3 – Online Pass code, provided on a printed insert inside every Mass Effect 3 – Xbox 360 game box, redeeming that code on the Xbox Live code redemption screen, and then playing the game while logged in at least once. 

On PS3 this is activated by taking the separate Mass Effect 3 – Online Pass code, provided on a printed insert inside every Mass Effect 3 – PS3 game box, redeeming that code on the PlayStation Network code redemption screen, and then playing the game while logged in at least once.

This bit is bugging me a bit. Is it mandatory that we play the game online before we can register our game?

While I'm perfectly capable of getting online with my PS3, I'll be getting the XBox360 version because I prefer to have all three games on the same system so that I can import saves and stuff. Anyhow, since I don't like Microsoft's XBox Live service, and refuse to upgrade to the new Dashboard, that means I won't be going online with the game unless I decide to repurchase it at a later point on PS3.

There will be an online pass in the box, but like the free Zaeed card I recieved in ME2 it will almost certainly remain unused and valid. I don't tend to worry about 'optional online features' like these in XBox games because it applies to many more games than just Mass Effect and I'm quite used to it - but if I'm reading things properly I'll be unable to use that online pass to register my game on this site until I've activated the pass?

Can't the forum's software (or indeed the EA account software) detect whether an online pass is valid (ie. hasn't ever been used), and activate (tie) the online pass to the user's EA account when entered on this site? This would cause my online pass to become 'used', and I'd still be able to go online with it if circumstances change in the future - while a second hand purchaser wouldn't have a perfectly-valid unused online pass in the box if (for example) something were to happen to my XBox and I have to sell off my games.

It probably can (I'm maybe just reading it wrong), but it seems a bit of an odd decision if it works as it sounds since not every player with a brand new retail copy (and valid online pass) can actually get online or even want to. Some folks for example don't have their own internet connection and browse these forums from an alternative location.

[Almostfaceman]

Pobatti wrote...

Chris Priestly wrote...
[How to register Mass Effect 3, and/or activate Online Pass]
On Xbox 360, Online Pass is activated by taking the separate Mass Effect 3 – Online Pass code, provided on a printed insert inside every Mass Effect 3 – Xbox 360 game box, redeeming that code on the Xbox Live code redemption screen, and then playing the game while logged in at least once. 

On PS3 this is activated by taking the separate Mass Effect 3 – Online Pass code, provided on a printed insert inside every Mass Effect 3 – PS3 game box, redeeming that code on the PlayStation Network code redemption screen, and then playing the game while logged in at least once.

This bit is bugging me a bit. Is it mandatory that we play the game online before we can register our game?

It clearly states you have to log in at least once, and the only way to log in on the Xbox is via Xbox Live.

[Pobatti]

Almostfaceman wrote...

Pobatti wrote...

Chris Priestly wrote...
[How to register Mass Effect 3, and/or activate Online Pass]
On Xbox 360, Online Pass is activated by taking the separate Mass Effect 3 – Online Pass code, provided on a printed insert inside every Mass Effect 3 – Xbox 360 game box, redeeming that code on the Xbox Live code redemption screen, and then playing the game while logged in at least once. 

On PS3 this is activated by taking the separate Mass Effect 3 – Online Pass code, provided on a printed insert inside every Mass Effect 3 – PS3 game box, redeeming that code on the PlayStation Network code redemption screen, and then playing the game while logged in at least once.

This bit is bugging me a bit. Is it mandatory that we play the game online before we can register our game?

It clearly states you have to log in at least once, and the only way to log in on the Xbox is via Xbox Live.

So, merely buying a legal, brand new, full priced copy of the game does nothing for your entitled to post in this forum - those folks who actively participate in XBox live clearly being of much greater importance?

[ShinAnubisXIII]

Meh couldn't you BW folks have waited with the registration lockdown until the game's out worldwide? <_<

[Foxhound2020]

It's understandable that we can't post in that forum, but we can't read it either?

[Pobatti]

Foxhound2020 wrote...

It's understandable that we can't post in that forum, but we can't read it either?

We can spoil ourselves by reading the forum. We can shout the spoilers from the rooftops, post them on Youtube, GameFAQs and pretty much any online forum - we just can't join in the discussion here unless folks start creating spoilers topics in the non-spoilers section which hasn't really happened up to now. With people's hands being forced, that's going to become a bit of an issue in all likelihood.

[SovereignWillReturn]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Thanks for helping us make teh BioWare Social Network a fun place.

Chris, I don't know about you, but the BSN forums have been anyting but "Fun" for the past two weeks, especially for you poor Bioware developers.

[Pobatti]

Personally I predict this will fracture the BSN userbase. Some folks will be lucky enough to be able to stick around without issue - others might not qualify for one reason or another (even for not having their own internet connection...), so those folks will have no choice but to post spoilers in the non-spoiler section or go elsewhere.

Then what's going to happen? If I had to open a fresh account on a message board I've never been to before, can you imagine what the first topic I'd create would be about? This can't be good publicity surely.

[KyreneZA]

Also, why did some of us lose our custom avatars since the "maintenance"?

[albertalad]

Hate so say it but this seems like full damage control to me -

[KMYash]

I thought that it was originally said that the change was going to happen Wednesday D: The game isn't technically out yet, right?

[lavosslayer]

So how do those of us that purchased the game through PSN register? Do we have to contact customer service like the PSN ME2 version had to be done or will there be a method of registering through the site?

[Pobatti]

The Enforcer OS wrote...

While I appreciate the intent to limit spammers, I guess I will have to weigh using my Online Pass to access this new forum versus not using my Online Pass as my boycott to MP.

Very sneaky, BioWare.

How's it sneaky?

This is what I'd do:

• Lug your XBox to a location where you can plug it in for 5 minutes
• Create a temporary XBox live profile (so you don't lose your achievements) for a few days of FREE Live
• Log in and connect the the EA server
• Do a random search for a game
• When the match starts, disconnect

When folks claim you didn't boycott the MP, all you do is direct them to your position on the leaderboards which is linked to your user profile on the forums - those who are boycotting will have their N7 rank permanently at 0 (or whatever the level is when you first begin). You don't even have to save the game or anything so it won't affect your offline single player campaign.

But will cause a flood of folks starting a match just for the sake of being able to post in the forums here, and quitting out when they think they've done all that's required.

Modifié par Pobatti, 05 mars 2012 - 09:31 .

[Ksandor]

Thompson family wrote...

A cure for "I'm not buying this game because ...." threads. Nice.

They just do not want people who do not own the game share their disdain. Apparently if you are unhappy about spoilers you cannot post about them even on BSN ME3 spoilers forums unless they took your money first (buy the game). Then as a milked cow you are ok to rant about it. I can't believe you people condoning this. Let's keep things secret among game owners shall we? Whatever.

albertalad wrote...

Hate so say it but this seems like full damage control to me -

More than damage control... More than that but naming it with its proper legal name is probably a violation of "new" rules of conduct. Posting here is a privilege as they say. Yeah! A privilage which you have to buy it first. HAH! There is a saying in Turkish: "While you were going down there I was already coming back".

Modifié par Ksandor, 05 mars 2012 - 09:57 .

[stonbw1]

Pobatti wrote...

The Enforcer OS wrote...

While I appreciate the intent to limit spammers, I guess I will have to weigh using my Online Pass to access this new forum versus not using my Online Pass as my boycott to MP.

Very sneaky, BioWare.

How's it sneaky?

This is what I'd do:

• Lug your XBox to a location where you can plug it in for 5 minutes
• Create a temporary XBox live profile (so you don't lose your achievements) for a few days of FREE Live
• Log in and connect the the EA server
• Do a random search for a game
• When the match starts, disconnect

When folks claim you didn't boycott the MP, all you do is direct them to your position on the leaderboards which is linked to your user profile on the forums - those who are boycotting will have their N7 rank permanently at 0 (or whatever the level is when you first begin). You don't even have to save the game or anything so it won't affect your offline single player campaign.

But will cause a flood of folks starting a match just for the sake of being able to post in the forums here, and quitting out when they think they've done all that's required.

There is a much easier fix and in fact, I asked Chris this question a few pages back:  simply let us register our purchased games here on the website like we've done in the past.  I, too, am an unconnected console player and judging from several responses in this thread to my post and even PM's I've received, this is a concern for several loyal BW fans who play on unconnected consoles.  I'm still hoping for a response, but am starting to dread the answer will be "just live with it".

[Pobatti]

This is why I simply won't be able to register:

Mandatory update trashes older XBox360s

The upcoming Spring Update for Microsoft's Xbox 360 may render the optical drive useless, forcing the company to distribute new consoles at no cost to upgrade victims.

I don't want to risk it, or have to deal with Microsoft since they'll want to know why I've already waited so long to do the update and the 'free replacement' deal might not even be on the table now.

[Alex Arterius]

I'll ask again cus this is ridiculous. But can we please have the charcter and romance section unlocked? I'm in Europe and with mail order wont be getting my game till about the 12th or so, I don't see why I should be punished for this. I don't get why the thread needs to be closed off at all considering the threads are mainly for charcters from past games. So could we please ease up on posting at least till the 9th?

Modifié par Alex Arterius, 05 mars 2012 - 10:10 .

[OneMore1968]

Great idea. Makes sense to separate those actually playing the game from those not.

And yeah, I think there were a lot of "heat of the moment" comments on receipt of the GAME email, especially those who ordered the day of announcement.

From what I've heard & seen of ME3, it promises to be a worthy conclusion to the trilogy.

Let's hope all the loyal fans' get their copy of the game, and clear your diaries for the 9th....HAPPY ME3'Ing folks.

[Shadow of Terror]

Bit unfair for those of us in Europe waiting for the March 9th release date...
now I can't ask how the guns feel, how everything plays, what class everyone is enjoying the most. I can't talk about the charaters.

Basically, I can read all the spoilers, but I can't ask anything. How does that help?

I can't post in the multiplayer forum about the new characters/weapons/enemies/maps. Hell, I can't even post on the technical help if I' were having a problem registering my game!

[Pobatti]

Shadow of Terror wrote...

Bit unfair for those of us in Europe waiting for the March 9th release date...
now I can't ask how the guns feel, how everything plays, what class everyone is enjoying the most. I can't talk about the charaters.

Basically, I can read all the spoilers, but I can't ask anything. How does that help?

I can't post in the multiplayer forum about the new characters/weapons/enemies/maps. Hell, I can't even post on the technical help if I' were having a problem registering my game!

The Non-Spoiler section may as well be renamed - it's inevitably going to turn into a dumping ground for things people want to say or talk about that really belong in a different section to which that person doesn't have access. That's going to annoy the heck out of those who use the Non-Spoiler section for it's primary reason - to avoid spoilers - since meaningful topics will be bumped to the bottom of the boards underneath 'Thread 100 on Why can't I post in the Spoiler Section', '* SPOILERS *', 'I can't register my game' and so on - unless the moderators look forward to lots more work.

Given this clampdown, any increase in bannings will also be taken by the internet at large that Bioware's trying to live in a little bubble where all they ever hear in praise, to which real everyday people don't belong. It might not be the truth, but that's how the internet as a whole is bound to react.

[albertalad]

Shadow of Terror wrote...

Bit unfair for those of us in Europe waiting for the March 9th release date...
now I can't ask how the guns feel, how everything plays, what class everyone is enjoying the most. I can't talk about the charaters.

Basically, I can read all the spoilers, but I can't ask anything. How does that help?

I can't post in the multiplayer forum about the new characters/weapons/enemies/maps. Hell, I can't even post on the technical help if I' were having a problem registering my game!

I do hope BW understands this is indeed unfair to the EU folks. Sorry you all living in the EU -

[Pobatti]

albertalad wrote...

Shadow of Terror wrote...

Bit unfair for those of us in Europe waiting for the March 9th release date...
now I can't ask how the guns feel, how everything plays, what class everyone is enjoying the most. I can't talk about the charaters.

Basically, I can read all the spoilers, but I can't ask anything. How does that help?

I can't post in the multiplayer forum about the new characters/weapons/enemies/maps. Hell, I can't even post on the technical help if I' were having a problem registering my game!

I do hope BW understands this is indeed unfair to the EU folks. Sorry you all living in the EU -

I'm in the UK, and while I agree it's a bit less convenient as it stands for EU folks - the only real difference is the matter of the 3 days difference between launch dates. As I've posted several times, there may be issues relating to users not being able to register their copy for one reason or another due to the fact that, not only do you need to be in posession of an online pass, but must have actually used it.

There's a great portion of gamers who have no need for online gaming, or who don't want to get caught up in the monthly fee business associated with Live, or simply don't have their own connections - to folks like me who have an old XBox with the NXE Dashboard and have never upgraded past it suddenly faced with a dilemma - either update the console and risk the potential it might trash your system, or don't play the latest games.

On another forum someone speculated I might not even be able to run Mass Effect 3 at all on my standard NXE not banned or modded ancient XBox360. I hope this is not true - if it is, folks like me have worse things to worry about.