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[Luke Skywhacker]

I've just purchased my copy of Mass Effect 3.

This has made me come back, mentally, to the events of ME2, along with the DLCs that I did not get to play.

While at it, said DLCs are namely the spectacular and well-acclaimed Lair of the Shadow Broker, which fills in details about Liara, and Arrival, which is supposed to provide a bridge between ME2 and ME3.

Is it still the current state of affairs that players from the CE region can't play these two DLCs? I have decided to make this thread to ask, hoping that there is chance. I know that there have been workarounds and people have been able to install and play these add-ons. This is, however, technically the circumvention of the licence agreement. On the other hand, links to workarounds lead to these forums. So what is the case here: are we considered to be legally "not allowed" to play these two add-ons by virtue of the licence limitations or is it only that technical support is not available and we are on our own but at least allowed to play the DLCs if we manage to get them to work?

The reason I'm asking is because I want to respect BW & EA's decision as the copyright holder, even if somebody there made the decision to disrespect people from Central Europe (any claim of supposed technical incompatibility is false if people are able to launch the add-on with minor registry tweaks), which was basically an act of racism.

Modifié par Luke Skywhacker, 09 mars 2012 - 12:01 .

[Gorath Alpha]

You are in a user to user self-help technical discussion forum. No one from Bioware or EA is assigned to monitor it. You will have to complain via the EA Help pages.

[Luke Skywhacker]

I thought maybe a statement had finally been made about this in the meantime while I wasn't following? Like have they ever said anything about those users who gave directions on how to make those add-ons work with the CE version?

[Gorath Alpha]

There's no one here who remembers anything about it. Everyone left last May, and never came back.

[Luke Skywhacker]

Well, I do want to avail myself of the opportunity to express deep dissatisfaction with what I perceive as an act of racism. Even if there was no direct national or ethnic criterion involved in deciding that the game's DLCs – for paying customers of the basic campaign – would be unavailable to a geographically specified group of customers – somebody still decided that people from Central Europe weren't worth it.

Nobody would have the nerve to decide that in the American market some DLCs would be unavailable to play in Indian territory or black districts of large cities. Or even, in fact, to immigrants from Central Europe (e.g. Czechs, Poles, Hungarians).

"We apologise for the inconvenience," is nowhere close to enough, especially considering that buying and playing the DLCs in circumvention of the region restriction is perfectly doable technically by a semi-experienced user who doesn't fear regedit.

So basically this is a business decision that a geographically delimited portion of customers won't be able to play the game. Not even their version is incompatible or anything, regional limitation. And obviously silence as the chosen approach to the subject. Let's pretend people from Central Europe don't exist. We don't owe them any explanation as to why we deemed them undeserving to be able to play our DLCs even if they are willing to pay for them and for the base game.

Unless the regional distributor messed up and is being protected from exposure by a non-disclosure agreement.

I don't care if I get banned for voicing my opinion, to be honest. The amount of bitterness I feel (and I can't help feeling like the victim of a racial slur, as if I'm a second category human because I'm Central European) is already hard to express in a civil manner as it is. Even after 2 years or so.

[Luke Skywhacker]

Somebody somewhere on the Internet says you can actually register your ME2 key with Origin and become able to download the game in the normal English version from there, upon which all DLCs should work normally. Is this the case?

[Boulayman2]

I do remember reading when installing one of the two dlcs you are talking about ( or maybe both) that they weren't available in the central european languages. So I do guess that installing your game in english would fix that.

[Luke Skywhacker]

Yes, there's talk about not publishing them in the region etc. but when it comes to it, the English (US) version that comes with Hungarian and Czech to choose is capable of having the DLCs.

I'll need to replay the game, however, because my save is incompatible due to translated DLC names from the Cerberus Network DLC in the save. They actually put translated names of the DLCs in the save file. Sole reason why I can't load the save. I wish there were a way to fix this.