So I just wanted to play single player, I see EA servers are down, well no problem I think, I want to play single player.
But guess what? because servers are down game can't check DLC veryfication and I can't play my save game because I have DLC on it!!! what bull**** is this??
Every time the game starts its checking for this, EVERY TIME but the moment EA server are down it forgets all checked DLC that it did hundred times allready, and I can't even play single player.
This is the last time I will buy and instal any game on orgin.
Playing when EA servers are down
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Dominator24
, oct. 09 2013 05:45
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Posté 09 octobre 2013 - 06:57
Ajensis
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Are they still down? They're usually relatively quick to fix those issues, but if they haven't, there should be a way to play anyway. I've never had to do it myself, but from what I've read on this forum I think it's something about running Origin in offline mode. Have you tried that?
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Posté 09 octobre 2013 - 07:08
Dominator24
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They are up but that's not my point. If I buy a game and I want to play the single player portion of that game I should be able to do it, EA server ON or OFF. This is Inexcusable. And its not the first time that that happen, but before I wanted to play multi so its another story. they should really take some lessons form steam if they want to ahead with Orgin, because today they lost one buyer. And I'm sure I wasn't the first that came to that conclusion.
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Posté 09 octobre 2013 - 09:04
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Yep, I hate this too. Unfortunately, whoever is in charge (whether it's EA Games or BioWare) has decided, "F*** You, Players," and won't let you play your single player game when their servers are down. You know, the single player game that has had all of the DLC confirmed dozens or even hundreds of times previously. Tough luck.
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Posté 09 octobre 2013 - 11:52
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That's DRM for you - inconveniencing legitimate customers whilst doing nothing to stop people who actually pirated the game. It's not exactly news.what bull**** is this??
The fundamental problem with DRM, which the industry doesn't get or doesn't want to accept is that it is impossible, as in breaking-the-laws-of-physics impossible. The sensible way to go about it to make minimal DRM to keep honest customers honest and write off the rest as inevitable losses.
Security engineering is an academic disciple and not something your average programmer can do in addition to his day job; when you leave the industry to it you get rubbish like WEP.
Hell, just look at what they did with SimCity - completely change the game into a multiplayer online thing (except that it wasn't really) to force players to be constantly online (except that apparently the game runs just fine offline so the servers are just for show)... EA isn't going to let go off the idiot ball any time soon.
As for your original question, there is a very simple way to fix your problem: Run Origin in offline mode.
