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[Lux]

SOLVED: "Permanent" connection has been addressed and turned out to be a mistake that was already rectified.

 

Original post:

 

What?

 

The Origin bit is passable, but a permanent internet connection? As in no offline play? Tell it ain't so...

 

I hope that's some sort of typo soon to be rectified and it may refer to calling in the mothership to check if the account is legit, with offline play then being possible.

 

PERMANENT connectivity would be the point of no purchase for me.

[Eveangaline]

But..what if I want to play games because my net is out and I figure heck, if I can't get online may as well play?

[Giggles_Manically]

It is more than likely just a typo.

Since EA probably learned what happened with Sim City.

I hope....ah crapbaskets.....

[Nyeredzi]

i'l be playing it on ps3, so dun know about internet connection

[SerCambria358]

Has to be a mistake

[ChaosMorning]

Ugh.  It's not like this'll be a huge problem for me, but my internet is always getting screwed around with.

 

Oh well, I'm sure it'll be fine.

[Maria Caliban]

If previous titles are anything to go by, there's an internet connection required for activation when you install the vanilla game. Likewise, if you have any DLC, it will do a check whenever you start the game.

However, all previous DA titles have offered 'free' DLC for new purchases. It's the same with ME 2 and 3.

[katerinafm]

Oh boy...

[ArtemisMoons]

I suppose someone could always ask the devs on twitter?

[geth47]

I wont pre-order until this is confirmed.

 

If it requires a connection in order to play only an online module, I can understand. But if it makes the single player campaign unplayable, there´s no way I will ever purchase DAI.

[Mes]

Wow. I'd like some clarification.

 

My internet is crap at the best of times. Playing Dragon's Dogma on ps3, it would connect and disconnect and reconnect every 5 minutes while I was playing on online mode. 

[JakeLeTDK]

EA just faced a sh*t storm name SimCity4 so I wonder if they willing to make that same mistake again. Until somebody from BioWare confirm anything, let's just keep our fingers crossed.

[Dominus]

Yeah, I'm guessing it's not referring to always-online connectivity. Having a consistent internet connection for activation is the more likely answer as mentioned above.

I wont pre-order until this is confirmed.

Can't blame you, hopefully a more accurate answer will pop up. I checked Mass Effect 3 on Gamefly's Description and it has a similar line:
 

This title requires EA Origin and a permanent internet connection to play. If you experience a "disc read error" message during installation, please click "Try Again" in the error dialogue. This should bypass the error and continue installation. If the problem still persists, please visit help.ea.com.

[JakeLeTDK]

Already asked Mark on Twitter. Hopefully he will answer

[HydroFlame20]

It most likely is a mistake.

[Maria Caliban]

I don't think it's a mistake. I believe this has been standard for BioWare games since ME 2.

[Lux]

 

 I checked Mass Effect 3 on Gamefly's Description and it has a similar line:
 

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This title requires EA Origin and a permanent internet connection to play. If you experience a "disc read error" message during installation, please click "Try Again" in the error dialogue. This should bypass the error and continue installation. If the problem still persists, please visit help.ea.com.

 

 

It's a poor choice of words, especially after SimCity.

[wolfhowwl]

P-P-PREORDER CANCELLED

[martiancake]

Color me skeptical. You'll probably need the Internet to activate and connect with your Keep save, but permanent connection? No way.  

[Nashiktal]

Woah, ok hold the phone. This is bad news. I doubt this will actually happen but even the possibility is raising all sorts of red flags for me.

Story time. Growing up I have always had sub par internet. However I had easy access to it and never had problems playing online and thus I was lucky. Then one day my family moves to a new home so we would have more room. I had no problem with this until I learned we couldn't take our internet with us. The only way for the house to get internet was through a shitty plant that gave five gigs of data at extreme shits speeds of approximately 12kbs. I could barely access email let alone anything else.

I thought I would be fine until I realized how much internet use gaming in General requires. I could no longer update games. Steam had a heart attack everytime I wanted to play in offline mode. Almost no games were install from disc, and instead downloaded through steam despite me buying the disk. Any updates took forever, and if they were past a certain size I couldn't download it without going over the data cap. If I needed to do any serious downloading, which was pretty much whenever I had a new game, I would have to take my computer tower and load it in my car, drive through the country into town to my relatives', hook up my computer, download however long it took, then repeat back to my house. ****** nightmare.

Did I also mention this was a household of seven people? And that the internet cost 50 bucks a month, plus another fifty if you went over the limit?

Yeah needless to say I have newfound appreciation for anyone who has connectivity issues. I also learned just how widespread this problem is in America. So any company that decides they need to implement online DRM like this is making a mistake in my opinion. I no longer have connectivity problems. I moved out, and get decent speed now. I just won't ever forget those years I was without proper access.

[Allan Schumacher]

It's the weekend so there will be some delay, but I'll see if someone can clarify.

 

 

*casts Summon Person Who Knows More Than Me*

[Nashiktal]

It's the weekend so there will be some delay, but I'll see if someone can clarify.
 
 
*casts Summon Person Who Knows More Than Me*

Thank you Allan, it is appreciated. I'm sure it's probably just corporate speak for the online feedback system the bioware games have but with certain gaming disasters that have happened recently the thought of this kind of DRM makes my blood run cold.

[Season]

I would doubt the "permanent internet connection to play" part because I've found that Origin has an offline mode that allows you to play your games offline.

 

That said, I don't know how that affected Sim City, but like most, I imagine EA would have learned from that mistake and will allow DA:I to be played on or offline via Origin.

[CronoDragoon]

But how else will you guys access the cash shop?

 

Right?

[blussi]

If this turns out to be true then I ain't buying it. I've had enough of that with Sim CIty and I just can't imagine myself going through that mess AGAIN.