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[DragonWyrd]

I had a nice 'conversation' earlier, if you can call a series of 140 character or less tweets a conversation, with Mike Laidlaw, Aaron Flynn, and Patrick Weekes.  Since there's not much I can really post in a question on Twitter, I thought I'd post the full issue here with the hopes others can take a look and see what, if anything, can be done.

 

With Dragon Age: Origins (and Awakening), along with Dragon Age II, there was no issue if you played offline, as long as you had the initial first internet connection to validate your game and all DLC content.  Same goes with Mass Effects 1 & 2.  When it came to Mass Effect 3, with the inclusion of Multiplayer requiring us to use Origin, if we didn't have an internet connection or if Origin was being a butt that day and didn't want to connect or update and forced us into offline mode, we couldn't play Mass Effect 3 because the game couldn't connect to the Origin platform to verify and validate the DLC.  A friend of mine had days where she couldn't play the game after an Origin update because it would force her into offline mode and nothing she could do (including constant calls to their tech support team) would fix the issue until it decided to just up and fix itself and the game was available to play again.

 

With the inclusion of Multiplayer in the Dragon Age Inquisition universe, I'm hoping that a way can be found to allow us to still play the single player game in offline mode.  This way if we find ourselves with an internet service interruption, or issues with Origin not wanting to update or connect or forcing us into offline mode, we can still sit down and enjoy watching our Inquisitor as they trek through the gorgeous scenery that has been created for us.

 

Again, a huge thanks to the Dragon Age team and everyone who has come together to give us these beautiful stories to play around with.  It was Dragon Age that got me back into writing, so I have a gargantuan soft spot for this series and its creators. 

[Mes]

Oooh I didn't even realize internet connectivity could potentially pose an issue in single player.  My internet is all around bad...

[Puppy Love]

I hope internet doesn't prevent me from playing dragon age, I can barely connect, and only for short periods.

[Maria Caliban]

The DRM doesn't have much to do with MP. When you start up an EA game through Origin, it connects to their servers to verify the game and DLC. I believe this is standard with all their games now, so BioWare is unlikely to be able to provide an exception.

[DragonWyrd]

The DRM doesn't have much to do with MP. When you start up an EA game through Origin, it connects to their servers to verify the game and DLC. I believe this is standard with all their games now, so BioWare is unlikely to be able to provide an exception.

 

I'm well aware that it connects to verify the game and DLC.  If you read my post above, I stated exactly that.  What I'd like is for them to find a way so that it's like their previous games in that, unless there's new DLC to be verified, if you're planning on only playing the SP game, you can do so in offline mode.  There are times that the internet has gone out or Origin isn't acting like it should - i.e. possibly forcing you into offline mode - and if you're not already playing the game, that basically means you can't fire it up and play because you'll get an error due to the game not being able to connect to the servers.  And as I also stated before, I have chatted with some of the DA:I team and expressed, as well as I could in tweets, what the issue was, and they did say they'd check things out, but I wanted to flesh my issue out a bit more so they'd truly understand what it was that I was getting at.

[AlanC9]

I don't quite follow this. ME3 works just fine if you set Origin offline after initial activation.

[Eralrik]

My ME3 won't boot the DLC in offline mode even after setting everything up like all the suggestions that were posted in the support section. I've tried several times over it just won't activate my DLC unless I'm connected to the internet. So any saves with the DLC activated gets corrupted and is unable to continue being played.

 

Others have no issue with this, others do!

[Kantr]

They've said before that it's a one-time activation and then you can play the game offline all you want (I can't find the quotes but someone did ask this a few months back)

[katling73]

Okay, I knew I'd seen the answer to this before way back earlier this year when everyone was fretting about it. Here it is, direct from Derek French.

 

http://forum.bioware...0#entry16512751

 

Basically, you will require a one time connection to the internet to activate the game but you will not need a permanent internet connection. You will also need to connect to the internet to use the Keep but only to select the world state you want to use for that character then you can disconnect again.

[MissDragon]

Just the other day I got the message...'Unable to connect to server' while firing up DA2...which i'm replaying. But I could still play as you just click OK. The same with DA:Origins.

 

It also said you are not logged in. But still I could play. So it maybe ok...for DAI too. Unless it is the Multiplayer that messes it up.   

[Avalonica]

Time out... LOL... did I read it correct: you must be ONLINE to play the singe player part of DA:I... hahaha, well, I can't say too much about that, but a copy protection like that wont last very long.

 

But the real issue here is how co-op multiplayer NEED a constant connection to EA servers to run, so yes, at DA:I deliverydate you cant access the co-op maps as a single player in offline mode, and that *IS* wrong, and you don't have any option to play with friends on LAN or with Direct Connection (IP), all you are given is a server dependent EA solution.

 

Hopefully resourceful players find some way for us to play co-op multiplayer OFFLINE. It's not like everyone can be connected to the Internet 24h or even have unlimited bandwidth/GB. 

[Maria Caliban]

... did I read it correct...

No.

[blackdeath]

Ouch same thing happens to me a lot if my internet is Down for what ever reason I can't play Dragon age origions on my xbox what a Drag......