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[ClosingRacer]

"Registration and subscription required to access online features. EA
online terms and conditions and feature updates found at www.ea.com You
must be 13+ to register with EA Online. Ea May provide certain
incremental content and/or updates for no additional charge, if when
available.
EA may retire online features after 30 days notice posted
on www.ea.com"- Directly from the Dragon age box


seriously
considering what happening now with us can't playing the game it looks
like when EA does decide to stop the online features all our saves will
make the game unplayable... and render this game a 60 dollar piece of
trash basically cause we can't play the game anymore

[TheMadCat]

Well, since you can play the game offline now anyways I'm not sure what problem could come up. The DLC I suppose might stop working as they need to check your profile, but by that time I'm sure the problem will be remedied or you will be able to remedy it yourself.

[Ensgnblack]

The game is three months old. I think you have some time left before any servers get turned off.

[Sylvius the Mad]

First, why wouldn't be allowed to play offline? We can play offline now. Once the DLC is registered, it doesn't need to talk to the internet at all.

Second, might BioWare not release a patch disabling any need to be online? They patched out the DRM in NWN eventually.

[irinotecan]

My cable modem went down for a few hours and I decided to play Dragon Age, forgetting about the DLC check. To my surprise, the game worked, and all DLC content was available.



If there is a periodic check, and if, 10 years down the road, they decide to kill social.bioware.com, my guess is that BioWare will provide a final patch that shuts off any online check and will provide you with instructions on how to manually back up your DLC in case you need to re-install.



BioWare still has a BG1 patch available on their website the last I checked. I doubt there will be wholesale abandonment & breakage of your game.

[ClosingRacer]

Well i have all the DLC 4 the game and i can't play it , when it says connecting to severs it then stops and says error, and then blank screen with music, also you can't play the game offline with the DLC...

[ClosingRacer]

Do note i am playing the xbox version...

[TheMadCat]

Sylvius the Mad wrote...

First, why wouldn't be allowed to play offline? We can play offline now. Once the DLC is registered, it doesn't need to talk to the internet at all.

Really? My DLC never worked if I was offline.

[ClosingRacer]

TheMadCat wrote...

Sylvius the Mad wrote...

First, why wouldn't be allowed to play offline? We can play offline now. Once the DLC is registered, it doesn't need to talk to the internet at all.

Really? My DLC never worked if I was offline.

+1 ... I couldn't play the game offline as well

Modifié par ClosingRacer, 17 février 2010 - 01:01 .

[irinotecan]

The PC version lets you play offline, at least for awhile, even with DLC installed. If the Xbox always requires a connection and makes no provisions even for temporary outages at your end, that sounds maybe like a Microsoft thing. Maybe you should be asking what happens when Microsoft pulls the plug on Xbox online services...

[chiliztri]

I play offline with my all my DLC working.



I have it set to automatically log me in, but sometimes it doesn't so I end playing offline until I notice. Never had any problem playing with my DLC whilst not logged in.

[ClosingRacer]

chiliztri wrote...

I play offline with my all my DLC working.

I have it set to automatically log me in, but sometimes it doesn't so I end playing offline until I notice. Never had any problem playing with my DLC whilst not logged in.

xbox version?

[Strykzilla]

By the time EA shuts down the servers you will have moved on to dragon age 3d and you will be swatting darkspawn with natal or some other future wonder and all will be well.

[DragonDefender]

ClosingRacer wrote...

Well i have all the DLC 4 the game and i can't play it , when it says connecting to severs it then stops and says error, and then blank screen with music, also you can't play the game offline with the DLC...

 I am a 360 user as well and I play all the time when I am not connected to the internet DLC included.

[Stuffy38]

I'm pretty sure that you have to authenticate your DLC once in-game, then after that it should be OK to play offline. I _did_ have the problem where I could not load games that had DLC content in them, but after doing a bit of hunting around on these forums, I was able to fix the problem.



But returning to the original question: If the servers do get switched off, then registration of newly installed games will be a real problem. I would say that in the unlikely event that the servers were switched off, there would be some kind of patch to disable the check for registration. It's all hypothetical however, I mean the game is what - 3 or 4 months old?

[Atcherseid]

I have a connection-error message, and all the Dragon Armor got stripped from the character wearing it. I had to buy back all of it except for the breastplate. (I'm on PC.)

[Grimgor79]

ClosingRacer wrote...

"Registration and subscription required to access online features. EA
online terms and conditions and feature updates found at www.ea.com You
must be 13+ to register with EA Online. Ea May provide certain
incremental content and/or updates for no additional charge, if when
available.
EA may retire online features after 30 days notice posted
on www.ea.com"- Directly from the Dragon age box


seriously
considering what happening now with us can't playing the game it looks
like when EA does decide to stop the online features all our saves will
make the game unplayable... and render this game a 60 dollar piece of
trash basically cause we can't play the game anymore

 You know I had the same concerns today as I am a 360 owner as well as a crazed collector and will in all likelyhood keep this game for many years.

This thread will explain how to make sure you "own" all of your DLC.

http://social.biowar...67/index/172548

[AlanC9]

This is obviously a plot to make the PC version seem even more superior to that console version.

[lisakover]

I am a 360 user and I downloaded all the DLC using that above guide and only play offline now.

[sprybry]

life...as...we...know...it...will...end...arrrgh...

[Monica21]

sprybry wrote...

life...as...we...know...it...will...end...arrrgh...

So it happens in 2012?

[Sunder_2]

I am a PC user. The 1st time I tried to enter RTO, i was offline and unable to access, however, once i visited any of the DLC when online- I was then able to return and access offline. So maybe it checks the 1st time you try to access new DLC in game? Have not tried w/ multiple characters or anything, but maybe this will help some users.

[the_one_54321]

Another reason not buy DLC.

[Rictras Shard]

Forty years of darkness! Cats and dogs... living together! Mass hysteria!

[RangerSG]

Sunder_2 wrote...

I am a PC user. The 1st time I tried to enter RTO, i was offline and unable to access, however, once i visited any of the DLC when online- I was then able to return and access offline. So maybe it checks the 1st time you try to access new DLC in game? Have not tried w/ multiple characters or anything, but maybe this will help some users.

Nope, it's not that simple. I've had to redo log-ins multiple times on PC because it thinks I'm not authorized to use the DLC. It's not a one-time authentication, there is some kind of periodic check.

That said, my guess is that 6 months to a year down the line, when they think the market for the DLC is past, that will be down away with.