DRM Server Failure Knocks Out Dragon Age DLC for Days - UPDATED

[Imre Csete]

Gamers are guilty until proven suspicious.

I love DRM! /yay

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Wow. A point in consoles favor. But at least they fixed it. On the other hand, great news--DA2 is getting a patch! Horrah!

 

[trollnystan]

Long story short, my computer is totally banjaxed because of this, sigh. Although to be fair, it was almost entirely my fault, but this was the catalyst dammit! Along with my ME2 not working...

 

[frago roc]

I imagine in 10 or so years I may want to replay a game like this. Too bad chances are all the extra content, if not the entire game, will be inaccessible because it is no longer feasible for the company to keep the servers running. Be afraid consumer. I think I'll 'backup' a 'working' copy of this game... I DID buy all the DLC individually and I demand that it works for as long as I care to have it.

 

[ImprovizoR]

DRM hurts legitimate customers way more than it hurts pirates. Incidents like this turns customers into pirates. How many more incidents like this do we need before publishers get this through their thick skulls.

It doesn't hurt pirates at all. That's why we all hate DRM. The only people who have to deal with that shit are legitimate customers.

 

[Stevepinto3]

I was experiencing this problem. I tried logging in and out of my bioware account several times, and then tried exiting and restarting the game. After restarting it the second time everything came back.

I've come to accept DLC, but the least they could do is not add a bunch of stuff that's just gonna screw up and keep me from playing the content I legally paid for. Especially when that DRM is nothing but a speedbump to pirates. It would be great to think that this case might show developers why DRM is so flawed, but realistically it won't happen. A few days of people having a log-in, log-out issue? That's not even a blip on their radar.

I desperately await the day when some company finally realizes, "Hey guys, this shit doesn't work! Maybe we should stop using it." I will buy fifty copies of any EA game that does this.

 

[Traun]

I'm still confused how this got passed by anyone. "We'll make it so they have to log in to access all their content, that'll stop people from pirating." Uh..what about the fact that they're....um..pirating and will take all this protection out anyway. "Eh it'll surely stop them somehow! Right?"

Nope it doesn't. Anyone else miss when Expansion Packs came on a disc and it was yours?

Amen, but this DRM thing isn't targeting the pirates, it is to prevent second-hand sales.

 

[Snotnarok]

I'm still confused how this got passed by anyone. "We'll make it so they have to log in to access all their content, that'll stop people from pirating." Uh..what about the fact that they're....um..pirating and will take all this protection out anyway. "Eh it'll surely stop them somehow! Right?"

Nope it doesn't. Anyone else miss when Expansion Packs came on a disc and it was yours?

Amen, but this DRM thing isn't targeting the pirates, it is to prevent second-hand sales.

Which STILL makes no sense since I can give my friend my password on EA account and he can now access all my DLC.

 

[Traun]

I'm still confused how this got passed by anyone. "We'll make it so they have to log in to access all their content, that'll stop people from pirating." Uh..what about the fact that they're....um..pirating and will take all this protection out anyway. "Eh it'll surely stop them somehow! Right?"

Nope it doesn't. Anyone else miss when Expansion Packs came on a disc and it was yours?

Amen, but this DRM thing isn't targeting the pirates, it is to prevent second-hand sales.

Which STILL makes no sense since I can give my friend my password on EA account and he can now access all my DLC.

Yes, but you can't sell it to Gamestop.