HELP! I LOST MY DLC! T_T

[chinangel]

Okay, so I LOVE dragon age origins. However, my brother (who isn't as big a fan) has all the dlc on his profile. THis is fine.

HOWEVER!

Today I went to play the game and not only were all my characters deleted but i got error messages saying 'you cannot use this dlc'. WHY!? it works fine under my brother's profile, so why can't I use it on my own when I could before!?

This is not acceptable, I have to replay the games now, and I don't want to spend fourty-plus dollars on new dlc!

Can someone please help me?

 

[Rakkana]

You've learned a lesson. Don't buy DLC. Starve them till it's free.

 

[child of lileth]

DLC is locked to profiles.

 

[Mortons4ck]

Are you using the PC or XBOX 360 version?

See above post.

 

[Withall]

Poke around at Bioware. As long as you have a legit copy of Dragon Age Origins, you should be able to get help with it.

 

[Quid Plura]

DLC is locked to profiles.

Pretty much this. Had the same problem with my little brother and DLC for Borderlands.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I'm not really sure about the 360 version, but if you bought the DLC for PC on your profile, Bioware should have a record of it and you should be able to reapply it to your stuff.

You've learned a lesson. Don't buy DLC. Starve them till it's free.

Awakening was a bigger game than most full games are. It was totally worth the price of admission. Just because an expansion is is way more convenient to obtain (i.e. downloadable) doesn't make it any less worth money.

- J

 

[Rakkana]

I'm not really sure about the 360 version, but if you bought the DLC for PC on your profile, Bioware should have a record of it and you should be able to reapply it to your stuff.

You've learned a lesson. Don't buy DLC. Starve them till it's free.

Awakening was a bigger game than most full games are. It was totally worth the price of admission. Just because an expansion is is way more convenient to obtain (i.e. downloadable) doesn't make it any less worth money.

- J

Some DLC is fine sure. But I hate the whole concept. They should be giving it for free or at a significantly less price as to what their offering.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I'm not really sure about the 360 version, but if you bought the DLC for PC on your profile, Bioware should have a record of it and you should be able to reapply it to your stuff.

You've learned a lesson. Don't buy DLC. Starve them till it's free.

Awakening was a bigger game than most full games are. It was totally worth the price of admission. Just because an expansion is is way more convenient to obtain (i.e. downloadable) doesn't make it any less worth money.

- J

Some DLC is fine sure. But I hate the whole concept. They should be giving it for free or at a significantly less price as to what their offering.

I'm not really sure I'm getting your point here. DLC should be free because why again? People worked on it, almost always after their game went gold and they should've by all rights started working on another project. Does that work not have value?

And they should charge less, again, why? I can't say I've ever really had a problem dropping a few extra bucks to extend an experience I enjoyed. Your average DLC costs as much as your average lunch. Surely it's not too much of a bank breaker.

- J

 

[grimsprice]

I'm not really sure about the 360 version, but if you bought the DLC for PC on your profile, Bioware should have a record of it and you should be able to reapply it to your stuff.

You've learned a lesson. Don't buy DLC. Starve them till it's free.

Awakening was a bigger game than most full games are. It was totally worth the price of admission. Just because an expansion is is way more convenient to obtain (i.e. downloadable) doesn't make it any less worth money.

- J

Some DLC is fine sure. But I hate the whole concept. They should be giving it for free or at a significantly less price as to what their offering.

As someone who is halfway through a game and simulation programming degree, you insult me. Coding additional content onto an already released game is a *****. It takes work to do, and i've done it; not commercially mind you, but still.

You pay 60 dollars for x hours of gameplay, you then pay 5 or 10 bucks to extend that from x to x+ whatever. Seems fair to me.

 

[Rakkana]

I'm not really sure about the 360 version, but if you bought the DLC for PC on your profile, Bioware should have a record of it and you should be able to reapply it to your stuff.

You've learned a lesson. Don't buy DLC. Starve them till it's free.

Awakening was a bigger game than most full games are. It was totally worth the price of admission. Just because an expansion is is way more convenient to obtain (i.e. downloadable) doesn't make it any less worth money.

- J

Some DLC is fine sure. But I hate the whole concept. They should be giving it for free or at a significantly less price as to what their offering.

I'm not really sure I'm getting your point here. DLC should be free because why again? People worked on it, almost always after their game went gold and they should've by all rights started working on another project. Does that work not have value?

And they should charge less, again, why? I can't say I've ever really had a problem dropping a few extra bucks to extend an experience I enjoyed. Your average DLC costs as much as your average lunch. Surely it's not too much of a bank breaker.

- J

I'm not really sure about the 360 version, but if you bought the DLC for PC on your profile, Bioware should have a record of it and you should be able to reapply it to your stuff.

You've learned a lesson. Don't buy DLC. Starve them till it's free.

Awakening was a bigger game than most full games are. It was totally worth the price of admission. Just because an expansion is is way more convenient to obtain (i.e. downloadable) doesn't make it any less worth money.

- J

Some DLC is fine sure. But I hate the whole concept. They should be giving it for free or at a significantly less price as to what their offering.

As someone who is halfway through a game and simulation programming degree, you insult me. Coding additional content onto an already released game is a *****. It takes work to do, and i've done it; not commercially mind you, but still.

You pay 60 dollars for x hours of gameplay, you then pay 5 or 10 bucks to extend that from x to x+ whatever. Seems fair to me.

Most of my experience with DLC is pretty awful. I'm guessing it's coloured my opinion.

 

[grimsprice]

Most of my experience with DLC is pretty awful. I'm guessing it's coloured my opinion.

Which DLC's have you had experience with?

Because i've had... the big pair for Oblivion, all of Fallout 3's except for point lookout, Mass effect characters and their missions aaaaaaaand.... Borderlands zombie island.

 

[NotSoNimble]

Any DLC you get from XBL you can download as many times as you want.

If you paid for it, and are on that profile.

It's free then.

If not, buy it yourself.

 

[Rakkana]

Most of my experience with DLC is pretty awful. I'm guessing it's coloured my opinion.

Which DLC's have you had experience with?

Because i've had... the big pair for Oblivion, all of Fallout 3's except for point lookout, Mass effect characters and their missions aaaaaaaand.... Borderlands zombie island.

Fallout 3 is probably my only good experience... well most of it. I've gotten the horse armour in oblivion which might as well gave been a kick in the balls from the developer. Then me and a friend played Tranformers: The game, and he bought the transformers unlockables pack. I thought it was the biggest waste of money I have ever seen. And finally I tried out dragon agerigins and got that golem guy. I thought it was a little lacking, especially since it was quite clear they ripped of a part in the campaign where you shape shift into a golem.

I'm very hesitant to try any new DLC for an obvious reason.

 

[TCPirate]

You can't just blame the game companies for making DLC expensive, I'm sure Microsoft do a cash cow evaluation on the DLC "How much could we change reasonably? K now double that."

 

[theSovietConnection]

I've gotten the horse armour in oblivion

In the words of Adam Savage

They even doubled the price of the horse armor on April Fool's Day.