Hello,I'm writing because my DLCs for Dragon Age: Origins do not work correctly.I have all DLCs and they worked like a charm on my old PC. All DLCs are active and have been so from the beginning of my new game.Now ingame I get the Quest for Warden's Keep, which says that I should make camp and wait for the merchant.Regardles of how often I change cities/camp the merchant won't appear (On the save I already finished the mage tower and Redcliff in the meantime).The Golem DLC doesn't appear at all and I'm not quite sure if I'm missing something here but I can't travel back to Ostagar on the map.One supportmember told me that my game wasn't introduced into the system correctly but all that changed after he added it was that I now have not only my Digital Collectors DA: Origins plus Awakening but also a new normal DA: O (which I shouldn't have, should I?).I hope someone here can help me!RegardsEdit: I forgot to mention: The game is patched up to the latest version and I downloaded all DLCs from social.bioware and installed them, as instruced, with DAUpdater exe!

UPDATE / POTENTIAL FIX (2021):I looked through the files under documents/bioware/dragon age/AddIns and found that the DLCs that weren't working for me were all lacking the MANIFEST.xml files in their folders. Go to https://help.ea.com/en-ca/help/faq/dlc-for-classic-games/#dragonage and redownload the DLC files that aren't working for you, use 7zip program to open the archive of the DLC files then drag and drop the manifest.xml files into their proper dlc folders in your dragon age addins folder.For example: Stone Prisoner DLCClick the Stone Prisoner DLC within that link to download it. It should appear as DAO_PRC_CP_2_1.0.dazip in your downloads location. Open a separate File Explorer directory and navigate to Documents/Bioware/Dragon Age/AddIns so you have the downloaded file open in one File Explorer tab and your dragon age AddIns folder open in the other. Right click the downloaded DLC file, hover over 7-Zip, select open archive, drag and drop the manifest.xml file into the "dao_prc_cp_2" folder. Open your game again and resume whichever save you'd like. You should immediately see a quest pop up regarding the Stone Prisoner DLC (and I'd assume it will be a similar pop up for any of the DLC locations).These instructions are assuming you already have the DLCs downloaded and installed as I do and they appear as though they are enabled in the game menu.

That's THE answer to my problem but the link isn't working, could you please give me the one for the stone prisoner please?

Having the same issue, when I open up 'Offers' it's totally empty....I need the files for Warden's Keep, Return to Ostagar and Stone Prisoner....

The problem is that the links should work but for some people they don't... had a chat with support again and he told me the links worked for him but they worked neither on my PC (firefox) nor on my netbook (chrome)...The Return to Ostagar offer works for me however pay attention to download the offer link at social.bioware as well (there are two links when you click on more info for return to ostagar).

Dragon Age: Origin DLCs not working

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Thugdil

13 years ago

So,

I found out what the problem was:

2) Sulcher’s Pass doesn’t show up on my map
Levi isn’t in camp to give me the Warden’s Keep Quest.
Bann Loren's Lands aren't on the map.

All of the main DLC’s have a separate piece, the “Offer”, which is where the quest givers (Levi, Felix, and Elric) live.

Check whether you have the Offer part installed

Go to My Documents\Bioware\Dragon Age\Offers and look for the following directories.

dao_prc_ocp_2 (The Stone Prisoner)
dao_prc_onrx_1 (Warden’s Keep)
dao_prc_ocp_1 (Return to Ostagar)

Also check the My Documents\Bioware\Dragon Age\Settings\Offers.xml file. There should be an entry in there for each offer that is installed. The game won't recognize an offer being installed unless it is in the Offers.xml file, so even if the directory is there, its not counted as installed unless its in the Offers.xml file.

If the directory is not there, the offer is not in the offers.xml file, or there is no offers.xml file, you can try to manually download and install the offers. (Even if they're there you might try reinstalling them just in case.)

The Stone Prisoner (Offer only)
Warden's Keep (Offer only)
Return to Ostagar (Offer Only)

Right click on the above link for the DLC you have having problems with and select “Save Target As”, or the equivalent in your browser. Save the .dazip file to your computer. If your browser tries to rename it to .zip file, rename it back to .dazip after download.

Find the daupdater.exe application, it is usually located in the bin_ship directory in your Dragon Age Installation (For example C:\Program Files\Dragon Age\bin_ship\daupdater.exe) Double click on it to open it.

Click on Select DAZIPs. Navigate to where you have saved the .dazip file and open it.

Now the .dazip file will appear on the Install tab. Select it on the list and click Install Selected.

Restart the game and see if that has resolved things.

As listed in this post:

DLC troubleshooting

I'm now waiting for EA Support to give me links to the offers, since the links in the post no longer work.

Or if someone else could upload them and post a link that would be great!

Hope this helps other people having the same problem!

I'll update once I get downloadlinks!

Anonymous
13 years ago
That's THE answer to my problem but the link isn't working, could you please give me the one for the stone prisoner please?
Anonymous
13 years ago
Having the same issue, when I open up 'Offers' it's totally empty....I need the files for Warden's Keep, Return to Ostagar and Stone Prisoner....
Thugdil
13 years ago
The problem is that the links should work but for some people they don't... had a chat with support again and he told me the links worked for him but they worked neither on my PC (firefox) nor on my netbook (chrome)...
The Return to Ostagar offer works for me however pay attention to download the offer link at social.bioware as well (there are two links when you click on more info for return to ostagar).
Anonymous
13 years ago
The links don't work for me either, the support is probably lying.
Thugdil
13 years ago
Maybe,
The links do not work for anyone it seems since I told some friends to try it nad got back only negative news!
So if you know someone whose DLC works please ask him to upload the offer folders!
ThandalNLyman
13 years ago
Have you applied the 1.05 patch? It was written mainly to address "unauthorized DLC" issues.
Thugdil
13 years ago
We are not talking unauthorized here...
We are talking about fine working DLC with missing offer (Questgiver) folders!
After contacting Support again on Wednesday I'm still waiting for EAs specialist to contact me via email...
P.S.: And to answer your question all patches are applied (at least for me).
ThandalNLyman
13 years ago
Does The Stone Prisoner (and/or the other missing DLC) appear in your list of "Registered Game Content"?

If so, when you click on "More info - PC" do you see the following option to download TSP?

If so, try re-downloading and re-installing it.
Thugdil
13 years ago
Yes,
That is where I downloaded and redownloaded and installed/reinstalled them (which I should have already stated above)...
The problem is that Return to Ostagar has a Download and an Offer link, while the other two miss the offer!