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Anonymous
11 years ago

Having an issue with playing games offline

I have no internet access at my house and can only access the internet when I go into town. A few days ago I downloaded Dragon age origins and played for a short while with no issues. Later, at my house and disconnected from the internet I logged into origin offline mode and played Dragon age origins again with no issue.

The next day when I tried to play offline it said I had to activate my game and could not play it until I did. I couldn't activate it due to lack of online access at the time so the next day when I was in town I hooked it up to the internet and the game loaded with no issues, it did not ask me to activate it. That night when I was offline it wanted me to activate it again. The next day I managed to bring up the activation screen by disconnecting from the internet, attempting to boot the game, then reconnecting when the activation screen popped up. It said I had activated my game sucessfully and I had no issues with playing it offline later that night but now it's bringing up the activation screen again when I try to play offline. The box art has also disappeared and been replaced by the origin logo and it says I have played for 0 hours.

Any ways to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated as I only use games to kill time when I can't get online.

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  • Me too, with the same game in fact. I was just looking it up to find out if there is some way to get it to stop doing that. I also have no internet at home, and I did activate it once it showed while online, but that apparently didn't solve anything. And like you, it is not every time, but it is most times now.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    After quite a bit of searching around online I'm 90% sure this is just more DRM bull from EA. All this DRM doesn't work. at all. the game is widely available to pirate and I'm highly considering pirating the game and copying my save over just to avoid being forced to deal with all of EAs bull.

    That's right EA, not only does your DRM not stop piracy, it annoys everyone enough to make your long term paying customers turn to piracy to avoid it. It's having the opposite of the intended effect. If there's some forum rule about not talking about piracy then go ahead and ban me, I don't like your program anyways.

    Dear forum mod/pr guy,

    I know you're the one that will read this if anyone does and I know you have no control over what I'm complaining about so I just wanted to thank you for putting up with people like me and thank you for passing the complaints upward when enough pile up.

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