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richardedw600
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11 years ago

What change is EA going to make to ensure this does not happen again?

EA, is it acceptable that I, someone who paid full price for DA:I, and any others who purchased the game as well have not been able to play the game since the PSN outage began? There is no acceptable reason whatsoever that the game cannot be played offline under any configuration or situation. I don't freaking care how many pirates it prevents from playing, your paying customers trump that.

So, tell us now, what are you going to change to ensure that this does not happen again? Or is what happened to me and others experiencing my problem acceptable to you?

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  • Paying customers don't trump actions they will take to prevent piracy. Cause we all know that the bigger the pain in the neck DRM is, the more people who will purchase the game right? Right?


  • @richardedw600 wrote:
    EA, is it acceptable that I, someone who paid full price for DA:I, and any others who purchased the game as well have not been able to play the game since the PSN outage began? There is no acceptable reason whatsoever that the game cannot be played offline under any configuration or situation. I don't freaking care how many pirates it prevents from playing, your paying customers trump that.

    So, tell us now, what are you going to change to ensure that this does not happen again? Or is what happened to me and others experiencing my problem acceptable to you?

    EA isn't here. This forum is community driven.

    To play offline, disconnect the PS4 from the internet. You won't be able to import a save file, however.

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    richardedw600
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    11 years ago
    Turning "Connect to the Internet" off doesn't fix the problem. I still get "Cannot use the content. Cannot connect to server to verify the license." Clearly EA screwed the pooch hard with their license verification design.

    Were the EA morons completely oblivious to past long term PSN outages?

    There are easy remedies to this. For example, they could give you a warning instead of a fatal error. When in this "bad" state, perhaps annoy you every once in awhile but at least _let you play the freaking game!!!!!_. Maybe even tell you that you have to allow them to collect identifying system information that will be sent back to EA when connectivity comes back in order to continue offline. I'd take any of this over a ridiculous "umm, no network, you can't play" fatal error.

    I'd love to see a class action lawsuit screw them hard over their DRM policies. Since this is a community forum, maybe someone out there will want to look into that?

    Maybe we can get the NFL to drop them after the current contract runs out? I wish.
  • derian_gothsend's avatar
    derian_gothsend
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    11 years ago

    Welp, I give up. I was told, after 12+ hours of messign with this **bleep** that I had to wait 24 hours due to my reaching an activation limit or somesuch nonsense. Considering the game not one time activated, it seems like total BS. But whatever. The Dragon Age IP was only one I would purchase from EA / Bioware. Now, I wont purchase another game from EA. This was a botched job and they should be better than this. But they aren't. Good luck to the rest of you!

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