Mass Effect Trilogy on GOG
Hey, just wanted to post a reminder that the mass effect trilogy has over 17,000 up-votes on GOG's community wish list. Since Dragon Age: Origins is now available on GOG I wanted to say I would love ...
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I am NOT an employee of EA...so what I say here is personal opinion.
I seriously doubt you will ever see ME3 on GOG. The reason for this is it is an Origin exclusive game on PC, meaning you have to have Origin to play it. DAO is an older Bioware/EA game and has been brought into Origin, but wasn't designed originally to support it or require it, and was also available on Disk, and Steam platforms. While I could see ME1 or ME2 making their way to GOG, because they both were originally outside Origin, I would be shocked if they put ME3 out to GOG. I also don't think GOG would be happy having a game that needed another client to play as that is against their DRM free business model, and I don't think EA/Bioware is going to put in the effort to remove the ME3 Origin component as it also doubles as multiplayer matchmaking and monitoring. So you MAY get ME1 and ME2 on there, but I doubt you will ever see ME3, DAI, MEA or any game newer than ME3 on GOG. I personally wouldn't hold my breath on any of them, but you may get lucky and get only the early ones....
Fallout 3 required Games for Windows Live at launch and eventually became literally unplayable before the DRM was totally removed by GOG. In addition Crysis 1 (an EA game) included secuROM, a DRM so draconian it makes Origin and even Denuvo look invisible by comparison. GOG was not only able to release the game, but also to completely remove all online activation requirements from it. As we can see, GOG has dealt with DRM that was far more integrated into the game than ME3, and has not only been able to release these games, but also to successfully remove DRM from them. You stated that it would take "effort" to remove Origin integration from the game, but I can guarantee you that EA is in possession of a DRM free build of the game, so it would only be a matter of handing the binarys over to GOG.
I think the online systems of ME3 are embedded in Origin, so that may be an issue.
I think the problem with Mass Effect 2 is that the only way to get the DLC nowadays is through the Origin client, which I'm not sure GOG allows. They could do it like Dragon Age where every single piece of DLC is included, but EA is still charging quite a bit for ME2's DLC and may not want to do that.
I see no reason why Mass Effect 1 couldn't come to GOG, however.
@TheRoosterLord schrieb:
Fallout 3 required Games for Windows Live at launch and eventually became literally unplayable before the DRM was totally removed by GOG. In addition Crysis 1 (an EA game) included secuROM, a DRM so draconian it makes Origin and even Denuvo look invisible by comparison. GOG was not only able to release the game, but also to completely remove all online activation requirements from it. As we can see, GOG has dealt with DRM that was far more integrated into the game than ME3, and has not only been able to release these games, but also to successfully remove DRM from them. You stated that it would take "effort" to remove Origin integration from the game, but I can guarantee you that EA is in possession of a DRM free build of the game, so it would only be a matter of handing the binarys over to GOG.
Make no mistake here, the developer removed secuROM or other DRM measures from the games for their GOG versions.
Furthermore, that secuROM seems more draconian then other DRM measures don't says anything about the technical effort necessary to remove it.
Compared to the effort to make ME3 online features work on a different client, it was easy to remove secuROM from other games.
If EA decides to make a ultimate edition of ME2 and ME3, with all the DLCs included, then there is a chance that the game will come to GOG, but I don't see that coming in the near future.
