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Anonymous
12 years ago

ME 3 won't start without internet connection

Hay!

I have bought mass effect 3 two years ago and am playing it very, very, very, very often!    It has been working quite well but: I had to clean pc and laptop and to reinstall origin and me3 + all dlc's. Now mass effect 3 won't start when offline. (all the things written below occur on both devices!!!)

I can log in to origin in offline mode, but whenever I try to start mass effect, There's a message that I have to log in to Origin now to activate the game for tis device. This action needs internet connection. 

When I try to log in with internet connection - it works fine. The next time I try to log in without connection it shows the same message (as written above) again.

Please, could you help me? 

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    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    okay.... somehow I managed to solve it, but it's a little tricky...

    I've tried a lot of things but the solution lies in connecting and disconnecting with the internet..... and closing origin....

    I disconnected and started offline (I am not so sure about that part. Maybe I connected with internet and after that - with origin already running - I disconnected... Sorry, like I said, I'm not so sure about that) and got the activation-message. Then I closed origin - attention - it stays in the system tray but you have to close that too.   (the activation message stays). Then connecting with the internet and activating. then - start the game. While the game starts to play, I clicked on origin so that this application starts too. From there (remember  -  the game is already running) I clicked on the game in origin so it would start for the second time - but a message is shown (something like - the game is already running). And boooooooom - it is working without internet connection. I've tried a few times since then and it still doesn't need internet connection.

    If it doesn't work for the first time - try a few times again - or try connecting and disconnecting to the game during the whole thing I just described.

    good luck! 🙂

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