Right, so, guess its my turn to bump this thread
Same ol' issue as everyone's describing except even the origin workaround is basically inaccessible because of that stupid un-bypassable popup telling us to install EA's busted ahh launcher...now im out here looking for workarounds to the workarounds. Side note, its actually kind of nuts how quick the origin client workarounds get patched as soon as one is mentioned on the forum. hmm. ironic. 2x salt in the wound since 1. two years no fix on this, 2. we know from the aggregate of posts in these EA threads, plus all the mentions on reddit, steam, and plenty of other random forums, that the problem occurs when the game forces us to connect to EA and its likely broken cloud-save-sync-system.
that the PRIMARY workaround for this is dependent on not letting the EA App even touch the internet while the game runs is incredibly telling
On top of that, I am almost less frustrated by the issue, and more by how long this problem has persisted with no information. Not being able to hunt down the issue in the last 6 months, let alone the last two years of apparent investigation, while people, including (apparently) the team that's allegedly working on it, are still reproducing the error, is kind of insane.
The lack of info on the topic makes me wonder if a fix has been proposed but swept under the rug for being expensive? Or if the root issue has already been found, but EA is more worried about disseminating that info to the players for who-knows-what reason than they are about fixing it? Because if EA is not trying to fix this, why not let us make a better workaround? Look, its not really a secret that the way the og games worked with origin's network was based on complete spaghetti (probably did wonders for anti-pirating) but its hard to imagine that two years of 'investigation' have turned up...nothing? zero updates? no information? no indication of a fix? no indication of any movement?
Has the root of the issue even been pinpointed? Any working hypothesis? literally anything?
i know a lot of us feel like this problem is being ignored, brushed aside like its not gamebreaking or whatever, especially when other games are making more money right now and I've already forked over my 60 bucks. I can only hope we'll see our first real update on a fix right before the next Mass Effect gets launched, but I'm not optimistic. I guess it doesn't really matter to EA, why would they bother incentivizing replay when their business model is based so heavily on selling one-time-use products?
We'll continue passing that along as well and will hopefully have more actual information to share before too much longer.
2 years is crazy long for an investigation to turn up nothing. if there's no one looking into this, and no one is planning to, why not just say that?
Oh, also, why is this thread marked as Solved when it is very much NOT??
