Re: Legality of Accessing On-Disk DLC

Why bother asking then if you don't care with ea thinks,just like your nick in here,you are going to alter it anyway

Of course I'm not. There's no way in hell I can use the multiplayer component while blocking the game's access to Origin.

The official answer is a no, especially if you want to play multi-player.

Going in and making changes can also break things in unexpected ways, which is another reason we recommend against it.

When you say the "official" answer, do you mean "we'd like for you not to do that" or "you're not allowed to do that"?

Sorry to harp on about this. I'm quite interested in this stuff actually.

Editing the executable to get rid of the Origin requirement is a violation of the license agreement.

"If you disable or otherwise tamper with the technical protection measures, the Software may not function properly and you will have materially breached this License"

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@screwyoutooea wrote:

I'm not convinced though. As long as the information is on the disk that I purchased, it seems right that I also own that information, and as long as it is limited to only my copy of the game, I should be allowed to edit any information stored on the disk.

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This is intellectual property owned by EA. You own a license and have to accept the license agreement to use the software, but the information on the disk is not technically yours.

As far as editing goes, BioWare has stated that they don't mind if you make modifications to the coalesced.bin file as long as it doesn't affect multiplayer. Save game editing is also allowed.