I’ve been getting into mass effect trilogy finally, and since I don’t own a gaming pc, I like to play through GeForce Now.

Well, just now I had some things come up a couple of times a row and I quit my game a few times, and now I can’t continue because of some sort of lock mechanism against playing on multiple computers…?

Did not know this is a thing, but I have a few vacation days and wanted to get this series properly started, so it’s a little bit annoying. Who knows how long I have to wait?

Ugh…

Edit:

Talking with EA support, they informed me that the wait is 24 hours. Jesus christ that is long for something like this. There goes my vacation day opportunity…

Edit2:

Wow! The customer support really pulled through, suggested they request a password change on my account from their side.

Turns out, this seems to toggle that flag, and I could now start the game! Hooray! Akash, my man, you saved the day! Cheers 🍻

  • @[email protected]
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    631 year ago

    Feeling sorry for you. Hopefully at least your cautionary tale is a lesson to readers here that giving any money to EA ever is a bad thing.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      41 year ago

      Thanks, though it’s not a huge deal. Just happen to have my vacation days now, and it would have been great time to play. I guess I have to figure something else out for today 🙈

      Unfortunately I don’t think you can play this game without the EA launcher and DRM, so if one wants this experience, one has to also experience the entirety of EA with all of its malices and quirks…

      • Rentlar
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        91 year ago

        Well as many people have already said, if you had a capable PC and a cracked version of the game, you can experience the game while forgoing EA’s bullshit.

        Glad the support person was able to work something out for you in the end, though.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          11 year ago

          I get your sentiment, and agree somewhat, but I was able to play it prior as well as later, even if I had to wait 24 hours. So I didn’t pay for nothing, and if you meant gfn, then I was still fully able to use the service for everything else.

          However, I did make efforts to right the situation, which I think is much better than simply complaining and feeling robbed. Those efforts brought fruit, too, and I was back playing in an hour.

          But I still do see your general point and agree in the sense that we really should fight for our rights, and if unable to do so, strive to better things for others, so they need not fight 😌

      • @[email protected]
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        341 year ago

        Yeah, they should just sit quietly in their room never enjoying any video games!

        Are you from a parallel universe where every single video game is by EA?

        • andrew_bidlaw
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          41 year ago

          With the name they have it may be confusing if we call games art, electronic one at that.