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 🍻

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[–] 314 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is such a tragedy. DisplayName field missing from registry was one of my favorite games growing up.

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    [–] 195 points 2 years ago (31 children)

    Piracy is completely justified.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How would that help in this case?

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  • [–] 108 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not having to deal with EA's bullshit

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    OP said they don't have a gaming PC, meaning something capable of playing games at full spec

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    I bought a gaming PC because I was so sick of stuff like this on GeForce now. Great service but implementation was annoying.

    Also ended up sailing the high seas for some games instead of purchasing. Although a lot I did purchase after but some like Unravel have too much DRM content that I bought but never used the legit version.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Hot take:

    Piracy is virtually always justified. By pirating you are simply opting out of transferring wealth from consumer to big business which could be seen as a redistribution of wealth (however small) from rich to poor.

    Exceptions would be indie Devs or filmmakers for which you would have more disposable income to support if you saved your money by pirating big budget films/games/software.

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    Did you not read the part where they don't have a fucking computer? 🤦‍♂️

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    [–] 86 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Meanwhile somewhere out there a pirate is enjoying it right now

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    [–] 65 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    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.

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    [–] 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I see EA is out of ideas for naming their games, and has started naming their game "DisplayName field¨.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Ah, I can see how this could happen. Each time you log on you get a different VM and EA didn't think about that before tossing the game up on geforce now (assuming that's how it works; never used the service. If you installed the game yourself then I guess it sucks that's how their DRM works).

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 2 years ago

    Yup, this is likely the exact reason this happens. Oversight on their part. I contacted support and they told me they’d forward this further up The chain, I think this isn’t intended behavior for that safeguard lock, but rather stop account sharing or something like that.

    Just need to check if running on gfn system and not playing an online game (which could have some problems with system hopping for bans or something maybe? Doesn’t seem likely but at least there’s a vector for malicious use, unlike in single player games), and if both are true, just skip the check.

    We’ll see. I just got informed it’s a full 24h lock, and it’s set on the launcher servers somehow, which is not accessible on the account data. It’s launcher data, which means the customer support reps can’t do anything about it 😅

    Just great stuff, EA never disappoints.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I can't play EA games because In 2023 they archived my account for "inactivity" with playtime in 2022. The only option is to delete my purchase history and save games... I wish people would stop giving them money.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    This is why I support gog. The future is here, you own nothing and have no rights to what you've purchased. Pretty much anything can be turned to a brick when the corp decides it's time or they want you to buy something new.

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    [–] [S] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Update: It seems requesting a password change from support side toggles the flag and lets you start the game again.

    Unsure if this works multiple times, but at least for me, it worked, and this was my first time this happened.

    Worth a shot people! If you ever find yourself on a similar situation

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you have any PC at all? Mass Effect should even run on weaker PCs.

    But yeah, these kinds of problems are why I won't bother with cloud gaming. Have you contacted support?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the problem is disk space. I have a mobile dev workstation, which means I don’t need huge amounts of disk space, so I cheaped on that aspect when buying it. Can’t fit the entire Legendary Edition on this thing, even if it could play it.

    Did contact support, they can’t help with this. Hopefully it gets forwarded upwards enough so that at some point this is fixed.

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