It's crap like this that bugs me... I have Dragon Age Ultimate with all the DLC on my PC. Right now me and the thousands of others with the game cannot play it because EA's servers are down for the game.

Now what the hell is the point of buying DLC if I cannot play the damn game when the servers are down? If I own the crap I should be able to play it when I want, regardless of the servers.

Now that my little rant is over, what is your opinion on EA's digital content and do you feel that you rightfully own it if EA prettymuch has the ability to pull it from you if they shut down their servers?

I'm really really -really- not too keen on EA's stance of having to "authenticate" the DLC via log-in to their servers. Honestly I'm not sure what, if anything, as consumers we can do to start to turn the tide that is this growing wave of "Yes you "bought" the product but in fact, you're really leasing it from us." short of simply not buying it.

I could rant.. a lot.. but I'm at work. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffffffffffriday.

.....are the servers STILL down? I tried to boot up DA: Origins and because I have the Stone Prisoner and Blood Armor DLC's it's saying that an "owner" of the content needs to be logged in....

....I'm logged in, ******. WTF?!?!?!

I'm kinda in a similair situation with XBL. For some reason the licensee transfer wont' work for my xbox, so pretty much.

Can't play about 150 or so songs in RB offline

Can't access my Oblivion saves offline due to Shivering Isles

Can't play GTA Lost and the Damned offline

Can't play Marvel Ultimate Alliance offline due to DLC characters

Can't access most of my (probably) 30+ arcade games

So yeah, I kinda freaking hate DLC as a whole now.

The Future of Optical Media

^This article pretty much sums up all my feelings about DLC and digital download gaming in general. It's crap, I can't play Forza 2 while offine, my arcade games become trials and Oblivion DLC is unusable it makes me wonder, do I really own any of this content?

******... give me the old days when you installed games from FLOPPIES onto your hard drive and you needed to enter the 5th word of the 3rd paragraph on page 39 of the instruction manual to continue.

That's "DRM" enough for me, thank you very much!!!

*obligatory get off my lawn*

Still down. And EA is saying that it may be 24 to 48 hours.

How long does it take to fix a server, I mean seriously...

******... give me the old days when you installed games from FLOPPIES onto your hard drive and you needed to enter the 5th word of the 3rd paragraph on page 39 of the instruction manual to continue.

That's "DRM" enough for me, thank you very much!!!

*obligatory get off my lawn*

24 Hours later and STILL DOWN....

What the hell EA??

Yeah. I'm seriously not freaking amused. Granted I've been busy all morning and have yet to have "time to game" today but still... this is freaking ridiculous.

Yeah. I'm seriously not freaking amused. Granted I've been busy all morning and have yet to have "time to game" today but still... this is freaking ridiculous.

What is worse it that almost nobody has heard anything from EA regarding the matter

56 hours and counting....

Going to get into a chat and see if I can get an estimate as to how much longer this is going to last... I really want an explanation now.

In a chat right now. We well see how this goes.

While I am a little disappointed that it is not fixed and there is no estimate as to how long it will be, I have to give this guy some credit since he gave me $20 off my next purchase.

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Pretty cool, but be sure not to buy any DLC that requires server side authentication.

Soooooo.... that means never buying another EA PC product? >_>

Soooooo.... that means never buying another EA PC product? >_>

Pretty much. lol

Might see how much some of the ME2 DLC costs... I haven't played any of it. Although I bet it doesn't work for that since you get those from the Bioware store. I'll try anyway. lol

We will make thing work very soon.

Well there's the problem, they've got trained monkeys for tech support! lol jk, the guy sounded like he was doing a pretty good job. Cool of him to give you the discount. It just doesn't make sense why they can't activate/authenticate the DLC on first use like you said, like most other developers/publishers do.

Bought myself 3 new DLC's for ME2 that I have been wanting to play for some time. Cost me $5 for all of them

Fixed as of 10 minutes ago...

Took them FOUR AND A HALF DAYS TOO!!!

Edit: Here is the really damn long post about the issue on the Bioware forums.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/7036701