Can't play an EA game via geforce now due to quitting a couple of times in one day
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 🍻
I torrented it at first but enjoyed it so much that I ended up buying DisplayName field missing from registry once I had a stable job and some extra disposable income
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.
Shoplifting is virtually always justified. By shoplifting 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.
Unfortunately, a lot of small-minds can't (or don't want to) comprehend it.
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.
No, this still exacerbates the disparity in wealth unless the creators are globally poor.
Piracy is justified if it's to run abandonware, to bypass a broken DRM protection scheme blocking legitimate users from playing what they paid for, and for historical purposes (archiving, etc).
I'm 100% for piracy, but you forgot the step where the game you're pirating has been provided by 1500 other trackers and 1461 of those have been modified to bundle malware/spyware/ransomware...etc many users may never notice it, a lot will be caught by antivirus, but some will not.
Edit: I'm a software dev branching into security. The more I learn the harder it gets to find the actual source for cracked software and the more I notice just how sketch most are.
Example: It's not a great policy to eat whatever food you find first, regardless of where it was and who made it, and hope your immune system (antivirus example) takes care of it. Eventually you'll get burnt.
It sounds like you've been browsing some pretty sketchy websites. I have yet to find malware bundled in torrents from trustworthy trackers. And I've been pirating for many years.
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..
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.
You had plans for today. You paid money for a service so you could make those plans happen, and then now your plans are toast. You paid money for nothing.
If you paid for a package holiday and then got denied boarding the plane for some garbage reason like "you've exceeded your maximum flight hours for today" (WTF?!l) then you'd be MAD and rightfully so.
Sure, this is just a game. It's less important. But the principle is identical and your reaction should be to feel cheated and robbed,not just shrug and let EA get away with not giving you the service but still taking your money.
Edit: I see you got in at last. I'm happy for you! :)
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).
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 😅
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.
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.
That's weird. I just logged into my ea account from 2012 after not touching it for 5 years and it appears everything is there. Adding a recovery mail just to be sure now. LOL, it's so old it doesn't even have a name and shows as a 25 digit ID on the website.
Good to know you figured it out. It's still surprising one affects the other, and that situation happening in the first place. Yet, I remeber EA was one of the studios not completely happy with cloud gaming in the past, so with lower priority they could not looked into a case like yours and adjusted their DRM beforehand.
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.
FWIW, memory is getting pretty cheap, it feels. a samsung 980 m.2 card with a terabyte on it are "only" 80. a seagate 1t drive is like... 56.
I find it difficult to imagine a game (or even three,) requiring a terabyte's worth of data. of course, bloated game devs are probably already passing their beer off to prove me wrong.
This seems like an obvious bug with the licensing check in the game, or maybe an oversight by nvidia. (bug because one would think it would be adjusted for geforcenow)
Why dont you contact nvidia customer service?
Ive never used geforce now, but their shield departement is really good.
I did contact NVIDIA customer support too, but haven’t heard back since the ticket was not real-time chat. EA customer support was a chat though, and resolved the problem for me 😌
I’ll see what NVIDIA responds back. I think this might have some work for steam too, since I play this EA game via steam, but EA is not officially playable via GFN, but steam is. So I think there’s a lot of complications there to shift through.
I did try to contact steam too, but they have no contact info for this kind of problem, rather forwarded to EA.