Well I don’t think this is true, I used proton and still got this error
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Heavybell@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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).
xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
RedWeasel@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Did you happen to run it with different versions of proton? Each version would possibly be identified as a different “system”.
xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
I think not
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Yeah, and on Proton Experimental when it undergoes a major update it may reset its values.
orgrinrt@lemmy.world 5 months 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.