Can't play an EA game via geforce now

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨orgrinrt@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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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…

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Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is such a tragedy. DisplayName field missing from registry was one of my favorite games growing up.

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- LemmyFeed@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can’t wait for the remake
  
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  - Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Display name missing from register number two
    
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- ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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
  
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0000@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Piracy is completely justified.

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- Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How would that help in this case?
  
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  - argarath@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Not having to deal with EA’s bullshit
    
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  - SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Pirate the hardware. Yo ho…
    
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- gerbler@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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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  - poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hot take:
    
    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.
    
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  - Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    From poor to rich*
    
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  - chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes, this is the big picture view of things.
    
    Unfortunately, a lot of small-minds can’t (or don’t want to) comprehend it.
    
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- possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Piracy is never justified. The solution is to not buy or use games from EA if anything.
  
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  - mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Piracy is justified if it’s to run abandonware, a broken DRM protection scheme blocking legitimate users from playing what they paid for, and for historical purposes (archiving, etc).
    
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  - Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you don’t own the software when you buy it, it’s not stealing to pirate it.
    
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  - jackoneill@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    In our society piracy is always justified
    
    Fuck every last one of these corporations
    
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  - chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I bet you watch ads, too.
    
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  - poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Courageous to make such a comment on Lemmy, where the community will bend over backwards to justify piracy.
    
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  - dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ that’s right me mateys, being a pirate is lame and you should definitely…… nottttttt do it………….
    
    Good thing I have this eye patch so I can wink without anyone seeing.
    
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devilish666@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Meme00144

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- LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Did you not read the part where they don’t have a fucking computer? 🤦‍♂️
  
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  - Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Just pirate a computer, duh
    
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  - v81@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Can buy one with the money saved by pirating
    
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  - Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    All these people can’t read apparently. Just about every comment is like this.
    
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  - LufyCZ@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s a hate on not only DRM, but all paid services pretty much
    
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  - woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How is a mobile workstation with little disk space no computer at all?
    
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  - cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    True, this landscape is changing a lot lately though with handheld PCs making them no longer out of reach for some.
    
    I’ll admit I’m ignorant to this but how do you use GeForce now? Is it streaming? What is it streaming to?
    
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reimufumo@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - space@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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.
    
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chocolateo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Meanwhile somewhere out there a pirate is enjoying it right now

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- Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Worse, a console gamer. It’s £5.99 right now on PSN. Barely worth pirating for that.
  
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- loutr@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can you run pirated games on GFN?
  
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  - chocolateo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t think so but it’s very likely whatever title they’re trying to play has been cracked
    
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woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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- orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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…
  
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  - Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
    
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  - tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It IS a big deal though, that’s the whole point.
    
    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.
    
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- LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, they should just sit quietly in their room never enjoying any video games!
  
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  - woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?
    
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Heavybell@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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).

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- orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.
  
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- xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well I don’t think this is true, I used proton and still got this error
  
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  - RedWeasel@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Did you happen to run it with different versions of proton? Each version would possibly be identified as a different “system”.
    
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NaoPb@eviltoast.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I see EA is out of ideas for naming their games, and has started naming their game "DisplayName field¨.

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- irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Johnny dropTables has a few things to say.
  
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- TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “Field missing from registry”, one of my favourite franchises, is now owned by EA? Ugh. 😩
  
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thirteene@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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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- cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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- Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And they still wonder why everyone avoids them.
  
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orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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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- andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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.
  
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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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- orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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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  - FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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.
    
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FrostKing@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As much as I hate EA and everything they stand for, their customer support has pulled through for me on more than one occasion. Props to them

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chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s what you get for subscribing to something you could be getting for free.

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- yokonzo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Not that I don’t agree with you, but that comment is kinda snarky
  
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- tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They state they don’t have a gaming computer and play it through geforce now, is that actually possible for free?
  
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nem@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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- orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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.
  
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Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Genuinely curious since my games stack there automatically. Is it a good launcher? I’ve never looked into it more than updating my graphics cards.

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aniki@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Cloud gaming is trash

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- orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Fair enough, it’s certainly worse than the alternative.
  
  However, when unable to exercise the alternative, it’s nice to have an option to still experience and play games.
  
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