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 🍻
This is such a tragedy. DisplayName field missing from registry was one of my favorite games growing up.
Can’t wait for the remake
Display name missing from register number two
Nah, it’ll just be called Display name missing from register again and the fans will have to attach a year to it to distinguish it from the original.
You see… The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different levels in ‘DisplayName Field Missing from Registry.’
Piracy is completely justified.
How would that help in this case?
Not having to deal with EA’s bullshit
OP said they don’t have a gaming PC, meaning something capable of playing games at full spec
Pffft, just download some more RAM. You’d download a car, wouldn’t you? 😂
Just go into your local electronics store and pirate a gaming PC.
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True, yeah
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.
Pirate the hardware. Yo ho…
Just bring out your ship and set sail!
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.
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.
Shoplifting is actually stealing. You’re taking something away from the vendor. Piracy doesn’t actually take anything physically from the vendor.
Besides, if I can’t actually buy it (only a license to use it), then it’s not possible to steal it.
The mental gymnastics people use to excuse themselves of their entitlement continues to amaze me.
Interesting, because the inability of people to understand basic concepts continues to disappoint me.
For what it’s worth, I never argued that shoplifting isn’t stealing. I only pointed out the absurdity of the argument that piracy is justified.
Feel free to educate me on the basic concepts I’m failing to understand.
From poor to rich*
Yes, this is the big picture view of things.
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 never justified. The solution is to not buy or use games from EA if anything.
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).
or if it costs 300 bucks in my 3rd world country, for a game that will probably be unfinished.
I don’t consider some things to be piracy. However that is a very small grey area
Poor Greg…
Yeah I’m bad about making typos.
If you don’t own the software when you buy it, it’s not stealing to pirate it.
That’s not true in the least. The smart move is to use alternative software.
Lol yes, except when you can’t. How do you find an alternate game? If EA owns the rights they own it there is no alternative. For Photoshop, Microsoft office, etc, I get it.
Exactly. There have been a few open source, free adaptations of games in the past but it’s rare. Rollercoaster Tycoon comes to mind as a rare outlier. Didn’t someone come out with a great free approximation or was it just for Linux?
Didn’t someone come out with a great free approximation
You’re probably thinking of OpenRCT2. It’s available for Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Android. You do need a copy of the original Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 game (since it uses some assets from it), but you can buy that DRM-free from GOG for less than $10 (currently $2.49 on sale).
This is common with remakes. It’s totally legal to reimplement a game by observing its behaviour and writing code that mimics it, but it’s not legal to redistribute any of the original code or assets. Asking the user to provide the original game disc avoids any potential issues. This is also why some emulators require you to provide a BIOS dump.
Well Mass Effect ripped off its main plotline from the Freespace series, and that’s available DRM-free and runs on an open-source engine.
I don’t necessarily agree with the guy you’re arguing with, but are you really claiming you not only have to play games, you have to play a particular game? That is the most neckbeardy thing I’ve ever heard. Forget touching grass, touch better priorities.
Sometimes yes. Elden ring is excellent and I’ve played every one of those games. Who makes another elden ring that is actually good? It’s nonsense to claim that some of the games are no good and not worth playing. It’s easy for management to ruin a good game.
I bet you watch ads, too.
Not OP, but I typically only pirate games if they’re unavailable for purchase in a more legal way. Like PS2 games, for example.
Most of the modern games I buy these days are from developers I genuinely want to support and see more from, like Atlus or Vanillaware.
And, no, I use uBlock Origin.
Well no, I just stay away from proprietary software. For the internet I use ublock origin.
☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ 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.
In our society piracy is always justified
Fuck every last one of these corporations
How so? You are supporting them using their software.
*their
But it doesn’t support them when they don’t see income from it. You don’t even register as a number on their side, likely
You are still supporting them by using a product from them. It doesn’t matter if you are paying or not.
Not paying them means you are not supporting them
If you even use the software you are supporting them. The only way not to is a complete boycott
Courageous to make such a comment on Lemmy, where the community will bend over backwards to justify piracy.
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.
Meanwhile somewhere out there a pirate is enjoying it right now
Can you run pirated games on GFN?
No, for that you need Shadow or some other cloud service that basically is a full PC available for you.
Of course you should transfer it from your machine or similar don’t go and start downloading a torrent from the machine.
Is there any more information on these dastardly fiends?
I don’t think so but it’s very likely whatever title they’re trying to play has been cracked
Worse, a console gamer. It’s £5.99 right now on PSN. Barely worth pirating for that.
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I see EA is out of ideas for naming their games, and has started naming their game "DisplayName field¨.
“Field missing from registry”, one of my favourite franchises, is now owned by EA? Ugh. 😩
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.
EDIT: dude below is right: GOG all the way.
And they still wonder why everyone avoids them.
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?
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
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.
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).
Well I don’t think this is true, I used proton and still got this error
Did you happen to run it with different versions of proton? Each version would possibly be identified as a different “system”.
I think not
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.
You may be thinking of the GeForce Experience app.
Cloud gaming is trash
That’s what you get for subscribing to something you could be getting for free.
Not that I don’t agree with you, but that comment is kinda snarky
They state they don’t have a gaming computer and play it through geforce now, is that actually possible for free?
