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 🍻

    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • irreticent@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        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?

        • dan@upvote.auEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          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.

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • thecrotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        55·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • cyberpunk007@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          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.