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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Good for you! You have a principle and you stick to it in a meaningful way!  |
Bioware made me do it. After EA bought them, they went downhill fast. (Basically, everything EA buys goes downhill.) Their last good game Dragon Age: Origins. I had been waiting for it for over 4 years and I bought it. Then, DLC appeared. I bought that too.
And then, it was revealed that it (the DLC) had online authentication. Dragon Age itself could be played without creating an account if you wanted to, but the DLC couldn't.
Run game with DLC installed -> Check OK -> Play -> Save -> Quit game.
Start game -> DLC can't be authenticated -> Check Fails -> Game won't let you open any savegame that was created while the DLC was installed and active.
Result: you can't play.
They had a lot of problems in the weeks after the first two DLC releases. At that point I resolved to never buy any game or program relying on online stuff ever again. (Except if I don't care when losing it, such as some $1 smartphone games I bought because they struck my fancy.)