Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world orgrinrt @lemmy.world 10 mo. ago

Can't play an EA game via geforce now due to quitting a couple of times in one day

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 🍻

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This is such a tragedy. DisplayName field missing from registry was one of my favorite games growing up.
Piracy is completely justified.
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Meanwhile somewhere out there a pirate is enjoying it right now
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.
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).
I see EA is out of ideas for naming their games, and has started naming their game "DisplayName field¨.
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.
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
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.
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.
Cloud gaming is trash
That's what you get for subscribing to something you could be getting for free.

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