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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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…

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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You know you're buying software from a quality developer when their own software refers to their game as DisplayName field missing from registry.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see EA is out of ideas for naming their games, and has started naming their game "DisplayName field¨.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

“Field missing from registry”, one of my favourite franchises, is now owned by EA? Ugh. 😩

[–] [email protected] 5 points 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.