Yeah, I’m incapable of sitting back all chill while I’m trying to play a game. I try, I just can’t do it. Sure, I can sit back and relax while driving to the next mission waypoint or whatever, but as soon as anything reasonably challenging pops up I’m on the edge of my seat, leaning forward, and focused.
I’m glad I got the cloth map, but I’m pretty bummed about the pamphlet sized manual. I guess I was expecting more. Had I known, I might have just gone with the regular version off Steam.
That steam page lies, and everyone (as far as I can tell) needs to go through the EA registration/download junk; which is currently broken for some of us.
Well, the DLC stuff is borked. I got the combined “Not Accepted/Accepted!” messages when I tried to enter the codes for my DLC, and it doesn’t show up in the game menu and just shows up as invalid when I try to enter the code again.
Considering all of the people having problems, I don’t expect to get any support on this any time soon. Can anyone tell me if the Warden’s Keep content is very early in-game? I can just start playing but I don’t want to restart just to play catch-up when (if?) this DLC mess ever gets sorted out.
Sigh. If they want to punish gamestop for selling used games they should just do so, rather than screwing over people who actually buy the thing new.
All the DLC stuff worked fine for me, although I downloaded them a about 2:30 (and I did receive both fail and success messages).
You don’t really need Warden’s Keep and the golem DLC’s right from the beginning, you know. You can add it at any time. Just play the game now and get your stuff later, better than getting frustrated over some overloaded servers.
After about 2 hours, the game is awesome!
I’m about ready to tear someone’s head off at EA.
My game won’t activate, even though I have a totally valid code that I bought from Impulse.
And like idiots, they don’t include any way in the product activation program to get help if you run into problems. I want to scream at someone on the phone, right now.
Warden’s Keep is a big fat omnipresent quest in your camp. It does not go away. The dude stands there with the exclamation point over his head essentially saying, “Hey, buy this DLC!” Pretty annoying actually.
As for free Stone Prisoner DLC, I actually think it’s a valuable quest to do early on. Shale can be a big help. It’ll appear as a random encounter when you’re traveling on the overland map.
-Tom
Mordrak
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Wait, there’s an exclamation point on his head even though you don’t have the DLC? What happens when you click on him then?
You get all the quest dialogue stuff. If you accept the text, you’re prompted to download the content. It’s basically an ingame promotion. Sleazy stuff. Does Fallout 3 have ingame hooks for the DLC if you don’t download it? I don’t think it did.
-Tom
I hope he /whispers you in gold-spammery fashion.
Kael
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No it definitely did not.
Ah well, just went ahead and bought a normal edition from Steam. Some time in the future when it actually downloads and all, I’ll see what all the fuss is about. From what I can tell from my wife fiddling around with it on her machine, it’ll be pretty decent. :)
Yeesh. That sucks. Does that mean going forward that future DLC for this game will have the hooks patched in?
I tried to download the toolset from http://social.bioware.com/toolset.php#downloads and discovered that the social.bioware site does now know I own the game. So off I went to register it, hoping to have more luck than getting DLC.
Not the case. I tried to enter all 3 codes Steam gave me into the game registration form and all of them failed. I don’t know why I am obsessing over this, I should just not worry about and simply play the game.
As far as i know, i haven’t heard of someone who bought the steam game being able to register the game itself on the social site. Not sure if anyone can. I got it via steam and couldn’t at all, both with or without hyphens.
It would be cool if i could edit some of the starting stats for companions (like making some of the two hander ones more shield focused).
It has now been over three hours since i started trying to get the game up and running and shale is still only at 49%, likely with another hour left to complete the download. This is with having the game preloaded. Maybe next time they won’t get the bright idea to tie everything in to a website that is still in beta. Also if you’re going to make dlc a huge focus in your game, for the love of god please make sure you can distribute it semi effectively!
Mordrak
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Wow. I know Bioware/Black Isle helped start all this nonsense with pre-order incentive items way back in the day, but that is pretty ridiculous.
Ya, at least bethesda has tact. What’s next, literally nickel and diming you when you go to pick up loot? Hey, see this nifty rare item on this zombie corpse… you can pick it up for 25 Dragon Age Points.
There is no code. Any items you got from Journeys are already attached to your bioware social site account, and as soon as you log in with that account in the game it should start the download for them. It’s worked for me.
Kind of my take too. I pulled it out of the box it shipped in and said to my wife, “This is my CE?”
All this talk of DLC download and installation hassles, the ridiculous chart that someone posted earlier, and what looks like a CE box thin on content gave me the push to just say “screw it” and buy the regular version. I have pretty high expectations for CE versions of games these days (probably Blizzard’s doing), and this one just doesn’t seem worth it.
