Comments on: Rock, Paper, Sorcerer? Dragon Age Tools

By: kr8

kr8 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:36:49 +0000

@TotalBiscuit:
“They did the DLC this way to try to reduce piracy and the trade in second-hand copies”

You might want to read up on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

By: TCM

TCM — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:58:38 +0000

I was told all my codes were invalid, but it worked anyway.

So, haha?

By: LintMan

LintMan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:14:30 +0000

@Primar:

By contrast, here was my DLC experience:
+ Click DLC button in-game
+ Login
+ poke around web site looking for where to enter code to activate DLC
+enter code – guess which of the three codes I need to enter first (my “Digital deluxe” version came with 3 codes)
+ guess was wrong – code rejected
+ enter different code – guessed wrong again – code rejected
+ enter third code – code accepted, but apparently this only registered my game
+ poke around the web site more to find out how to activate the actual DLC
+ enter DLC code – accepted
+ enter second DLC code – I’m told’ it’s “invalid”
+ retry second DLC code – again, told invalid. Now I’m thinking about those “your codes are only valid once” warnings and wondering if I screwed it up somehow, or if someone keygenned my codes already.
+ retry second DLC code again – whew, it’s accepted this time.
+ Back in game, watch as all the DLC *slowly* downloads over 30+ minutes
+ Downloading finished, all DLC says “downloaded, but remains listed in the “download” tab, and nothing shows as “installed”.
+ poke around at the screen trying to figure out how to make the DLC actually install, no luck.
+ exit game, and when I re-enter, some of the DLC has reverted to 0% downloaded status.
+ re-download that, but it still won’t install and neither will the rest.
+ My game had been patched to 1.01 before I downloaded the DLC, did that matter?
+ call it quits for the night.
+ spend hours combing forums for solutions, trying all sorts of suggestions (verify steam cache, optimize cache, restart updater service, etc, etc) No luck.
+ In desperation, I deleted the entire Bioware directory in My Documents.
+ Re-download all the DLC for the next 30+ minutes.
+ Hurrah! It’s actually installing this time!
+ And it only took me 5 hours!

By: Evorez

Evorez — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:51:28 +0000

I briefly tried using my 1st tier ‘steal’ skill to unceremoniously blag the DLC from that toad in my camp.
It didn’t work. Maybe level 2…
And yes, I assumed the flanking angle.

By: cypher

cypher — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:33:30 +0000

Awesome, I’ve been wanting to dip my toes into modding for some time and this looks like the perfect opportunity… If only it would download! >.<

By: Primar

Primar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:13:46 +0000

For the record, my experience has been:

Click DLC button in-game.
Click redeem code.
Enter a couple of account bits since apparently I’ve not logged in before.
Enter code.
Download gubbins.

For the paid bit of DLC that I got just to be completist, just add “Click buy points, insert details, click ok” in there.

Completely painless and dead simple. Yes, I imagine molten servers would complicate matters somewhat, but that’s not exactly indicative of the system as a whole, is it? For example, trying to download stuff over GfWL is a nightmare at the best of times, and I don’t think I’ve ever succeeded.

By: Schmitzkater

Schmitzkater — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:19:16 +0000

Yes you are. And rightfully so.

By: ChampionHyena

ChampionHyena — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:50:27 +0000

BIGDOWNLOAD FILES CORRUPTED

FILEFRONT DOWNLOAD PAINFULLY SLOW

OFFICIAL SITE EXPERIENCING EXTREME LOAD

DYING

AAAAAAAAAAAH

bluh

By: LukeE

LukeE — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:08:34 +0000

Horace the endless bear is the god of rocks, papers and shotguns.

By: Baris

Baris — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:01:28 +0000

Oh, irony.

By: tekDragon

tekDragon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:14:54 +0000

The game has scaling with floors and ceilings, kinda like fallout. You should be able to deal with Soldier’s peak right away. I know I and most of my friends who play went straight there and managed.

Last fight is tough.

By: Edgar the Peaceful

Edgar the Peaceful — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:47:02 +0000

Heh – thanks Lars that gave me a chuckle.