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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.
Thanks, though it’s not a huge deal. Just happen to have my vacation days now, and it would have been great time to play. I guess I have to figure something else out for today 🙈
Unfortunately I don’t think you can play this game without the EA launcher and DRM, so if one wants this experience, one has to also experience the entirety of EA with all of its malices and quirks..
Well as many people have already said, if you had a capable PC and a cracked version of the game, you can experience the game while forgoing EA's bullshit.
Glad the support person was able to work something out for you in the end, though.
It IS a big deal though, that's the whole point.
You had plans for today. You paid money for a service so you could make those plans happen, and then now your plans are toast. You paid money for nothing.
If you paid for a package holiday and then got denied boarding the plane for some garbage reason like "you've exceeded your maximum flight hours for today" (WTF?!l) then you'd be MAD and rightfully so.
Sure, this is just a game. It's less important. But the principle is identical and your reaction should be to feel cheated and robbed,not just shrug and let EA get away with not giving you the service but still taking your money.
Edit: I see you got in at last. I'm happy for you! :)
I get your sentiment, and agree somewhat, but I was able to play it prior as well as later, even if I had to wait 24 hours. So I didn’t pay for nothing, and if you meant gfn, then I was still fully able to use the service for everything else.
However, I did make efforts to right the situation, which I think is much better than simply complaining and feeling robbed. Those efforts brought fruit, too, and I was back playing in an hour.
But I still do see your general point and agree in the sense that we really should fight for our rights, and if unable to do so, strive to better things for others, so they need not fight 😌
Yeah, they should just sit quietly in their room never enjoying any video games!
Are you from a parallel universe where every single video game is by EA?
No, but they are a troll who thinks negative karma is a video game high score competition
With the name they have it may be confusing if we call games art, electronic one at that.