Mass effect 3

[CaViE]

Also, Mass Effect 3 thread, can we stop with the "I hate origin, Mass Effect 3 is stupid because origin is the devil, origin is the reason I'm fat, origin stole my baby, origin is evil because it's in my taskbar, origin, origin, origin".

The difference is, Steam doesn't scan your entire harddrive and randomly ban your entire Origin account because someone on a forum made a naughty post with your name in it. When you didn't even take part in that thread. The harddrive scanning was pretty much a deal breaker on its own anyway.

See, here's the thing.

Let's hypothetically assume that I am say 30 hours into Mass Effect 3 on PC, using Origin to play the game.

Then some guy in a thread I posted in (or not even) on the EA forums, uses my name in his post and says "****" somewhere in the same post. I could get banned for that (it has happened before) while he gets away scot-free and have all of my Origin access, taken away. Fair?

Granted, this has only happened in the one confirmed case, and really we're just clawing at the potential for trouble more so than the actual trouble, but wouldn't you if you were investing in a game like Mass Effect 3 and so much depended on your ability to play the game unhindered for its duration?

The easiest solution to this, I suppose, would be to get it for console instead (Zoop, for some reason I still think you have an Xbox 360. My bad.) assuming you actually have one.

As for installing Origin and cracking the game, then uninstalling Origin, I'm pretty sure the application won't remove every single file that it creates during the installation.

All of this probably comes down to how much to trust EA and are willing to allow them access to your PC in order to play their games. From a human perspective, someone who just plays games as a hobby (albeit an expensive one), you would assume that we would be okay with it. But from a purist perspective, much like online passes, if you allow companies to get away with something, they might well try to get away with more in future.

In that respect, I can at least say that while Activision **** us like we're two-cent whores, at least they tell us about it before-hand (thinking CoD:MW3's asking price, and the DLC map packs for the CoD games) instead of just up and standardising something that nobody likes because **** THE WORLD.

Yeah.

OT: I'm getting Mass Effect 3 on Xbox 360, because I love achievements and that's where I played the other Mass Effect games. :3

[echo]

And lets be honest, Zoop, if you are willing to kill Tali, you deserve to have Origin scan your **** and ban you. Cause NO-ONE puts Tali in the corner!

Your make me sick.

[Zoop]

See, here's the thing.

Let's hypothetically assume that I am say 30 hours into Mass Effect 3 on PC, using Origin to play the game.

Then some guy in a thread I posted in (or not even) on the EA forums, uses my name in his post and says "****" somewhere in the same post. I could get banned for that (it has happened before) while he gets away scot-free and have all of my Origin access, taken away. Fair?

Granted, this has only happened in the one confirmed case, and really we're just clawing at the potential for trouble more so than the actual trouble, but wouldn't you if you were investing in a game like Mass Effect 3 and so much depended on your ability to play the game unhindered for its duration?

Yes, but even if that particular episode never repeats, something else might happen to get you banned. EA have made it pretty clear that now that they have complete control over your games and how you play them, they're not tolerating their customers at all. They're not tolerating any form of trying to reason with them when they make a mistake and ban you by accident.

The easiest solution to this, I suppose, would be to get it for console instead (Zoop, for some reason I still think you have an Xbox 360. My bad.) assuming you actually have one.

I don't own one, sadly, but I'm hoping to somehow get my hands on one this year, so it might end up being a viable solution. :P

All of this probably comes down to how much to trust EA

...which is not at all. :P

Also, just to appease James Donaldson before he hits us both with a very pointy stick, I wonder if we'll be getting a new Normandy or if they'll fix up the one from ME2? I'm hoping for a new one, because well, bright and shiny stuff...

[James Donaldson]

Shephard is back in Alliance -who were eager to see all the tech you put into Normandy 2 which has been "stripped down, then rebuilt with new improvements". So, maybe a new Normandy, I just hope EDI is still there.

I'm actually worrying, because I really liked Mass Effect 1 and 2 and pre-ordering ME3 Collectors is my first pre-order and first collectors edition (plus I'm a budget buyer, I almost always buy on special) and knowing my luck, I'm dreading some day-one problem and I guess all your origin complaining is making me uneasy >_<

Also, when I found Tali was an option, I drop kicked Miranda out the airlock XD If you want her dead you're evil!

[Zoop]

Oh, hell, I'll still take Tali over Miranda any day. I didn't like Miranda at all. I even tolerated Jack better than I did her. I'm looking for a word to describe why I disliked her so, but I can't quite put my finger on it. I want to say she's snobbish, but it still doesn't quite get to the heart of it.

[The_Furry_Cat]

I find it hard to like non human female characters in ME series :/ I can't see how Tali is considered by most to be more attractive than Miranda.

[CaViE]

Screw you guys, I'm so hitting that new guy with my male Shep. :3

But seriously, I'm pretty sure that (obviously depending on your choices), the ship and everything aboard, was Shepard's at the end of Mass Effect 2. However, it was rebuilt and re-purposed by Cerberus, so it might well be a compromised vessel.

Since some of the squad kinda breaks up after Mass Effect 2, and we of course know that Shepard's been brought to Earth on trial for his actions in The Arrival, it's fair to assume that the Normandy SR-2 will have either been confiscated, stripped, destroyed or left for rot because of Cerberus' influence aboard.

I did like EDI and would hope that she is also there, especially since the Overlord DLC really nailed home the strife for some sort of true hybrid AI, but I wouldn't object to another somewhat similar AI, either. Even if EDI felt very much like a squad member in its own right, by the end of the second game.

So yeah, TL;DR - Normandy SR-3 and a new AI in Mass Effect 3, is my guess.

Also, Miranda Lawson because I really want to know just what the **** her father was thinking.

[Zoop]

I find it hard to like non human female characters in ME series :/ I can't see how Tali is considered by most to be more attractive than Miranda.

Strangely, I found all the non-human characters in both games way more interesting than the humans, with the exception of those blue, female-only aliens (I forgot what they're called). Now that I think about it, I didn't care much for any of the humans in either of the games.

I guess based on the fact that the only female aliens are Tali and the blue ones, you could say I dislike female aliens as well. :P

[Griff3n]

Do your saves on ME 1+2 on Xbox follow on? Coz then I will purchase the series for Xbox I have the first 2 for PC.. but yeah achievements :D

ALSO You can bed Jack before the "intimate scene" thus implying the 2 beddings. Just a rumour I heards round the web

[Garson007]

I see the internet myths of Origin are still doing the rounds.

Much more importantly, ME3 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning are doing cross-promotions - if you play their respective demos. Good marketing.

[Zoop]

I see the internet myths of Origin are still doing the rounds.

Oh?

[Interfan]

While origin might be bad I will still take it above gfwl. At least it doesn't delete your save games, at least not yet.

Have the digital deluxe on preorder. Made sure all my save games are ready.

[Garson007]

Oh?

Yes. Empirical evidence has disproved the "search your entire drive" claims.

[Zoop]

So you're being technical about it again? Ok, let's change the statement to it searches large parts of your harddrive, if you really want to be technical about it, mr Grouchy McGrouchypants.

Either way, it matters little how much of your HDD is being scanned, what matters is that you have to give EA permission to, theoretically, scan anything on your HDD if they feel like it.

Also, pulled these from a few sites a while back. Can't exactly remember where. Used them in another thread on this forum.



http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8365/enxmldba.jpg

http://cdn.overclock.net/a/a6/a68270...tach236647.png

EA has no business digging in either of those two locations.

[Cowman]

I find it hard to like non human female characters in ME series :/ I can't see how Tali is considered by most to be more attractive than Miranda.

She's more attractive in an emotional way. The character has an endearing quality behind that enviro-suit. Like, obviously.

[Garson007]

Zoop: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/foru...is-not-spyware

Why not just let superficial evidence and hysteria guide us?

[James Donaldson]

The only logical conclusion is Zoop has been indoctrinated.

[Zoop]

So based off of the findings of a single magazine we've never heard of, we're supposed to just drop all our fears? Sure, getting hysteric about it might not be the answer, but neither is reading a single article (well, not really seeing as I don't understand Dutch) and accepting it as fact and a reason to simply drop all suspicions.

Either way, whether Origin scans your harddrive or not, the EULA still gives Origin the permission to do so. I'm not about to grant anyone permission to do something I don't want based solely on the premise that they're not currently doing it. Sorry.

[Garson007]

It's the only study that has been done, so... But rather we should keep faith in the reddit machine, rather than refute the claims with a different study.

[Zoop]

Or rather just not conform with either view until more evidence surfaces?

I'd rather wear a tinfoil hat than get probed by aliens because I let my guard down. :P