There is one thing I hate more than the ending of Mass Effect 3… yep, you can guess it from the title…
How any major software/game company can produce a piece of c.r.a.p. like that I don’t know. The developers that wrote it must really be ashamed of themselves. You can’t be proud of something that virtually never works properly.
Somewhere after some recent update on either the Origin client or some Windows security patch I have been having major issues with this software. I use Windows 7 pro 64-bit. In the beginning the origin client manages to log in fine the first time I booted up my pc after getting back from work. Then if I leave it idle for a while doing other chores and stuff like supper and I come back nothing in and through the Origin client can connect any more. It gives a stupid error just saying it cannot connect to the Origin network. If I deliberately use a wrong password it does give an error that the username/password is incorrect. Trying the right username/password just keeps on giving the errors. I suspect it is timing out internally or there is some kind of resource/memory leak (just a raw suspicion)
The strange thing is my previous old computer I still use for general stuff and which physically stands next to the main pc connects fine using the Origin client. It still runs Windows XP but it’s too old/slow to handle games. Both machines are connected to the exact same physical network switch. I installed Origin on this machine out of frustration just to see if the Origin network still works.
Using the ‘Reconnect’/’Go online’ option does not work. Neither does restarting the Origin client itself, or rebooting or flushing the dns (ipconfig trick) or netsh winsock reset statement or pulling the power on my network switch or disabled my firewall or run as ‘Admin’. Checked for any errors in the Windows Event logs (none). I’ve reinstalled the Origin client multiple times. Even downloaded a special version of the client they created for people with launching game issues. Nothing helps. I’ve searched the BioWare/EA forums for similar issues – lots of things that are similar but nothing that actually helps.
If the Origin client was a horse I would have taken it outside and shot it… Emptied whatever gun’s magazine I had on it!! If I had any more spare ammunition I would have reloaded and emptied that on it too!!!
If any one knows of a way to fix this issue please shout! Better yet, if EA can fix this piece of shitty software that would be wonderful! Best would be if we can play ME3 (SP/MP) without it altogether!!! Steam got some new respect from my side! At least it ‘works’ (despite it also having some issues when it started). It’s a big shame ME3 could not have been released on Steam.
Note: I even sent a copy of the error log file to EA support and they haven’t even bother to respond/acknowledge receipt of the message. So much for ‘client support’
Update: My Origin connection problems magically ended when I changed my machine’s IP address from dynamic to static…. go figure… (plus I reverted back to 2.5.8 version as well.)
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