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Posted July 14, 2016
Three pillars of Electronic Arts now DRM-free

No matter your personal take on the gaming giant – the many people, teams, and studios behind Electronic Arts brought us some of the most unforgettable experiences, marvelous worlds, and exceptional titles in gaming.
Each of today's three classic releases from Electronic Arts represents a pillar of game design: exceptional world building, mastery in storytelling, an admirable understanding of the balance between scope and focus. Straight from the EA Games vault, making their DRM-free debut on GOG.com, are:



Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition — the birth of a universe. A complex, extensive universe of raw fantasy and imperfection which spawned countless works reaching far beyond gaming - from graphic novels and novelizations through tabletop games and more. The Dragon Age universe is among the most ambitious fantasy settings ever created, and if you'd like to get more acquainted with the universe, turn up the fantastic soundtrack and take a look at the comprehensive guide to Dragon Age by Kotaku.

Dead Space is a glance at a gritty, hard sci-fi world in a state of irreversible disrepair. This is a game where the horrors lurking around the corner are just as disturbing as ghosts of the past. The glimpses are few, but they meticulously paint a vivid world of dark, scientific wonders and despair – a world you barely know, but a world nonetheless worth saving. A world you will remember. Check out the animated comic prologue available here, as well as the OST on Spotify.

SimCity 3000™ Unlimited is more than the sum of its parts. It's neither the biggest nor the most elaborate in the series, but it's success lies in balancing complexity and accessibility to deliver truly exceptional and welcoming gameplay. It doesn't hurt that you'll spend countless hours listening to a wonderfully jazzy soundtrack (also on Spotify!). Whether you succeed or stumble, one thing is certain: your stay in SimCity 3000 will be… nice.



Experience three pillars of game design by Electronic Arts – the marvelous worlds, unforgettable storytelling, exceptional gameplay – <span class="bold">Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition</span>, <span class="bold">Dead Space</span>, and <span class="bold">SimCity 3000&trade; Unlimited</span> are now available, DRM-free on GOG.com!
Post edited July 14, 2016 by Konrad
Posted July 14, 2016
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Tpiom: Gog, are you sure you got permission for these games? :P
It seems beyond EA to do release them here.
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shmerl: EA realized after all, that money from sales is more important than segregation of services and exclusivity ;)
Or they've sold these games on every outlet imaginable and squeezed a ton a money out of them. Why not add a few more nickles from GoG. As with all these other publishers, show some guts and release a new title (these aren't new games, sorry) that is still viable on the market DRM-Free. Putting a game on GoG when it's been sold to the moon and back again everywhere else is basically just throwing GoG an 'atta-boy' to me.
Post edited July 14, 2016 by synfresh
Posted July 14, 2016
Wow, I never expected this to happen! Great job, GOG!

I already own Dead Space and Dragon Age: Origins on Origin/Steam, but I can recommend these awesome games to everyone.
Posted July 14, 2016
The disc version of Dragon Age Origins had a real simple disc check if I remember rightly as in is there a disc with the right label in the optical drive. The DRM on it was all to do with the DLC which required the game to go online. No idea what an Origin version looks like.

As happy as I am to get access to all the DLC I do wonder if there is any chance of EA's more modern stuff coming. I expect whoever it is within the company that okays the DRM-free stuff will have a much harder fight with the online maximalists when it comes to stuff that is lock stock and barrel Origin bound.

I mean DAO and DS could be viewed as lures to get folks to buy the subsequent games on Origin. DA Inquisition even uses Origin to transfer the previous games choices into it so if sold here it would require new coding to get that to work.
Post edited July 14, 2016 by Cusith
Posted July 14, 2016
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Bethezer: But one, curious, question - Origin has a nasty habit of scanning and forcing EA games on itself... Will it do the same with GOG versions of Dragon's Age?
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Thiev: Could you be more specific?
Sure. The thing is the Origin scans for instaled EA/Origin games. So if you instal Dragon Age from a Disc, outside of Origin defaul folder, and run Origin, it detects DA, IIRC relocates it to Origin folder, which takes time. And from that point, IIRC, the game needs Origin to play. This happend to me, and I doubt EA fixed this. If someone has Origin instaled and is using it, then it could be a bit annoying if this happens to your version as well.
Post edited July 14, 2016 by Bethezer
Posted July 14, 2016
Woah!? This can't be happening! O__O

Well done, GOG.
Posted July 14, 2016
I can't believe it. Dead Space is on GOG.
Posted July 14, 2016
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shmerl: EA realized after all, that money from sales is more important than segregation of services and exclusivity ;)
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synfresh: Or they've sold these games on every outlet imaginable and squeezed a ton a money out of them. Why not add a few more nickles from GoG. As with all these other publishers, show some guts and release a new title (these aren't new games, sorry) that is still viable on the market DRM-Free. Putting a game on GoG when it's been sold to the moon and back again everywhere else is basically just throwing GoG an 'atta-boy' to me.
You can't apply this logic to EA. They have tons of old games which they squeezed all money from years ago already, and selling them on GOG would give them pure income. Yet, until now they didn't do anything about it. And anyway, exclusivity means less income for them. Releasing as wide as possible means more profit (even for newest games). So why not?

I think it's wrong to apply common sense to these publishers. They operate in some irrational mode. Legacy media is simply backwards thinking in so many ways, that making any sense out of it is a futile exercise.
Post edited July 14, 2016 by shmerl
Posted July 14, 2016
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shmerl: ...which they squeezed all money from ears ago...
Gross!
Posted July 14, 2016
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Thiev: Could you be more specific?
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Bethezer: Sure. The thing is the Origin scans for instaled EA/Origin games. So if you instal Dragon Age from a Disc, outside of Origin defaul folder, and run Origin, it detects DA, IIRC relocates it to Origin folder, which takes time. And from that point, IIRC, the game needs Origin to play. This happend to me, and I doubt EA fixed this. If someone has Origin instaled and is using it, then it could be a bit annoying if this happens to your version as well.
That is real nasty do you know how it finds it? registry check, I wonder if the game itself needs the registry entry maybe changing that will be enough to prevent the hijacking.
Posted July 14, 2016
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Bethezer: Sure. The thing is the Origin scans for instaled EA/Origin games. So if you instal Dragon Age from a Disc, outside of Origin defaul folder, and run Origin, it detects DA, IIRC relocates it to Origin folder, which takes time. And from that point, IIRC, the game needs Origin to play. This happend to me, and I doubt EA fixed this. If someone has Origin instaled and is using it, then it could be a bit annoying if this happens to your version as well.
We ran Origin tests, but I'm double checking that now just in case.
Posted July 14, 2016
This is fantastic news, SImCity 3000 in particular. Civ II, III and IV fully windows 10 compatible next please GOG!
Posted July 14, 2016
Now please make them available through GOG Connect. That'd be really nice. :)
Posted July 14, 2016
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https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/gog_connect_ea_origin
Posted July 14, 2016
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Bethezer: Sure. The thing is the Origin scans for instaled EA/Origin games. So if you instal Dragon Age from a Disc, outside of Origin defaul folder, and run Origin, it detects DA, IIRC relocates it to Origin folder, which takes time. And from that point, IIRC, the game needs Origin to play. This happend to me, and I doubt EA fixed this. If someone has Origin instaled and is using it, then it could be a bit annoying if this happens to your version as well.
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Thiev: We ran Origin tests, but I'm double checking that now just in case.
I have Steam and Origin installed. I have Dead Space on both. I just installed the GOG version which I just bought and nothing like this happened. The game is still in the default GOG install directory, Origin never loaded and it even picked up my existing save game as it uses the same location as the Steam version that I had installed (not any more!).

Obviously you should wait for official confirmation from GOG but it all seems fine on my system.
Posted July 14, 2016
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mecharma: Praise the Sun!

...wait, what?
DARK SOULS CONFIRMED!!!!1

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