{"id":22,"date":"2011-06-04T21:14:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T21:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/?p=22"},"modified":"2023-01-15T14:52:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T14:52:21","slug":"dragon-age-origins-dlc-authorisation-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/2011\/dragon-age-origins-dlc-authorisation-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Age: Origins DLC authorisation problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rn_ChatContainer\"><a id=\"rn_MainContent\" name=\"rn_MainContent\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"rn_PageContent\">\n<div>I fired up Dragon Age: Origins for the first time in a while and it would get to the main screen but it would not load my saved game. It claimed that I was not authorised to use the following downloadable content:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Warden's keep<\/li>\n<li>Blood dragon armour.<\/li>\n<li>The stone prisoner<\/li>\n<li>Golem's might  (for origins)<\/li>\n<li>Witch hunt<\/li>\n<li>Return to ostagar<\/li>\n<li>Feastday  gift<\/li>\n<li>Feastday  pranks<\/li>\n<li>Golems' might (for awakening)<\/li>\n<li>The darkspawn  chronicles<\/li>\n<li>Blightblood(for origins)<\/li>\n<li> Witchcraft(for origins)<\/li>\n<li>Leilina's son(for origins)<\/li>\n<li>Battledress of the provocateur (for origins)<\/li>\n<li> Battledress of the provocateur (for awakening)<\/li>\n<li> The golems of amgarrak<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Although I own Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition which contains both Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age: Awakening, I have never played Dragon Age: Awakening as I have not quite finished the final battle of Dragon Age: Origins. Its rather odd that my saved game seems to require DLC for a different game that I haven't even played yet.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/help.dragonage.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/218\">Enabling the \"Dragon Age: Origins - Content Updater\"<\/a> service did not help - as there was no service installed!<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"rn_ChatTranscript_8\">I next ran the following file: <a href=\"http:\/\/supportfiles.bioware.com\/dragonage\/DAUServiceDiagnostic_beta.exe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/supportfiles.bioware.com\/dragonage\/DAUServiceDiagnostic_beta.exe<\/a>. This then displayed an error stating that it couldn't find a copy of the game and I needed to reinstall it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After the slow install process, and placing the DVD back in the drive (seriously, why do I need to put a DVD in to play a game with online authorisation?) I was able to reload my saved game.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I fired up Dragon Age: Origins for the first time in a while and it would get to the main screen but it would not load my saved game. It claimed that I was not authorised to use the following downloadable content: Warden's keep Blood dragon armour. The stone prisoner Golem's might (for origins) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[27,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}