Mass Effect 3 2012 cannot be played now because of the EA-APP. I have quit buying EA games period, the worst game company ever!! Please license ME3 2012 to save it!!

What GOG can sell here is up to the publishers of the games, ie, it's up to EA to grant permission to GOG to sell EA games here. And they've refused to sell anything new here since they invented their Origin client (the 3 newest EA games here are Dragon Age Origins, Mirror's Edge and The Saboteur (all 2009 games). We've had no 'new' games in 14 years now.

EA is a trash company. But they should help preserve their games, even if they aren’t very good.

My view is that all DRMed games are fundamentally "unplayable", often on a literal level such as if you don't have internet (or regain internet fast enough) they cannot be played. So the lack of access now that is being discussed might as well have always been that way for the PC Mass Effect games, if you ask me. I would like to see these games arrive on a DRM-free store like GOG, or at least the first in the series.

Out of curiosity what seems to be the problem with that game? I have it on Origin... ah, I mean on EA store but haven't checked after they *updated* their launcher. Mass Effect Andromeda and Command & Conquer games worked, however not the mods for Andromeda and also Andromeda became unstable for my PC in full screen borderless mode (it was like it before the latest patch years ago).

you can hake your system to remove EA app and run it from the old Origin app instead... this works however it may result in your account being banned

p.s, yes the EA app is the reason i will not be playing ME4 or DA4

p.s, the main problem for me is that the app doesn't work... you have to sync before you can play [offen fails on low bandwidth], you can not have the game installed on more than one PC [even if not playing at the same time] and older games you licenced before then cut off point don't carry across [so you can't play them]

I do agree that original games should be preserved, especially since the Legendary Edition is missing the Pinnacle Station DLC, but that's completely up to EA, who don't care.

Even origin isn't the main issue. Dead Space 2, Mass Effect 1, Masss Effect 2, Both American Mcgee's Alice games are all Pre-Origin, yet they're still not here. In fact Alice 1 is one of the most requested games on GOG, yet EA doesn't care.

Umm : yes but the fault is not due to EA but to Demiurge (who developed the DLC) if i read properly: code source was corrupted / lost or whatever.

And guess what ? Modders have restored the DLC for the Legendary Edition , LOL

https://www.ign.com/articles/mass-effect-legendary-edition-pinnacle-station-dlc-mod

I played the Legendary Edition on PS4 and the integration of the 3 games in one launcher is great... Concerning the missing DLC ..;many players consider it has the worst DLC of the trilogy... so no big loss there. Still i agree it's a shame modders did the job instead who was in charge of the Legendary Edition.

I played all games with all DLCs on their own, not as part of legendary, so I know what the DLC was and I don't care what some people say about it. It was a good way to acquire some nice high-level loot that I liked... 'Cause ME1 was an actual RPG with loot, not a simple 3rd person shooter with dialogue and predetermined upgrades, like its sequels.

And yes, the fact that modders could patch it in, while BioWare dismissed it due to lack of source code is embarrassing. The question remains though. Are the saves affected by this and do the later games in the legendary edition aware of this modded-in DLC? Because ME3 referenced it and there was also a war asset granted for having completed it, if I remember correctly. They went to great lengths to acknowledge every DLC in ME3, including "the bad one" from ME1.

From memory there is no War Asset granted for completing Pinnacle Station. In one of the DLC's you can visit the system and scan Pinnacle Station gaining an infantry unit which you get regardless if you played Pinnacle or not.

I have used a few save Editors for the Mass Effect series (They can fix the bug with Conrad Verner in ME2) and none of them hold any flags for the Pinnacle Station DLC which indicates that no data is saved to be transferred into ME2 or 3.

I doubt the game is actually unplayable at all, but the EA App is definitely annoying. Uplay is pretty much just as bad too. People complain about Galaxy and Epic but they're both waaaaay better clients.

Who in the right mind would save any less than the whole trilogy anyway?

I just saying many players considered Pinnacle Station as the worst DLC of the trilogy : i played ME1 & ME2 on PC and i don't recall this DLC was fantastic,...Basically the DLC is missable and affect nothing story wise.

For ME3 on PC : i didn't wanted to play on PC because of the intrusive (to say the least) measures deployed by EA -_-. (like mentioned in this thread). EA should be sent to hell.

I am not sure Pinnacle Station affects war assets in ME3 LE (It seems you could get 40 points in the original version)
https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/11187-mass-effect-3-war-assets-guide-every-asset-that-adds-to-your-military-strength
"Turian Spec Ops Team: scan Pinnacle Station, found in the Phoenix System of the Argos Rho cluster (40 War Assets)"
So yes i agree the question does the mod took in account this ?

Oh, yes - Galaxy is much better than EA App.

Epic ain't that hot either, but at least it functions. It's slow as heck though, so...Heroic is much better at maintaining for me both GOG and Epic's stuff.

About ME3 2012 old version with all DLC's here - would love to see that here. Same goes for old versions ME1 with Pinnacle DLC and also ME2 with all DLC's too.

Of course, ME: Legendary is fantastic too and I'd love to see that here too.

I got the ME games on Steam because I didn't want to use EA's garbage game client. They tack the program on to Steam copies so you end up using it anyway. I wonder if they tell investors their stupid program is successful because of this.