[General Battuta]

game is available now

can't ****ing wait to get home

[phatosealpha]

What do you mean it's available now?  It's 10:40 am EST.

[General Battuta]

it's not 10:40 AM EST on my korean VPN

[StarSlayer]

it's not 10:40 AM EST on my korean VPN

[phatosealpha]

Ah OK.

I have until midnight to get the damned 16-bit application bug fixed. 

[General Battuta]

anyone who wants to unlock the game now http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3448836&pagenumber=165#post401239284

[phatosealpha]

Does that actually work?  Bioware said it unlocked at 12:01am EST, not local time.  They made a point of this since that 9pm for the west coast.

[General Battuta]

Does that actually work?  Bioware said it unlocked at 12:01am EST, not local time.  They made a point of this since that 9pm for the west coast.

yeah it's working for people, and it worked for me for bf3, and they've gone on record saying they won't ban for it so uh - give it a spin i guess!

[phatosealpha]

Well, first I need to finish the workday.  Then I need to get the damned thing to run at all - I'm getting the 'unsupported 16 bit application' issue on my W7/64 machine.  Then I can move to South Korea.

[General Battuta]

uh oh D:

did you get that on the demo too? i also have w7/64 and i don't want to get hung up on a stupid error

[phatosealpha]

No, I did not.  I figured at first that it was just still encrypted or something like that.  Went looking, and other people were seeing a release date checker, not just failure. 

[The E]

Maybe some stupid compatibility mode setting somewhere?

The "unsupported 16 bit app" thing is an error one normally sees only with reeeeaaaalllyyyy old DOS programs.

[MatthTheGeek]

I remember this error prevented me to play the PC version of FF7. Then again, that's a 15 years old game.

[phatosealpha]

It's something going wrong with the installation apparently.  It doesn't seem to be all Win7-64 installs, but I'm not the only one.  Got a list of things to try.

[Liberator]

Spoiler:

*grumble grumble* stupid machines r bad melodrama *grumble grumble*
I don't know if that was supposed to be Luddite or Anit-Luddite

Tell me you're lying.

Wut?  I was referencing Trashman's link.

Spoiler:

The whole crux of the series is that "synthetic lifeforms r bad, reapers kill!" and that the reapers aren't some terror from beyond that destroys for no other reason than it's what they do.  I am SICK TO ****ING DEATH of genuine badass bad guys being pussified into a sympathetic character.  I want some genuine Black Hats who do what they do because they are genuinely evil or at least give me a plot that makes sense.  You absolutely can NOT change the character of the villian of your series from mass murderer to savior at the last god damned minute.  It's like making a movie about Jeffery Dahmer and revealing that the people he ate were going to destroy the world and that's why he ate them.

[General Battuta]

all right you ass butts here i go

[General Battuta]

day 1 dlc check

is battuta a consumer whore?

battuta is all kinds of whore

take my ten bux

e: when the **** did earth alliance space get like as big as council space, did udina do that

[pecenipicek]

i shall be avoiding this thread like the plague until the moment i procure and play the game.

[phatosealpha]

.....Unsupported 16 bit application.  No release date checker.
This is looking worse and worse.
Uninstalled Origin, reinstalling now.

[phatosealpha]

....It was ****ing Securom.