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Forgot to include Return to Ostagar DLC.

European copies of Dragon Age: Ultimate Edition for the PlayStation 3 were shipped with the wrong content, developer BioWare has admitted.

Although the Return to Ostagar DLC is listed in menus, when you try to boot it up you'll be treated to other content instead. That's not quite what we'd describe as 'Ultimate'.

Worry not - publisher EA has got its customer support team on the job. If you're one of those affected drop them a line and they'll be able to manually add the Ostagar campaign to your EA account.

Dragon Age: Ultimate Edition launched last month, packaging together all seven DLC packs with the original Dragon Age: Origins. Just the thing to get you pumped for the forthcoming sequel.

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telboy007 #1 2 years ago

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Oops!
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NewbieZilla #2 2 years ago

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This article comes across as fairly bitter.
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Cosquae #3 2 years ago

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If I remember how good that particular piece of DLC was then perhaps EA are doing owners a favour by not including it.
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dsmx #4 2 years ago

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Doesn't no-one do even basic QA these days?
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McGooch #5 2 years ago

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"it's in the game"

er, actually... no it's not.
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butler` #6 2 years ago

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LOL

oh shi-, we forgot to add an entire portion of the game
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Gambit1977 #7 2 years ago

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And another...

What's that now? 3? Two ps3 and one 360 botched up disc problems in the last few weeks.

/awaits excuses.
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AceGrace #8 2 years ago

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Doesn't help people that are offline though.
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OnlyMe #9 2 years ago

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There are no words...
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kingmong #10 2 years ago

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^ why comment then?
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Gambit1977 #11 2 years ago

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@AceGrace

The exact thing I was saying to people regarding Fallout:NV being a complete mess.

Companies are just taking the piss.
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I\'mListening #12 2 years ago

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I know that it is standard practice to cut portions from the original retail release to then sell on as dlc at a later date, but to cut it from the dlc and sell that on as extra dlc...well, that would be ridiculous!
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sink257 #13 2 years ago

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Offline, in this day and age?

How does one own a PS3 but not internet?
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coolbritannia #14 2 years ago

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Is Dragon Age worth picking up?
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StolenGlory #15 2 years ago

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FAIL.
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geeza2020 #16 2 years ago

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yeah its a good game. Just don't bother with the dlc other than the one that gives you Shale (the extra character) and awakenings. The rest of the DLC is pretty crud IMO.
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DefendoCroc #17 2 years ago

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Epic Fail . lol
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GamesConnoisseur #18 2 years ago

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There are people who was able to make themselves hold off AAA titles and wait months and months for the eventual ultimate edition with all the DLC on it. They also likely force themselves to ration on reading sites in case some silly reviewers throw in spoilers references to the said game in the different and newer RPG games.

Only to suffer the crushing disappointment of finding out that the ultimate package wasn't ultimate after all and the early birds did get the juicy bits after all!!
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Incarta #19 2 years ago

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I solved the problem myself! By buying the 360 version.

But in all seriousness, this isn't some random bug somewhere deep in the sprawling game. How on earth did this slip through!? They didn't even check the menu screen? God knows what other problems there could be, in either version, waiting to be discovered.
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JohnParry #20 2 years ago

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Didn't even notice it wasn't included. Just two minutes on a live chat with one of their advisors and I'm all Ostagared up. I didn't have to download anything, it's all included on the blu-ray but you need to use a code to unlock it.
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evilrobot #21 2 years ago

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Post deleted at 22:12:53 08-05-2012
Farzlepot #22 2 years ago

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Becoming?
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gjgjg #23 2 years ago

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... and for those not online?

Talk about a red face blooper
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Vyper68 #24 2 years ago

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This what you get when you employ darkspawn to oversee disc production
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randompanda #25 2 years ago

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It's on the disc? Isn't this article a bit misleading?
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Phishfood #26 2 years ago

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Penultimate Edition
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Mono_X #27 2 years ago

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How does one own a PS3 but not internet?

By living in part of the world that doesn't have broadband coverage.
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uknortherner2000 #28 2 years ago

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Clever move by EA. It sounds a lot like their Online Pass, i.e. half the content is only available to new buyers and makes the so-called "Ultimate Edition" worthless from the moment you pop the disc into the drive.

Or am I being too cynical?
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FortysixterUK #29 2 years ago

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With the GOTY edition of this game, do you get the content physically on the disc ( or discs ) or is it just a set of download codes ( like the missed opportunity that Borderlands GOTY and Resi 5 GOTY was ? ) ....plus...silly EA.
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Sevens #30 2 years ago

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"Worry not - publisher EA has got its customer support team on the job. If you're one of those affected drop them a line and they'll be able to manually add the Ostagar campaign to your EA account."

Yeah, that's great. Getting all the content on disc was a/the purpose here. Partially back to DLC - plus the requirement for an EA account - now. Worry not, uh-huh.

P.S.:

"The exact thing I was saying to people regarding Fallout:NV being a complete mess.

Companies are just taking the piss."

Of course companies will do that. People don't really seem to care. They happily run through bugfest no 1 (FA 3) and keep on running through the - even worse - Vegas. Well, they simply love DLC -- and apparently consider patches to be free DLC. No wonder they're cheering. By the way, bravo Fable II and III.

Edited by Sevens at 08/11/10 @ 19:52
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