Wow, just from looking at the official BioWare forums, I can see that a lot of people are having problems with Dragon Age. I mean, approximately 20% of the forum’s topics reside in the technical support category. Granted, there probably are a lot of duplicate posts on similar issues (in addition to general stupidity – though this isn’t as likely given the game is rated M).
It seems like most of the problems are because of differences in hardware/software or general misconfiguration. There definitely is an advantage to making games solely for consoles (homogeneous hardware, plug-and-play, etc.), but that’s a topic for another day…
As for me, I’ve had relatively few problems getting the game up and running. Sometimes when I’ve Alt-Tabbed to another window though, the game freezes and unexpectedly quits when I try to resume. This gets annoying, but it happens so infrequently that I’m willing to overlook it. Indeed, once I got into the habit of saving often (which is a good idea in case the plotline doesn’t go the way you want it to 
), I lost very little time when I do get booted.
It looks like the online player profile system is still having issues as well. Last week, it was having problems updating – sometimes taking as much as 5 days before changes are recorded. Now it appears that BioWare is doing maintenance on the whole works as certain sections (like managing screenshots) can’t be accessed. Hopefully they can get it working smoothly again. I think part of the problem was that their servers couldn’t handle the load right after the game launched (as everyone was creating characters at the same time). Perhaps a queuing system or some sort of load distribution mechanism should’ve been implemented (assuming it hasn’t already). Eh, whatever.
The game is still awesome, for what it’s worth.
Tags: Dragon Age: Origins
at least the game doesnt give you motion sickness, unlike some other games i could name >.>
What, Street Fighter IV? I’m still surprised your keyboard hasn’t died yet from all the smashing you do.
it was hl2 and portal actually. sf4 doesnt give me motion sickness, but the same cant be said for my keyboard lol.
I still haven’t tried HL2 yet. >.> …nor finished Portal for that matter. And it’s supposedly a short game too. Gah.