Can I play MELE solely on Steam?

[Maken X]

Without installing any extra from EA? Need to know before getting it.

[Basan™]

No, highly alas, the EA (Cr)App game launcher/store from Electronic Arts (EA) is their DRM (Digital Rights Management) tool and you'll need to install it even if acquiring Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (ME:LE) from Steam (and the same applies to all other EA games.

Luckily for us it's now way better than when it was initially launched, thus replacing their former launcher/store, Origin, because back in those days is was a buggy mess coupled with being a resource hog (probably due to memory leaking).

[Maken X]

thanks.

[Cal]

Pity they gotta push their buggy Digital Restrictions Management on Steam. Guess I won't be buying this after all. Thanks for the info. :)

[Eventide]

Also disappointed to hear about these roadblocks. Older EA titles like C&C Remastered and Red Alert 3 don't have these requirements. Perhaps in a few more years this title will qualify for the 'ez play' treatment ;)

I've played ME2 via physical media: back in the old PC days when you typed in a code during installation, and boom - game plays with no other sign-ups required. (ME2 did offer some optional DLC you could sign up for, using another code to download it. The key word being 'optional'.)

[Basan™]

Originally posted by Eventide:

Also disappointed to hear about these roadblocks. Older EA titles like C&C Remastered and Red Alert 3 don't have these requirements. Perhaps in a few more years this title will qualify for the 'ez play' treatment ;)

I've played ME2 via physical media: back in the old PC days when you typed in a code during installation, and boom - game plays with no other sign-ups required. (ME2 did offer some optional DLC you could sign up for, using another code to download it. The key word being 'optional'.)

I've got both of those and reacquired Red Alert 3 (RA3) due to my initial one being in CD-DVD and in those days I wasn't trusting to acquire its Uprising DLC only through digital method. Now got it bundled in Steam, at a sales discount opportunity that arose.

Tbh, the Command & Conquer (C&C) was one of the 1st RTS games I've played at a friend's house way back from those days when was at University (prior to 21st century even had started) and reacquired it for free when they released it. And lately I wasn't managing to play it above an Windows 7 OS (Operating System[/i] and had reacquired the C&C Remaster due to sheer sentimental value I had attached to it. And thus far, it was one of the few remaster choices that hadn't failed me unlike my favourite RTS of all times [url]StarCraft-BroodWar (SC-BW) "Remaster" was because it wasn't made by Blizzard but rather by Blizzard-ActiVision and thus didn't brought the initial 1998's campaign editor equivalent.