
After decades of making renowned games like Baldur's Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, Ohlen wants to step away from game development for a while.Īs he moves into a new phase of his career, I hopped on the phone with him to discuss why he left when he did, his self-perceived biggest successes and regrets from his two decades at the company, BioWare's future prospect, and his return to the D&D roots that informed his approach to game design. If anyone else has more information for us on these details, please make a post in our Nexusmods thread.Earlier this month, 22-year BioWare veteran James Ohlen announced his departure from the famed RPG studio. This is necessary to authorize the DLC and make it playable. Non-Origin disk owners should also remember that they need to take their game online (connect to EA’s servers) at least once after installing/re-installing their game or after installing a new DLC. What this comes down to is that current non-Origin disk owners should be okay, but if you purchase a new non-Origin copy (yes, these are still available on Amazon) and your version doesn’t come with “Cerberus Network”, then you might have problems.

EA’s help page for buying/activating the “Cerberus Network” pack still references the BSN site. In addition, certain Mass Effect 2 DLC require “Cerberus Network” to function, which also isn’t available for download. All DLC downloads are available (see above) however, this does NOT include promotional DLC content that needs redemption codes (Dr. This situation applies to physical disk owners whose games aren’t installed under Origin.



BioWare User Entitlements (product keys + promo codes)
