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Despite issues involving random card packs of upgrades, I have been really enjoying the multiplayer of Mass Effect 3. I like shooting dudes and casting spells and so on and so forth. It’s fun. It’s exciting. It’s exciting fun. Plus, you’re earning this Readiness rating, which could potentially be a nice bonus for the single player.

So I played a bunch, and then I dug into the single player. Then Aesa showed up and I kind of took a break.

Then I came back, and my Readiness had fallen about 8 percent.

Why the fuck does it fall so fast? I’m okay with the idea of playing multiplayer to up that rating, but why does it fall at all? Mass Effect 3 is a game people are going to replay. To ask them to put like 4 hours into the multiplayer every time they want to play through the game again to get that rating is FUCKING INSANE. What’s more, it doesn’t decrease if you don’t connect to the online server: Chris at work maxed it out, and then disconnected because he doesn’t have internet at his house, and he’s still at 100%. As long as he doesn’t play ME3 online, he’ll always be at 100% readiness. The game is encouraging him not to play the multiplayer or use any online feature of the game, basically, so he can do his multiple playthroughs, which seems like a bad move on EA’s part, and that means it’s impossible for him to waste money on their stupid microtransactions. What the fuck.

Anyway, I decided this is a thing that I have to deal with either way, so I get this ME3 Datapad app to play this minigame as an alternate route to upping that number. I try to log into what is apparently now my Origin account in order to hook the minigame up to my main game. I have no idea what the password is, though: EA always just logs me in to that stuff automatically. So I try to do a simple password reset.
It keeps throwing “server errors” at me, and telling me to try again later.
After about 15 minutes of this and being frustrated, I decided to try typing in a different password.
It changed.
My password wasn’t meeting their password requirements. But it was never going to tell me that.

Fuck EA and Fuck Origin, is basically what I am saying here.