After alot of troubleshooting, im slumped at to what bit is kicking this off, probably the Origin account side of it, so if anyone else is in a similar situation to myself are they able to get confirmation?
I have an AU PS3, but a US PSN account. I was given NFSMW for Christmas and after finishing single player decided to get into Multiplayer. The online pass code which came with the game did not work, this is because of the AU game code on US PSN, so i sucked it up and purchased an online pass.
I downloaded it, i installed it, jumped back into game to play again.... Nada, it's still telling me that i need an online pass. So off to troubleshoot with EA for a few hours... they get me to login to their website with my PSN account, Origin somehow automatically linked the PSN account with my PC Origin account, and i was unable to change it/unbind it? Anyway the EA rep could see everything went through in terms of the online pass purchase on their end, and that it should be active for my account, and that the problem was with the Unlock file which i had downloaded from the PSN, and i should call Sony.
So called Sony... they had a look into it and were able to pick up pretty quickly (maybe its the accent
) that it's not working becuase it's region locked on Origin's end. This would also explain why the in game store in NFSMW showed up as empty and to check back later each day for a week... Since i understand its quite common for games to be region lock free for multiplayer i've not encounterd this kind of problem before...... so im wondering if anyone else whom has a game that connects up to Origin directly within the game has encounterd the same issue... so can spread the word to be weary of them if you're getting the game specifically for Multiplayer untill it can be determined if it's the different game region to PSN region or if it is doing it via your IP.
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