Modding DA on EA's Origin?

[jelle22]

So I got The compleet edition of DA , but not on steam but on Origin, now I was wondering if it is possible to mod DA on Origin as I read that people got banned for modding ME3 on Origin.

[Thandal]

EA allows modding of Dragon Age (and Mass Effect, for that matter; the MEHEM discussion thread is one of the most popular on the BSN) on your own machine, for your own single-player game.

 

For their official response to this very question, see this topic: EA/Bioware's stance on modding Dragon Age.

 

What people get banned by EA for doing is modding ME3 to cheat in the on-line, multi-player game!

 

Happy (modded) Gaming! :thumbsup:

[jelle22]

Thank you for letting me know, wasnt sure if i could do it or not, also can you tell me if the nmm sees the game in origin?

[Thandal]

Yes, NMM works with all known (legitimate) installs of DA and DA2. :thumbsup:

(There was a problem with an earlier version due to EA having removed the specific file that NMM used to locate the game, but that's been fixed!)

 

But be aware that NMM doesn't understand some of the more complicated packaging of mods that some authors employ. So for example, if a mod's .zip file contains multiple "flavours", and the author's instructions say for you to unzip the file and delete the ones you don't want to use...

Well, NMM will not know how to do that. It'll unzip everything and think it's done! :laugh:

 

(Then there's the problem "Character Creator" (CC) mods and integrating a new mod's chargenmorphcfg.xml file with any previously existing one. Again, NMM doesn't understand how to deal with that issue. So it's best to deal with CC mods separately and employ Terra_Ex's "CharGenMorph Compiler" to integrate them for you.)

 

You might want to take a look at this article before going too far on your own: Using Dragon Age Mods for Dummies.