Battlefield 4 DRM Locking Out Part of North America Until EU Release

An anonymous reader writes "On the whole, Battlefield 4 had a reasonable launch. The have clearly learned from their past experiences with Battlefield 3 and, more notably, SimCity. Still, some customers are unable to access the game (until, presumably, October 30th at 7PM EDT, 39 hours after launch) because they are incorrectly flagged by region-locking. Do regional release dates help diminish all the work EA has been putting into Origin with their refund policy and live technical support? Should they just take our money and deliver the service before we change our minds?"

Re:Welcome to the rest of the world

[houstonbofh]

But at least region locking prevented piracy! Oh, wait... http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/9118685/Battlefield_4_Update_1-RELOADED [thepiratebay.sx]

Well, at least a fix is released!