Mass Effect 2 Launch Soured by Activation Code Issues

Nationwide, late-night gamers who waited in the freezing cold for their copies of Mass Effect 2 are arriving home to find their experience soured by poor instructions given by EA. Packaged with first-issue copies of the game is a code to unlock the in-game Cerberus Network, which provides access to bonus downloadable content for the game. The instructions on the insert say to enter the code on the website. If the user has done this before launching the game, in order to gain access to Cerberus right away, they soon find out, upon launching the game, that there is a spot in game to insert the code, and the code is now invalid.