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Providing you have bought the PC version of the game and are waiting until Monday night/Tuesday morning to unlock the game you can be playing it right now.
Tested this myself and it works, you basically make EA think you are in hong kong where the game just got released, everybody from America, Europe etc. are all using this to get it early.
This is with Windows 7 64bit
First open Internet Explorer.
Go to tools, Go to internet options Go to connections Go to lan settings Tick "use a proxy server for your lan...." box. Put this in the address bar "113.10.164.138" (without quotes) Put this in the port bar "80" (again without quotes) Hit ok.
Now open Origin and let it log in, the web now thinks you are from china. This may take a while because its trying to send the info from your machine to china and then from china to EA and back to china then back to your machine.
Once logged in start mass effect 3 and it will go through the unlock process.
It will bring up various things like Eula's and confirmation boxes.
run mass effect and once it starts up u can close it and
Open Internet explorer and follow the original instructions again but untick the proxy box and hit ok.
This reverts your net back to your actual location.
and now u can play, enjoy

1) Download the free VPN client from www.flyvpn.com/download, you can get either version.
2) Don't bother registering an account they provide you with free trial username/password here www.flyvpn.com/freetrial
3) Before logging into the VPN, make sure you're already logged into the Origin client.
4) Log in with whatever password is on at that page at the time. You'll have to use whatever combination they have at the time of Hong Kong ME3 release.
5) A menu will pop up when you log in, keep every setting default except select the "Asia" tab and click on one of the HongKong IP VPNs. Hit connect, it should then automatically disappear into your task bar.
6) Start up Mass Effect 3 from your shortcut or origin client.
7) Your game should unlock.
8) After release date authentication, you can disconnect from the VPN and uninstall it if you desire.

Other good news is that Bioware won't banned players who making use of FLYVPN and unlocking and activating Mass Effect 3 early. So guys what are you waiting for, if you reside in ASIA then just activate Mass Effect 3 and enjoy.

well i would be going to Asia this summer so if the game got released there i could have gotten it but sadly i bought the game on ps3 collectors edition so i cant get it early i have to wait for 8 march

Well all i can say is:

"where there is a will,There is always a way.

User Pass Not working. Limit Reached.

How odd this doesn't work, I'm guessing they found out what people are doing and blocked it now.

Thanks for the Chance.

Looks like Origin is down too.. "Conspiracy?"
Guess I'll wait for the True Release.. Thanks Much..

P.S Superior Job on first Trainer Guys.. 8)

[Edited by Gismoland, 3/6/2012 4:27:33 AM]

Because free VPN's are limited to amount of use. I believe the one above only has 3 uses.

just a side point... isnt the game now available everywhere at this point?

best,
Cal