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[KalDurenik]

Well tbh im used to not being allowed into contests (mainly because their sponsors are mainly in US anyway) but this is some very epic FAIL

[heretica]

I just woke up and I come here and the forum has grown 40 pages!!



Still, no word from Bioware?

[Sol Nox]

Okay, the closest thing we have to a complete signature list: The Community Signature Bazaar!



Represent! Or whatever the masses say these days...

[Starscream723]

Reiisha wrote...

Stupid US gambling laws.

Just hold the contest in Canada or so instead. I mean, i'm smarting over the exclusion of Europe and the rest of the world, but excluding Canada for this contest is just a plain and painful mistake on Bioware's part.

Or more realistically (since this is EA and they do US-exclusive promotions all the time) just don't deliberately build hype amongst a large number of fans, when you already know you're going to be disappointing them.

[Eshaye]

Starscream723 wrote...

Reiisha wrote...

Stupid US gambling laws.

Just hold the contest in Canada or so instead. I mean, i'm smarting over the exclusion of Europe and the rest of the world, but excluding Canada for this contest is just a plain and painful mistake on Bioware's part.

Or more realistically (since this is EA and they do US-exclusive promotions all the time) just don't deliberately build hype amongst a large number of fans, when you already know you're going to be disappointing them.

+10

See if we'd known it was a US contest sure there would have been one protest thread, but many more of us would have been happy and posting well wishes to our American friends in this thread instead of this communal grumbling. I know I would have. 

[Badpie]

This is truly an amazing thing to witness. It's like a car crash. I can't look away.

[doodlesam123]

Bioware. I will not change my siggy until we get at least some aknowledgement.
Its not the fact that we cannot take part in this contest, its more the implication that we are not part of the community. I couldn't care less about country laws objecting to us taking part, Its more the point that they set up a countdown, watched the whole community hype themselves up, and did not bother to once specify  that the event would be 48 states only.
Seriously Bioware, you have let down a lot of fans. The only way you can even try to redeem yourselves is by posting one post of apology. But...I guess not.

[Symbolz]

Starscream723 wrote...

Reiisha wrote...

Stupid US gambling laws.

Just hold the contest in Canada or so instead. I mean, i'm smarting over the exclusion of Europe and the rest of the world, but excluding Canada for this contest is just a plain and painful mistake on Bioware's part.

Or more realistically (since this is EA and they do US-exclusive promotions all the time) just don't deliberately build hype amongst a large number of fans, when you already know you're going to be disappointing them.

QFT.  This whole thing could have been avoid by just saying seven days ago, "Hey everybody!  We have a contest here for US residents, minus those pesky states of New York and Florida."

Seven days I waited.  I wasn't hoping for much.  Something interesting, a DLC, hell even a book, but a contest which only 20% of the online fanbase (from what we can tell from the polls) can even partake?

Nope.  Huge disappointment.   you BW but you'd been better off without the countdown.  Just saying.

Modifié par Symbol117, 30 mars 2010 - 03:07 .

[Starscream723]

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[Mooner911]

It's a shame that so many Bioware (ex?)fans have been left out of this contest. And it's a shame that so many Bioware (ex?)fans have experienced their first wake-up call to corporate marketing exclusivity laws. I don't want to sound like some BW cheerleader here lest Jack jump my sh*t, but I doubt BW wrote any of those laws. They do have to abide by them tho.

With that aside, I'm quite stoked that I have a chance to win some pretty fookin awesome prizes! Just a bit disappointed that I probably need to be a twitterer or face-planter to be in the running for one of the top prizes.

[Agorme]

wonder if we will ever get an official answer

[Eshaye]

Starscream723 wrote...

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What? You don't take tokens?   

**stashes tokens in a corner in case there's ever a token emergency** 

[Bruno Hslaw]

EA obviously hates all none US members and just wants to taunt them.



The sad part is that BW let this happen. They knew damned well prior to the stupid count down being launched most forum members would be screwed over yet built the hype anyway.



I do not mind them doing yet another contest excluding me as a none American I am used to that. Its the way they did the count down as if it actually was for the community not just the special ones in the USA.

[Selor Kiith]

Starscream723 wrote...


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Is it just me or does the page refuse to load properly or is the page just overloaded xD

[DragonRageGT]

At 0days:00hours:00mins:00secs ... it did not start... unless the Epic Event was the Server Crash... hmmm... come to think of it... it was Epic... FAIL!

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[Symbolz]

Agorme wrote...

wonder if we will ever get an official answer

Probably not until they have all the people responsible into Witness Protection.  That's my theory.

[Horox]

Burkey0307 wrote...

Wow this thread has grown faster than any other on this forum.

And what about Tali thread on ME2?

[Shizuru]

Posting on a forum for the very first time in 15 years to express my disappointment at this countdown/exclusion debacle.
At least we're all sisters and brothers in our shared sorrow.

And good luck to our American friends who do get to participate.

[Kenrae]

One would expect more intelligence from their part. Whose idea was that? This is one of the worst marketing moves I've ever seen.

[Vellen]

Can't believe there is still no word from bioware, this is the fasted growing thread I have seen on the forum.

[Starscream723]

Selor Kiith wrote...

Starscream723 wrote...


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(Not really, but we can pretend it is...)

OPERATION: BIOFAIL

An exclusive DLC game for PC, in the old-school point-and-click genre, Operation: BIOFAIL lets players relive the Epic Community Countdown again and again. Never forget the Epic Disappointment, with this exclusive game.

Download the 4.73MB file, and run it to begin.

www.filedropper.com/biowareepicfail

Guaranteed virus-free, and free of charge too.

Is it just me or does the page refuse to load properly or is the page just overloaded xD

It seems slow all of a sudden... It was working. Perhaps it is overloaded.

[MAXIMUS667]

time to give BW an incindiary up the shoot

[Burkey0307]

Vellen wrote...

Can't believe there is still no word from bioware, this is the fasted growing thread I have seen on the forum.

Their PRs are probably running around like baboons trying to formulate an appropriate response for this nonsense.

[Kenrae]

Darht Jayder wrote...

Kenrae wrote...

One would expect more intelligence from their part. Whose idea was that? This is one of the worst marketing moves I've ever seen.

Someone will inevitably say EA but I refuse to let Bioware completely off the hook as much as i would like to.  They are still their own company, with their own CEO, and still have some say on their marketing.

Most say, actually. People now blame EA for everything, it's the perfect situation for Bioware. "I can do whatever I want, they won't blame me anyway".
Besides, they decided to sell, so even if that weren't the case it's they fault too.