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[Jace Surana]

Guys, I'm still holding out hope that this crap is just a bad april fool's joke.

It almost seems that way.

Modifié par Jace Surana, 30 mars 2010 - 09:41 .

[Starscream723]

ImperialOperative wrote...

Starscream723 wrote...

Kaiser Shepard wrote...

Guys, enough hatred already. I would appreciate it if all of you could read my previous post and quote it if you agree with it. If there enough of us do, I will forward this to BioWare (or maybe they'll notice it before I have to do that).

Perhaps set it up as a group/petition, to more easily show a set amount of support for the idea via the number of people who join the group.

Sorry but I'm gonna have to stop you there.

Internet Petitions are NEVER EVER a good idea.

LOL, I actually just meant a group whereby joining it shows support, thus acting in a similar way to signing a petition.

Besides, repeatedly quoting a post is just a petition that suffers from being unquantifiable.

[coolbeans]

Tawmis wrote...

Starscream723 wrote...

Tawmis wrote...
What if there was no count down? No hype. And one day they posted, "US Residents can now have tokens to claim points to win free swag from Bioware!"
Do you think this backlash would have been avoided?
I personally don't think it would have.
People would have still rioted and complained.

I disagree. I don't recall this much unrest as a result of the Canada-only contest. Plus US-only promotions happen ALL THE TIME. Look at the Dr Pepper thing. Frankly, here outside North America, we're used to it.
The only thing different about this time is that we're not normally intentionally hyped up by a company as a result of a week's worth of marketing, only to be told "LOL, DIDN'T MEAN YOU!" at literally the last second.

See - I live in the US and had no idea about the Dr. Pepper promotion. (Could do more with the fact that I don't drink soda... but considering how obsessed I was with Dragon Age - I somehow completely missed the Dr. Pepper promotion). Even still - I wasn't outraged I missed it.

But I still say even without a countdown there would have been a backlash. Because one day you (anyone on here) would have logged onto the site (since I am sure the token thing would have to be community wide and have no way to specify your region of dwelling) - and there's going to be a thing with tokens. And people would begin posting threads like, "WTF is this token thing on my profile now?" And someone would link a single thread, that got no promotion, and it would say "US Only." And people would have been like, "Wait - what's up with that?" (Except phrased as the more common "srsly epic fail bioware" posts).

I dont agree, lots off companys run regional comps all the time and dont suffer this backlash, cant you see that by billing it as a Community event they've angered there community.

Even my missus was peeved, she only really plays biowares games, she just finished up ME2 and was starting on Awakening.

When she heard of the countdown she was pretty damn excited, expecting something "epic" to hear it was a pishpoor competition that she wasn't even eligible for fracked her off.

[Levi28001]

ImperialOperative wrote...

Starscream723 wrote...

Kaiser Shepard wrote...

Guys, enough hatred already. I would appreciate it if all of you could read my previous post and quote it if you agree with it. If there enough of us do, I will forward this to BioWare (or maybe they'll notice it before I have to do that).

Perhaps set it up as a group/petition, to more easily show a set amount of support for the idea via the number of people who join the group.

Sorry but I'm gonna have to stop you there.

Internet Petitions are NEVER EVER a good idea.

E-Petitions are just an illusion.  Not worth anything.

[doodlesam123]

RageGT wrote...

NONONON, Kaiser Soze

We are just starting. Up to now it's been a warmup! Wait till IGN and Metacritic and GameSpot post their articles on this!

Starscream723 wrote...

BIOWARE'S EPIC COMMUNITY COUNTDOWN SAGA - ON YOUTUBE

Once upon a time, BioWare built up hype with a 7 day long countdown to an "Epic Community Event", which turned out to be an event that excluded most of the community.

People had been misled, hyped up for what turned out to be nothing, and were generally angry at the implication that they apparently didn't count as part of the community.

This is their story.

Dragon Age - BioWare's Map of the World - EPIC FAIL

Lol! Bioware are gonna have a hard time getting out of this one...
I've already seem a few articles bashing Bioware for this...Epic Fail.

[DanPman0317]

Selor Kiith wrote...

Kaiser Shepard wrote...

Guys, enough hatred already. I would appreciate it if all of you could read my previous post and quote it if you agree with it. If there enough of us do, I will forward this to BioWare (or maybe they'll notice it before I have to do that).

Edit: For your convenience, I shall repost my previous post it here:

Kaiser Shepard wrote...

Alright, time to listen you lowly maggots.

We have raged on for long enough now. It is obvious we won't achieve anything with endlessly ranting and spamming. Thus let us use our powers for good instead of evil.

We know BioWare isn't an unreasonable company, neither is EA. How poor their choice of words to advertise this event may have been, there is nothing they can do to circumvent the laws that prevent a contest such as this one from being held worldwide.

But all hope is not yet lost:

Last year, during the final weeks of ye olde Mass Effect forum, BioWare gave us the Gift of the Yeti Facebook game. Each play of the game had BioWare raise a penny for gamer children's charity Child's Play, up to a total of $10.000 USD.

What we ask of BioWare is to repeat this act of kindness. To allow not only every ineligible member of the community, but also every willing legible one to donate his or her Tokens to Child's Play. Whatever a single Token might be worth in US or Canadian dollars is up to BioWare (and EA, I guess) to decide, the same goes for the maximum amount of money set aside for donation.

In the end, this solution will likely prove to be the best for each of the involved parties: BioWare/EA can not only set this incident/miscommunication straight, but also get some good publicity out of this. The community members which were not allowed to participate, can participate for a good cause. And let us not forget Child's Play, which will be allowed to help even more children.

We have saved Ferelden from the Darkspawn, we have fought for the lost, now let us Fight for the Children.

Frakkin' listen to this dude... dammit!

I agree, and that guy who quoted it saying we should ignore this post is an idiot. Read it and realize that complaining a contest is not worldwide and thinking htey will release a comment is crazy. They have nothing to comment on, expect that the lead up to the announcement was poor.

[AngryFrozenWater]

Although I love Funkadelic's "Maggot's Brain", maybe the "lowly maggots" is a bit too much?

[Levi28001]

doodlesam123 wrote...

RageGT wrote...

NONONON, Kaiser Soze

We are just starting. Up to now it's been a warmup! Wait till IGN and Metacritic and GameSpot post their articles on this!

Starscream723 wrote...

BIOWARE'S EPIC COMMUNITY COUNTDOWN SAGA - ON YOUTUBE

Once upon a time, BioWare built up hype with a 7 day long countdown to an "Epic Community Event", which turned out to be an event that excluded most of the community.

People had been misled, hyped up for what turned out to be nothing, and were generally angry at the implication that they apparently didn't count as part of the community.

This is their story.

Dragon Age - BioWare's Map of the World - EPIC FAIL

Lol! Bioware are gonna have a hard time getting out of this one...
I've already seem a few articles bashing Bioware for this...Epic Fail.

  That was the best thing i've seen yet. 

That black guy at the end sitting by himself at the "Bioware Bazzarr" was the best.

Should edit him out and put a picture of that Chris guy on these forums from Bioware.  Would be great if someone could do that.

[MOTpoetryION]

well i cant go into detail but a great idea has come out of this whole thing. so rest asured thing are going to change for the better ok guys just go and play the game relieve yourself by killing collecters with EA logos on their backs

[ImperialOperative]

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Xhc4o_VttCo

Hey guys, go watch this EPIC FAIL BIOWARE video.

DO IT FOR THE LULZ

[imran shah]

hehehehhehhe



hihihihihhiihhh

[DragonRageGT]

The idea of Kaiser Sheppard is altogether good. I'd sign for it. but again...

Sloth Of Doom wrote...

For the 10000th time the issue isnt the contest, the issue is the false advertising before the contest, implying that it was to be community wide. And THAT was the fault of Bioware.Pay attention.

Yep... and the fact that we were all invited to some EPIC event, spent 6 days on a queue for admittance and what? what? The event is far from Epic and we had the door shut right at our faces!

[MOTpoetryION]

that is a great vid by the way +20 approval

[ImperialOperative]

ImperialOperative wrote...

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Xhc4o_VttCo

Hey guys, go watch this EPIC FAIL BIOWARE video.

DO IT FOR THE LULZ

[Dark_Rogue]

Jace Surana wrote...

Guys, I'm still holding out hope that this crap is just a bad april fool's joke.

It almost seems that way.

If this really was an early "April Fool's" joke then it's a very bad joke...it's seemed to have backfired totally with the amount of backlash recieved on here.

[Jace Surana]

Neofelis Nebulosa wrote...

imran shah wrote...

tnx bro...
EPIC FAIL PPL !!!!!!!

I can't help it ...

Awwww...

Adorable yet scary. Kind of like a Mabari. 

[Chris Priestly]

I know many of you have been waiting for word from BioWare on the BioWare Bazaar and our Community. Sorry to make you wait, but we wanted to make sure you understood how important all of our Community are to us. As such, we went right to the top for a response.

See this thread:
http://social.biowar...3/index/1988326

Modifié par Chris Priestly, 30 mars 2010 - 09:50 .

[Starscream723]

ImperialOperative wrote...

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Xhc4o_VttCo

Hey guys, go watch this EPIC FAIL BIOWARE video.

DO IT FOR THE LULZ

Good Sir, I am going to click that anyway, just because.

[DragonRageGT]

ImperialOperative wrote...



Hey guys, go watch this EPIC FAIL BIOWARE video.

DO IT FOR THE LULZ

Placing a wrong url on a link is not very polite, you know... typical scum tactics! Or is it scam.. scum.. both...

[Levi28001]

RageGT wrote...

The idea of Kaiser Sheppard is altogether good. I'd sign for it. but again...

Sloth Of Doom wrote...
For the 10000th time the issue isnt the contest, the issue is the false advertising before the contest, implying that it was to be community wide. And THAT was the fault of Bioware.Pay attention.

Yep... and the fact that we were all invited to some EPIC event, spent 6 days on a queue for admittance and what? what? The event is far from Epic and we had the door shut right at our faces!

That and they just tack on a small donation to a charity to try to make their fail PR stunt look for the good.  Seems to get people falling into that now...

[Vincent Rosevalliant]

AngryFrozenWater wrote...

I was thinking about what Mr Woo said as a reaction to this post...

Stanley Woo wrote...

Please don't spam the forums.

End of line.

That's our anwer. The thread was locked.

Source: Any response expected?

... It looks like it is cool to spam websites with their Bazaar links (in fact BioWare is encouraging it), but at the same time he shuts up anyone who "spams" an opinion about BioWare's rude behavior. That simply does not compute.

True

[S0und]

Just posting into this EPIC thread.

[AngryFrozenWater]

That BioWare's Epic Community Countdown Saga clip is great! Thanks!

[Sensei Wuzi]

Chris Priestly wrote...

I know many of you have been waiting for word from BioWare on the BioWare Bazaar and our Community. Sorry to make you wait, but we wanted to make sure you understood how important all of our COmmunity are to us. As such, we went right to the top for a response.

See this thread:
http://social.biowar...3/index/1988326

OMG! we got something! dam... before 200 threads too... that sucks... lol