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[kiran]

Are there no English people?
Oh well...
 

Modifié par kiran, 29 mars 2010 - 08:36 .

[Eshaye]

This would have gone so much better if we'd gotten something lame like a bioware facebook app, at least we could ALL participate.



Next time make sure you've got in fine print under your countdown that it's only for the US community, and not make the rest of the community wait along. Although I imagine people would still have made a lot of threads about it and not have been totally happy with it either, but I don't think the backlash would have been this bad.



A Mass Effect flash game would have been fun, maybe we could have competed for in game armor codes or something... A BioWare fan convention announcement would have been way awesome and what better way to celebrate your b-day?

[Elvis_Mazur]

Lucas_Is_Calling wrote...

HAHHAHAHA


Good one:wizard:

[NebulaY]

Mistress9Nine wrote...

the_one_54321 wrote...

Mistress9Nine wrote...
Just stop defending them.

No.

They may not have handled this the best way they could have, but it's still awesome. There are lots of Europeans offering us well wishes while wishing they could participate as well. Everyone should follow that mature and positive example.

I'm down with that. I wish I could toss my points over to one of my many friends here, what I mean by stop defending them, is to stop defending them your legal mambo-jumbo cause it's completely true that BioWare had worldwide giveaways in the past. Some even stating "We'll send you your prize no matter where you live blah blah blah".

If you want these people to get over it then that's fine, but don't say BioWare didn't screw us over with false adverising and that they are restricting it to the U.S. for purely legal resons cause it' ain't true.

even without shipping they could have put some digital stuff up for non-us (and ny/fl) residents to win...beta-key guarantees, digital CEs, bioware points and so on

[yuncas]

binaryemperor wrote...

I need a "I used to be part of the community, now I'm just Alaskan" Banner.

^Someone^ can't read. NY and Florida are the only states excluded.

[Firnwind]

Starscream723 wrote...

Lucas_Is_Calling wrote...

This is so epic, you just earned 50,000 Win Tokens.

[coolbeans]

BlargleFlarp wrote...

I currently have 2220 points. I will put all of my points and any give to me by people clicking


http://social.bioware.com/brc/277613


to win one of the laptops (M11x AlienWare Laptops). If I win it I will not keep it but will GIVE IT to someone who is not eligible due to their location.

For the record, my full and real name is David Nihsen and I live in Omaha, Nebraska. I don't want you guys to think I'm trying to pull a fast one or **** for points.

I think this is a crap move pulled on all those who don't live in the "correct" 48 states.

Not sure about the rules behind linking sites here because I don't come here that much, but if you Google ""dave nihsen" forum" you'll have my little home. I'm not trying to drive traffic there, but it's really the best place to reach me.

If I win it then someone outside the US (or in New York or Florida) will get it through a random drawing.

Again, I will not charge for anything including postage, shipping, whatever. And I'll ship it anywhere. Laugh at me if you want, participate if you want or just berate me verbally. But I'm putting my information out there to help out the COMMUNITY.

Daves a nice guy and knows more about running a "community" than bioware seems to, if he says he'll do it, he'll damn well do it.

[the_one_54321]

Mistress9Nine wrote...
If you want these people to get over it then that's fine, but don't say BioWare didn't screw us over with false adverising and that they are restricting it to the U.S. for purely legal resons cause it' ain't true.

Legal reasons don't mean that they are legally restricted. It means that they weighed the options and costs of fulfilling all the legal requirements for making the contest multi-national and decided it wasn't worth it.

They didn't say "we only like America (minus New York and Florida)" to draw the contest lines. They said "we don't want to go through the trouble/pay the extra money to make this contest cross borders." 

[DragonRageGT]

Deleted the 1st one... this one is better!

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

Why do I keep listening "From Yesterday - in his face is the map of the world... the map of the world" in my head is beyond me... it does not play in this vid!

[binaryemperor]

Ruari wrote...

binaryemperor wrote...

Not that I really care about countdowns or the bazaar or anything but...

WHY DO YOU JERKS ALWAYS EXCLUDE ALASKA FROM EVERY EVENT EVER? [/capslock]

There's like, less than half a million of us over here, and I bet I would be the ONLY ALASKAN that would be part of this event. Just pay the extra 5 bucks for shipping and make us igloo dwellers happy, or we'll secede from the US and annex Canada. *threating glare*

I thought the only excluded states were Florida and New York.

I figure they won't ship here once they find out the shipping costs.

I may be wrong though, but "anywhere where prohibited" means "NO ALASKA, LOL"

Modifié par binaryemperor, 29 mars 2010 - 08:37 .

[Selor Kiith]

Somebody1003 wrote...

Where do you guys find these part of the community banners?

Starscream made a bunch and the rest are done by whoever did them *gg*

Simple paint job...

Although I stick with the European one... looks way more cool than probably having the only german flag xD

[Fathis Munk]

the_one_54321 wrote...

Mistress9Nine wrote...
If you want these people to get over it then that's fine, but don't say BioWare didn't screw us over with false adverising and that they are restricting it to the U.S. for purely legal resons cause it' ain't true.

Legal reasons don't mean that they are legally restricted. It means that they weighed the options and costs of fulfilling all the legal requirements for making the contest multi-national and decided it wasn't worth it.

They didn't say "we only like America (minus New York and Florida)" to draw the contest lines. They said "we don't want to go through the trouble/pay the extra money to make this contest cross borders." 

Then don't hype us. Period.

[LPPrince]

[GraciousCat]

the_one_54321 wrote...

Mistress9Nine wrote...
If you want these people to get over it then that's fine, but don't say BioWare didn't screw us over with false adverising and that they are restricting it to the U.S. for purely legal resons cause it' ain't true.

Legal reasons don't mean that they are legally restricted. It means that they weighed the options and costs of fulfilling all the legal requirements for making the contest multi-national and decided it wasn't worth it.

They didn't say "we only like America (minus New York and Florida)" to draw the contest lines. They said "we don't want to go through the trouble/pay the extra money to make this contest cross borders." 

Then they shouldn't have put up a worldwide countdown...

[Selor Kiith]

Somebody1003 wrote...
I want a New York one.

He made one... some has it already in their sigs just browse through this thread

[LPPrince]

Somebody1003 wrote...

Selor Kiith wrote...

Somebody1003 wrote...

Where do you guys find these part of the community banners?

Starscream made a bunch and the rest are done by whoever did them *gg*

Simple paint job...

Although I stick with the European one... looks way more cool than probably having the only german flag xD

I want a New York one.

My sig-

[Zavox]

the_one_54321 wrote...

Mistress9Nine wrote...
If you want these people to get over it then that's fine, but don't say BioWare didn't screw us over with false adverising and that they are restricting it to the U.S. for purely legal resons cause it' ain't true.

Legal reasons don't mean that they are legally restricted. It means that they weighed the options and costs of fulfilling all the legal requirements for making the contest multi-national and decided it wasn't worth it.

They didn't say "we only like America (minus New York and Florida)" to draw the contest lines. They said "we don't want to go through the trouble/pay the extra money to make this contest cross borders." 

I think they are already regretting that decision if it's merely based on costs. It's definately not worth this PR nightmare.

[Harorrd]

Dethateer wrote...

Nizzemancer wrote...






enjoy

Aren't sweeds, danes and norwegians europeans?

us between, they are plaing to take over the world 

[Miriel Amarinth]

Somebody1003 wrote...

Where do you guys find these part of the community banners?

They're scattered throughout the entire thread and posted as people started making more of them. Just grab one you like from someone's sig (r-click -> view image), copy the link and put it in your signature with IMG tags around it.

[Axeface]

kiran wrote...

Are there no English people?
Oh well...
 

I'm half english half uruguayan, perhaps I can use both? XD

Nice sig.

[Deco Bryl]

Not cool, BioWare. Locking out most of the world is bad enough, but kicking your countrymen in the teeth?! Why don't you close your Canadian offices and immigrate to the U.S. while you're at it?!

You wanna engage my emotions? Well, you've engaged them. Too bad it's all the wrong ones.

[Fathis Munk]

Zavox wrote...

the_one_54321 wrote...

Mistress9Nine wrote...
If you want these people to get over it then that's fine, but don't say BioWare didn't screw us over with false adverising and that they are restricting it to the U.S. for purely legal resons cause it' ain't true.

Legal reasons don't mean that they are legally restricted. It means that they weighed the options and costs of fulfilling all the legal requirements for making the contest multi-national and decided it wasn't worth it.

They didn't say "we only like America (minus New York and Florida)" to draw the contest lines. They said "we don't want to go through the trouble/pay the extra money to make this contest cross borders." 

I think they are already regretting that decision if it's merely based on costs. It's definately not worth this PR nightmare.

I hope you're right. I'm wondering, what will they think ?

Too bad for them ? Had to be expected ? Crap, this didn't work out like expected ?