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[Finiffa]

Sloth Of Doom wrote...

Alodar wrote...

I totally want that for my signature.

Wouldve been nice if he had given credits to the guy on the Mass Effect Forum that created these for Europeans, Canadian, Australians and New Yorkers..... http://social.biowar...0445/27#1963366

Modifié par Finiffa, 29 mars 2010 - 06:37 .

[Efesell]

So much overreacting.

[Alodar]

davidk1991 wrote...

Alodar wrote...

Aww sweet, someone make a European one please.

These are all from StarScream723

[Nukenin]

So, someone at Bioware and/or Electronic Arts and/or whatever marketing spin doctors bamboozled 'em thought that this was (a) a good idea and ( exciting?

Must be something funky in the water out there.  When was it last tested?

I suppose it'll be a fun scam for those that enjoy these sorts of social networking shenanigans.  I'm sure there are folks out there hiring on botnets or sock or meat puppets to "click" their referral links.  Referral links!  In 2010!  

But it is truly a bloody travesty that you exclude so many of your ardent fans and customers by limiting the "epic community event" to a fractional subset of your actual community.

There are so many better things you could have done with the time and effort this must be taking that you should just hang your heads collectively in shame, defenestrate those who think this sort of nonsense is the way to carry on, and then get back to developing and refining your games and IP and delivering the goods we care about.

Modifié par Nukenin, 29 mars 2010 - 06:36 .

[KCFender]

Marketing!!! LOL. What a soulless way to make a living.

[Alexia Natalie]

Ah yes, upon reading the contest rules, us Europeans are not even considered. An epic community event and doesn't include Europe. Thanks and there I was thinking my 5450 'tokens' would be useful. Can only agree whole heartily with others here, you launch a community event for just the US? Thats what 30% of your market? Poorly done Bioware, poorly done. You can stick your tokens where the sun doesn't shine.

[Arius23]

Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe there are legal reasons why they can't run this contest throughout the entire world? Do you really think they are purposely trying to screw their consumers?



Yeesh, calm down people.

[Alodar]

Finiffa wrote...

Sloth Of Doom wrote...

Alodar wrote...

I totally want that for my signature.

Wouldve been nice if he had given credits to the guy on the Mass Effect Forum that created these for Europeans, Canadian, Australians and New Yorkers.....http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/103/index/1960445/27#1963366

I did.
I posted it and then went back to the Mass Effect thread and edited the post to include the name.

Unfortunately it was quoted before StarScream723 got the credit.

[TMJfin]

Yeah! I've got over 5000 points, wohooo!!! Oh, wait...

[tr0tsky]

Stippling wrote...

Not to interrupt the rants (=P), but does anyone know how they give you the points? There's no real link between my twitter I made and this Bioware account. How will they know?

I assume they'll DM you and ask what your bioware account is if you are one of the 100 (?) chosen for that answer.

[Mr. Monius]

Stippling wrote...

Not to interrupt the rants (=P), but does anyone know how they give you the points? There's no real link between my twitter I made and this Bioware account. How will they know?

I'm assuming they have a dedicated link? I don't know.

I'd also like to know when winners are announced, so I can delete my answers. (I run a tight Twitter ship. *HE SAID, THREE TIMES FAST*)

[Alexia Natalie]

Ah yes, upon reading the contest rules, us Europeans are not even considered. An epic community event and doesn't include Europe. Thanks and there I was thinking my 5450 'tokens' would be useful. Can only agree whole heartily with others here, you launch a community event for just the US? Thats what 30% of your market? Poorly done Bioware, poorly done. You can stick your tokens where the sun doesn't shine.



Even if there are 'reasons' for not including most of the gaming world, they should not coin a community event as 'epic' when it is only open for a fraction of their playerbase. Why give EU players tokens? Badly thought out and executed.

[T1l]

Arius23 wrote...

Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe there are legal reasons why they can't run this contest throughout the entire world? Do you really think they are purposely trying to screw their consumers?

Yeesh, calm down people.

You can get around lottery restrictions. The thing is, that costs money and clearly whoever set up this "community event" either didn't look in to that, or didn't give enough of a sh!t about the community to care.

[Finiffa]

Alodar wrote...
[I did.
I posted it and then went back to the Mass Effect thread and edited the post to include the name.

Unfortunately it was quoted before StarScream723 got the credit.

Ok never mind me then .  Was too fast

[Varenus Luckmann]

Alodar wrote...





Alodar

Thanks to StarScream723 for the banner.

Alright. I'm stealing that for a userbar. I hope no-one minds.

One European coming right up.

[sdc3536]

Arius23 wrote...

Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe there are legal reasons why they can't run this contest throughout the entire world? Do you really think they are purposely trying to screw their consumers?

Yeesh, calm down people.

Thats easy for you to say since you are probably able to actually participate. I for one feel kinda screwed over, now Im not really blaming anyone. But it just seems like those legal problems probably aren't the hardest to get around. I mean if 48 other states could do it, are the other 2 really giving you that much of a hard time?

[Stormghost]

Yes, thanks to StarScream723 for the banners.

[Efesell]

Ugh those are actually going to be used now aren't they.

Ridiculous.

[Alodar]

Arius23 wrote...

Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe there are legal reasons why they can't run this contest throughout the entire world? Do you really think they are purposely trying to screw their consumers?

Yeesh, calm down people.

This was billed as an "Epic Community Event"
As has been said many times had BioWare introduced this as a community event that due to legal reasons could only be avaivlable in the 48 states that are included in the auction and started the countdown, it would not be an issue.

This vitriol  is because it was billed as and Epic Community event yet it is open to 48 states and excludes many folks who considered themselves part of the BioWare community.

Alodar

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Goatta say considering Bioware is a Canadian company why do we Canadians always get the shaft?

[RoscoNeko]

not cool. I'm in South Africa

[Cat Lance]

I can totally understand that people are upset and disappointed because they initially got excited about the event and then found out they couldn't participate in it. That has to suck. It is the nature of the beast that some countries laws are restrictive about these sorts of things and thus some countries would not be willing to participate in such an event, due to their own laws. Unfortunately, it's also very possible that some countries have laws written ambiguously enough that EA might have thought that they would be able to include them only to find out belatedly that the answer was no.

Either way, I can understand being disappointed and upset, what I think is a problem is the way people are throwing around the words "hate" and "EA/BioWare doesn't care for other customers/community members." This is a pretty terrible thing to say about someone, especially an entity made up of lots of someones.

It's also entirely possible that they might be working on something else that can include the rest of the world, as they initially thought this event would include more than just the USA.

I think people should try to take a deep breath and be a little more even in their posts. I definitely think that people should vocalize what and why they are upset, however, as there will be no way to avoid future problems if people don't let the companies know what's up, but do it properly, you only look like an inflammatory troll if you are obnoxious when you post.

*edit: Oh, and for haven's sakes people, they said it's a community event, meaning it is not available to those who don't take part in the community, not that it was a Community Wide Event, so if your country isn't included, that does NOT mean you aren't considered a part of the community. That's more than a bit of an overreaction.

Modifié par Cat Lance, 29 mars 2010 - 06:50 .

[exorzist]

Epic fail

[Varenus Luckmann]

European, done:

Going to make some more.

Efesell wrote...
Ugh those are actually going to be used now aren't they.
Ridiculous.

Says the amerikaner.

Modifié par Varenus Luckmann, 29 mars 2010 - 06:49 .

[Foofad]

sdc3536 wrote...

Arius23 wrote...

Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe there are legal reasons why they can't run this contest throughout the entire world? Do you really think they are purposely trying to screw their consumers?

Yeesh, calm down people.

Thats easy for you to say since you are probably able to actually participate. I for one feel kinda screwed over, now Im not really blaming anyone. But it just seems like those legal problems probably aren't the hardest to get around. I mean if 48 other states could do it, are the other 2 really giving you that much of a hard time?

Because they have these things called laws which prevent sweepstakes such as this from occurring. It's ****ty and outdated, but there you have it - it's the individual state's fault, not Bioware's.

As for Europe and Canada, I suspect there's all kinds of weird ass international laws that prevent them from allowing those countries to participate as well. I'd look it up but I'm lazy. They aren't excluding people because they want to, it's out of necessity. I'm sure the backlash wasn't expected, but fans are fickle and reactionary.