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[taine]

This seems a lot like history repeating itself. Reminds me of when Bioware inserted a couple of community members into Throne of Bhaal, and there was a HUGE flareup on the forums.

[General Balls]

So...any ideas for what non-Americans can do with their points?



We need to get the ball rolling!

[DragonRageGT]

For those who didn't understand the rage, pretend that don't understand or are just defending BW without reading anyone here... I'll repeat it:

Let's not forget about a HUGE clock countdown that the GAMING community has following for days, someof us hoping that it would bring us new of something EPIC related to GAMES. An Epic DLC, Expansion, Sequel. I really don't care for toy soldiers and stuff like that. Game for me is what I can play in my PC. I love BW's games since BG and their waste of time and effort to make this Epic thing into a total failure for the largest part of the GAMING community, is disappointed.

5 months waiting for some bugs to be erradicated, terminated, anihilated and nothing. But a bazaar they're pretty fast to make happen? And what about the server crash at 0:00:00:00 ? Shouldn't they be prepared for some huge traffic? They invited their whole community to the party but when we came, the ballroom is too small to handle all the people and only US residents got their name in the guest list? So, why invite us at all? And for a party that is not starred by major artists, like DA or ME actual game stuff. But by some secondary band that most of us haven't heard about, do not care about and was sold to us as an Epic band.

I came to a Led Zeppelin concert and found it was "Repolho Nervoso" (or Nervous Cabbage) playing. have you heard of them? Me neither! And I can't get into the concert because my name is not in the list. Ok, I don't want to get into that anyway. I want to know why was I invited and spent 6 days in a queue to be barred at the door.

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

[michaftw79]

You could have at least extended the timer to April Fools - the only thing great about this event - was the website crash - at least that made me smile. And by the way, Bioware - I hope you're enjoy the forum Jihad being waged against you from the community



Epic Fail

[Drasanil]

And lo did it come to pass that on the twelth hour of the twenty-ninth day of the third month of the Year of Our Lord 2010, Bioware cameth forth to it's faithful followers and decreed that on this day the great promise of the "Countdown Timer" was to be a (not so) grand contest for all the community(except NY, FL, and every country that is not the US) in which many a "great" prizes could be won and the forum did tremble greatly  under the onslaught of fanrage while the dsciples of Bioware hid: fearing to show sign of themselves for the last 25 epic pages of this thread...

Honestly the entire idea was daft. A contest is not worth a 6 day countdown timer, does not qualify as Epic, and honestly even if I could participate I'd rather just stick to buying the occasional lottery ticket, I'd have as much chance of winning and a lot less hassle. The whole US only thing was just the extra slap in the face on top of the initial let down that pushed things over the edge.

Seriously Bioware/EA hire some one that doesn't suck at marketing.

Modifié par Drasanil, 29 mars 2010 - 10:15 .

[Angband21]

Grimgor79 wrote...

13Dannyboy13 wrote...

Does anyone else think that this contest seems like a smokescreen to hide the fact that after five months they really haven't done anything to fix the bugs? I would've liked to see them put all this effort into fixing the game instead of a contest that alienates a lot of people.

  Danny, I agree. This definitely has the feel of a smokescreen gone terribly wrong. I dont even care about some stupid contest like this, fixing the bugs would be alot better.

Yeah, could be some suit said..."boys we got a problem, lot of folks are POed at the bugs not be patched in DA, so why not do something to take their minds off it."

So instead of taking our minds off of the bug issue, they just ended up throwing gasoline on the fire.

[Sanityalwaysloses]

Just here to say I find this "Americans only" thing absolutely ridiculous, seeing that I could go and walk or drive by a Bioware office anytime I wanted, and yet I cannot enter an online contest.

[Kothoses Rothenkisal]

To be honest I have always tried to be a bit of a devils advocate in Biowares favour. But while I can understand the cost of such a thing it would be nice to know in advance that us Europeans were not going to be included.



I for one am finding my unflagging support for Bioware being tested to the point I was going to buy Kotor online the day it came out, but now I am thinking I might wait and see if the European support for that is as flimsey as it has been lately here.



Everyone loves a freebie, everyone can understand budgets, but stop giving the rest of the world to two finger salute.

[Kastagir]

Resources are finite. Bioware should direct more resources on QA and less on trite garbage like this.  That's the proper way to show gratitude to the community.

Modifié par Kastagir, 29 mars 2010 - 10:13 .

[Master1982]

The Community, from Bioware is the best from the World, a really God People here :-)

[Feraele]

Maviarab wrote...

Feraele wrote...

Maviarab wrote...

Bugs.....WHERE?

*laughs at Mavi*  hehe

Noooo laughing at Mavi.....

firt yyou nail me to your wall....(careful guys...you gotta watch Fera lmao)...then you throw sweets at me....now you laugh.....HARUMPH! lol

Muhahaha *iz ebil*

[Feraele]

RageGT wrote...

For those who didn't understand the rage, pretend that don't understand or are just defending BW without reading anyone here... I'll repeat it:

Let's not forget about a HUGE clock countdown that the GAMING community has following for days, someof us hoping that it would bring us new of something EPIC related to GAMES. An Epic DLC, Expansion, Sequel. I really don't care for toy soldiers and stuff like that. Game for me is what I can play in my PC. I love BW's games since BG and their waste of time and effort to make this Epic thing into a total failure for the largest part of the GAMING community, is disappointed.

5 months waiting for some bugs to be erradicated, terminated, anihilated and nothing. But a bazaar they're pretty fast to make happen? And what about the server crash at 0:00:00:00 ? Shouldn't they be prepared for some huge traffic? They invited their whole community to the party but when we came, the ballroom is too small to handle all the people and only US residents got their name in the guest list? So, why invite us at all? And for a party that is not starred by major artists, like DA or ME actual game stuff. But by some secondary band that most of us haven't heard about, do not care about and was sold to us as an Epic band.

I came to a Led Zeppelin concert and found it was "Repolho Nervoso" (or Nervous Cabbage) playing. have you heard of them? Me neither! And I can't get into the concert because my name is not in the list. Ok, I don't want to get into that anyway. I want to know why was I invited and spent 6 days in a queue to be barred at the door.

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

Yeah to be honest was expecting it to be AT LEAST some announcement about Bioware's future game plans..not this .".sorry  you don't rate"... exclusion thing.

[Varenus Luckmann]

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[General Balls]

Damn! They won't let me have my sig at full size. I liked it too.



Where are people pulling all those nice clean national flag sigs from?

Maviarab wrote...

Im selling mine....$5 a point to any Amricans who want em....

Genius!

[Varenus Luckmann]

Kastagir wrote...
Resources are finite. Bioware should direct more resources on QA and less on trite garbage like this.  That's the proper way to show gratitude to the community.

Yeah, they really don't know how to prioritize. Consider what this debacle is going to cost.

You could hire someone for months, to actually give Bioware a good reputation through quality products and patching, instead. Instead, they opt to throw money away on an "exclusive event" that only pisses people off.

[mr flibbles]

Boooooo



What's with all these big PR flops lately? Valve and the whole halo/idling fiasco, EA's countless mess-ups, Ubisoft's new DRM/online play nonsense and now even Bioware join the list with this facepalm-inducing feat?

The prizes look great, the contest in itself is a great idea. But geez guys, you're really shooting yourselves in the foot with this one!



Flibbles Disapprovess -30 (neutral)

[Varenus Luckmann]

General Balls wrote...

Damn! They won't let me have my sig at full size. I liked it too.



Where are people pulling all those nice clean national flag sigs from?

Maviarab wrote...

Im selling mine....$5 a point to any Amricans who want em....

Genius!

This is hilarious, since I considered making a chinese flag signature, but instead of "But now I'm only chinese", I was going to write "But now I'm only a communist".

[taine]

General Balls wrote...

Damn! They won't let me have my sig at full size. I liked it too.



Where are people pulling all those nice clean national flag sigs from?

Maviarab wrote...

Im selling mine....$5 a point to any Amricans who want em....

Genius!

Damned Pinkos, stealin' the internet tubes! 
:: Goes and gets some guns and Johnny Walker :: Yeeeeeehawwwww!

[13Dannyboy13]

Sanityalwaysloses wrote...

Just here to say I find this "Americans only" thing absolutely ridiculous, seeing that I could go and walk or drive by a Bioware office anytime I wanted, and yet I cannot enter an online contest.

Yeah, that's kinda funny when they'll pay more for shipping to some states when there are provinces in Canada that are closer. They had to have known about the backlash they would get from this, and whoever came up with the idea for the flags, well done!

[Angband21]

Kastagir wrote...

Resources are finite. Bioware should direct more resources on QA and less on trite garbage like this.  That's the proper way to show gratitude to the community.

Agreed, but that doesn't seem to occur to the suits that do the marketing.

I would call them by voice, but I just got back a couple of hours ago from a multiple root canal session at the dentist and don't really feel like talking on the phone.