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[Dakaned]

Meh too bad I can't trade these tokens in for Microsoft points at least I could use those to get the upcoming dlc lol

[Sherana]

Cij wrote...

SparksX wrote...

What a nice gift to the community Bioware.....

[smilie]http://images.quickblogcast.com/6/0/6/5/1/123129-115606/american_world_800x560.jpg[/smilie]

A man with a good knowledge of geography, but where Africa?

What's Africa?

Modifié par Sherana, 29 mars 2010 - 10:53 .

[SparksX]

[quote]Cij wrote...

[quote]SparksX wrote...

What a nice gift to the community Bioware.....

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[/quote]

Africa, whats africa

Get what I mean?
Didn't draw this anyway, just got it from google somewhere

[DragonRageGT]

My bad! Had the wrong link on it

We, the rest of the world, let's have fun with this!

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


(Pitty the above map was not done sooner or it might have ended up on this video! Well, this other one does it too!)

[Sa Seba]

Nice. This is why I am a pessimist.

[L3zl13]

MalekT wrote...

Have Bioware responed in any way yet?

Yes, they have ignored us, just like when they made that Bazaar thingy.

[Harrrr]

Do any of you know a thing about tariffs, taxes, and individual country's regulations on converting a fake currency (IE: tokens) into items worth real currency? Look at all hoopla going on about VAT and Second-life currency.



This isn't a straight up contest folks, and THAT is why non-US entities were excluded because of the massive amount of red tape and extra taxation that the winners and Bioware/specific manufacturers would have to pay, and the massive bureaucratic stink-hole that needs to be waded for an event like this.

[Sloth Of Doom]

Sorry to interrupt all of the angst but I have something very important to tell everyone before they comment further. This affects all of you, so pay attention.



I am out of beer.

[Sloth Of Doom]

Harrrr wrote...

Do any of you know a thing about tariffs, taxes, and individual country's regulations on converting a fake currency (IE: tokens) into items worth real currency? Look at all hoopla going on about VAT and Second-life currency.

This isn't a straight up contest folks, and THAT is why non-US entities were excluded because of the massive amount of red tape and extra taxation that the winners and Bioware/specific manufacturers would have to pay, and the massive bureaucratic stink-hole that needs to be waded for an event like this.

Way to ignore the actual reason people are upset.  Derp?

[Dave of Canada]

Harrrr wrote...

Do any of you know a thing about tariffs, taxes, and individual country's regulations on converting a fake currency (IE: tokens) into items worth real currency? Look at all hoopla going on about VAT and Second-life currency.

This isn't a straight up contest folks, and THAT is why non-US entities were excluded because of the massive amount of red tape and extra taxation that the winners and Bioware/specific manufacturers would have to pay, and the massive bureaucratic stink-hole that needs to be waded for an event like this.

Then they shouldn't have advertised it as part of a community event, just a large part of the states event. I would've been sad but happier than hyping myself up for this bull****.

[chiliztri]

The topic is broken. Oh noes.



I have nothing further to add.

[Sloth Of Doom]

chiliztri wrote...

The topic is broken. Oh noes.

I have nothing further to add.

They were going to fix the site formatting but they have been too busy with this epic community event.

[Dave of Canada]

chiliztri wrote...

The topic is broken. Oh noes.

I have nothing further to add.

It's as broken as this entire bazaar concept.

Oh yeah, I went there.

[chiliztri]

Sloth Of Doom wrote...

chiliztri wrote...

The topic is broken. Oh noes.

I have nothing further to add.

They were going to fix the site formatting but they have been too busy with this epic community event.

Yes, because partial community events are so much more important then patches, DLC, and actual games.

Glad to know they have their priorities straight.

[Harrrr]

Sloth Of Doom wrote...

Harrrr wrote...

Do any of you know a thing about tariffs, taxes, and individual country's regulations on converting a fake currency (IE: tokens) into items worth real currency? Look at all hoopla going on about VAT and Second-life currency.

This isn't a straight up contest folks, and THAT is why non-US entities were excluded because of the massive amount of red tape and extra taxation that the winners and Bioware/specific manufacturers would have to pay, and the massive bureaucratic stink-hole that needs to be waded for an event like this.

Way to ignore the actual reason people are upset.  Derp?

What that you aren't being included? Write your representatives; write the people that make the laws.

To any monkey that's taken a marketing class knows that this isn't a contest just for a contest.

[Dave of Canada]

chiliztri wrote...

Yes, because partial community events are so much more important then patches, DLC, and actual games.

Glad to know they have their priorities straight.

Well, they did manage to unite the entire community against them. So you could say it's a success.

[DragonRageGT]

Sloth Of Doom wrote...

Harrrr wrote...

Do any of you know a thing about tariffs, taxes, and individual country's regulations on converting a fake currency (IE: tokens) into items worth real currency? Look at all hoopla going on about VAT and Second-life currency.

This isn't a straight up contest folks, and THAT is why non-US entities were excluded because of the massive amount of red tape and extra taxation that the winners and Bioware/specific manufacturers would have to pay, and the massive bureaucratic stink-hole that needs to be waded for an event like this.

Way to ignore the actual reason people are upset.  Derp?

Yep... and ignore 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 in our faces!

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

[L3zl13]

Harrrr wrote...

Do any of you know a thing about tariffs, taxes, and individual country's regulations on converting a fake currency (IE: tokens) into items worth real currency? Look at all hoopla going on about VAT and Second-life currency.

This isn't a straight up contest folks, and THAT is why non-US entities were excluded because of the massive amount of red tape and extra taxation that the winners and Bioware/specific manufacturers would have to pay, and the massive bureaucratic stink-hole that needs to be waded for an event like this.

That's all soo true. But why did they choose to make this bazaar for showing their thanks for ALL their fans on their 15th birthday while ignoring a very big part of their fanbase?

[Dave of Canada]

Harrrr wrote...

What that you aren't being included? Write your representatives; write the people that make the laws.

To any monkey that's taken a marketing class knows that this isn't a contest just for a contest.

Dave of Canada wrote...
Then they shouldn't have advertised it as part of a community event,
just a large part of the states event. I would've been sad but happier
than hyping myself up for this bull****.

[Loerwyn]

chiliztri wrote...
Yes, because partial community events are so much more important then patches, DLC, and actual games.

Glad to know they have their priorities straight.

Hate to be a pedant but they're different branches of the same company. BioWare's PR team won't be involved with development, and their development team will rarely (if ever) be involved in PR outside of appearances or interviews (sort of like the Mass Effect 2 preview thingy with Casey (I think) and Christina).
Chances are that patches are being worked on as we speak, BioWare Bazaar or otherwise.

[Dave of Canada]

OnlyShallow89 wrote...

chiliztri wrote...
Yes, because partial community events are so much more important then patches, DLC, and actual games.

Glad to know they have their priorities straight.

Hate to be a pedant but they're different branches of the same company. BioWare's PR team won't be involved with development, and their development team will rarely (if ever) be involved in PR outside of appearances or interviews (sort of like the Mass Effect 2 preview thingy with Casey (I think) and Christina).
Chances are that patches are being worked on as we speak, BioWare Bazaar or otherwise.

Money was still thrown into this "community event" that could've been used elsewhere.

Modifié par Dave of Canada, 29 mars 2010 - 11:14 .

[chiliztri]

Dave of Canada wrote...

chiliztri wrote...

Yes, because partial community events are so much more important then patches, DLC, and actual games.

Glad to know they have their priorities straight.

Well, they did manage to unite the entire community against them. So you could say it's a success.

I guess you could say it's a success. They managed to ****** off a vast group of people!

[Holyshort]

RageGT wrote...

Sloth Of Doom wrote...

Harrrr wrote...

Do any of you know a thing about tariffs, taxes, and individual country's regulations on converting a fake currency (IE: tokens) into items worth real currency? Look at all hoopla going on about VAT and Second-life currency.

This isn't a straight up contest folks, and THAT is why non-US entities were excluded because of the massive amount of red tape and extra taxation that the winners and Bioware/specific manufacturers would have to pay, and the massive bureaucratic stink-hole that needs to be waded for an event like this.

Way to ignore the actual reason people are upset.  Derp?

Yep... and ignore 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 in our faces!

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

Well event still Epic.  Fail but Epic

[Gunny5821]

The really sad part of this story, we will all but forget about this when Christmas time rolls around, or when Feb 11, 2011 hits. When those new BioWare games hit the streets later this year or early next year. See people seem to have a really short memory retention and it has gotten worse within the last 2 decades. So as much as a disaster this is (Huge considering how it was played out), it's sad, but true, we will all but forget about it down the road...



Sad, But True!

[redleafchewer]

Dave of Canada wrote...

redleafchewer wrote...

Looked up EA's third quarter fiscal. investor.ea.com/releasedetail.cfm

Looks like North America represents roughly 58% of their 2nd quarter fiscal net revenue, and Europe at 37% of same.  Apparently they did aim at the majority market from their perspective.

Not making excuses, just looking for the logic in their approach.  The whole approach is still quite tacky.

Canada is also part of North America.

I refuse to allow your to manuever me into the position of Defending EA.

To be honest, excluding New york and Florida makes far more sense to me than Canada, I wouldn't even begin to be able to find the logic in that reasoning. 

Maybe they figured because you already had the Olympics?