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[Zinoviy]

As long as BioWare keeps making amazing games, I don't care what kind of community events they try to host.

[Masticetobbacco]

ImperialOperative wrote...

Masticetobbacco wrote...

Bioware is EA now, and all EA cares about is profit

the real Bioware died after making mass effect 2, and that is where EA took over in the marketing

urgh....

Bioware spends 60k on free garbage and stupid promotionals that have massive PR backlash = PROFIT

I LOVE YOUR CANADIAN LOGIC, you are definitely from canada

lolwut, you call $15 DLC free garbage? fu.ck no thats expensive garbage
and the promotions brought in a lot of dumb****s and americun.ts. Hell you even got a free prize contest of your own.

[TJSolo]

Fluffeh Kitteh wrote...

TJSolo wrote...
It is not the fault of fans for getting excited over a timer, that was the intent.

There's a difference between getting excited and getting overhyped by marketing gimmicks like the use of hyperboles like "epic" or rumours and hearsay...

If the fans can't be blamed for getting excited then I don't think you can blame Bioware either for the marketing tactic. It's the norm in marketing, it's how people do things to market stuff. There's no clause saying it's unethical to exaggerate something, etc.

I was responding to a poster trying to say it was the fans fault for getting excited. The timer and hints Bioware gave were intended to cause some level of excitement for the fans, so it is not a fans fault. In my post I only wanted to clear the blame from fans it was not an attempt to cast blame on EA Bioware because of the excitement they wanted to make.
I do feel however that the same legalities that make EA Bioware list such stipulations as country of residence for this contest could have been somewhat applied as a disclaimer to the count down and build up.

[Gemini1179]

So why does EA/BioWare distribute games to other countries if the only customers are Americans? Why create an online community with no region restrictions if "The Community" is defined as those who live in the US? BW is based in Edmonton for crying out loud. The absurdity of all this and the silence of the Devs is curious indeed. If this truly was an honest promotion, it will go down in the gaming community as one of the most ineptly planned and executed of all time.

[ImperialOperative]

Masticetobbacco wrote...

lolwut, you call $15 DLC free garbage? fu.ck no thats expensive garbage
and the promotions brought in a lot of dumb****s and americun.ts. Hell you even got a free prize contest of your own.

That this response is not enough evidence, look at what Bioware's Canadian Logic has gotten them. 

Damn man, Canada sounds... horrifying.  I can't imagine living in a place with people like Bioware.

PS: i c wut u did thar, I hope you don't have any DLC or whatever tied to your account, because it's all going to be lost forever when you get perma-banned.

Modifié par ImperialOperative, 30 mars 2010 - 05:23 .

[Fluffeh Kitteh]

frost.mage.mari wrote...

I think the whole situation can be summed up by the future president of Earth, Richard Nixon...
"computers might be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever..."

Shouldn't they be twice as stupid/drunk?

[ImperialOperative]

TJSolo wrote...

I was responding to a poster trying to say it was the fans fault for getting excited. The timer and hints Bioware gave were intended to cause some level of excitement for the fans, so it is not a fans fault. In my post I only wanted to clear the blame from fans it was not an attempt to cast blame on EA Bioware because of the excitement they wanted to make.
I do feel however that the same legalities that make EA Bioware list such stipulations as country of residence for this contest could have been somewhat applied as a disclaimer to the count down and build up.

This makes some sense, except that it was made clear that the countdown was for a COMMUNITY event.

Once it was revealed that it was some community based event (ie. nothing related to their games) everybody should have just chilled out and stopped caring.

Seriously, who in their right mind (oh right, Bioware fans, I forget) would get excited over a COMMUNITY EVENT?

[BiancoAngelo7]

seriously agree with OP, STILL praying that this is part of April fools day

[Fluffeh Kitteh]

ImperialOperative wrote...

Seriously, who in their right mind (oh right, Bioware fans, I forget) would get excited over a COMMUNITY EVENT?

IMO nobody in their right mind should get excited(at least to a large degree) over something they have pretty much zero concrete information about...

Modifié par Fluffeh Kitteh, 30 mars 2010 - 05:28 .

[ImperialOperative]

Well, looks like my irrefutable logic has prevailed once again. I'm outta here.

[RobUnreal]

I'm pretty sure it is an April Fool's joke. They have to realize that the parameters for the auction is lame, and the way it's structured makes it unfair from the start for the people without all 3 of the main titles.



Seriously, 1750 points for Awakening?

[ImperialOperative]

RobUnreal wrote...

I'm pretty sure it is an April Fool's joke. They have to realize that the parameters for the auction is lame, and the way it's structured makes it unfair from the start for the people without all 3 of the main titles.

Seriously, 1750 points for Awakening?

Award your most loyal fans, duh.

Why would they help out the people who didn't buy their products?

LOGICAL FALLACY DURP

Modifié par ImperialOperative, 30 mars 2010 - 05:32 .

[RobUnreal]

ImperialOperative wrote...

RobUnreal wrote...

I'm pretty sure it is an April Fool's joke. They have to realize that the parameters for the auction is lame, and the way it's structured makes it unfair from the start for the people without all 3 of the main titles.

Seriously, 1750 points for Awakening?

Award your most loyal fans, duh.

Why would they help out the people who didn't buy their products?

LOGICAL FALLACY DURP

it doesn't matter.  this is a community.  we're all fans.  some of us have more means than others.  some of us are independent consumers, and some of  us are broke college students.

[X2-Elijah]

Seeing all the legal mumbo-jumbo and the prizes, I'd say it isn't a joke. The cash value of the prizes is insanely high for such an event - have you even taken a look there?

I'm just thinking that people don't sit well with the US thing - which might be an imposed rule of the sponsors rather than Bio. But it does appear to be a real contest, no argument there.

BTW, I'm from EU, so I'm out of this thing too. Yes, it sucks, but I never had the folly to think I could win this thing anyway.

Modifié par X2-Elijah, 30 mars 2010 - 05:42 .

[RobUnreal]

X2-Elijah wrote...

Seeing all the legal mumbo-jumbo and the prizes, I'd say it isn't a joke. The cash value of the prizes is insanely high for such an event - have you even taken a look there?

I'm just thinking that people don't sit well with the US thing - which might be an imposed rule of the sponsors rather than Bio. But it does appear to be a real contest, no argument there.

BTW, I'm from EU, so I'm out of this thing too. Yes, it sucks, but I never had the folly to think I could win this thing anyway.

True, it does seem like a real contest.  I just hope that it's a joke because of how much backlash it has generated.

Either way, I'm going to come up with nothing.  I definitely don't have enough points to get any of the good stuff.  Might just try for a ME2 art book, and that's it.

[Dualfinger]

Aryck1095 V2 wrote...

"Epic Community Event" indeed...

It has been but a few hours since since the unveiling of the Bioware Bazaar, and it has been followed by a community uproar the likes of which I have only seen once before in my lifetime. Over 100 pages worth of ranting and spamming, and the pure stupidity of this event makes me wonder if this is supposed to be some kind of joke.

Think about it: April Fools Day is just two days from now. I get the feeling they anticpated this reaction, that they are, in fact, preparing the real announcement for April 1st, as pat of their joke. Simply paranoia? Wishful thinking, perhaps? The whole idea behind this auction is ridiculous, the trivial merchandise, the community restrictions, the epic fail countdown...

The perfect failure. Too perfect, from where I'm standing.

Thoughts?

It's a damn elaborate one if your right.

[Massadonious1]

[SupaBeastie]

bazaar is amazing

[The Velveteen Rabbit]

I pray it is a joke. All we have to go on is this: 3/29 or 3 + 29 = 32. 32nd day of March is April 1st.

It's not much, but it's a thin thread of hope that maybe this can be salvaged. Of course, publicity is publicity, even if it's negative, and it may be foolish to say so but I just don't see Bioware sinking that low. At least, not yet anyway.

[Dualfinger]

SupaBeastie wrote...

bazaar is amazing

Well it would be if it were more widespread. but I'll give you your tokens

Also, Velveteen Rabbit, what's with the sig, i've seen others following the same trend but I don't understand it.

[X2-Elijah]

The reason for these sigs is simple.

First BioWare announced "A community event". Next, we see that the whole event is restricted to US citizens (and even then unavailable to NY and florida). Put it together, and it looks like BioWare thinks only the US citizens are community, and the others - Europe, Asia, Australia - are nothing.



Hence the hard feelings and the sigs stating that people were once community, but are now only citizens of their countries.

[Dualfinger]

Ahh now I see, makes sense, I did have an explode about that somewhere else actually.



Odd isn't it, I mean it's not just Bioware, but it seems every single one of these game promotions revolves around the US.

Plus games as hidiously expensive outside the US

[Aryck the One]

X2-Elijah wrote...

The reason for these sigs is simple.
First BioWare announced "A community event". Next, we see that the whole event is restricted to US citizens (and even then unavailable to NY and florida). Put it together, and it looks like BioWare thinks only the US citizens are community, and the others - Europe, Asia, Australia - are nothing.

Hence the hard feelings and the sigs stating that people were once community, but are now only citizens of their countries.

That's one of the reasons I think the Bazaar is a April Fools joke. I seriously doubt that Bioware would launch something like this if they weren't going to include the entire community. That fact that they did not even include their own country is rather peculiar. It doesn't make any sense.
By the way, you guys need to to keep it clean. I've been seeing posts in this thread that I doubt the Moderators would approve of.

[Dualfinger]

Fair point.



If it is a joke it's a mean one. And I think even if it were and the people got told, the backlash is probably going to be legendary anyway.



Sucks to be them.

[Dethateer]

Well, look on the bright side: at least they gave us all an impressive lesson in trolling.