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[Loerwyn]

chrissicross wrote...
The best way to celebrate Bioware's 15th anniversary would have been the announcement of Baldur's Gate III  

Won't happen, sorry.

[Driving Ghost]

chrissicross wrote...

Community event, BioWare Bazaar...fair enough, but who does really need that?
The best way to celebrate Bioware's 15th anniversary would have been the announcement of Baldur's Gate III  

I'd say the best way to celebrate it is to have chat sessions with your favorite developers on chat providers like Xfire, vids showing how a day at bioware looks like, that kind of thing.

I'd find that more epic then this, TBH.

[brunomalta]

Oh...finally a response. It is kind of lame BUT, it was what we were calling for. I will reserve my judgement before changing my sig and wanna see how South America will be tought on these plans. But, anyway, thanks for at least and acknowledgement.

[Tennyochan]

Kyalion wrote...

awwww that picture is so cute *yoink*

and yes, i feel loved again <3
atleast their honest about it.

its strange considering i grew up playing bioware games when i was a kid(gamer early age). never really realised how close i was to their 'kick-start'. and its been 15years now! :blink:wow

Modifié par tennyochan, 31 mars 2010 - 12:45 .

[Tausret]

Thank you for the apology, BioWare!

[Menzana Leanda]

Tausret wrote...

Thank you for the apology, BioWare!

Yeah! I feel loved again <3:wub:

[Mr Chr15topher]

Ray Muzyka wrote...

Hi everyone - 
   
 
The BioWare Bazaar was launched this week as the start of a year-long celebration around BioWare’s 15th anniversary. 


We recognize that BioWare has a global community, and the Bazaar this week was originally intended to be an international event to reflect our truly global fanbase. Unfortunately, we encountered some last-minute legal complications around how contests can be structured in different parts of the world that prevented us from including all territories in this first event, even though that was our original goal.  And for that, we sincerely apologize – our goal with this sort of celebration is to show all our fans worldwide how much we appreciate your support!


BioWare definitely really values all members of our world-wide Community, no matter where you live.  Accordingly, in the coming weeks, we will be announcing details about future events specifically for fans living in those territories which were excluded from participating in the first BioWare Bazaar.  The future events will be a bit different from the first Bazaar in how they’re set up and structured, but our goal is to feature the same caliber of awesome prizes and great BioWare collectibles.  We’ll announce more details in the coming weeks


The reception from those fans who have been able to take part in this first event has been incredible – thank you for participating! - and we’re looking forward to future events where we can enable fans from additional territories to also join in the fun.


Thank you all for your continued and ongoing support and participation in the BioWare Community – we really appreciate all your support over the past 15 years, and the future will be even brighter!


Sincerely,


Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk
Co-founders, BioWare

How come smaller companies than EA/Bioware can post global competitions then?

[m3ga0n3]

Is it legal, lets say if I win something and send it to a relative in the US and then got them to send the prize to me in Europe as a gift.



I dont mind really and will look forward to the other competition but for the minute Ill just concentrate on collecting as many tokens as I can just to see if I can get over 15000

[Super_Cat]

Oh why wasn't this more upfront? I'm just finding out about this earlier today. I mean yeah there are the rules where it states it, but the thing was being promoted as a community wide event! I mean it's a Canadian company, I had just assumed.... oh well that's what I get for not reading the rules more closely I guess.



No, I don't think I will get over this until those promises to make it up to us are followed through with. Apology rejected.... for now.

[Lycidas]

Ray Muzyka wrote...

And for that, we sincerely apologize – our goal with this sort of celebration is to show all our fans worldwide how much we appreciate your support!

Thank you! I appreciate this very much.

[RurouniSaiya-jin]

Ooooooo, a year long celebration you say? I'm looking forward to it!

[Mr Chr15topher]

Super_Cat wrote...

Oh why wasn't this more upfront? I'm just finding out about this earlier today. I mean yeah there are the rules where it states it, but the thing was being promoted as a community wide event! I mean it's a Canadian company, I had just assumed.... oh well that's what I get for not reading the rules more closely I guess.

No, I don't think I will get over this until those promises to make it up to us are followed through with. Apology rejected.... for now.

They didn't even release the rules before the countdown finished, so there was no way you could know.

[Symbolz]

chrissicross wrote...

Community event, BioWare Bazaar...fair enough, but who does really need that?
The best way to celebrate Bioware's 15th anniversary would have been the announcement of Baldur's Gate III  

That's wishful thinking.  Even if it were to happen I would pray to Lady Tymora that it's based on 3E, not 4E.  Not after how WotC decided to nuke the Forgotten Realms and leave it to die a slow lingering death.

[addiction21]

OnlyShallow89 wrote...

chrissicross wrote...
The best way to celebrate Bioware's 15th anniversary would have been the announcement of Baldur's Gate III  

Won't happen, sorry.

Hey let some of us dream.

I am still waiting on a shattered steel sequel...

[Loerwyn]

Symbol117 wrote...
That's wishful thinking.  Even if it were to happen I would pray to Lady Tymora that it's based on 3E, not 4E.  Not after how WotC decided to nuke the Forgotten Realms and leave it to die a slow lingering death.

Not to mention that Atari hold the license for publishing D&D games, and BioWare are published exclusively by EA now (as they're an EA subsidary), so unless there's a lot of legal wrangling BioWare will not have anything to do with it outside of possibly forming the basics of the engine (so it'd be like Obsidian's NWN2 and CD Projekt Red's The Witcher, basically).

[bri193]

Sorry, but whatever the nature of the apology, BioWare are still a bunch of boneheads.....

Some people in PR & Marketing should be sacked ...



Really ....

[Awildawn]

Thank you for the apology, just don't ask me to create a twitter account please ?

[Mr Chr15topher]

Awildawn wrote...

Thank you for the apology, just don't ask me to create a twitter account please ?

Too late...

[Arachtrice]

I knew they would never let us down like this! I'm with you BioWare, like always! ^^

[Dreamwaver]

I must say thank you bioware for always fixing your mistake or.. in this case... for slapping the dang law that stopped you in the first place.. also im getting a great laugh out of all the sigs.. great job who ever started the chain.

[Derumiel]

Thanks for the apology, BW.

Ray Muzyka wrote...
BioWare definitely really values all
members of our world-wide Community, no matter where you live. 
Accordingly, in the coming weeks, we will be announcing details about
future events specifically for fans living in those territories which
were excluded from participating in the first BioWare Bazaar.  The
future events will be a bit different from the first Bazaar in how
they’re set up and structured, but our goal is to feature the same
caliber of awesome prizes and great BioWare collectibles.  We’ll
announce more details in the coming weeks

Hope you get this done right and correct this time.  Then I am willing to forgive you. ^^

[Symbolz]

OnlyShallow89 wrote...

Symbol117 wrote...
That's wishful thinking.  Even if it were to happen I would pray to Lady Tymora that it's based on 3E, not 4E.  Not after how WotC decided to nuke the Forgotten Realms and leave it to die a slow lingering death.

Not to mention that Atari hold the license for publishing D&D games, and BioWare are published exclusively by EA now (as they're an EA subsidary), so unless there's a lot of legal wrangling BioWare will not have anything to do with it outside of possibly forming the basics of the engine (so it'd be like Obsidian's NWN2 and CD Projekt Red's The Witcher, basically).

Are you trying to make me cry?

Didn't know that Atari held the publishing license for D&D games.  But makes sense to me now and explains NWN2.  ....and why I didn't like it.   I would love to see BW go back to some of their roots and produce another D&D game, but as you pointed out that's just impractical with all that legal wrangling.

Now I even have an urge to play BG1, BG2, and NWN...and even Eye of the Beholder series. 

[Spectre Hawk]

 Could of stopped a lot of complaints if this information was given up front to be honest. 

Lesson for next time: Advertise your plans, especially when putting up anonymous countdown timers on the websites for your games that show worldwide!

[Smaaen90]

From the moment the bazaar was released until now, I knew the brilliant BioWare team never thought or meant to exclude anyone, or heck, even insinuate that people outside of America aren't part of the community (people who thought so, and acted as they did were acting silly, to say the least).
I'm very happy to hear that a new event will come up sooner than later, will be looking forward to it.
Though, I really hope I don't have to get me a twitter account..

Anyway, thanks for the official reply, which is all I wanted (as mentioned in my posts earlier), and happy big 15.

Sincerely,
Smaaen - Mikael

Modifié par Smaaen90, 31 mars 2010 - 01:38 .

[Syrellaris]

Ray Muzyka wrote...

Hi everyone - 
   
 
The BioWare Bazaar was launched this week as the start of a year-long celebration around BioWare’s 15th anniversary. 


We recognize that BioWare has a global community, and the Bazaar this week was originally intended to be an international event to reflect our truly global fanbase. Unfortunately, we encountered some last-minute legal complications around how contests can be structured in different parts of the world that prevented us from including all territories in this first event, even though that was our original goal.  And for that, we sincerely apologize – our goal with this sort of celebration is to show all our fans worldwide how much we appreciate your support!


BioWare definitely really values all members of our world-wide Community, no matter where you live.  Accordingly, in the coming weeks, we will be announcing details about future events specifically for fans living in those territories which were excluded from participating in the first BioWare Bazaar.  The future events will be a bit different from the first Bazaar in how they’re set up and structured, but our goal is to feature the same caliber of awesome prizes and great BioWare collectibles.  We’ll announce more details in the coming weeks


The reception from those fans who have been able to take part in this first event has been incredible – thank you for participating! - and we’re looking forward to future events where we can enable fans from additional territories to also join in the fun.


Thank you all for your continued and ongoing support and participation in the BioWare Community – we really appreciate all your support over the past 15 years, and the future will be even brighter!


Sincerely,


Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk
Co-founders, BioWare

I take it we get around 5000 extra bonus tokens ontop of the ones we collect now and then be able to use all of it in those community events you have planned? Or are you going to take a competition root, so that only 1 or 2 people can win something?


Also, I have a question. What about those living in europe, that have an american girlfriend? Can we participate in the american only bazaar? I mean my girlfriend is willing to allow me to use her adress.

Modifié par Syrellaris, 31 mars 2010 - 01:40 .