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[SomebodyNowhere]

with repeats starting to happen it will be interesting to see how that affects the bidding

[LyudmilaKatzen]

lol just the hoodie and it's up to 10k? Wonder if not everyone read the description/title this time.

[Didgeridoo]

Hubb- wrote...

Didgeridoo wrote...

Wow, a 1 TB hard drive? That's pretty expensive to buy, isn't it? Not a bad prize for whoever gets it.

Me, I'm sitting at a little over 6,000 and am rapidly losing hope of getting anything.

Click to give me fakebux?

No it really isn't that expensive; hundred dollars give or take.

I dunno, that seems like a pretty good prize for basically free. Better than just a t-shirt or poster, at least! Which will also probably end up selling at 10K point, ha

[CrooksGO]

dropdown360 wrote...

I see nothing has changed since I left. Update the page at exactly the 15 minute point on the dot and there are already 8 posts near 10k range. What a grand auction.

Actually, I know better than this. I should have known from the beginning. This isn't for the community. What Bioware has done is spent (or had their sponsors help out) for a total of $64,000 worth of ADVERTISING dollars. That's why the real fans get shafted in the rear. The whole point of this auction was the referral links, which are also the reason this auction is a sham. This is all a marketing ploy by the company to try and do something different other than commercials. Bioware can state what they want, but I know better than that. As a Psych major and have analyzed persuasive advertising in the very immediate past, I understand what they are doing. What irks me the most is that instead of having the integrity to state such as thing, they instead pass this off as a "for the community" event.

Am I bitter? Sure a little. I was excited to take part in an auction with other people who have been proud supporters of Bioware over the years, starting with Baldur's Gate to the present with Dragon Age. Instead, we have a clusterf*ck of people who have abused the link referral program and others who have legitimately made a lot of clicks (which this is by far the more rare) spamming and winning the auctions.

What I think most people are angry about is the fact that we consider ourselves a "community"; we are a group of people who have supported and still support Bioware. When this auction came around, it was our community who would be rewarded. What happens? People who joined 8 days ago winning auctions who have never spent money on a Bioware product or simply torrented a game to play. We are pissed because Bioware doesn't distinguish between fan/community member and some guy wanting a hand out who knows how to abuse and/or "market" links to their facebook/twitter/etc fanpages.

If Bioware really wanted a fair auction, they knew damn well how to set one up. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Yet I'm still enthralled at the idea of possibly winning something (even though deep down I know I don't have a chance in hell) so I will continue watching and checking.

In the future, please reward your actual supporters Bioware. I feel let down. You say this was a reward for the community, and yet I see the community banded together hear voicing their dislike of what's happening. Next time you choose to do this, please use a more reasonable approach - one that is both fair and allows everyone an equal chance.

For instance: (some of these people have mentioned already)
-Raffle: using tokens for tickets or allowing a max number of tickets to be used to try and get prizes you really want
-Silent Auction: don't let people see the highest bid until the auction is over. Some may not like it, but at least EVERYONE gets to participate.
-Put a cap on the maximum amount of tokens to be received. What SHOULD have been done is community members who have BEEN community members should have had a generous boost to their token pool (6months to a year get 5k tokens extra) that way everyone is on the same playing field who ARE supporters.
-Only allow certain items to be bid on by community members who have been here a certain amount of time or registered their game prior. This ensures no one who doesn't actively support you can win a reward a real fan is looking forward to.

Of course, if this is all about advertising, you will probably just ignore this and report what a success it was and how the fans loved it. Let me tell you, I am not loving. In fact, I hate trying to bid the second the new auction posts only to be told I don't have enough tokens and it's already past 10k. Then I have to wait 14 minutes and 59 seconds to be told the same thing again.

That's all from me. Enjoy the short read everyone.

Quoting for great justice.

Modifié par CrooksGO, 06 avril 2010 - 08:02 .

[JMScorpio]

http://social.bioware.com/brc/821545

Thank you

Modifié par JMScorpio, 06 avril 2010 - 08:04 .

[Faithfulhalo00]

is anyone having problems with twitter it isn't showing me the Cerebus question
social.bioware.com/brc/297201

[marquiseondore]

Wow took long enough for the next challenge to be updated on twitter.



Now if only my friend's kids will go home, I can go down for a nap to stay up all night.

[SethP]

Soul Taker 93 wrote...

hahaha someone was able to bid 10 points lololol
http://social.bioware.com/brc/935015

ive been trying 10 pts for a while too but always too late.

[SpaceLion2071]

Trying to get over that 7K hump...I'll feel like I have a bit more of a chance then.



Clicks Appreciated

[Kholdstare101]

Some people here seem really bitter.



http://social.bioware.com/brc/865995

Modifié par Kholdstare101, 06 avril 2010 - 08:04 .

[TheBigGSN5]

Crixt wrote...

TheBigGSN5 wrote...

Hah, the Dragon Age Poster Pack had a higher final bid than the Character Poster Pack, which contains all of the Dragon Age Pack plus the ME2 posters. Devaluation of currency combined with irrational pricing; perhaps someone at EA is working on an economics paper.

It's really really odd.  There seems to be a lot of despiration to get things.  Lots of "I'll throw everything I have if it looks like I might want it" because there's no reason to hold on to any currency, unlike in a real auction.  Prices have nothing to do with what people think things are "worth" because the currency is meaningless, its all FREE.  It's more about getting SOMETHING than getting something at the right PRICE.

Sure the currency is meaningless, but by devaluation of currency I mean that the Bazaar was clearly built around 1000 tokens being the main unit when in practice, as everyone has seen, the base unit is really 9000 tokens and the fight proceeds from there.  Perhaps EA hired some lawyers from Zimbabwe to write up the plans for all this.

[dweber77]

Kerridan Kaiba wrote...

SarEnyaDor wrote...

I couldn't let my kids use the computer anymore, especially not my son with that mousepad *facepalm*

It's more fan service than anything else. They've pretty much admitted it.

Sadly it will probably sell enough copies to make it worth their time to put it in, in the first place.  Ahh what a body driven society we live in.  When I saw it I debated just getting it on PS3 instead.  But the 360 controller is far superior in my opinion.  So yeah...

[The_Commander_of_Offworld]

 Well, this sucks. At this rate, I won't get to bid on anything... I even won a twitter contest, and I only have 6200 tokens...

[Crixt]

And the N7 hoodie's price has just soared past the price of the N7 pack (hoody, shirt, hat) within 1 minute.

[Thompaine]

Faithfulhalo00 wrote...

is anyone having problems with twitter it isn't showing me the Cerebus question
social.bioware.com/brc/297201

It seems to be there now.

[SarEnyaDor]

If I had enough tokens, I'd blow it on that seriously cute outfit, even if it is about to be way to hot to wear it properly soon.

[LyudmilaKatzen]

The new challenge has only just showed up for me. As was pointed out to me, it gets updated on the site before Twitter, apparently.

[FriggenHugeOrc]

http://social.bioware.com/brc/1555209

[sage_viper]

http://social.bioware.com/brc/934990

Modifié par sage_viper, 06 avril 2010 - 08:04 .

[SPatin]

So.. If these three were packaged together, it should have gone for 20,000+.... LOGICALLY speaking.

[Reptilian Rob]

CrooksGO wrote...

dropdown360 wrote...

I see nothing has changed since I left. Update the page at exactly the 15 minute point on the dot and there are already 8 posts near 10k range. What a grand auction.

Actually, I know better than this. I should have known from the beginning. This isn't for the community. What Bioware has done is spent (or had their sponsors help out) for a total of $64,000 worth of ADVERTISING dollars. That's why the real fans get shafted in the rear. The whole point of this auction was the referral links, which are also the reason this auction is a sham. This is all a marketing ploy by the company to try and do something different other than commercials. Bioware can state what they want, but I know better than that. As a Psych major and have analyzed persuasive advertising in the very immediate past, I understand what they are doing. What irks me the most is that instead of having the integrity to state such as thing, they instead pass this off as a "for the community" event.

Am I bitter? Sure a little. I was excited to take part in an auction with other people who have been proud supporters of Bioware over the years, starting with Baldur's Gate to the present with Dragon Age. Instead, we have a clusterf*ck of people who have abused the link referral program and others who have legitimately made a lot of clicks (which this is by far the more rare) spamming and winning the auctions.

What I think most people are angry about is the fact that we consider ourselves a "community"; we are a group of people who have supported and still support Bioware. When this auction came around, it was our community who would be rewarded. What happens? People who joined 8 days ago winning auctions who have never spent money on a Bioware product or simply torrented a game to play. We are pissed because Bioware doesn't distinguish between fan/community member and some guy wanting a hand out who knows how to abuse and/or "market" links to their facebook/twitter/etc fanpages.

If Bioware really wanted a fair auction, they knew damn well how to set one up. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Yet I'm still enthralled at the idea of possibly winning something (even though deep down I know I don't have a chance in hell) so I will continue watching and checking.

In the future, please reward your actual supporters Bioware. I feel let down. You say this was a reward for the community, and yet I see the community banded together hear voicing their dislike of what's happening. Next time you choose to do this, please use a more reasonable approach - one that is both fair and allows everyone an equal chance.

For instance: (some of these people have mentioned already)
-Raffle: using tokens for tickets or allowing a max number of tickets to be used to try and get prizes you really want
-Silent Auction: don't let people see the highest bid until the auction is over. Some may not like it, but at least EVERYONE gets to participate.
-Put a cap on the maximum amount of tokens to be received. What SHOULD have been done is community members who have BEEN community members should have had a generous boost to their token pool (6months to a year get 5k tokens extra) that way everyone is on the same playing field who ARE supporters.
-Only allow certain items to be bid on by community members who have been here a certain amount of time or registered their game prior. This ensures no one who doesn't actively support you can win a reward a real fan is looking forward to.

Of course, if this is all about advertising, you will probably just ignore this and report what a success it was and how the fans loved it. Let me tell you, I am not loving. In fact, I hate trying to bid the second the new auction posts only to be told I don't have enough tokens and it's already past 10k. Then I have to wait 14 minutes and 59 seconds to be told the same thing again.

That's all from me. Enjoy the short read everyone.

Quoting for great justice.

Quoted QUOTED for great justice. 

[jaethos]

I just answered the question anyway, it shows on the bazaar point total page.

It looks like they are moving to single items now maybe.

Also click for great justice.

[animeguru]

dropdown360 wrote...
-Put a cap on the maximum amount of tokens to be received. What SHOULD have been done is community members who have BEEN community members should have had a generous boost to their token pool (6months to a year get 5k tokens extra) that way everyone is on the same playing field who ARE supporters.
-Only allow certain items to be bid on by community members who have been here a certain amount of time or registered their game prior. This ensures no one who doesn't actively support you can win a reward a real fan is looking forward to.

I agree with everything you said except this.  Why should I be penalized for not talking about these games on this forum?  I post regularly on GameFAQs and IGN.  Explain to me how I am less of a fan of BioWare games than you are?

If I win something, awesome.  If not, oh well.

http://social.bioware.com/brc/1687853 <-- A click would be helpful.

Modifié par animeguru, 06 avril 2010 - 08:05 .

[the_one_54321]

I'll click yours if you click mine.



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I AM LAUGHING AT YOU ALL!!!!!



with your poorly concealed links and such.



by the by, if you click here you will enter a world of wonders and unicorns. also, God is there. say hi to him.



I should make a new thread with a list of everyone here's links on one post, then we could just scroll down and click all of them.



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