ice445 wrote...
The article was fine until you started rambling at the end. Seems like a pretty ridiculous assumption to claim that American image has been tarnished because of link spamming. Have you ever been on a forum and run into a web spider that spammed ads everywhere? I've seen quite a few of them and I never thought "Damn, Americans are so greedy and selfish they spam links to get me to buy stuff!".
Also, you do seem like quite a sore loser. I got all of my points purely through twitter wins and "spamming" this forum with my link (Which included: Putting my link in my sig, talking to people, putting my link on several click lists, and talking to more people).
Sorry about the rambling. Finished writing that long-winded (see? even I admit it) sucker @ 4 a.m.
What I have observed about the back-and-forth is that winners (such as yourself) seem to conclude that any non-winner that raises complaints about how the event was operated MUST just be "sore losers" or "whiners" or whatever. On the flip side, anyone that registering complaints tend to view winners that defend BW or the Bazaar operation as A) condescending people sneering at the rest of "those looosers", and/or
being "BioWare uber alles!" types. NONE of those views are universally accurate. There most definitely _some_ people that hold those views, but as to whether the event was done "Right" or "Wrong", actual opinions vary widely.
I may appear to be a "sore loser" -- from your perspective especially -- but in fact, there really wasn't _anything_ on the prize list that appealed to me. It's a side-effect of being "comfortably well off" in my declining years. My PC is already top-of-the-line and those graphics cards and what-not would actually be a degradation of what I already have. All the other stuff....If I wanted any of it, I _already_ have it. And I'm waaaaayyyyy too lazy to try to sell stuff to others. (Which helps to explain why I've got nearly a thousand PC games from the last 20 years or so in my storage unit downstairs.)
MY big beef about the Bazaar was the way BW presented it, followed by how they operated it. They annouce, "We're doing this for
_YOU_!" and then proceed to demonstrate that it's all about Marketing and an enormous amount of benefit to BW. You may/will say, "Well _that_ ain't no surprise! Businesses are _always_ doing that anyway!" Given the sheer chutzpah of the presentation, I see no need to give them a free pass just because "everybody is doing it." Had they at least been forthright enough to say, "We're looking to have YOU help us to become even bigger!" I most probably would have been more tolerant. Instead, they manipulated the community into carry on like prisoners at Andersonville when the bread wagon rolled through the gate.
As for the view of Americans by those elsewhere, the single largest block of such witnesses was/is right here on the BW social network. All of those foreigners that cut cut from the contest at the last second. Add in my gaming contacts from around the globe (built up over the years) and the
kindest adjective describing what went down was "disgusting". Perhaps I've come to associate with like-minded people, but I will admit that I tend to extrapolate their opinions to be fairly representative of Europeans in general. (NOT a safe assumption, but still....)
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On topic: I would hazard that much of the ensuing weeks before delivery of prizes will be spent verifying the legitimacy of the winners. I know, for instance, the double win by Ecliptic Deimos was a computer error. More than likely, the prize from the second auction will most likely be awarded to the #2 bidder.
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