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[upsettingshorts]

charmingcharlie wrote...

Ah here come the "apologists" yes I know

Oooh name calling.  If I'm an apologist you're a whiner.

[CottonBALL]

if dlc gets released in the next 10-15 minutes, my ability to multitask will get strained quite a bit because of FIBA worldcup basketball match between Lithuania and China. Go LT, GO!!!!

[JaegerBane]

charmingcharlie wrote...

Delixe wrote...

The DLC was released on the 360 by Microsoft. BioWare have no control over when they release it. BioWare can only release the PC DLC themselves and that happens when they get in to work in ohhh.. 20 mins.

Ah here come the "apologists" yes I know Bioware has no control over when the DLC is released by Microsoft but they DO have control over when they release it for the PC.  It can't be that hard in this day and age to create a mechanism whereby the PC DLC is released at the same time as the Xbox DLC.

I leave my PC unattended for weeks on end and schedule it to do tasks without any input from me whatsoever. Now seriously if I can do that on a crappy £500 computer with a crappy freeware program I am pretty sure Bioware can come up with something professional to ensure the content is released automatically at a certain date and time.

You're having to wait a few more hours, charlie. A few hours. Give the bellyaching a rest.

Modifié par JaegerBane, 07 septembre 2010 - 03:51 .

[Fortlowe]

I beat it already! Bow Chicka BOW WOW!

[charmingcharlie]

Delixe wrote...

They need people there in case of any troubles with the servers. If they said it would be available at 12am and went home while the system went down could you imagine the trouble then?

Can't expect people to be working to 2-3am in the morning so we all get it when we want. At the end of the day the time was set for 10am Mountain time. That's when they are at work and ready to deal with any problems and one now seems to have occurred if it's been put back to 11am.

Yet more excuses eh, you may think it is perfectly acceptable for them to cold shoulder their customer base.  I don't there is simply no excuse in this day and age for these kind of delays.

I know if the roles were reversed and the PC was getting the DLC first before the xbox you can bet your life Microsoft would be down Bioware's throat to get it sorted so that there is a simultaneous release (and quite rightly so).  This issue needs to be sorted, but then I guess with Bioware these days it is a lot easier to say "it can't be done" rather than actually fix the issue.

Oh and last time I checked it wasn't a "few hours" it is substantially longer than a "few hours".

Modifié par charmingcharlie, 07 septembre 2010 - 03:54 .

[thepaladin1]

I realize they have to wait till they get it back from testing to upload but jesus couldn't they upload and just lock it a few days ahead of the release or does that make to much sense?

[upsettingshorts]

charmingcharlie wrote...
This issue needs to be sorted, but then I guess with Bioware these days it is a lot easier to say "it can't be done" rather than actually fix the issue.

Here's my imitation of how I'd expect Bioware to respond:

There is no issue.  Working as intended. 

/PC gamer.  Can occupy himself with other activities.

Modifié par Upsettingshorts, 07 septembre 2010 - 03:55 .

[Tony_Knightcrawler]

They're probably fixing that Charm bug before they release on PC.

[JeanLuc761]

charmingcharlie wrote...
Yet more excuses eh, you may think it is perfectly acceptable for them to cold shoulder their customer base.  I don't there is simply no excuse in this day and age for these kind of delays.

I know if the roles were reversed and the PC was getting the DLC first before the xbox you can bet your life Microsoft would be down Bioware's neck to get it sorted so that there is a simultaneous release (and quite rightly so).  This issue needs to be sorted, but then I guess with Bioware these days it is a lot easier to say "it can't be done" rather than actually fix the issue.

If a 1 hour delay is seriously bothering you this much, you might want to re-evaluate your priorities.

Bioware has ALWAYS released Mass Effect 2 DLC when they arrived at work in the morning, while Microsoft has released the DLC several hours before.  This isn't something new here, and a difference of a few hours is hardly something worth getting upset about.

[duck.william]

JeanLuc761 wrote...

duck.william wrote...

has anyone figured out the url to dl it before the release yet?
that way you could at least start playing directly after they release it...

How, exactly, does one go about downloading something before it's released?
By nature, that's impossible.

well, you could figure out the url of the dlc, download and install it, since its probably already on their servers... you won't be able to play any content thouh, until you have registered that particular dlc to your account. has worked with other dlcs in the past. Lair of the Shadow Broker is quite a hard name to guess its url, though

[ImperialSoldier]

charmingcharlie wrote...

Delixe wrote...

They need people there in case of any troubles with the servers. If they said it would be available at 12am and went home while the system went down could you imagine the trouble then?

Can't expect people to be working to 2-3am in the morning so we all get it when we want. At the end of the day the time was set for 10am Mountain time. That's when they are at work and ready to deal with any problems and one now seems to have occurred if it's been put back to 11am.

Yet more excuses eh, you may think it is perfectly acceptable for them to cold shoulder their customer base.  I don't there is simply no excuse in this day and age for these kind of delays.

I know if the roles were reversed and the PC was getting the DLC first before the xbox you can bet your life Microsoft would be down Bioware's throat to get it sorted so that there is a simultaneous release (and quite rightly so).  This issue needs to be sorted, but then I guess with Bioware these days it is a lot easier to say "it can't be done" rather than actually fix the issue.

Oh and last time I checked it wasn't a "few hours" it is substantially longer than a "few hours".

Stop typing before you embarrass yourself over a video game. Nevermind, too late.

[JeanLuc761]

duck.william wrote...

JeanLuc761 wrote...

duck.william wrote...

has anyone figured out the url to dl it before the release yet?
that way you could at least start playing directly after they release it...

How, exactly, does one go about downloading something before it's released?
By nature, that's impossible.

well, you could figure out the url of the dlc, download and install it, since its probably already on their servers... you won't be able to play any content thouh, until you have registered that particular dlc to your account. has worked with other dlcs in the past. Lair of the Shadow Broker is quite a hard name to guess its url, though

Actually, the reason we don't have the DLC yet is because Bioware is uploading the DLC literally as we speak.  They're having trouble with their servers so it will be about an hour until it's ready for download.

[charmingcharlie]

JeanLuc761 wrote...

If a 1 hour delay is seriously bothering you this much, you might want to re-evaluate your priorities.

Bioware has ALWAYS released Mass Effect 2 DLC when they arrived at work in the morning, while Microsoft has released the DLC several hours before.  This isn't something new here, and a difference of a few hours is hardly something worth getting upset about.

How about you read what I posted eh ?  I am not complaining about the "1 hour delay" I am complaining that Xbox users have had access to this DLC for nealy 7 hours now and PC gamers are still sat here waiting.

[Klace]

They said at around 10AM Edmonton time you guys...

That's in 3 minutes. They'll get into work in 3 minutes and release it as scheduled.

Don't spazz...

[raz3r]

So no official eta yet?

[JeanLuc761]

charmingcharlie wrote...

How about you read what I posted eh ?  I am not complaining about the "1 hour delay" I am complaining that Xbox users have had access to this DLC for nealy 7 hours now and PC gamers are still sat here waiting.

I addressed that, did I not?  Microsoft is in charge of releasing the Xbox DLC and Bioware is in charge of PC.  In order to prevent any issues with the launch, the Bioware staff must be in the building to keep watch for tech issues and whatnot.  

It's unreasonable to ask the Bioware tech staff to be in the building at 2-3AM just so PC gamers get the DLC at exactly the same time as Xbox.

[JeanLuc761]

raz3r_ wrote...

So no official eta yet?

Official ETA is 1 hour 2 minutes.

[ArcanistLibram]

Shouldn't all the 12 year olds be in school by now?

[ShoepZA]

Did you read that somewhere JeanLuc?

[BanditGR]

Purchase link : http://social.biowar...=OFB-MASS:21387



Go crazy !

[upsettingshorts]

ShoepZA wrote...

Did you read that somewhere JeanLuc?

I posted it on the previous page:

Chris Priestly wrote...

Attention:
The upload is taking longer
than we expect. The new current ETA for Lair of the Shadowbroker is
11am MST. So approximately 80 minutes. If this changes, I will let you
know.



{smilie}

[The Harmonizer]

**** this, im gonna buy the Mafia 2 DLC instead, at least they seem to know that europeans also want to play the damn game on the release day...the release day is almost over in europe...