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[Snelle Jaap]

sandokas wrote...

Pacifien wrote...

I created a cursed Facebook account just for promotionals like these. Even if my soul whithered a little bit inside when I created the account. Do I blame BioWare for destroying my soul? Ah, it's worth it.

AH ah, you'll have to live with those dark side points and the consequence of your actions for the rest of your life game.

It's cool, i did the same thing, i even played Mafia Wars for a while... :-D

Soul Sellers 

good thing i dont have that need :innocent:

[Super_Cat]

I'm fine with it on Facebook, so long as they don't do something like "Invite 10 friends to play and get an exclusive item for DA2!"



That would be pretty annoying. Hopefully you can unlock everything by just playing it.

[dragondragon]

I am sorry if this has already beeen mentioned but you can hear a bit about here:

[Lord Gremlin]

No. I'm not registering on facebook. Ever. Offer those DA2 items for $20 - I will pay. But registering on facebook - never.

[Big_Chief]

It actually doesn't sound too bad from what they say on that podcast. I like the sound of having your own customizable castle. I just hope it isn't too reliant on playing with other people (most of the people I know probably wouldn't be interested in playing such a game).

[Seether]

Throwaway accounts for Facebook or not, you've chosen a very unsecure platform to offer this content.



Study: Facebook, Twitter get 'F' for security - http://www.wtop.com/...=25&sid=2106979



Further, feel free to look at Firesheep on HTTP session hijacking for Facebook.



http://codebutler.com/firesheep

[sethillgard]

Facebook recently changed the way games work, so now they are less spammy. Now games can't send notifications to people who ARE NOT playing the game.

[Wozearly]

TS2Aggie wrote...

Sure, since you asked so nicely.

Did you ever play Leliana's Song? That DLC featured a 'voiced protagonist' (i.e. you could select Leliana's line and then she would speak something smiilar). Not long afterwards, DA2 was announced with the feature of...a voiced protagonist. (this is irrelevant to the matter at hand but I am in favor of this feature. Moving on...)

Now we have Bioware introducing a DA2 game on a social site because they want to "encourage Social interaction between players". Now one has to wonder why exactly they would care to make the effort to try to make their players more sociable a). in a single-player game, when they . already have a social forum (where we are talking right now). Seeing as how they have a bit of a history of casually introducing features of future games into optional content, it's not such an outlandish association.

Perhaps not entirely outlandish, not least since Bioware is working on translating one epic single-player franchise into an MMO as we speak...but intuitively I don't see the facebook game as being a trailblazer for that.

Encouraging social interaction between players makes a lot of sense from a game company's perspective - particularly if what you're tilting for is additional hype, discussion and interaction with the franchise, which is where I think they're coming from with Legends.

Its not a million miles away from encouraging sign-ups to the Bioware newsletter by offering in-game items, exclusive beta access to Legends, etc. The fact that the newsletter exists doesn't mean people will naturally sign up to it (I'm a self-confessed fan of Bioware, and yet it took the Staff of Parlathan to get me off my lazy ass to sign-up).

Shifting from a free-to-play facebook game which looks to me like Journeys but with additional social interaction requirements to a full-blown pay-per-month MMO would be a massive jump, though. A more likely slide would be bi-monthly DLC releases and at least one piece of DLC that allowed some form of co-op multiplayer function. Or allowed a PvP element by letting people create a player darkspawn group to challenge player wardens. If those types of features had high popularity and decent longevity, an MMO would look reasonable.

My guess would be that if SWTOR turns out to be a runaway hit then Bioware may more actively explore the possibility of an MMO in the Dragon Age setting. Until then I'd say that what's happening with the hype machine and DLCs is more about trying out things to see how well they work and, bluntly, seeing what gets good feedback and what makes money.

Whether that's sinister or indicative of future direction rather depends on your perspective.

[Big_Chief]

sethillgard wrote...

Facebook recently changed the way games work, so now they are less spammy. Now games can't send notifications to people who ARE NOT playing the game.

Oh thank god. I was sick of being spammed by Farmville updates, and I didn't much want to spam other people, either.

[Mognathol]

-.- this may the most stupid thing I have seen any developer do, makes we think twice about ever buying another bioware game again...

[Paul Emil]

Nice try, Chris. You aren't getting me onto facebook that easily.

[DIrishB]

TS2Aggie wrote...



Well, if we are required to socialize with other people in order to get items to play a single player game, I'll just wait until the items are pirated and get them that way. This just smacks of the possibility of DA3 becoming a MMO and that saddens me beyond the telling of it.

Thats about the most ridiculous leap in logic I've ever heard on these boards, and thats saying something. Seriously, people, can we stop with the pre-school level knee-jerk reactions?

TS2Aggie wrote...



Sure, since you asked so nicely.



Did you ever play Leliana's Song? That DLC featured a 'voiced protagonist' (i.e. you could select Leliana's line and then she would speak something smiilar). Not long afterwards, DA2 was announced with the feature of...a voiced protagonist. (this is irrelevant to the matter at hand but I am in favor of this feature. Moving on...)



Now we have Bioware introducing a DA2 game on a social site because they want to "encourage Social interaction between players". Now one has to wonder why exactly they would care to make the effort to try to make their players more sociable a). in a single-player game, when they . already have a social forum (where we are talking right now). Seeing as how they have a bit of a history of casually introducing features of future games into optional content, it's not such an outlandish association.

I'm failing to see how that leads them to completely change their approach and change the DA series from a single-player RPG into an MMO. Just because they're working on a Star Wars MMO doesn't mean thats the approach they're taking with DA, ME, or any of their other games. Assuming that would be the case is just kind of silly.

[ChickenDownUnder]

Bioware must love their middle-aged women. Not that I am complaining, gaming is still a bit too much of a sausage-fest.



Just surprised by this, so surprised that I decided to comment on it again.

[Kler]

Hello everyone!

[GulfWarVet]

you've forced me to open a facebook account. Damn you bioware!! What about us twitter users don't we get some dragon age love as well??



Goes to try and find some friends on facebook

[Kler]

I do not understand what is

[Mubar]

Chris Priestly wrote...

One of the main points to having Legends on Facebook (as opposed to being a simple flash game like Journeys) is to encourage Social interaction between players. which Facebook does exceptionally well. More details will be made available as we get closer to public launch next year.

What is this "Social interaction" of witch you speak

[snapsnzips]

I had no idea there were so many facebook haters out there. I love it and use it to stay in touch with family and friends. I keep a tight reign on security and restrict all my info to friends-only and, while I associate with professional colleagues on there, I filter the content they can see. I play no games and filter all game/app messages from other people. It's not insecure if you take a little time to understand how to configure your privacy settings.



I see all these "never gonna sign up for facebook" people spending hours and days video games and video game discussion forums and think, am I the only one who likes facebook and is tempted to not sign up because I'm embarrassed to have people see me spending time on a video game?

[flexxdk]

snapsnzips wrote...
I see all these "never gonna sign up for facebook" people spending hours and days video games and video game discussion forums and think, am I the only one who likes facebook and is tempted to not sign up because I'm embarrassed to have people see me spending time on a video game?

I'm not gonna sign up for Facebook simply because I already am member of a different social network (a Dutch social network) called Hyves.
I do not see the need of signing up for a second social network.

[stonemyst]

It looks as if they want a multi player thinker in single player mode. I mean I play and drag my friends charter into my game to use his special learned skills and in return he gets money on his account to buy stuff in game and vise versa he plays and drags my charter for a helper instead of just a base pre programed charter helper. I guess they have a facebook diablo single player game. You help me level up and get item and I help you making a social single player game by having linked friends using thier played charters. I could be wrong that is what I took from the new pod cast.

[AbsolutGrndZer0]

Will there be unlockables like there was with the origins flash game? 

[SirOccam]

snapsnzips wrote...

I see all these "never gonna sign up for facebook" people spending hours and days video games and video game discussion forums and think, am I the only one who likes facebook and is tempted to not sign up because I'm embarrassed to have people see me spending time on a video game?

LOL, that's what I was thinking. It is heartening to hear that they reduced the spamminess of games on Facebook though. I got tired of blocking game after game, and swore I would never inflict that on anyone in my friends list, so I haven't played a single FB game to date.

If it's true that I won't spam people, though, then that changes things.

I don't understand all the FB hate either. If you sign up for FB, you don't have to actually use it. You don't have to pay. You don't have to post compromising pictures of yourself that will get leaked because of all the horrible security or whatever. You can't lose anything if you never put it there to begin with. You don't even have to use your real name. It doesn't seem like it should be such a big deal to have a dummy account just for promotions like this.

[Snelle Jaap]

SirOccam wrote...

snapsnzips wrote...

I see all these "never gonna sign up for facebook" people spending hours and days video games and video game discussion forums and think, am I the only one who likes facebook and is tempted to not sign up because I'm embarrassed to have people see me spending time on a video game?

LOL, that's what I was thinking. It is heartening to hear that they reduced the spamminess of games on Facebook though. I got tired of blocking game after game, and swore I would never inflict that on anyone in my friends list, so I haven't played a single FB game to date.

If it's true that I won't spam people, though, then that changes things.

I don't understand all the FB hate either. If you sign up for FB, you don't have to actually use it. You don't have to pay. You don't have to post compromising pictures of yourself that will get leaked because of all the horrible security or whatever. You can't lose anything if you never put it there to begin with. You don't even have to use your real name. It doesn't seem like it should be such a big deal to have a dummy account just for promotions like this.

Aye

A dummy account may work but still,But you will need a dummy Email and a dummy password and a dummy well alot of dummy stuff for a flash game if you ask me...<_<
its to bad but then again if you want it go for it

edit/also : Mubar wrote
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+100 Win

Modifié par Snelle Jaap, 06 novembre 2010 - 11:43 .

[JeCy108]

Seether wrote...

Throwaway accounts for Facebook or not, you've chosen a very unsecure platform to offer this content.

Study: Facebook, Twitter get 'F' for security - http://www.wtop.com/...=25&sid=2106979

Further, feel free to look at Firesheep on HTTP session hijacking for Facebook.

http://codebutler.com/firesheep

exactly...  

Id really like to hear more from bio-ware on how they plan on dealing with this issue..


and as i stated and others..  If your gonna add stuff this way, atleast offer it to us for a fee as DLC as well. Bioware will make money off the content, from people that have zero desire to do the facebook thing.  So your gonna have a customer just not spreading the word at all.. and your losing money on top of it..    Doesnt sound like good business sence to me to alienate customers in a single player RPG..   If people wanted to socialize they would be playing an MMO

[Mubar]

Facebook reminds me of FriendFace if you dont get the refference then I can only feel sorry dor you