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[RinpocheSchnozberry]

StreetlightEagle wrote...

BioWare = Amazing trolls.

OH ****ING SNAP.    The truth is revealed... this was some kind of revenge wasn't it? 


Clever girls.

[Blastback]

Anarya wrote...

I'm just sort of continually baffled by decisions made by the PR and marketing guys responsible for this game, whoever they might be. I can't really think of a worse way to handle this situation than how it actually went down. So I'll just sit here, being puzzled. Not that typing this will accomplish anything. I have a feeling the marketing team is avoiding this thread like the plague (easy to do since "feedback" is quarantined here). Sigh.

Preach on!

It's funny, Mass Effect and TOR are very well marketed.  Just about everything that I've ever seen released about those two franchises has made me super excited, if not nerdgasm.  With Origins and now DA2, my buying the game has been inspite of the marketing, because of my faith in Bioware as a developer.

wulfsturm wrote...

Someone, please hold me.

*Holds*


*Drops*

Modifié par Blastback, 02 février 2011 - 01:23 .

[TJPags]

Brockololly wrote...

TJPags wrote...
They basically just told us that, a year ago, they made a decision to announce on a spcific date that they would be testing their FB game.

Yay?

If they just came out and said that was supposed to be DA2's release date, that would help. Cause if they seriously plunked that ambiguous card in Awakening with the intent to have it hype a second stage of a spinoff facebook game, then their marketing is....ummm....lets say, special.

That's pretty much my thought, as well.

Unless someone from Bioware specifically refutes this (without ambiguous language) I'm just going to assume that last year, 2-1-11 was the target date for DA2 release.

Because, honestly, the "announcement", as you point out, that a FB game we knew was in beta testing was, indeed, in beta testing is . . . .well, crap.

As I said eariler - I think it's time to take a good look at the marketing/piblic relations team.

[Brockololly]

Saibh wrote...

This would be applicable if they didn't keep announcing that 02-01-2011 was some big, secret date. But they did. So someone decided something.

Yeah, again, it seems to me at least, about recognizing what people are building up in their head and handling those expectations accordingly. If they knew a while back that the deal with the Awakening card wasn't going to come to fruition, and yet they kept hyping it when asked by acting like it was some super duper secret special Dragon Age day, thats incredibly lame.

Same deal with the demo thread- if anyone knew it wasn't going to be released today given that people expected something of note regarding DA2 today from the Awakening card, then its just rather boorish to let people get hyped up knowing there isn't anything to be hyped for.

I'm sympathetic that there are NDAs and maybe some people didn't have the credentials to come out and pull the plug on that hype, but still, somebody had to have known.

Modifié par Brockololly, 02 février 2011 - 01:23 .

[Koffeegirl]

I think a couple of months ago in a post Chris Priestly stated that 2-1-11was in fact originally supposed to be the release date for DA2, but then it was pushed back until March. However, he also said it would still be a very happy day for DA fans. This the reason why I think people are miffed. I received an invite to the closed beta for DA Legends on Jan 13th. I'm not so sure why this was the announcement, when DAL was announced weeks ago and even has its own thread.  I honestly thought it was going to be the release of the anime they were talking about or a cool preview or something. I'm gonna see if I dig up the old post.

Modifié par Koffeegirl, 02 février 2011 - 01:22 .

[TJPags]

Anarya wrote...

I'm just sort of continually baffled by decisions made by the PR and marketing guys responsible for this game, whoever they might be. I can't really think of a worse way to handle this situation than how it actually went down. So I'll just sit here, being puzzled. Not that typing this will accomplish anything. I have a feeling the marketing team is avoiding this thread like the plague (easy to do since "feedback" is quarantined here). Sigh.

This is so true.

[Bryy_Miller]

Huntress wrote...
2 not one about facebook thas has nothing to do with Da2.

Except that it does? Legends is the prequel to DA2. It even has stuff that unlocks to DA2. 

[PrinceOfFallout13]

all i know is that the marketing has failed beyond belief people i know havent even heard of dragon age 2 thats how bad the marketing is im surprised laidlaw hasn't gone and insulted the marketing for failing to MARKET >_>

[marshalleck]

I wonder if we should be getting hyped for the actual game or not. I mean, the whole deal is "push a button and something awesome happens" right? And if Legends beta is their idea of awesome, well...

[tacopacabana]

i am mad, im not gonna lie. im pissed actually. how dare they tease us like that for this s***?? ugh lucky people who set their standards low to not get dissapointed.

[Dave of Canada]

marshalleck wrote...

I wonder if we should be getting hyped for the actual game or not. I mean, the whole deal is "push a button and something awesome happens" right? And if Legends beta is their idea of awesome, well...

You didn't push a button for Legends, though.

[TJPags]

Bryy_Miller wrote...

Huntress wrote...
2 not one about facebook thas has nothing to do with Da2.

Except that it does? Legends is the prequel to DA2. It even has stuff that unlocks to DA2. 

Yes, and it might be worthy of an announcement when it's out of beta testing. 

[Saibh]

marshalleck wrote...

Someone decided something, but failed to communicate it to everyone else. This kind of crap happens all the time in large organizations, but not as a public spectacle.

With what we know, and has been said, I know it's some sort of mess-up--but a planned one that failed in retrospect. All evidence points pretty strongly towards wanting there to be some kind of announcements, and Legends fitting in pretty well. They probably intended for today be the DAII release date--and then, when they kept announcing it after it was pushed back, the Legends release date. But then that was pushed back, so they needed something to save face.

[wulfsturm]

Koffeegirl wrote...

I think a couple of months ago in a post Chris Priestly stated that 2-1-11was in fact originally supposed to be the release date for DA2, but then it was pushed back until March. However, he also said it would still be a very happy day for DA fans. This the reason why I think people are miffed. I received an invite to the closed beta for DA Legends on Jan 13th. I'm not so sure why this was the announcement, when DAL was announced weeks ago and even has its own thread.  I honestly thought it was going to be the release of the anime they were talking about or a cool preview or something. I'm gonna see if I dig up the old post.

It honestly makes me feel like BioWare did a bait-and-switch on us. I love this company, I think they're one of the best, if not the best gaming companies out there - but this has totally lowered my opinion of them.

[Huntress]

Bryy_Miller wrote...

Huntress wrote...
2 not one about facebook thas has nothing to do with Da2.

Except that it does? Legends is the prequel to DA2. It even has stuff that unlocks to DA2. 

It gives items for da2 yes, same as deadspace-spacegoat( what-ever-is-called*) game.. right? that too is about DA2?<_<

Modifié par Huntress, 02 février 2011 - 01:29 .

[Morroian]

Anarya wrote...

I'm just sort of continually baffled by decisions made by the PR and marketing guys responsible for this game, whoever they might be. I can't really think of a worse way to handle this situation than how it actually went down. So I'll just sit here, being puzzled. Not that typing this will accomplish anything. I have a feeling the marketing team is avoiding this thread like the plague (easy to do since "feedback" is quarantined here). Sigh.

QFT

Its really just a continuation of the poor marketing for DAO.

[xxSgt_Reed_24xx]

[spam image removed]

I lol'd

seriously, all you had to do was say... "sorry guys, we effed up."

Modifié par Stanley Woo, 02 février 2011 - 01:32 .

[Hellosanta]

This is absurd and ridiculous ... I really believed that I would be able to see femhawke in action. Not necessarily demo but at least some sort of new preview/trailer.... that I expected.

[Bobad]

This just in, I'm having a cup of tea!



Stayed tuned for more exciting updates!

[vanom66]

Hey guys mostly burned my dragon ad posted on YouTube







Link : www.youtube.com/user/vanomxxx

[KyleOrdrum]

Dave of Canada wrote...

Zombie Jory wrote...

good people are getting banned for no good reason without e-mails explaining..

This is very upsetting. Stick to your own rules. Things you dont like to hear bioware should not be considered "Spam"

I'm disappointed as well by the marketing, though just because people are disappointed / upset / angry doesn't mean the rules disappeared. Yelling, screaming and insulting is still against the rules and should be enforced.

Hell, half these banned people I've talked with understand what they were doing is against the rules and regreted their course of action when they calmed down.

They aren't victims of prosecution for no reason.

While you are correct in the most technical sense, it's almost like starting the wrong line of insults with someone and truly believing you won't get punched in the face.  If the rumors had been squashed, this reaction would have been fine, but you cannot do something that blatantly comes across as baiting a negative reaction, and then act shocked when you get that negative reaction.  Anger is probably the most natural human reaction, and to hold people accountable for things said in an anger that you created...well its kind of petty.  To be fair, I understand the reaction if the anger doesn't come to an end, but after less than a day it won't be out of anyone's systems.  I know its not out of mine yet...

[Noojers]

The cake was a lie ):

[BunnyisCthulhu]

I'm not surprised by this turn of events, but I am disappointed. If anything the events of the last few days and the announcement about something we already knew about have left me feeling very bitter towards DA:L. I'm very close to making the decision to not play Legend at all. Not that it really matters in the grand scheme of things.



Still, we have lots of information to look forward to in the countdown towards March 8th (or 11th for me and other Europeans)

[marshalleck]

Saibh wrote...

marshalleck wrote...

Someone decided something, but failed to communicate it to everyone else. This kind of crap happens all the time in large organizations, but not as a public spectacle.

With what we know, and has been said, I know it's some sort of mess-up--but a planned one that failed in retrospect. All evidence points pretty strongly towards wanting there to be some kind of announcements, and Legends fitting in pretty well. They probably intended for today be the DAII release date--and then, when they kept announcing it after it was pushed back, the Legends release date. But then that was pushed back, so they needed something to save face.

Yes, I am aware. No need to repeat it ad nauseum. The point is that somewhere in their marketing team, the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing, and vice versa. Somewhere there is a supervisor who has unbelievably poor team coordination/communication skills. 

[Revan312]

Maybe they thought we should all be paying attention to Egypt's current situation and thus delayed the demo?



.. Nah...