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[cronosfire]

that sucks zero percent chance now.............. i thought we were doing so well too

[MJF JD]

NowImNothing30 wrote...

meh, couldn't they just let this slide I had my hopes up that we would get it today...

i would imagine it would reflect poorly on bioware if they knowingly ignored it.

[shastboy]

Why spam it? We were almost at a million!

[wulfsturm]

shastboy wrote...

Why spam it? We were almost at a million!

It was almost at a million becasue people were spamming it to get to there.

[Jaldaen]

The cake is a lie!

[The Elder King]

I appreciate that they cut the spamming downloads. But "some people" isnt equal to 300k. I'd say "a lot of people" since it was more than 1/3 of the downloads (300k on 820k)

[TheShadowWolf911]

in the immortal words of Jigsaw (the Scary Movie 4 parody of him)



"We are so 'censored"

[Stompi]

I never trusted the counter anyway. And now it has completely lost it's purpose, because nobody knows how many unique downloads there really were.

[PrinceOfFallout13]

i wanted those tomes ugh

[DreGregoire]

RosaAquafire wrote...

What exactly does spamming consist of?

Yeah what does that mean? People who downloaded more than once and are these complete downloads or partial. I know I tried downloading a couple of times before going to a mirror. I thought the count was based on logging into our ea account. Does that mean people may have multiple accounts with the same web address, which isn't a real indictor because my nephews both have the game and use the same internet connection. Heh.

[Walker White]

The jump over night was really suspicious....

[solstickan]

Aww man... We were so close!

[Saibh]

I thought that the counter counted the demos that hooked up to an EA account. Did a ton of people just make new EA accounts or something for this very purpose? 300,000 seems...a tad much.

[Walker White]

DreGregoire wrote...

RosaAquafire wrote...

What exactly does spamming consist of?

Yeah what does that mean?

I suspect it means that someone hacked the network communication protocol to make it seem like people were playing the demo when they actually were not.  If you can find a list of valid EA accounts (and every BioWare social account is an EA account) and the protocol is not encrypted, you could pull it off.

[Demx]

Don't tell me that Bioware was being generous with docking the counter, because I would find that hard to believe.

[TheShadowWolf911]

DreGregoire wrote...

RosaAquafire wrote...

What exactly does spamming consist of?

Yeah what does that mean? People who downloaded more than once and are these complete downloads or partial. I know I tried downloading a couple of times before going to a mirror. I thought the count was based on logging into our ea account. Does that mean people may have multiple accounts with the same web address, which isn't a real indictor because my nephews both have the game and use the same internet connection. Heh.

good question and good point.


Maybe Ea is making Bioware lie about the spamming so they can have them release it as DLC we have to pay for.

just kiddin!

that being said, i wouldn't put it past EA.

[Dave of Canada]

The counter doesn't count how many people actually played the demo but how many people pressed the link to download the demo, which lead to a lot of people spamming the link to increase it. In truth, we're probably under 500k people who played the demo itself and I'm not even sure it counts the people on the consoles.

[DreGregoire]

Maybe it's a comparison of download vs. actual people who have signed in to play on their EA accounts.

The numbers should go up anyways because it's almost the weekend and more people (hopefully) will play the demo

Modifié par DreGregoire, 24 février 2011 - 10:51 .

[mcpothead]

EA decided they wanted more downloads bend over *fans*



What a joke next time market your on game and don't lie about spamming 300k downloads. It clearly says in the terms and conditions of the official site that it only counts each unique ea account how can you spam that ?

[Demx]

Why didn't they just count the number of people who got the Hayder's Razor? It seems Bioware needs to take a chunk of the blame.

[Victia]

Sorry for being ignorant but what constitutes spamming?

[Saibh]

Dave of Canada wrote...

The counter doesn't count how many people actually played the demo but how many people pressed the link to download the demo, which lead to a lot of people spamming the link to increase it. In truth, we're probably under 500k people who played the demo itself and I'm not even sure it counts the people on the consoles.

What? Why would it do that? They said it counted the people with EA accounts who downloaded? How'd we find that out?

[RGDekta]

yeah as nice as those books would be looks like we won't be getting them unless bioware takes pity on us lol

[slienthunter5]

last I look psn only at 2,500