GroverA125 wrote...
Hang tough, lads, now's the time to keep our numbers, they did exactly as expected, there wasn't much chance of getting anything from them there, even they have no f**king idea what the hell they are doing right now. What we need to do is keep our numbers high, get more numbers, and continue to flood them. Now is our last chance to win, so let's not waste it with "but EA said...", now is the time to show them we are still as furious as we always have been. I don't expect them to do whatever we say, mind you, I don't expect a banker to give me a loan so I can get a house, that doesn't mean I sit at my doorstep in tears, it means that I don't stop, because it's only when we give up that we lose. Look at what we have achieved:
We split the game reviewing industry in two, gained the support of not just gaming sites, but even political sites in our campaign against them
We gave nearly $100,000 dollars to those who needed it.
We managed to shake EAs cold, heartless core, dropping their stocks when they should have been rising.
We have united over 60,000 people to our cause, sent tens of thousands of letters to Bioware in mail-campaigns,
we even sent the undeserving little buggers cupcakes.
You look at all that and tell me we didn't strike them hard. Now think: it's not over, even if we end up losing the support of some of the sites, we still have strength. If any of you are fighting only for yourself, shame on you, this isn't about what we want, this is about the future of not just the franchise, not just Bioware and EA, but the future of gaming itself. If we fail, we set back the evolution of the gaming industry entire years. THAT is why mustn't stop, 'cause I don't want to tell my children when they grow up that the games they're playing are f**ked up pieces of nuclear refuse because we gave in to a man in a suit. I don't want to watch as hundreds of other developers turn around and realise that they can get away with this s**t because we couldn't stop one company from doing it.
THAT is why we need everyone, EVERYTHING we can possibly get on our side, that is why you all need to get everyone and anyone you know who is even a little bit dis-satisfied with this and get them in our numbers. We are no longer messing around with one franchise, the world is watching, and the results will govern what happens to the future of this once-great industry.
Hold the line!
what we have done is send the entire game developing world a wake up call.
we were being watched by people from a tiny fanblog right upto financal and political institutions that have power.
we were also watched by nearly every major game developer.
what we are doing is making all the game companys wake up and relise that were not "entitled brats" but and actual community of people from diffrent backgrounds.
we have people here from diffrent religions
we have people who have diffrent skin colour
we have people here who are from diffrent nationaltys
we have people who are in diffrent age groups
what we have is a multinational, multicultrual community who have all came togeather for a proven worthwhile cause, a cause that we have spent hundreds of hours working on and we have all grown emtionaly to our shepard.
so emtionaly have we grown some of us actually cried when mordin and legion gave there life to save lifes.
and if the story went the other way some of us cried when tali killed herself.
we are people who care for what we do even tho we all know its a game we still cared for the charators in it on an emtional level.
so yes we have done much much more than we ever expected.
just think, we might be the start of a brand new gaming revolution and not even know it, a revolution where the gamers have a say in the development of games