Well, unlike most here, I have read this thread from page 1 to page 20, and you know what? The release of this game has been a total balls up! Firstly you can get the Collector's Edition in the UK on from a chain store called GAME that have exclusive rights to it. This has made them lazy and so you get no tin box, just a plastic and no cloth map!
Secondly, Now Bioware/EA are saying buyers around the world will get the Warden's Keep DLC if they download the deluxe edition 'to make up for not getting the tin box or cloth map' - well UK customers are not getting those two items even if they buy the retail version - so why don't they get a free Warden's Keep DLC?!
Thirdly, to all intents and purposes, you don;t even know if the game comes with a manual and customers are aking if the game will just come with a pdf, with no answer given!
Fourthly, You have total confusion over what version has what DLC, how to get the DLC, how to download the DLC how to use your codes and how to use the items one you have downloaded them! This smack of total ignorance by Bioware of any type of customer service! There is no way customers should be dealing with these shenanigans!
Dragon Age: Origins may be a good game, but everything else about it stinks to high heavens!
I have decided I will not be buying this game now until the GOTY edition that will have all the DLC included. It will avoid all this hassle, and as a UK customer I will be fighting back against this retail exclusive meaning UK customers alone miss out on the tin case and cloth map with no reward for not getting them when you consider the UK price for the Collector's Edition is the same price as the much better American version for the same price in U.S. Dollars! Once again, it's UK customers getting shafted nine ways to Sunday!
I have just put a bid in on ebay for Piranha Bytes 'Risen'. This has about 100 hours of gameplay, and that should get me to Fallout: New Vegas from Obsidian, a game that will use the Fallout 3 engine. By the time I get through that I would think the GOTY version would be on it's way, or I will be able to get the U.S. Collector's Edition for about half the price.
So because of all this DLC and UK retail crap, Bioware may end up not seeing any money from me at all, or at least not for 9-12 months! And it serves them right! The thread shows a despicable attitude to it's customers, we should all be up in arms instead letting these companies walk all over us! Where will it end.......?!
.... And of course, when the PC version doesn't sell very well (especially in the UK 40% of the market!), it won;t be because of the things that have been mentioned in this thread and others, oh no, it'll be piracy won't it! I can see it now!
Modifié par humorguy, 06 novembre 2009 - 08:59 .