I love ya, Bioware, but to be frank, the last three events have been... underwhelming. They're not "challenges" or really community oriented. I enjoyed Goliath a lot, and felt incentive to play a lot so I could help make sure we met the community goal, and it was fun comparing Brute kill counts with other players. With Fortress, Raptor, Beachhead, and now Resurgence... where's the camaraderie? I would think these events would be designed to encourage people to play more. If I play at all this weekend with the DLC, I get the reward. Do people really need incentive to get free DLC? And if they did, couldn't you have done something a little more engaging? Maybe something like "New forward bases have been established- secure the area!" with the Reserve pack being awarded for extracting on the new maps and a community reward for 50,000 full extractions on Condor/Hydra? I mean, there's no "community" reward at all- we're being offered 10% XP for Condor and Hydra, which is the same as unknown. Sure, you double up if you do unknown and get one of them, but that doesn't encourage people to specifically play these maps, other than making it so they can do it and not miss out on the random map XP bonus (XP isn't much of an incentive anyway).
I understand that these events are probably low on the priority list and Bioware probably can't spend a lot of time on these. But pulling the data can't be that insanely difficult, can it? I'm sure there's plenty of people on these boards with great ideas for challenges, even excluding all the folks who want gold specific challenges (because challenges should be for everyone, and there's a lot of people that don't play Gold at all for whatever reason). Things like "Get two 25 SMG Kill medals or one 50 medal" so people are tooling around with SMGs as a primary for a change. Or maybe "Good Samaritan" and give rewards for reviving (this should have an alternative for 10 Waves survived or something, so people aren't purposefully dying). Another possibility would be an assist based operation to encourage teamwork. I'd probably be happy with pretty much that didn't amount to me turning on my Xbox and clicking a few buttons in menus, and would definitely prefer a real community goal to get us all playing more.
I'm also starting to think the PS3 people have a legitimate gripe. It seems odd that Sony's notorious lockdown on data would prevent even this information from coming through. Players have to connect to EA servers, and matchmaking has to look at if they have the DLC to put them in an appropriate lobby, doesn't it? It just seems really weird to me, just like it seemed odd that they couldn't get the information for Raptor. This is information that's important for basic functionality. I suppose that Sony could have a "reasonable" concern that specifically granting players packs, claiming it's a potential security risk, so maybe it still is Sony. The PS3 players are just starting to seem a bit less paranoid re: an EA/Microsoft exclusivity deal. I personally don't have a problem with an exclusive deal- this is a business, advertising and support cost money, etc. etc. But I think they should be upfront about it- I think that'd be less damaging than the uncertainty about it. I'd also like to ask that PS3 users bear in mind that if that IS the case, the exclusivity deal would be between EA and Microsoft, not Bioware and Microsoft. Please don't scream at the poor developers about it. They already have enough stuff to deal with they can actually do something about.
Ah, look at me complaining about something free... I just think Bioware could make this a lot more fun than they have, to both their and our benefit. Makes me a little sad.
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