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[tomdrama]

Hmmm, you call people trolls but still keep throwing snide remarks back in retaliation. Just be the bigger man and move on, as someone already said, it's just a game bro!

[SofaJockey]

K1LL STREAK wrote...

Its been that gloriously sunny in the UK I bet a lot of people didn't really play much (a spot of sunshine is that much of a rarity in britain). I work 12 hour shifts and worked Thursday to Sunday and managed to promote four AND do my garden..but that's because I stayed up and only got 2 or 3 hours of sleep a night. I'm fooking knackered today and it serves me right!

Yes it has been lovely and sunny in the UK. Beause the Operation was announced ahead, I had a few days to get 3 characters to level20 ahead of the weekend, then it took me 5 minutes to promote on the Saturday ahead of some lovely sunbathing, knotted handkerchief on my head :-)

Seriously though, and I do have respect for American national days, but I don't see how the fact that an operation part-coincides with such a day affects the ability to read and comprehend an announcement that a game event lasts for 48 hours. That is not an unreasonable time within which to promote 3 characters if so desired.

[morph4037]

adrest4 wrote...

Seriously though, and I do have respect for American national days, but I don't see how the fact that an operation part-coincides with such a day affects the ability to read and comprehend an announcement that a game event lasts for 48 hours. That is not an unreasonable time within which to promote 3 characters if so desired.

I don't see how it's hard to comprehend that not everyone knew or knows about the blog. If they had at least linked it in the announcment page and in the OP thread here, we wouldn't be having this discussion lol. 

[lordshenlong]

have you considered removing all mention of memorial day from your post, that should reduce the people posting about that part of your point.

[FrOoOstBite]

Big deal. Cry me a river......

EDIT: I am referring to your disappointment,not at the concept of the memorial day

Modifié par FrOoOstBite, 28 mai 2012 - 12:58 .

[SofaJockey]

Agreed - more clarity on the Announcement on BSN would have been helpful.

Pity I can't remember if the exact timings were shown on the Xbox/PC splash screen - I assume they were (excluding PS3 users I understand) but I am told they were not - I will take a shot of it next time.

In truth this Operation was both the easiest or hardest to complete. If 3 characters were ready, then a 5 minute task. If you had 6 x Level 1 characters, I guess that's 60 x Bronze missions, or 20 hours play to promote (Less if your teammates carry you for some levels on Silver/Gold)

Types of Operation should vary (which they do). Some people don't want to do Gold extractions, others don't want to promote. It should not have to be an obsessive requirement to complete every single Operation. My pending Hurricane IV (if luck follows a trend) is not worth that level of frustration.

Now if you did play for 20 hours with this Operation in mind and did not spend 5 minutes to confirm the timing and so missed the window, then I feel for you.

I imagine BioWare will further highlight timings in future.

[fdgvdddvdfdfbdfb]

Cry some more.

























I'll join you. Hopefully they'll then give in like the endings.

Modifié par fdgvdddvdfdfbdfb, 28 mai 2012 - 01:05 .

[Zkyire]

XxTaLoNxX wrote...

Ok, before I get started, let me say I already promoted 6 characters. So no, I am not butthurt that I won't accomplish a goal for myself.

Now, I've just noticed that Operation Shieldwall was a short event, from Friday 5pm PT to Sunday 5pm PT.
This would have been acceptable ON ANY OTHER WEEKEND. This was MEMORIAL DAY weekend, many people were either out of town with family or having a family based weekend and wouldn't get on until TONIGHT.

This is unacceptable. And before you say something like, "Well that's an American holiday, we don't celebrate it here."
It's a holiday for remembering our Armed Forces and their sacrifices, I'm pretty sure other countries have similar holidays. Oh, and BioWare is associated with EA... an American company, and BioWare has an office in America as well as many, many, many American employees.

Sorry, but this is not acceptable. And why was this weekend the only "short" weekend event. Most go until Monday morning, in fact many people are USED to these events going until Monday morning.

BioWare, I am officially disappointed in you. This IS NOT cool.

Sincerely,

Staff Sergeant Talon Westfall
US ARMY 1st Cav Div, Fort Hood Texas

EDIT - The point is that the information on the event was located in one spot where the timeline for the event is concerned. And with no notification anywhere else that the timeline had changed from previous events. And to compound the issue is that there was no link to this blog information for us to check. I'm pretty sure the majority of players don't visit the blog. They either check the announcement thread here, or they get the splash screen on their platform/s of choice... neither of which contained this information.

The ball was dropped. Plain and simple. And THAT is what I am disappointed about most.

Bioware is a Canadian company with its playerbase from all over the world.

The United States of America is not the centre of the world, nor is it the centre of Bioware.

Why should they skip it just because some US-Americans wont play?

No "ball" was dropped. Stop being so Americentric.

[UltimateTobi]

SeaJayX wrote...

Are the banshees gone already?

Nope, just had a Banshee VS Cerberus round about 30 minutes ago.

[msantos]

Shadowalker1191 wrote...

US holiday. Game produced in Canada. Problem?

Apparently so.  

We do not observe the US "Memorial Day" in Canada and the primary staff contingent is based in Edmonton so.. it just amazes me how many folks don't seem to get this very simple concept at all.  

Modifié par msantos, 28 mai 2012 - 01:24 .

[Severyx]

Zkyire wrote...

Bioware is a Canadian company with its playerbase from all over the world.

The United States of America is not the centre of the world, nor is it the centre of Bioware.

Why should they skip it just because some US-Americans wont play?

No "ball" was dropped. Stop being so Americentric.

Actually, you're wrong. As was mentioned earlier in the thread, BioWare is a division of EA, which is an American company. BioWare STARTED as a Canadian company, but those branches are no longer in charge (obviously), not to mention that the studio handling multiplayer is in the U.S.They have every right to observe the holiday. The OP is just butthurt he forgot to check the times posted in several threads AND in the in-game announcement.

I'd expect the same if it were a game based in another country with a big holiday encroaching on the playtime. That's just reality. Plain and simple. It's not a sustained service like MMOs, Account accessibility, etc, so quite yer bellyachin', OP.

Modifié par Severyx, 28 mai 2012 - 01:26 .

[clarkusdarkus]

Didnt help the cause also when the servers were down and annoying.

[deadpixel92]

Calm down dude, is just game.

[lordshenlong]

Severyx wrote...

Zkyire wrote...

Bioware is a Canadian company with its playerbase from all over the world.

The United States of America is not the centre of the world, nor is it the centre of Bioware.

Why should they skip it just because some US-Americans wont play?

No "ball" was dropped. Stop being so Americentric.

Actually, you're wrong. As was mentioned earlier in the thread, BioWare is a division of EA, which is an American company. BioWare STARTED as a Canadian company, but they're no longer in charge (obviously), not to mention that the studio handling multiplayer is in the U.S.They have every right to observe the holiday. The OP is just butthurt he forgot to check the times posted in several threads AND in the in-game announcement.

I'd expect the same if it were a game based in another country with a big holiday encroaching on the playtime. That's just reality. Plain and simple. It's not a sustained service like MMOs, Account accessibility, etc, so quite yer bellyachin', OP.

national holidays have no place in games, no matter what holiday or what country

[Kel Riever]

You know, I found out too late that the deadline was early. So I missed my promotion and my crappy promotional weapon.

But anger has its place and there's going to be a lot of grief play tonight. Revenge is really a useful tool sometimes. And sometimes it is good to be a tool.

[Descy_]

Im pretty sure it's still going, isnt it?

The events have always been until Monday, no matter what the Blog says.

[Severyx]

lordshenlong wrote...

national holidays have no place in games, no matter what holiday or what country

That's quite the biggoted opinion you have.

[NobleVigilante]

Severyx wrote...

lordshenlong wrote...

national holidays have no place in games, no matter what holiday or what country

That's quite the biggoted opinion you have.

Its the most reasonable opinion, a thing that affects only a small portion of the world should not take priority over the majority of the world.

[lordshenlong]

Severyx wrote...

lordshenlong wrote...

national holidays have no place in games, no matter what holiday or what country

That's quite the biggoted opinion you have.

not really, if they observe an american holiday, then they'd have to observe other countries holidays too. That's only fair. And quite obviously they have respected this holiday hence the early ending of the op, it's not their fault you turn a one day event into a weekend thing.

[PluralAces]

It's probably because the dlc is coming out on Tuesday and they want to make sure they do all of the necessary fieldwork regarding the issue of the packs related to operation shield wall before then. I'm guessing they might try to issue some packs either tonight or simultaneously with the dlc release

[Descy_]

NobleVigilante wrote...

Severyx wrote...

lordshenlong wrote...

national holidays have no place in games, no matter what holiday or what country

That's quite the biggoted opinion you have.

Its the most reasonable opinion, a thing that affects only a small portion of the world should not take priority over the majority of the world.

Speaking within the community of people who own the Game, isnt NA the Majority?

At least half of that is from the US, so...

[lordshenlong]

Descy_ wrote...

NobleVigilante wrote...

Severyx wrote...

lordshenlong wrote...

national holidays have no place in games, no matter what holiday or what country

That's quite the biggoted opinion you have.

Its the most reasonable opinion, a thing that affects only a small portion of the world should not take priority over the majority of the world.

Speaking within the community of people who own the Game, isnt NA the Majority?

At least half of that is from the US, so...

so you deserve special treatment?