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[Zinho73]

Apparently a Bioware dev who said her opinion, don't know any details though. No matter what was said I always appreciate honesty, so my hat's off for that.

She was not honest. She tried to defend the game in a dumb and aggressive manner.

[Hexoduen]

Well you just took your hat off to somebody who called a person a villain for making a video about how badly multiplayer is broken.

 

Well that doesn't sound very professional, but even so I always appreciate it when a developer comes out honest and transparent, rather than just being plain out silent and leaving people in the dark.

[Harbinger1975]

Well that doesn't sound very professional, but even so I always appreciate it when a developer comes out honest and transparent, rather than just being plain out silent and leaving people in the dark.

 

Hexoduen, I will agree with you on one point, a dev did come out to speak..  What I will disagree with you about is that the developer verbally attacked a paying customer.  A customer who had every right to voice his/her complaint.  And in return, the developer called him/her a villian, saying that the person lied in their video, which they didn't (They screen captured the images, and attempted not to talk to the person in private, but slander and defame them on an open forum.  That is very unprofessional and should result in a termination.  If it was any of us who treated a customer like that, where would we be?  I would like to think out on our asses and out of a job.

[PSUHammer]

Like making a 3rd playthrough of DA:I?  hmmmm 

 

Too many good things to spend money on in life other than a  console controller for my PC.

 

Well, if you bought the game and consider playing it a waste, that would be a bit masochistic.  Worrying about the UI and the plight of PC gaming interfaces really doesn't really get us anywhere other than venting.  They are all tools...keyboards, mice, controllers.  I am not sure why people get so emotionally invested in tools.

 

I got my 360 controller for $9 a few years ago for a sports game and found that it is better for control in some types of games, especially 3rd person view.

[glosoli]

Well that doesn't sound very professional, but even so I always appreciate it when a developer comes out honest and transparent, rather than just being plain out silent and leaving people in the dark.

 

It was an amateur move, lack of handling the pressure. She's working for one of the biggest players of the market, so there will be terrible days as well as magnificent days. I'm sure these kind of stuff has been mentioned in her job interview.

[Ashen Nedra]

In almost any game with a crafting system you can craft better items than you can find. Otherwise, why go to the effort of crafting?

 

That said, until you start getting the T3 mat and schematics you can still find weapons at least that are better than crafted gear. Armour not so much.

Nope I disagree even t2 with tier 3 material (very easy to get) trump almost all unique items (except two-handed elven sword and such, really bestial lv20 unique items). Same with T1 schem/T2 materials. Crafting is RIDICULOUSLY OP

[atlantico]

They are all tools...keyboards, mice, controllers.  I am not sure why people get so emotionally invested in tools.

 

What are you blathering about? Emotional investment in a tool makes no sense.

[Jackal19851111]

Allen already mentioned he's going to bring it up when he reaches Edmonton. Have to remember too during the whole "Thanks Bioware... wait... WTF Bioware?" fiasco on patch 2 - Conal dived in admist the shitstorm and told everyone to keep the feedback coming. Or when he gave everyone a very timely commandline workaround defusing the situation.

There have been sparks of old Bioware magic here and there but it's not complete and often vanishes without a trace, especially with patch news on twitter instead of the official forum. At least Amelia due to her inexperience/spite dealing with passionate fans broke the silence, answering a ton of questions by confirming many of our fears. Proving Allen's point though in fact. Still in the end I just reckon they need to start looking at the forum from a different perspective as I wrote in a closing topic.

Just have to keep your guard up at future purchases and remember EA's logo below "Bioware's", that's all I can say about the matter now. New feet in old shoes.

[JackPoint]

Well that doesn't sound very professional, but even so I always appreciate it when a developer comes out honest and transparent, rather than just being plain out silent and leaving people in the dark.

Amelia isnt a dev , she/he is a part time PR bint with little to no brains lol. he/she's comments amount to trolling.

[Archerwarden]

Hexoduen, I will agree with you on one point, a dev did come out to speak..  What I will disagree with you about is that the developer verbally attacked a paying customer.  A customer who had every right to voice his/her complaint.  And in return, the developer called him/her a villian, saying that the person lied in their video, which they didn't (They screen captured the images, and attempted not to talk to the person in private, but slander and defame them on an open forum.  That is very unprofessional and should result in a termination.  If it was any of us who treated a customer like that, where would we be?  I would like to think out on our asses and out of a job.

What? When did this happen? Is there a link to view what the customer complained about and what this PR did?

Agree if its true. If its true Bioware is in worse shape than I thought. Obviously they've never heard of Stew Leonards . Seriously, without an apology by Bioware on behalf of their employee - it's just another nail in the coffin. No company has the right to treat their customers that way. It just proves then that they have forgotten that we are the customers.

And I am saddened.

Edited to add: just saw the video - the guy was respectful and polite - nothing wrong with that. Bioware Please contact Stews and they can teach you Public Relations.

[AlyssaFaden]

Amelia isnt a dev , she/he is a part time PR bint with little to no brains lol. he/she's comments amount to trolling.

 

She can't be in PR. I *AM* in PR, and there are all sorts of tricks and ways of communicating that are taught to you as part of the job, seminars, books, and many, many decades of people in the same business passing on their wisdom.

 

She exhibited none of that. I'm not saying that her communication was outright terrible, but it lacked the nuance, the skill, and the finesse of a PR-trained person.

 

Allen showed considerably more skill and tact in this regard.

[PSUHammer]

What are you blathering about? Emotional investment in a tool makes no sense.

 

Exactly what I am thinking as I read this thread.

[atlantico]

Exactly what I am thinking as I read this thread.

You were talking about emotional investment in input devices. 

[spacefiddle]

Something I've been wondering about.  The first official responses to "why are the cutscenes low-FPS and choppy?" has been along the lines of "because they have to be, the synch and animation system is super complicated and higher than 30 FPS would break something in an unspecified manner."

 

Okay.  Odd, but no other explanation was forthcoming.

 

Then someone in the community posted a simple commandline argument that let cutscenes run at 60 FPS.  Right?

 

Were there any reports of desynching or bad animation or other goofy behaviour from people who applied this community fix?

 

Just wondering.

 

Also, I am boggled that this easy win - one that Conal even advised a poster to use, and how - this simple solution that addressed something a lot of people were experiencing, with no effort required by Bioware - was then interfering with a control that let you toggle whether your toon runs or walks in the world.

 

o.O

 

How is this even possible??   How on earth could these things be linked?  And if a customer can get the cinematics to run at a proper 60+ FPS, as any halfway decent made for PC game would, without seeing any issues - why would Bioware have seen those issues?  It interferes with a keyboard toggle we didn't have yet..?

 

None of that makes any damn sense at all.  And it's been bugging me a lot.

 

We'll see if Patch 4 actually fixes the larger issues customers are experiencing.  I'm not worried about Patch 3, they needed to get a few progression-blockers fixed ASAP.  Patch 4 will be the real measure of how committed they are to listening to their customers.

[Helmetto]

I sometimes wonder if the reasons why the patches are such crap is that they're attempting to appease the community and rushing/skipping all the proper testing.

 

Just a thought.

[Amplitudelol]

Exactly what I am thinking as I read this thread.

 

Bioware made a bad console port and the game is basically more of an action game than an rpg, thats the story in this thread. They started this to get feedback (?) and now they are telling people on forum to "gtfo villains". You can plug in a controller if you want. The whole idea of playing a tactical rpg with a controller is ... If it even were an rpg...Yeah, maybe now you get it.

 

Ah, no, im just a liar, i am so attached to my keyboard i usually fall asleep with it in my arms, thats the real problem here, bioware is not to blame for that.

[Artagal]

It seems that i've finally reached stage 5 myself. I've waited as much as i was capable of, but now it's over. Tomorrow, i'll switch to easy difficulty, go straight to the end of the game and be done with it.

 

I didn't post much on the forums but i've followed them every day since the launch of DAI, including this thread. (internet at work is the best.) As i will start to play other games, i probably won't come back here anytime soon, but before to leave i'd like to say a few things. (in my bad english.)

 

While i've played almost every Bioware game since Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment, I've never been involved in videogames forums until a few years ago and even then i never came on the BSN. I must admit that the bad reputation of this place was one of my reasons. Then i began to play DAI on PC, a game i was really waiting for because i loved DAO so much and because i really liked DA2 despite its flaws. After a few hours, while there was numerous enjoyable things in the game, i felt that DAI wasn't what i was expecting, especially regarding the marketing around the PC version. So i decided to give a shot at the BSN, to see what people had to say about the game... And i was pretty surprised !

 

I had heard many times that the BSN was a very toxic place, full of hate, invaded by trolls, but what i discovered was very different. Were there trolls and short-sighted people ? Yes, sure, but no more than on any other gaming forum i've seen before. What i've really seen here is that many members of this community want to be helpful with each other and want to give constructive feedback. Are they sometimes sarcastic or even rude with other members or with the devs ? yes. But is it out of hate ? Hell no ! It's out of love !!! Because they care ! If you don't give a damn about something, you don't bother to participate and you certainly don't let your feelings get the better of you. People are so passionnate because they used to really love Bioware's games.

 

That's the reason why the actual situation is sad and sounds like a terrible waste. I think it's not so much about the game's flaws. It's about the deception and the feeling of abandonment. When you love a man/woman and suddenly discover that he/she's cheating on you, this love can quickly turn into bitter and hate. (hyperbole intended) This is exactly what happens here, imo.

 

And you know what's great ? It's that despite all this, it's not beyond repair yet. If you read between the lines, there is still hope, because deep down i'm sure most of the people here WANT to be able to love Bioware and their games again (me included), even amongst the ones who claim they're done with "Booware" or who swear they will never ever buy any of their games again. In fact, i'm also pretty sure that if there was a big, RADICAL change in the way Bioware handles this community, many members including most of the more valuable ones would be glad to start fresh.

 

Maybe i'm wrong, but i think it's worth a shot from Bioware... Or am I too optimistic ?

 

 

Wathever. Reading you all has been great. Cheers.

[Rothschildzionis]

It seems that i've finally reached stage 5 myself. I've waited as much as i was capable of, but now it's over. Tomorrow, i'll switch to easy difficulty, go straight to the end of the game and be done with it.>>>>

 

 thats what I did  casual difficulty, friendly fire off  I beat dao on hard but this game  is fked up to me for some reason  , I never been so angry about something where id take to the forums about a game. even if It was mediocre,,   but this game  not rewarding in the slightest

[DarkAmaranth1966]

As I've suggested before, we need DAGurus like EA has SimGurus - employees that regularly read and post on the forum. No they don't need to be senior devs or anything, just someone that can be in the know and come in and let us know what's being looked at, what's being actively worked on and, give us a sneak peak of upcoming new content now and then.

 

If we ever get that, we need not to flame them or the game but, be constructive in our feedback. They can't fix "The controls are lousy because they just are." They can fix "I would enjoy the game more if we could add an additional hot bar from the display menu, and assign abilities or potions to that bar as we see fit. Is that possible?" They can do it or, tell us why it can't or won't be done and, we can accept that. Even getting told "No we won't be doing that." is better than the silent treatment. I know then, to deal with what I have or, look for a mod to correct it for me. As it is we are left to guess at what might and might not be done, even if it is a long time coming, knowing if something is on the list or not would help.

[spacefiddle]

It seems that i've finally reached stage 5 myself. I've waited as much as i was capable of, but now it's over. Tomorrow, i'll switch to easy difficulty, go straight to the end of the game and be done with it.>>>>

 

 thats what I did  casual difficulty, friendly fire off  I beat dao on hard but this game  is fked up to me for some reason  , I never been so angry about something where id take to the forums about a game. even if It was mediocre,,   but this game  not rewarding in the slightest

 

I wish EA would understand that you new posters here, who are clearly frustrated and disappointed and very likely leaving, is the most important thing for them to pay attention to.  It's harder to feed your ego and dismiss issues as "fan concerns" when you have long-time customers who're motivated enough to come, for the first time, to a message board and ask, what the hell is going on?

 

If EA ever loses the exclusive licensing to their sports games, they'd be in a lot of trouble.  It's hard to understand what you're wrong about when you have a monopolistic lock on something like 100 million FIFA sales, or gawd only knows how much revenue from Madden.  And that's just two titles.

 

It would be nice if they could use some of that cash they're rolling around in to expand budgets and listen to the creative teams that know games.  But that's just not how the corporate world works.  Ego rules all, and no matter how much money is funneled into the pockets of the executive team, everyone else's mandate is "always be cutting costs."

[Scerene]

the game is running much better now after i did a reinstall, but i shouldnt need to do something like that to make a game functional after a "patch". Btw what else has "Amelia" been spewing? Jack said s/he confirmed some fears, what fears? If its related to BW not giving a damn, lying, being deceitful, lacking the ability to make proper pc ports and making messy bug riddled games that they will never be able to fix,  etc etc, then those fears were confirmed long ago 

[glosoli]

Bioware... this is loco. Couldn't you make a "Known issues" thread, at least? So we know what you are looking into.. Because you all have disappeared when the feedback flow was open, before all these threads turned into a Disneyland.

[Scerene]

Bioware... this is loco. Couldn't you make a "Known issues" thread, at least? So we know what you are looking into.. Because you all have disappeared when the feedback flow was open, before all these threads turned into a Disneyland.

Im pretty sure they dont give a rats behind about any of this. Besides, the game has so many "known issues" you would need a thread several pages long to fill them all out. If they were "looking into" anything most of the stuff people asked for would already be in the game. Its been 2+´months with patches borking stuff and with a walk toggle being the only new thing added. A storage, appearance changer, fix for voice switching all the most requested things  are barely mentioned, and they only give vague answers when asked about anything.

[JackPoint]

Bioware... this is loco. Couldn't you make a "Known issues" thread, at least? So we know what you are looking into.. Because you all have disappeared when the feedback flow was open, before all these threads turned into a Disneyland.

EAware don't care about these forums, they only care about twatting and facebooking goty awards. Player views posted on here are only seen by other soured players.

[PeterBazooka]

Hexoduen, I will agree with you on one point, a dev did come out to speak..  What I will disagree with you about is that the developer verbally attacked a paying customer.  A customer who had every right to voice his/her complaint.  And in return, the developer called him/her a villian, saying that the person lied in their video, which they didn't (They screen captured the images, and attempted not to talk to the person in private, but slander and defame them on an open forum.  That is very unprofessional and should result in a termination.  If it was any of us who treated a customer like that, where would we be?  I would like to think out on our asses and out of a job.

Unfortunately the motto of the game industry has warped into "It's the customers fault."