I'm not going to bring up how I got a warning for using the word "candy-ass."
Which I totally understand. Even quoting someone else, who uses a word like that? Mods should have banned me tbh.
Still, it's off-topic so I am not going to mention it here.
Maybe the mods are into health awareness. Should've said "vegetable-ass".
I get the heavy weapons mixed up. Is that the Cain or is that the nuclear one?
What I actually enjoy more are the little trinkets that unlock when we do some other promotional material, like the Quest for the Red Lyrium Reapers (the concept still makes no sense to me) or in DA2 the items we unlocked when we progressed in Dragon Age: Legends. The items themselves were fairly useless but it was fun to have some promotional materials get me excited for the upcoming games.
It was the one that shot black holes at people. As far as hilariously improbable guns go, it's my favorite after FO4's Fatman (modded, of course, to use your character's infant son as ammunition).
I somehow wound up with the red lyrium weapons in DAI, although I don't remember ever playing that one (maybe they came with the CE?), but I somehow totally missed out on the DA2 one! I didn't even know about it. Wish I had - I doubt they're still available.
Totes. Like that conventional hero story is just like sooo last month. BioWer is totes pandering to the essentially caustic hipster sheeple with all of this politically correctness and stuff or whatever.
And don't forget the like totes weird obsession with like sexual assault. Solas is a caustic rapist and stuff.
No I don't think it's pandering really, it just is one type of story.
And now I got another warning point for...language. In a forum that's owned by a company that makes games full of rape, gore, violence, inappropriate language and other exclusive 18+ content. When I haven't insulted anyone, been gross to anyone, used swear words, anything. BTW, I'm automatically placing *** in the middle of heavier words to keep within the boundaries of forum rules.
Are you people serious?
WTH are you trying to acomplish? To get the most assiduous members banned from the BSN before the deadline? To make sure their posts are forever erased from the forum when it finally becomes read-only? To make sure it looks like it has been wiped clean?
If you're so concerned with that, then do the right thing. Delete this thread and others who might make Bioware look ugly one day before the BSN closure. Preferably issue a WARNING to members about it, so they won't have an unpleasant surprise.
But don't act behind our backs and use excuses to get people banned and censored. Do your job and edit any posts with inappropriate language. Isn't that the modus operandi for this kind of situation? Don't try to force users into accumulating warning points with the hidden agenda of forcing their banishment. That's duplicitous and unbecoming of people who are supposed to uphold the rules of this place.
If you insist in doing this, you're only tarnishing Bioware's reputation further. People following the last days of the BSN will associate your actions to the company, not to a small group of anonymous people tending to the forum. Do you really want to anger the players and give them even more reasons to complain about Bioware in other social media, until Andromeda is released and even beyond then?
And in case you don't know, erasing people's opinions when they're keeping themselves within the boundaries of FEDERAL LAW is not enforcing local rules in a private-owned space. It's CENSORSHIP. I'm not going to waste my time and search legal advice on how to handle this situation. But what you're doing is WRONG according to the LAW.
Just giving you a friendly tip.
And should my post be
deletedcensored, I'll make sure other users in the unofficial forums, on Twitter and other social media can read a copy of it on my Tumblr.
Now hopefully I don't get a warning point for quoting something... Or because they missed this text...
So really, it's in the customer's best interest to wait to buy, unless they really want the minor enhancements from a special edition.
This is my problem, and why I hate pre-order stuff. I can live with early-access stuff, fine. I can get that myself eventually. That doesn't bother me. But as a completionist, it really, really irks me if I don't pre-order and then can never get something. Even if it's not very useful. Sadly, this makes me fairly easy pickings for the corporate gaming machine 
So I really hope ME:A's dumb pre-order stuff is only early-access, because I really don't want to pre-order it. I'll do my best! 
They need to bring that gun back for ME:A.
Yes they do, so I can actually use it! I came to ME2 too late. See, this is my point! Grr 
I somehow wound up with the red lyrium weapons in DAI, although I don't remember ever playing that one (maybe they came with the CE?), but I somehow totally missed out on the DA2 one! I didn't even know about it. Wish I had - I doubt they're still available.
I think they released them to everyone with Trespasser. Which was a good decision! Because people like me can rest easy. *cough* Have I made my point? 
...I liked Hawke's home wear, and the Haine outfit fit the pompous style of that place *ducks*
It is a known fact that Banshee will disapprove if she's forced into wearing a skirt/dress in her games, style or lack-thereof be darned. I don't mind them as options (options are always good), but it can't be mandatory. Really irks me. It's irksome.
Ahem. And so is this closure. Don't do it, Bioware! Don't make me put on a dress (and dance the Remigold) or close these forums!
Tinfoil hat time, but what if they're handing out warning points and bannings to flag people/IPs for when ME:A releases and they open a new forum?
How does banning ips work when a lot of people have dynamic ip from their ISP? Maybe a l33t h4x0r can tell me.
But somewhat ironically...why would anyone now regret not buying it immediately at launch? Others have pointed out that since there won't be an official forum to accidentally read spoilers, why would it matter if I preordered the game or waited a month, or even just a week to buy the game? Given the current state of games (not just Bioware games, all games) nearly all new releases have significant bugs in them upon launch and take some time to get patched.
So really, it's in the customer's best interest to wait to buy, unless they really want the minor enhancements from a special edition.
I waited for months before buying TW3, mostly because I waited to hear reviews since I hadn't played the previous games, and I wasn't following its development like I was DAI. So I got to bypass a lot of the bugs and UI upgrades.
The preorder bonuses really aren't an incentive to me. It's generally just some items which are quickly underpowered by the point they would come in handy. The bog unicorn was cool, I guess, although kind of lore breaking (why would Josie allows the Inquisitor to use a spirit possessed dead horse as a mount?!) and mounts turned out to be superfluous in the game anyway.
It was the one that shot black holes at people. As far as hilariously improbable guns go, it's my favorite after FO4's Fatman (modded, of course, to use your character's infant son as ammunition).
I somehow wound up with the red lyrium weapons in DAI, although I don't remember ever playing that one (maybe they came with the CE?), but I somehow totally missed out on the DA2 one! I didn't even know about it. Wish I had - I doubt they're still available.
Well, now that I've entered the acceptance stage, this thread is about 2,68 times more hilarious.
Guys, prank idea: when MAE drops, we need to pummel it with 0/10 marks on review aggregator sites for the ultimate lulz. We do that, there'll be a change.org petition by next morning.
*raises a glass*
This is an Apocalypse Party, everybody get into the conga line!
Oh, almost forgot: encountered a possibly game-breaking bug in ME2 today. I'll go tweet at Conal Pierse for tech support.
Nonono, you don't understand. They want us to communicate through Twitter! Twitter is life, Twitter is love.Just go post it on Answers EA. It will be ignored but at least you followed the proper channels.
Lulz
Nonono, you don't understand. They want us to communicate through Twitter! Twitter is life, Twitter is love.
Just so this post isn't deleted for being off-topic, it's 11:27 pm local time and this decision still doesn't make sense, but I don't give a spoonful of fecal matter anymore.
I apparently never got the black hole gun. Lol. What was it called?
It's the M-490 Blackstorm. Which isn't the Reaper Blackstar from ME3.
It's not censorship and it's most definitely not against the law. When you create an account on privately held forums you agree to abide by the rules they set forth. Your 1st amendment rights do not apply in these situations. I suggest you do some research on the subject.
It can be allowed and still be censorship, depending on what's done, obviously. Also, I don't have 1st amendment rights since I'm Canadian. I wonder how all this stuff works in different countries.
How does banning ips work when a lot of people have dynamic ip from their ISP? Maybe a l33t h4x0r can tell me.
Did you think I was being serious?
And in case you don't know, erasing people's opinions when they're keeping themselves within the boundaries of FEDERAL LAW is not enforcing local rules in a private-owned space. It's CENSORSHIP. I'm not going to waste my time and search legal advice on how to handle this situation. But what you're doing is WRONG according to the LAW.
...I liked Hawke's home wear, and the Haine outfit fit the pompous style of that place *ducks*
Lol to each their own! I always liked the dress-like mage robes even on male characters but a lot of people hated them (which is probably why we didn't have access to them in DA:I T_T) I thought the Chateau Haine outfit looked like some kind of clown outfit (rodeo clown maybe?) and the style was completely different from anything any of the NPCs were wearing. The home wear was just a frumpy bathrobe which I didn't like but it wasn't as bad as the stuff in DA:I.
But somewhat ironically...why would anyone now regret not buying it immediately at launch?
Personally I've gotten games that I discovered late or didn't play until a year or more after launch and they ended up being fantastic and left me saying "where have you been all my life??? All those bored wasted hours and I could have been playing ___ all along!"
O/T but did you used to run a Sage in SWTOR with the same login as your BSN handle? If so I was once grouped in a Dread Fortress PUG with you on my Guardian. Epic heals.
Sadly that must have been someone else. My forum handle on the SWtOR forums is the same but none of my characters have had that name.
Well, now that I've entered the acceptance stage, this thread is about 2,68 times more hilarious.
Guys, prank idea: when MAE drops, we need to pummel it with 0/10 marks on review aggregator sites for the ultimate lulz. We do that, there'll be a change.org petition by next morning.
*raises a glass*
This is an Apocalypse Party, everybody get into the conga line!
Oh, almost forgot: encountered a possibly game-breaking bug in ME2 today. I'll go tweet at Conal Pierse for tech support.
Well it would certainly be a way to measure how impactful the disgruntled forumite population is if nothing else lol.
it's my favorite after FO4's Fatman (modded, of course, to use your character's infant son as ammunition).
brb, searching for that mod
I think all of the promotional items (outside of paid packs) were given for free after a time, just like they did with Origins items.
It is a known fact that Banshee will disapprove if she's forced into wearing a skirt/dress in her games, style or lack-thereof be darned. I don't mind them as options (options are always good), but it can't be mandatory. Really irks me. It's irksome.
I wouldn't know, I've always played male Hawke. Either way, all of the bad outfits (like that awful green vest thing) are outweighed by the fantastic mage champion armour.
It is a known fact that Banshee will disapprove if she's forced into wearing a skirt/dress in her games, style or lack-thereof be darned. I don't mind them as options (options are always good), but it can't be mandatory. Really irks me. It's irksome.
Ahem. And so is this closure. Don't do it, Bioware! Don't make me put on a dress (and dance the Remigold) or close these forums!
There were a distinct lack of Dresses in DA2 and DAI for the Player Characters.
Since I still haven't seen a response on whether or not the toolset wiki and projects are a part of the removal of BSN, I HAD to share this screenshot from the project page:
http://social.biowar..._media_id=16223
of course, I can't reference a Bioware project page to show the image directly, but what does the image show?
BSN Changes
We invite you to explore our new Bioware Forum, where information from Legacy BSN has been converted.....
Yes, the BSN Project pages still have a message that pops up regularly to send us to the BSN forum that they are removing. Because, yes, they ARE that organized.
Still no answer on projects or toolset wiki so my theory is that they are both going the same way as the forum.
Just going to start this long post by saying that closing this place down and deleting it despite the wealth of knowledge and helpful players ready to help new ones shows how disconnected Bioware is with its fandom. This is good, useful stuff. It would be such a colossal waste to dispose of it. There is no good reason for it. Have they acknowledged this point at all?
Man, they so could have turned it around for me after Trespasser by making a DA4 or DA:I 2 or whatever that continues the story from Trespasser without randomly changing the protagonist. If they had I would have had renewed hope. MEA is the first BioWare game since I first started playing BioWare games that I haven't followed the development of, talked and speculated about, etc...I don't know what it's about or when it's set or anything about it. I saw part of one trailer for it like a year ago (it was before a youtube video) the only thing I remember about it was that it used a Johnny Cash song and I loves me some Johnny Cash (you can't manipulate me with Johnny Cash BioWare!). My reaction to ME3 was strong enough to neatly sever my love of the series and the combination of DA2, DA:I, and throwing out the stuff set up in trespasser coupled with killing off the BSN has finally nudged me off the edge with DA as well. The really sucky thing is that with Fallout 4 and likely all games in the future, Bethesda has gone away from the things I like in a game to a more mass market appeal as well. Now the only thing I have left is Telltale. There aren't any other random companies making games I like (well there is choiceofgames.com's text games but I've played all the ones I was interested in). Over the last several years there have been fewer and fewer games coming out that I like and I think it might be almost time for me to give up gaming entirely but I need something else to replace it lol.
It feels like we're being flushed down a toilet by BioWare
I feel for ya. Bioware-style games are by far my favourite, and naturally, only Bioware makes them I like other RPGs too, but I just like Bioware's style (so far, anyway) the best. So it makes me very sad whenever they do something I don't like, because I can't just play a dozen other games like theirs.
And I for got to respond to this part yesterday, so:
I've become way too gloomy and bitter and would pretty much be a detriment to any new BioWare related community I joined.
I don't think so ![=]](https://lvlt.forum.bioware.com/public/style_emoticons/default/sideways.png)
Speaking really honestly I just think that Bioware is mostly just like the conventional "hero story," they don't really have a proper "nerd story" (lots of non-PC humor/jokes etc) that would really possibly inspire the hero writers and stuff.
I don't really understand what this means. And as I'm not a fan of humour at the expense of a group or person, and have liked most of the humour in past Bioware games, I think that's okay.
They never had mine for Andromeda.
Bioware seem to want to go into the shooter genre, even the controls of Dragon Age: Inquisition felt far more shooter than they should have been.
The problem is that they aren't that good at it. ME3 gets praise for its combat but compare that to even the first Gears of War (same game engine used on both series, so a fair comparison) and it's blown completely out of the water.
I don't see things the same way. What did ME3 having good combat do? It made the game more fun. It wasn't the reason our RP options were lessened or anything like that. Inquisition having "shooter controls" similarly didn't affect its narrative.
And again I have to disagree that they aren't good at it. ME3MP is phenomenal, in my opinion. It's on par with my best times in Halo and Battlefield (haven't played Gears). It was ME3's saving grace, as much as it could be saved. But different strokes and all that.
With Bioware Montreal making Andromeda, I think it's likely it will have awesome combat/multiplayer, but I don't think that will affect how good the story is one way or the other.
:nods:
Style matters
Which brings up another important point about Bioware's future means of interacting with its public. Up until now, the representatives have, with one stellar exception, been poorly dressed. Jessica Merizan dressed well. She got it. Everyone else just threw on random bits of contemporary clothing and called it a day. If you want to know why the mage hats were so unsatisfactory, look at how the people responsible for them dress.
The fashion was certainly questionable; I only liked a few armour sets in DA:I and some of those were just imported from DA2. But by far more egregious was the hair. (Hey, these are the last days!)
Seriously, I have to wonder if the people at Bioware ever see women outside of their office. You know, like in public or on the internet and stuff. Because I can't figure out how they could, yet simultaneously think that what we got in DA:I was good or appealing to most people. And the more "masculine" styles were nearly as bad, of course.
Just in case anyone needed reminding, here are all the "styles" in Inquisition. There are 28 of them. 13 are bald or nearly bald. Almost half. 10 either have male-pattern-baldness, sideburns, or both. That's 10 out of 28 that can instantly be considered masculine and not feminine, despite supposedly having gender-neutral options. Of course, that was just PR to make it seem like they were being progressive and to try to cover up the fact that neither gender has nearly enough options. What "gender-neutral hair" should mean, is that they made a bunch of lovely options for male characters, made a bunch of lovely options for female characters (in no particular order), then let all of them be used by both. It does not mean making some masculine ones and a few feminine ones, combining them, and calling it a day 
In addition, they couldn't think that maybe, just maybe, they should have things like sideburns in the Facial Hair section (crazy idea), something that already exists, and keep it off hairstyles. That way we don't have to groan at our Lady Inquisitors having them (or lowering the number of usable options even further), and our Lord Inquisitors can choose whether to have them, instead of being forced to with some styles and forced not to with others. Dumb. And none of that even addresses the quality of the styles! I'll leave that out since it's subjective, but I only like 2 styles and refuse to use 1 because sideburns.
All of that is hardly fair, but for some reason unfathomable to me, it took quite a few tweets to convince Mike Laidlaw that there might be a problem with that. Seriously. They're that out-of-touch with us, and that adverse to accepting even the simplest and most valid criticism. They're just so... stubborn! Defensive. Since I like that word today, it's really irksome.
Yeah. Take that 
Andthatandthatandthat.
So there, there's my last rant about hair here, probably. Felt good
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