I'm seriously having trouble figuring out where fans are gonna get the information they need now. The forum was THE source for it. No other place has those answers nor will answers be that easy to find.
It's like losing the RWBY thread all over again, lol.
Why do you gotta do that to me
Because I'm still so ****** salty about it. >
Instead of closing this forum, they should open more forums
I am just kidding! I don't think it would be financially efficient anyway
All joking aside, BW should go back to the basics, and that is making good games and listening to fans, be humble and be professional
RWBY Thread and other OT threads can continue on in Fextralife if The Lobby is carried over
This...interests me. Is the information on Fextralife within this thread?
This...interests me. Is the information on Fextralife within this thread?
http://fextralife.com/forums/index.php - the forum
https://forum.biowar...r-post-history/ - to save your posts on carried over boards
And you can suggest that The Lobby be carried over if you want. Fexelea is doing what she can.
You can keep an eye on them all here: https://forum.biowar...tats&do=leaders
None are online at the moment.
Must mod in packs...
Only way to corner lonely forumites and prod them with sinister warnings
Such cruelty
I'm seriously having trouble figuring out where fans are gonna get the information they need now. The forum was THE source for it. No other place has those answers nor will answers be that easy to find.
Bioware: "Not our problem"
I use tumblr a pretty decent amount but I don't really know how to interact with people on it. Even though I follow a lot of DA/ME fans on there and have mutual follows, I don't really understand how to have a discussion about anything because reblogging/commenting seems super sloppy and easy to miss. Am I missing something?
That's because tumblr is not a place for interaction. I have no idea why he/she said for us to hang out on tumblr. Wtf?
Tumblr is a place for pretty/cool/fun pictures, memes and stuff, so you can reblog them and that's it. There's no intense discussions. It's completely different. What a bunch of ****.
I don't know people are talking like it is and I'm getting concerned D:
Seriously man all of my hype would vanish. It was bad enough dealing with Cory with Quizzy and Cory was barely Hawke's enemy.
SAME. FMA arm for my artificer
lmao
To be fair they're good at that *looks at DA2's ending and facepalms* Smh if they actually thought that was a viable ending. That was the mid season bait you put at the end of a season episode to make sure everyone's tuning into the next episode that won't come out til summer/fall.
Yeah, they totally sequel baited a mage/templar war at the end of DA2 and then DA:I had a completely unrelated character resolve that in like 2 seconds without it ever even feeling like there WAS a mage/templar war. They'll do the same thing if they make a DA4, Trespasser was the bait and DA4 will be the switch. I don't have any faith at all in the writing or storytelling of any potential Dragon Age games.
It's different from the Warden or even Hawke in my opinion. The Warden was always a lot trickier because they could be dead, so I can live with them not returning, much as I liked them. Hawke, however, could not die in DA2 and it would have been cool to resolve the Corypheus story with them, which may have also been the original plan. While it's annoying that that didn't happen, it's nowhere near on the level of Quizzy/Solas in my opinion.
There is a huge difference between accidentally setting a monster free and not even knowing you did and getting to know someone in your party for an entire game (either as a friend, rival, or lover), them betraying you and threatening to as-good-as destroy the world, and then you vowing to stop them and having a cliffhanger ending where you're actively plotting against them, no matter what choices you make.
That personal connection is something rare that I'd hate Bioware to throw away. It makes the story mean more when the protagonist is personally invested, something I felt was lacking in DA:I until Trespasser (Solas, the Mark, the Inquisition's future), and it we'd finally get an interesting villain that you can actually relate to or understand to some degree. The relationship between the Inquisitor and Solas is too important to throw away in favour of having some new nobody defeat him instead with none of that going for them, with Bioware thinking it's all okay because the player knows these things. I don't want to meta-game, Bioware.
There's my rant
It's things like this that make me lose faith in humanity. Well, other things too of course, but this is still sad.
Good luck getting them to answer you. I've had no luck in the past, and some don't even read PMs
That doesn't seem like good marketing to me though. Surely you'd want to encourage new players to pick up the old games as well, which are probably cheap enough that many fans would at that point.
I agree but they're definitely going to throw that relationship out in order to keep to their "golden rule" of new game=new protagonist and to make the game seem completely stand alone to be as attractive as possible for new players(though the conflict, antagonist, and several companions from the previous games are sure to be used.) IMO BioWare has become lazy with their storytelling and relies on the player's meta knowledge. "Everyone knows__ character already, no need to develop them!" "Everyone knows about _____ culture already, no need to explore it!" etc...
I've always thought it as the hands focused the magic. Like, conjuring up fire and releasing it in a stream like a flamethrower, opposed to just letting out an explosive fireball of flames. Plus there's things like drawing magical rune symbols that require hands, like the transmutation circles in FMA.
I never got that impression, I mean we've seen magic used by sluggishly pointing a staff forward with one hand(DA:O) twirling it around randomly like a baton (DA2) being shot out of the hands directly (Anders in DAA and others), being used with no hands or movements (Solas), being used with no movements but with a book floating in front of them (Venatori)etc...but even if we discard that stuff and say that mages now need to draw alchemical symbols or something when they didn't before: the inquisitor still has a hand. I don't know about you but when I draw I don't hold the pencil with 2 hands.
I missed the part where I said they didn't want loyal customers. The point is churn vs net new customers and the impact of a vocal minority thinking they matter more than they really do to earnings/per share which is all they really care about. Lets be honest though, what percentage of posters on this board are going to sever ties with Bioware as a result of this decision? I'd venture to guess hardly any at all. On a side note there is some interesting new data out there that shows businesses overwhelmingly focus on acquisition over retention despite it being cost prohibitive which ties into the link you provided. We'll see if this new data alters how Wall Street views a company's portfolio. My money is on not any time soon.
Not solely because of the forum closure but me.
Buy second-hand, buy on a PC gaming sale for cheap, or just pirate it. Don't buy Bioware games at full price on day one.
Why buy secondhand/borrow/etc...a game that you don't think you will like?
Yeah, they totally sequel baited a mage/templar war at the end of DA2 and then DA:I had a completely unrelated character resolve that in like 2 seconds without it ever even feeling like there WAS a mage/templar war. They'll do the same thing if they make a DA4, Trespasser was the bait and DA4 will be the switch. I don't have any faith at all in the writing or storytelling of any potential Dragon Age games.
Frankly I could do with less direct sequels in my games. Make chocies matter in the game you make the chocie and let whatever comes next take care of itself. Leave the baggage behind. No Shepard, no Inquisitor, etc.
I mean, I love DAO. It's my favorite EA-era Bioware game. But I would not want to play the Warden again. Bioware would just frak it all up like they did Shepard.
That's because tumblr is not a place for interaction. I have no idea why he/she said for us to hang out on tumblr. Wtf?
Tumblr is a place for pretty/cool/fun pictures, memes and stuff, so you can reblog them and that's it. There's no intense discussions. It's completely different. What a bunch of ****.
I don't associate Tumblr as a place for intense discussions, more as a place where the phrase "Trigger warning" is uttered far too often.
It's not too difficult if you know how to talk to him and keep him far away from your pro-Mage-freedom business. For instance he tends to favor Hawke's joke speech options and during his quest in act 2 he prefers a lot of the diplomatic speech options.
I'm just gonna leave this here, while I can still be helpful on BSN, if you want to give it a look or use it for help:
http://dragonage.wik...Fenris/Approval
Frankly I could do with less direct sequels in my games. Make chocies matter in the game you make the chocie and let whatever comes next take care of itself. Leave the baggage behind. No Shepard, no Inquisitor, etc.
I mean, I love DAO. It's my favorite EA-era Bioware game. But I would not want to play the Warden again. Bioware would just frak it all up like they did Shepard.
I just wanted them to pick either one or the other. Either do a Mass Effect style series where the hero, conflict, companions, etc...carry over or have each game completely separate. Don't carry over the villain, conflict, companions, etc...but leave the protagonist behind randomly. If each game had been set in a different country with a set of companions and a protagonist unique to that game only then it would have been much better. Nobody would be asking why the guy who became a pirate king in the first game wasn't the same one fighting against elven oppression in the second one or why the elven freedom fighter from the second game wasn't the same as the secret mage bastard of a royal family in the third game, etc...Either make one multi-game story or make several separate stories that are resolved in one game and then left behind.
I don't care anymore though, they can do whatever they want.
I don't associate Tumblr as a place for intense discussions, more as a place where the phrase "Trigger warning" is uttered far too often.
Serious bias there, I'm on tumblr plenty (even earlier today) and it can be quite positive and fun.
In fact they just put in the messenger system which is way beyond the previous methods in terms of more direct communication.
I'm beginning to think the reputation of tumblr as "trigger warning central" is really a projection due to the massive amounts of geeky stuff that flows through, powerful imagery, etc.
No, he was accurate.Serious bias there, I'm on tumblr plenty (even earlier today) and it can be quite positive and fun.
In fact they just put in the messenger system which is way beyond the previous methods in terms of more direct communication.
The only things Tumblr liked more than the words trigger, projecting, and micro aggression are cosplay and pornograhpic fan art.
And (provides it abides by all relevant laws) great thing for it!
One of the reasons I like tumblr is it's a major social media site where you can basically just have porn, unlike you know, youtube and facebook and all that.
I have a feeling ME:A is gonna suck so much ass that's why they are closing this forum.
I've got no issue with smut so long as it is depicting consenting adults, but I do find it humorous that Tumblr was suggested by Bioware as an alternative to the BSN. I mean, really? What sort of discussions are we going to find there? Commentary on the size of the penis a fan artist gave Tali? A diatribe about Alistair performing the Dark Ritual being 'problematic?' That is being presented as more mature or less toxic than the BSN?And (provides it abides by all relevant laws) great thing for it!
One of the reasons I like tumblr is it's a major social media site where you can basically just have porn, unlike you know, youtube and facebook and all that.
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