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[Tsuzo]

I am disappointed because we were promised an expansion pack in less than three months time and they must have been working on it a few month's prior to the press release so they could have at least done every DLC. They must have at least a few dev's working at the same time so they could distribute the work evenly amongst them. You're working 8 hours a day (minus breaks) they should have had enough time to do a bunch of coding done in 3 days tops.

[Dark_Ansem]

I hope they make at least Starmetal available as an extra material... we want armor of it. and other weapons too!

[Tsuzo]

I at least want star metal armor with the same texture as Starfang.

[Dark_Ansem]

heh, you're not alone

[Tsuzo]

and we can add runes to armor with rune slots so if they do put star metal armor in the game that looks like Starfang i'll put a GrandMaster Frost Rune in it i'll make an ice warrior, wielding my frost powered StarFang (if they put it in) would complete the set.

[ProfWilcox]

Tsuzo wrote...

I am disappointed because we were promised an expansion pack in less than three months time and they must have been working on it a few month's prior to the press release so they could have at least done every DLC. They must have at least a few dev's working at the same time so they could distribute the work evenly amongst them. You're working 8 hours a day (minus breaks) they should have had enough time to do a bunch of coding done in 3 days tops.

Just as a note: most game programmers work more than 8 hours a day. Been there and crunch time sucks.

Back to the point of it all.  I believe it doesn't matter whether or not DLC items are put in the xpac.  I do, however, think Bioware should give us a real reason, and not just some candy coated response.

[Tsuzo]

I know that there is no such thing as a 9 to 5 job. all serious professions require a lot of work done outside the office. I know programming is tough enough even if you know how to do it. It's doing constant lines of code, variables, work, and testing. I just started to use ActionScript months ago and I still get frustrated. Bioware uses an engine I don't understand how to use.



I would like like a straight-forward answer rather than half-empty statements wrapped in enigma. A simple "My bad, we screwed up. We will try our best to figure this out soon" would actually set my mind at ease.



I would have liked more romance options. Velanna would make a half-decent replacement for Morrigan since her departure for parts unknown.

[Vaylemn]

just hope that there will be more star metal tier 8 weapons.

[Tsuzo]

Star metal is untiered. It's outside of the ranking, making it unique. How are they gonna top Dragonbone, though with Tiers 8 and 9.

[zykinwulf]

legendary weapons from the teventier imperium, maybe the actual sword andraste used

[Tsuzo]

yeah but it wouldn't have been Starfang Andraste used. The Maker would have had made a holy weapon equivalent to King Arthur's Excalibur. Probably a blade that was as white as ivory and glowed iridescently.

[Tsuzo]

it would be called The Maker's Wrath

[craigdolphin]

It does seem like an odd thing to not have the DLC items transfer. Hopefully BW learns from this and uses some kind of system that allows for such in thei future game engines. Nonetheless, I'm not that bothered by it.

My only real question/concern is whether I will need to go to my save game and equip non-DLC items before importing, or not. Assuming that I don't use the vanilla warden, I do not want to import my character and end up without equipment where I hadpreviously equipped DLC items. Unless BW can assure me that I will have an opportunity to replace those missing items before I need to use them in-game, then it's no biggie.

Either way, I just want to know what I'm going to have to do to make a succesfull import.

[Tsuzo]

do you also have to unequip all items from the characters not returning in Awakening?

[Hammer_Of_God]

Tsuzo wrote...

I at least want star metal armor with the same texture as Starfang.

I like the way you think!

Take note Bioware - a set like that (preferably in the Warden Commander armor style), would be awesome! *nudge, nudge, hopeful grin*

[Tsuzo]

With a helmet too, in a Bergen's Honor fashion

[Chri501]

It doesn't matter if it is the weakest weapon in DA:O or the strongest....we paid for it and maybe we want to use it...we paid real money for it and can't use it.....sometimes it's not about power or min/maxing it's about RP and having something you 'want'.............this 'expansion' was not well thought-out...

[Tsuzo]

true. we purchased it, with hard-earned money then we deserve to keep it. in most of my files i got Starfang early on and i traveled and slew many a creature with it including the Broodmother and the Archdemon.

Modifié par Tsuzo, 26 février 2010 - 03:21 .

[bluewolv1970]

Chri501 wrote...

It doesn't matter if it is the weakest weapon in DA:O or the strongest....we paid for it and maybe we want to use it...we paid real money for it and can't use it.....sometimes it's not about power or min/maxing it's about RP and having something you 'want'.............this 'expansion' was not well thought-out...

Bioware do you understand the above statement? Obviously not.

[Cadarin]

I didn't buy any of the DLCs because they were little more than collections of overpowered items. I think its funny that Bioware is now taking their 1s and 0s back from the people who paid for them. Schadenfreude at its finest.

On a positive note, maybe the good people at Bioware realized that the direction they were taking with DLCs was terrible and this is their way of wiping the slate clean.

[Bathead]

Me, I also paid for the DLC and all the items in then, and I got more than my moneys worth of use out of them. So I won't be able to use them in DA:A. So friggin' what.

[bluewolv1970]

Cadarin wrote...

I didn't buy any of the DLCs because they were little more than collections of overpowered items. I think its funny that Bioware is now taking their 1s and 0s back from the people who paid for them. Schadenfreude at its finest.
On a positive note, maybe the good people at Bioware realized that the direction they were taking with DLCs was terrible and this is their way of wiping the slate clean.

but the weird thing is that bioware has a split personality because their strategy for ME dlc is great and yet sucks for DA

[PCousland]

Yeah this news already has me iffy on if I'm going to even consider getting Awakening. I went through a good 80-90% of Origins with Warden Commander Armor (even though it's bugged and set bonus doesn't work) and with Starfang. As the armor kept in line with you being the new Warden Commander since Alistair deferred to your Warden as the leader. Just seems Awakening's makes that title Official, but we lose our Commander Armor that goes along as a Symbol of that status?

[Tsuzo]

Maybe we'll get the other kind of Warden Commander Armor the Warden was wearing in The Urn of Sacred Ashes trailer. it does have double headed griffin on the breastplate which is the symbol of a Warden Commander. you might get it right off the bat in Awakening. although all of this is just a mere assumption.

[Kileyan]

bluewolv1970 wrote...

Chri501 wrote...

It doesn't matter if it is the weakest weapon in DA:O or the strongest....we paid for it and maybe we want to use it...we paid real money for it and can't use it.....sometimes it's not about power or min/maxing it's about RP and having something you 'want'.............this 'expansion' was not well thought-out...

Bioware do you understand the above statement? Obviously not.

Even if they don't understand that customers point of view, I can't understand theirs either.

Making a decision like this is like advertising to new game purchasers that the DLC is not really a true part of the game. I know many people will not buy a 30 minute adventure when the items you obtain within it are labeled incompatible with future content. It is a really strange decision to make on a franchise where dev's have stated they plan to support it with DLC for two years. Especially since the game is not old, new purchasers will still be flowing in that are discourage from buying DLC......strange.

For myself, I don't care all that much. I just hope they were smart enough to equip newly starting save games with some sort of decent items when they strip away all the DLC items they are using. Customers should not be required to hoard extra sets of armor and weapons, dig through and load all their save files and try to remember which item is safe to use, and which came from DLCs.

Especially after that one review that says the game tosses you into a couple hour set of fights before you ever get to a camp with a store. The reviewer warned you'd have tp play with naked characters if you didn't micromanage and set up each save to work with the no DLC rule.

Modifié par Kileyan, 26 février 2010 - 09:59 .