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[Gabey5]

Why Cant We Use Custom Avatars? ie uploading our own

[Gabey5]

hmm at the very least we shoudl be able to have non bioware approved or related avis

[rabbitchannel]

Celrath wrote...

Because us Mass Effect 2 owner aren't as "Special" as the DA:O owners

just noticed you have DA:O you can upload custom avatars  Your "Special" too  unless of corse you have the 360 or PS3 version then you in the same boat as the rest of us 

Nah, my DA:O characters won't even update properly. Even if wanted to change it, I couldn't. Would take a month, maybe.

[Caozen]

Celrath wrote...

you would think it would be simple enough to implement in to the forum itself.

Must be a pet-peeve of theirs or something. I've only seen a select few people who've somehow managed to use supposedly custom avatars. They've always struck me as the ones who've contributed quite a lot to the community, though. Maybe it's just something special?

[7th_Phoenix]

Celrath wrote...

I don't under stand it they let us put picture in a sigs

Speaking of signatures... what's yours supposed to be? Eyes, I know but of whom? Kind of spooky. 

[Jae Onasi]

Nothing special about me--I just checked in my profile, saw that I had the option to upload one of my DA characters, and went with it. I'm not a big fan of any of the other avatars.

My best guess on why user made avatars aren't used is because it requires more moderation and server resources. Some people will try to upload inappropriate avatars, others won't read the instructions and try to upload avys that are too big, and so on. I'm sure Bioware wants to promote their games by having you use Bioware game-related avys, too.

It's not that big of a deal--on a few of the forums I visit, avatars aren't even allowed at all. We're more than that display of a few pixels on the left side of our posts, after all.

[amrose2]

A few people seem to have custom avatars though. There's a guy with a shopped Clint Eastwood with N7 armor for example.



Unless these are somewhere else that I can't see...

[LOST GAM3R]

One facebook is enough, thank you. :-P

[Gabey5]

amrose2 wrote...

A few people seem to have custom avatars though. There's a guy with a shopped Clint Eastwood with N7 armor for example.

Unless these are somewhere else that I can't see...

yeah there is a trick that dao pc owners can do via the character creator

[Mordaedil]

amrose2 wrote...

A few people seem to have custom avatars though. There's a guy with a shopped Clint Eastwood with N7 armor for example.

Unless these are somewhere else that I can't see...

The DAO uploader loads images that are stored on your machine and load them up to the server.

It's a matter of tricking the uploader to load up the "wrong" file. 'nuff said.

[Ponce de Leon]

Me like custom avatars. Mwahaha!

And ehh.. can't help but notice that you're naked Mordaedil...

[smore006]

The character upload functionality was planned to be there in ME2 but the developers didn't have to do it *right*, therefore it got left out completely.

The boards weren't designed to support custom avatars (other than uploaded player characters) but the team working on the Dragon Age uploading functionality was kind enough to forget to implement an uploading method which would have been more difficult to trick.

The reason for the absence of custom avatars in general is to prevent the boards get flooded by inappropriate content and/or animateg gifs which would strain the system even more than it is now.

ME2 users are no less 'special' than DA:O users are, they only have access to a feature which - unintentionally - makes it possible to work around the site design.

Modifié par smore006, 05 mars 2010 - 11:19 .

[Bryy_Miller]

Do you think they would find 'MORDIN HAS ASPERGER's' offensive?