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[Skirlasvoud]

Dear Bioware employee,

First off, my apreciation for your work. Your company brings the proper lore, deep atmosphere and clever dialogue that this industry so desperatly needs. Your off-the-shelves producs are the best available.

Conversly, I have the opinion that your DLC does not uphold the same outstanding quality, but this shouldn't matter since I'm able to ignore that branch of your services. Right? 
Not the case and your blatant, agressive DLC advertisements are finally getting to me. 

In Dragon age we had the guy with the huge flippin golden arrow above his head, pestering you to buy the Warden's Keep expansion with the subtelty of an Elephant's backside. 

And now we have Mass effect 2, where I can't seem to download the Firewalker via the in-game link without being directed to: https://masseffect2.points.bioware.com


Allright, so the joke's on me perhaps. I want free stuff and in return, you bludgeon me with advertisment for paid products. Boy do I look like the fool as I realize I shouldn't have been so greedy. It's like getting tricked by share-time schemes, door to door salesman or pron sites.  
But is that really the sort of game that Bioware likes playing with its beloved costumers?

Bioware is becoming the gourmet chef and the drunken waiter both. The meals are splendid, but you will be harried repeatedly for spare change. And its exactly that disparity that makes me mad. A good host can make himself scarce if that betters the enjoyement of the guest.

Please uphold your dignity Bioware. I want to have at least one major gaming company out there that I can root for. I would hate for Bioware to become a name synonimous to agressive advertisement, the same as blizzard is to weak plagarism and EA to draconian greed.   

Modifié par Skirlasvoud, 24 mars 2010 - 07:08 .

[Dsurian]

+1

[Hellhawx]

I guess it is a PC thing. There is no advertising for DLC at all on the Xbox 360. Its just there in the Cerberus Network available to add to the download queue. (another reason I am a console gamer, simplicity). Sorry to here it is a pain to deal with.

[stardazzled]

Hellhawx wrote...

I guess it is a PC thing. There is no advertising for DLC at all on the Xbox 360.

I absolutely dunno where this bs comes from. PC thing?  Pfft. I never had any guy telling me to buy DLC. Not in camp nor in any town. The golden arrow only appeared on Levi Dryden in the camp when Warden's Keep already had been installed. The guy also wasn't there before. Maybe they changed his appearance in a later patch, but he wasn't there in the beginning (aka before I downloaded WK). I only have announcements for patches, DLC and expansions on the start-up screen (the screen where you choose configure, play, exit etc.). - side note: This also didn't happen for RtO.

And ME2 DLC... I check registered game promotions and DLC pages from the menu above when something is announced - it's all in there.

Btw: In my opinion, this isn't exactly the right forum. Maybe something for general forums of each game?

[Skirlasvoud]

*Scrapes throat*



Sorry if the rebuke to stardazzled is a little late.



http://www.gamespot....dex.html?page=2



More people agree with me on the dragon age thing.



And as for Mass effect, using the link to download the Firewalker in-game, herded me to their on-line shop.





And sorry if this thread is indeed out of place.

[sim2er]

if you delete the offer file and don't re-download, then the ads are confined to the DLC page. i personally like to support bioware and buy DLC

[HTTP 404]

I think its important for DLCs to be reviewed and graded just like a regular game. That way people can make informed decisions on whether or not to buy a DLC. There are definitely videogames out there that only last 10 hours but you pay full price for and some games like bioware's that can last more than 100 hours for the same price. There's no set deal but supply and demand.

[stardazzled]

Skirlasvoud wrote...

http://www.gamespot....dex.html?page=2
More people agree with me on the dragon age thing.

I already wondered why it was up for dubious honors when I voted because - like I mentioned - I never ever never ever never (absolutely never) experienced something like this. Maybe it's due to my version (UK version) but I don't think/can't imagine that they changed the code simply to annoy US-Americans (plus all those people that bought an US version). Most guys mentioning it are not able to show screenshots, too. So post a shot here and I might change my opinion.

PS: As most dubious honors are no platform-linked awards, I always thought it to be a console thing and ignored it. I obviously voted for something else.

[Koremon]

I have no idea if this belongs here it but when I run out of gift's and prank's from the DLC for DAO would I be able to buy more?