Another Dragon Age 2 Unlockable Goes Up For Grabs

[chainguns]

So we're supposed to do EA's marketing to get items instead of in-game quests. I like it! In game quests can be quite hard, you know.

But they should change the unlock. Instead of books, they should give us the Sandal romance option, we've all been asking for for so long.

 

[xhable]

Genius! Bribe your fans to publicise your game for you!

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I couldn't even get the demo, despite the fact I'm almost 19, know the password, and have changed all the settings I can find. Yet still, no M game downloads for me

Are you on xbox? Have you changed your account to an adult account?

OT: i don't really care. I don't have a facebook and if Bioware are trying to get some free advertisement, good for them.

 

[Keava]

Sorry BioWare, as much as i love your games i will never, ever under any circumstances, even to save the world from destruction, create Facebook account.

 

[Jamash]

I don't have a facebook. Even if I did I don't think I'd annoy my friends and family like that.

Is that because you do undercover police work, or just because you don't like it?

Are there actually rules against cops having Facebook profiles, or is it just common sense that cops in certain roles will be discreet?

I remember there was a collective facepalm among the security services in the UK, when the wife of the head of MI5 started posting status updates about his new job on her Facebook profile.

 

[Peace Frog]

Not only do I not want to spam on facebook, there only seem to be 300 something thousand "fans" of DA2 on facebook... so good luck getting a million "shares".

 

[Art Axiv]

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Good day, sir.

Sir, you won. My exact thoughts.

And, to add from myself, I'm sick of all this forced socialmedia marketing.

 

[JediMB]

Not only do I not want to spam on facebook, there only seem to be 300 something thousand "fans" of DA2 on facebook... so good luck getting a million "shares".

We're not supposed to get a million shares. We're supposed to get a million impressions.

That is, a total of a million views/reads.

 

[Frotality]

jesus bioware, when is enough enough? i dont have facebook, and if i did i wouldnt share shit; their just seeing what they can get away with now, and they'll probably get away with alot more if fans continue to blindly obey. not even bothering to release a cool helmet or weapon anymore, their actually trying to get us to spam their advertisements for a book of no known use.

and youll all do it...

 

[DaJoW]

No way. It's not worth pestering everyone I know about it.

 

[Frenger]

My company does this as part of marketing. I honestly don't understand the bitching.

Oh, I forgot, it's bioware, they have turned into the new pet peeve instead of bungie or whoever happens to be flavor of the month.

I won't use it tho, the items are shit anyway and no one is forced to do anything.

Typed this with T9.

 

[Lord Krunk]

Man, so much hate in this thread. Sure, it's a marketing tactic but a damn good one.

That said, I think I spam my friends with enough links. I don't think the news feed of any of my friends would appreciate the extra spam.

 

[Gabbit]

So Bioware wants everyone to become annoying Spam bots? Pretty stupid idea. I hope this one fails miserably and they give the item out anyway.

 

[gibboss28]

wow so much whine about the use of facebook and there's no cheese to go with it.

 

[Roganzar]

unless EA force them to choose bewteen using EA's marketing team or this type of marketing. If that is the case I much rather this type.

That seems pretty likely, but still this is far better marketing strategy than EA's "Sin to Win" and "Your mother will hate this game" idiocy.

 

[Frostbite3789]

My favorite part of the comments is everyone acting like you're spamming this stuff directly onto people's walls. It'll show up in the news feed. It's really easy to ignore, or even block things there.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

I would be very happy if this completly failed, i don't mean just missing out on the item, I mean getting less than 1/2 of the 1mil shares.

Well it's 4 days right? THey need 250,000 people to share this status every day, each day. assume the average person has 100-200 friends on facebook... That's potentially 50,000,000 that are going to see this (obviously there are cross overs in friends). Each day. For 4 days. You can't blame them for trying.

I might do this the first day, but then I'll just say "Eh, did my part"

 

[IceStar100]

I shared once and that it.

 

[Keith K]

I wouldn't sign up to Facebook for a free copy of the game.

 

[kasperbbs]

umm ,facebook.. no thanks.