Buy Dragon Age 2, Get Mass Effect 2 Free - UPDATED
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It says I haven't downloaded it yet, and I need to enter an Online Pass Code? Is that one of the three codes the game tells me I got? I have an entitlement key, a pre-order key and I guess just one for the game itself?WaaghPowa said:
No response received from remote server... please check your Registered Game Promotions page to confirm if your promotion has been registered.WaaghPowa said:
Did I do it right? I'm interpreting this to mean I have to wait that 72 hours?
And they wouldn't ever know we were even there!
For the PC package (and I assume all) there are three codes involved. Pre-Order, which came on your receipt or something similar. The game itself, which is on the back of the instruction booklet. And the Online Pass/Black Emporium DLC which is on a single paper. It looks like one of those silly advertisements for other games that come in the game packaging. Thats the one you need.blue heartless said:
Because most gamers are scared of change. If someone change too much and it looks like it could be a different game that makes them frightened and angry. Making the same game with updated graphics and a story that seems similar, yet dissimilar enough to feel like a new game that's perfect.malestrithe said:
I already have Mass Effect 2, and I got too many games that I should play to jump on getting Dargon Age 2 just yet...
As someone who owns Baldur's Gate/XP, Baldur's Gate II/XP, NWN/XP, KOTOR, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Dragon Age, this just pisses me off.AzraelSteel said:
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It isn't that they're "giving away a free game." They're rewarding people who may have only bought this one game, while continuing to screw those of us who've been loyal to them for 15 years.Andy Chalk said:
The "Bioware Bazaar" was great... if you spammed the shit out of friends and strangers on every social networking platform available, newsgroups, 4ch, forums, you name it. Then they "fought spam" by deleting points from people who *legitimately* gained points, while leaving the most egregious spammers to bid auctions up to tens of thousands of points.
And then there's, you know, "accidentally" screwing someone out of all their EA-account based games, lying about it, then fixing it while continuing to lie about it.
Top all that off with the fact that someone who *didn't* buy DA can now purchase DA+XP for *HALF* the original retail price of DA, but those of us who purchased DA at retail on launch day still have to pay the full retail price of any other PC game for just the expansion.
Yeah, Bioware is chock full of amazing people. I'm done buying anything from them at launch, since they only seem to care about the people who *don't* buy their products.
Heh, should see all the erm, 'interesting' comments about this in the bioware forums. Console and PC gamers are getting pissed off, with a third group making pissy 'its free, shutup' comments.
Myself I would of preferred a bundle of bioware classic RPG's, or hell, even 2400 or more bioware points. I already own ME2 for the PC, and people I know who game already have it as well.
Myself I would of preferred a bundle of bioware classic RPG's, or hell, even 2400 or more bioware points. I already own ME2 for the PC, and people I know who game already have it as well.
What if you bought DA2 and never opened it yet? I have a friend who owns it but hasn't played it yet (he's been overseas in the military, but comes back this month). Even though he got it when it released, if he activates the online will he get the code?
Good god, this thread really cements the fact that a lot of gamers have no middle-ground.
Are all games either superb, or to quote one of the many rabid haters, "festering piles of shit"? Get a damn sense of perspective. Dragon Age may not have gotten down on its knees to please you all like the kings you are, but it's not that bad.
Are all games either superb, or to quote one of the many rabid haters, "festering piles of shit"? Get a damn sense of perspective. Dragon Age may not have gotten down on its knees to please you all like the kings you are, but it's not that bad.
Yes, it runs until the end of the month. So long as your friend both activates the online content for DA2 AND puts the code in on the social site, he'll get the download code for ME2.HyenaThePirate said:
To the whiners: What is wrong with you people? They are giving away a free game. I never before realised that gamers was such a self-entitled bunch of jerks. Nobody owes you this. Dragon Age 2 was a great game, maybe not a classic like most of Bioware's stuff, but a great game. Most companies won't give you ANYTHING, even if you buy a game that's a stinking heap of shit. This is A FUCKING FREE GAME! If you're finding ANY WAY AT ALL to ***** about this offer, there is something deeply wrong with your head.
Very clever. By doing this, they lose almost nothing, as pretty much anyone who would want to buy ME2 on its own merit probably would have done so by now. In return, they might persuade some people that have been sitting on the fence about DA2 to buy, plus they are effectively advertising for ME3.
I approve.
I approve.
They aren't giving anything away, since they know that everyone who'd buy DA2 just to get ME2 already owns ME2, and the people who didn't want to buy ME2 but bought DA2 wouldn't pay for a copy of ME2.VulakAerr said:
The only group that gets anything out of this is Bioware/EA. This is essentially free advertising on *every single game news site that exists*.
This is related. I don't know why people get excited about "free." It isn't.
So exactly $0 went from You to Them? You just purchased a copy of DA2 expressly to get a copy of ME2? You know that ME2 and DA2 are both worth substantially less on the market now as used console releases, yes? And that you can purchase both at once for less than a new copy of DA2?VulakAerr said:
You'll get access to Cerberus, but that doesn't actually add any terribly worthwhile content to the game. I purchased ME2 at launch, and can't think of a single Cerberus download I used.
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Please don't break quote chains.
Ignoring the blindingly large oversimplification, this statement is honestly funny.malestrithe said:
Most of the upset over Bioware's lattest games is because they are different.