Spoken like a true person who's never played a Bioware game.malestrithe said:
It seems like in the last few months everyone has suddenly gone from loving Bioware to reviling them. Why is this community so cruel sometimes?
Buy Dragon Age 2, Get Mass Effect 2 Free - UPDATED
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It seems like in the last few months everyone has suddenly gone from loving Bioware to reviling them. Why is this community so cruel sometimes?
I boggle at the naivety in this thread.
Regardless of how you feel about the game, this much is certain: they rushed DA2 badly. You can see signs of it everywhere, from the recycled environments to the abridged fetch quests. And if you don't believe your own eyes, trust the soundtrack's composer; he basically outted them for rushing to market. 14 months in development when the original game took five years? C'mon. You don't save that much time reusing a mediocre engine and a few assets.
So why did they push for such an insane timetable? Why compromise the quality of your product so blatantly? Was it for us? Did we need DA2 right this goddamn second? Of course not. They did it for money. That's it. They wanted to shorten the dev time and pocket the savings. Sure, the game suffered, and yeah, some folks would hate. But brand loyalty and intense marketing would generate enough sales to bridge the gap, right?
Now here they are giving away free copies of ME2 if you buy DA2, and people are gullible enough to defend this as benevolent behavior? Isn't this the company that just knowingly rushed a game to market, with clear negative side effects, in order to make more money off the lot of us? Why in the world would they do something so contrary to the character they just demonstrated not two months ago?
If you benefit from this promotion, great. More fun to you. If you loved DA2, fine. You were somehow well-served by their short shrifting. Me? I've got a crazy idea. Instead of so generously taking a bath on a game giveaway no one asked for, how about you go ahead and save that money so you have enough to properly finish your next sequel.
TLDR version: it's a promotion aimed at counteracting the immense (and deserved) dropoff in DA2 sales.
Regardless of how you feel about the game, this much is certain: they rushed DA2 badly. You can see signs of it everywhere, from the recycled environments to the abridged fetch quests. And if you don't believe your own eyes, trust the soundtrack's composer; he basically outted them for rushing to market. 14 months in development when the original game took five years? C'mon. You don't save that much time reusing a mediocre engine and a few assets.
So why did they push for such an insane timetable? Why compromise the quality of your product so blatantly? Was it for us? Did we need DA2 right this goddamn second? Of course not. They did it for money. That's it. They wanted to shorten the dev time and pocket the savings. Sure, the game suffered, and yeah, some folks would hate. But brand loyalty and intense marketing would generate enough sales to bridge the gap, right?
Now here they are giving away free copies of ME2 if you buy DA2, and people are gullible enough to defend this as benevolent behavior? Isn't this the company that just knowingly rushed a game to market, with clear negative side effects, in order to make more money off the lot of us? Why in the world would they do something so contrary to the character they just demonstrated not two months ago?
If you benefit from this promotion, great. More fun to you. If you loved DA2, fine. You were somehow well-served by their short shrifting. Me? I've got a crazy idea. Instead of so generously taking a bath on a game giveaway no one asked for, how about you go ahead and save that money so you have enough to properly finish your next sequel.
TLDR version: it's a promotion aimed at counteracting the immense (and deserved) dropoff in DA2 sales.
Well, I think this is totally awesome, because I've gotten a new PC and a tiny apartment with a tiny TV, and as such I have been doing a lot more of my gaming on PC.
And since I idiotically deleted my main ME2 save, this is a great excuse for me to go through the game again and get set up for ME3.
And since I idiotically deleted my main ME2 save, this is a great excuse for me to go through the game again and get set up for ME3.
This might be said already a few times but to repeat it:
It is CONFIRMED that you can give away the Free ME2 code to anyone who also uses the EA download manager and has an EA account.
because on their site you need to input your DA2 code and you receive a code which you need to manualy activate in the EA download manager.
It is CONFIRMED that you can give away the Free ME2 code to anyone who also uses the EA download manager and has an EA account.
because on their site you need to input your DA2 code and you receive a code which you need to manualy activate in the EA download manager.
Baldur's Gate fanboys are a really hateful bunch. Even Crysis 2 hasn't got this much hate and that's a game where you need to download mods just to get the graphics back up to par. If you want to play Baldur's Gate again, play it again, same with Kotor, Origins and Mass effect 1. Don't expect a company to cater to you personally.
OT: I need to find someone who doesn't have mass effect 2 :3
OT: I need to find someone who doesn't have mass effect 2 :3
Yay free game 
Yes, I?m one of the few people who haven?t got ME 2 yet even though I?ve played ME 1 and DA Origins/II not to mention the Baldur?s Gate games. Why? I?m not entirely sure because I?ve enjoyed them all.
Yes, I?m one of the few people who haven?t got ME 2 yet even though I?ve played ME 1 and DA Origins/II not to mention the Baldur?s Gate games. Why? I?m not entirely sure because I?ve enjoyed them all.
Well both companies have really changed direction in the last few years...malestrithe said:
Square Enix have moved from creating open ended jRPGs with characters you actually care about, to making interactive walking down narrow corridors with obnoxious teens.
Bioware have moved from creating open ended D&D inspired RPGs with interesting characters, to making interactive cutscenes with one sided characters fitting generic fantasy stereotypes.
This...this is kinda depressing.
Bioware is giving away a game for FREE
F-R-E-E
And over half the comments in this thread are people finding someway to complain?
Christ, lighten the fuck up people. It's a sad day for gamers when people can't get excited for a free game.
Bioware is giving away a game for FREE
F-R-E-E
And over half the comments in this thread are people finding someway to complain?
Christ, lighten the fuck up people. It's a sad day for gamers when people can't get excited for a free game.
Goddammit, EA! My DVD-reader unit died on me last month, so I decided to get both Mass Effects through Steam because I wanted to replay them. And just a couple of weeks ago I bought Dragon Age 2.
GOD-FUCKING-DAMMIT.
GOD-FUCKING-DAMMIT.
I'm with you there man.PurplePlatypus said:Yay free game
Yes, I?m one of the few people who haven?t got ME 2 yet even though I?ve played ME 1 and DA Origins/II not to mention the Baldur?s Gate games. Why? I?m not entirely sure because I?ve enjoyed them all.
Although I've never played Mass Effect 1 either so this is kinda fantastic for me, considering that I was gonna pick up ME2 on PS3 in a few weeks anyway.
See? Not everyone here is a miserable wanker.
Bought dragon age 2, already played mass effect 2, gave digital copy to girl i like. God bioware you are awesome.
I might have gotten this completely wrong, but it would be cool if this deal would also go for the PS3 and not just PC. I know it's practically impossible, since you'd have to download a game that big from PSN... but hey, here's to dreamingBiosophilogical said: