Dragon Age II Signature Edition Giveaway - 24 Hours to Enter!

[Danpascooch]

I didn't buy Too Human, I just know everyone was lusting after it until it came out, and was declared to be a piece of shit.

I am annoyed by only including DLC in new copies of the game, but that is understandable because it protects them from preowned sales, this is taking a step too far and charging people more for not committing to buy a game that isn't even finished yet. Yes, I believe in Bioware, which actually makes this MORE frustrating for me, because I'm forced to wonder "why do they feel the need to do this?"

And Jade Empire's combat was actually pretty sweet, as long as you aren't a complete ass who spammed Mirabelle and broke the whole system

Never used Mirabelle. Paralyzing palm for grunts and the sword for guys who couldn't be killed with Harmonic Combos.

I still think there will be other packs based on the store or whatever. This is the BioWare Signature Edition pack. There was Gamestop shit for Mass Effect, Steam stuff too. Hopefully since I preoreder at a gamestop I can get any swag they have.

Is it bullshit that it happened like this? Kind of, but I was going to preorder anyway. Conversely you could also call it the "Early preordering super fans, here have some free shit" pack. We still don't know what long term is going to look like. I think a far better system would be a full content code. I buy Game X full DLC (regular price plus $25/$30) and get a code that credits my account with full DLC for that game. They already know what they are making and how much the will charge. If I could get everything sorted in one transaction with just a single prep? I would be preorder that shit the day it is announced.

Sure if you were going to preorder it anyway it's fine, but it's hard to look at it as "extra free stuff" when the Day 1 DLC for DA1 was available from just buying a new copy of the game.

Because of that past precedent, it makes more sense to call this a restriction, not a bonus.

To my knowledge there hasn't been a even a hint about what IS in an off-the-shelf copy.

If the off the shelf copy does have the DLC, then obviously I'll be ok with all of this, but the information given right now implies that it doesn't, because they seem to be plugging the fact that the preorder comes with the DLC.

 

[manythings]

I didn't buy Too Human, I just know everyone was lusting after it until it came out, and was declared to be a piece of shit.

I am annoyed by only including DLC in new copies of the game, but that is understandable because it protects them from preowned sales, this is taking a step too far and charging people more for not committing to buy a game that isn't even finished yet. Yes, I believe in Bioware, which actually makes this MORE frustrating for me, because I'm forced to wonder "why do they feel the need to do this?"

And Jade Empire's combat was actually pretty sweet, as long as you aren't a complete ass who spammed Mirabelle and broke the whole system

Never used Mirabelle. Paralyzing palm for grunts and the sword for guys who couldn't be killed with Harmonic Combos.

I still think there will be other packs based on the store or whatever. This is the BioWare Signature Edition pack. There was Gamestop shit for Mass Effect, Steam stuff too. Hopefully since I preoreder at a gamestop I can get any swag they have.

Is it bullshit that it happened like this? Kind of, but I was going to preorder anyway. Conversely you could also call it the "Early preordering super fans, here have some free shit" pack. We still don't know what long term is going to look like. I think a far better system would be a full content code. I buy Game X full DLC (regular price plus $25/$30) and get a code that credits my account with full DLC for that game. They already know what they are making and how much the will charge. If I could get everything sorted in one transaction with just a single prep? I would be preorder that shit the day it is announced.

Sure if you were going to preorder it anyway it's fine, but it's hard to look at it as "extra free stuff" when the Day 1 DLC for DA1 was available from just buying a new copy of the game.

Because of that past precedent, it makes more sense to call this a restriction, not a bonus.

To my knowledge there hasn't been a even a hint about what IS in an off-the-shelf copy.

If the off the shelf copy does have the DLC, then obviously I'll be ok with all of this, but the information given right now implies that it doesn't, because they seem to be plugging the fact that the preorder comes with the DLC.

That's my point. Maybe the Prince is more like Kasumi, a character for a DLC pack, but in the off the shelf copy there is a character like Zaeed who comes as part of the off the shelf copy.

 

[snowman6251]

So are they announcing the winners publicly so I know I didn't win or are they just sending out e-mails to their two chosen? Have they chosen winners yet?

 

[Spinwhiz]

So are they announcing the winners publicly so I know I didn't win or are they just sending out e-mails to their two chosen? Have they chosen winners yet?[/quote

Winners have been emailed and I'm awaiting responses.

 

[Danpascooch]

I didn't buy Too Human, I just know everyone was lusting after it until it came out, and was declared to be a piece of shit.

I am annoyed by only including DLC in new copies of the game, but that is understandable because it protects them from preowned sales, this is taking a step too far and charging people more for not committing to buy a game that isn't even finished yet. Yes, I believe in Bioware, which actually makes this MORE frustrating for me, because I'm forced to wonder "why do they feel the need to do this?"

And Jade Empire's combat was actually pretty sweet, as long as you aren't a complete ass who spammed Mirabelle and broke the whole system

Never used Mirabelle. Paralyzing palm for grunts and the sword for guys who couldn't be killed with Harmonic Combos.

I still think there will be other packs based on the store or whatever. This is the BioWare Signature Edition pack. There was Gamestop shit for Mass Effect, Steam stuff too. Hopefully since I preoreder at a gamestop I can get any swag they have.

Is it bullshit that it happened like this? Kind of, but I was going to preorder anyway. Conversely you could also call it the "Early preordering super fans, here have some free shit" pack. We still don't know what long term is going to look like. I think a far better system would be a full content code. I buy Game X full DLC (regular price plus $25/$30) and get a code that credits my account with full DLC for that game. They already know what they are making and how much the will charge. If I could get everything sorted in one transaction with just a single prep? I would be preorder that shit the day it is announced.

Sure if you were going to preorder it anyway it's fine, but it's hard to look at it as "extra free stuff" when the Day 1 DLC for DA1 was available from just buying a new copy of the game.

Because of that past precedent, it makes more sense to call this a restriction, not a bonus.

To my knowledge there hasn't been a even a hint about what IS in an off-the-shelf copy.

If the off the shelf copy does have the DLC, then obviously I'll be ok with all of this, but the information given right now implies that it doesn't, because they seem to be plugging the fact that the preorder comes with the DLC.

That's my point. Maybe the Prince is more like Kasumi, a character for a DLC pack, but in the off the shelf copy there is a character like Zaeed who comes as part of the off the shelf copy.

TWO pieces of day 1 DLC?

Hell I hope not, I don't want the amount of day 1 DLC to GROW.

 

[Void Droid]

So are they announcing the winners publicly so I know I didn't win or are they just sending out e-mails to their two chosen? Have they chosen winners yet?[/quote

Winners have been emailed and I'm awaiting responses.

So... the winners will not be announced publicly?

 

[Spinwhiz]

So are they announcing the winners publicly so I know I didn't win or are they just sending out e-mails to their two chosen? Have they chosen winners yet?[/quote

Winners have been emailed and I'm awaiting responses.

So... the winners will not be announced publicly?

All potential winners have 24 hours to respond. If they don't, I choose another winner. Once I have confirmed the 2 winners, I'll post them here.

 

[manythings]

I didn't buy Too Human, I just know everyone was lusting after it until it came out, and was declared to be a piece of shit.

I am annoyed by only including DLC in new copies of the game, but that is understandable because it protects them from preowned sales, this is taking a step too far and charging people more for not committing to buy a game that isn't even finished yet. Yes, I believe in Bioware, which actually makes this MORE frustrating for me, because I'm forced to wonder "why do they feel the need to do this?"

And Jade Empire's combat was actually pretty sweet, as long as you aren't a complete ass who spammed Mirabelle and broke the whole system

Never used Mirabelle. Paralyzing palm for grunts and the sword for guys who couldn't be killed with Harmonic Combos.

I still think there will be other packs based on the store or whatever. This is the BioWare Signature Edition pack. There was Gamestop shit for Mass Effect, Steam stuff too. Hopefully since I preoreder at a gamestop I can get any swag they have.

Is it bullshit that it happened like this? Kind of, but I was going to preorder anyway. Conversely you could also call it the "Early preordering super fans, here have some free shit" pack. We still don't know what long term is going to look like. I think a far better system would be a full content code. I buy Game X full DLC (regular price plus $25/$30) and get a code that credits my account with full DLC for that game. They already know what they are making and how much the will charge. If I could get everything sorted in one transaction with just a single prep? I would be preorder that shit the day it is announced.

Sure if you were going to preorder it anyway it's fine, but it's hard to look at it as "extra free stuff" when the Day 1 DLC for DA1 was available from just buying a new copy of the game.

Because of that past precedent, it makes more sense to call this a restriction, not a bonus.

To my knowledge there hasn't been a even a hint about what IS in an off-the-shelf copy.

If the off the shelf copy does have the DLC, then obviously I'll be ok with all of this, but the information given right now implies that it doesn't, because they seem to be plugging the fact that the preorder comes with the DLC.

That's my point. Maybe the Prince is more like Kasumi, a character for a DLC pack, but in the off the shelf copy there is a character like Zaeed who comes as part of the off the shelf copy.

TWO pieces of day 1 DLC?

Hell I hope not, I don't want the amount of day 1 DLC to GROW.

Well the amount of DLC is only going to grow to so that buying traded games will become less and less attractive a prospect. There were a lot of DLC things for ME2. The stuff in the box, the steam exclusives, the special edition stuff, the Dr. Pepper stuff. It works so why would they stop?

 

[Spinwhiz]

One winner has already come through BUT I'll be choosing another winner later today or tomorrow. Stay tuned.

 

[Jelly ^.^]

Yaaaaaaay! An internatinal giveaway! ^.^

 

[Void Droid]

So what happened to the winners? I've either overlooked the announcement or there hasn't been one.

I know I haven't won but I just assumed there would be some announcement on the site as a follow up.

 

[Thedayrecker]

Stupid 18th birthday.... 7 months away...