EA Brings Free Mass Effect Armor to Dead Space 3
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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Why is EA starting to sound more and more like those synergy people from In Good Company?
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Amusingly enough, there's a fanfic I've been reading for a while that takes place during Mass Effect, and has appearances by characters from Dead Space, Issac Clarke included. It also has a character from Heavy Rain oddly enough... but regardless...
Knowing that, I find this amusing.
Knowing that, I find this amusing.
It's funny, I actually shot Gibeau an email a while back when the preorder bonuses were announced, saying that they should stick the N7 armor on Clarke as a bonus for getting it on Origin; since for whatever reason, it didn't have one while Gamestop and Amazon(?) both got a different one.
Which, in turn, reminded me of this:Biodeamon said:
Anyway, I'm not getting Dead Space 3, but hey, it's a nice little nifty freeby that you don't have to do anything for. Heck, chances are, you've played Mass Effect 3, so what's the biggie?
Worse, it's a self-insert. And I forgot to mention it ropes in Dragon Age too.ForgottenPr0digy said:
And yet, it doesn't seem THAT bad... for a fanfic, anyway. I'll PM you the links.
Even from a marketing point i can't figure out why they keep doing this. I mean, ME(3) is out already and Dead Space is a completely different universe
All this tells me is that they are too lazy to come up with new artwork for armors and they are just saying eh fuck it, we will recycle some from old games
All this tells me is that they are too lazy to come up with new artwork for armors and they are just saying eh fuck it, we will recycle some from old games
Ok cool! I love how people are going on about "breaking me precious immursion!" when you have a co-op partner blasting dubstep over the headset doing that for you.
[sub]Maybe that's just me though.[/sub]
Point is there are worse things than throwing an N7 onto some free armour you don't even have to wear. Like having your co-op partner jiggling around in front of the camera when you're trying to watch the imaginative long cinematic deaths the game gives you. I'm TRYING to watch my face getting melted off thanks mate!
Anyway, nothing breaks immersion like those contrived "oh this is a co-op game, so we need this" doors that NEED two people to open it. Fuck off.
I always stick to default unlocks on my first playthrough anyway. You know how Borderlands 2 gives you free guns at the start if you have the Mechromancer DLC? Lol no, immediately dropped. Shitty pistol will do fine kthx.
[sub]Maybe that's just me though.[/sub]
Point is there are worse things than throwing an N7 onto some free armour you don't even have to wear. Like having your co-op partner jiggling around in front of the camera when you're trying to watch the imaginative long cinematic deaths the game gives you. I'm TRYING to watch my face getting melted off thanks mate!
Anyway, nothing breaks immersion like those contrived "oh this is a co-op game, so we need this" doors that NEED two people to open it. Fuck off.
I always stick to default unlocks on my first playthrough anyway. You know how Borderlands 2 gives you free guns at the start if you have the Mechromancer DLC? Lol no, immediately dropped. Shitty pistol will do fine kthx.
"Free" isn't really the correct word. This is a cut and dry example of cross promotion. Are you a big fan of Dead Space but you've never heard of Mass Effect? This would at the very least lead you to Googling the game, which could lead to you watching trailers, which could lead to you playing the demo, which could lead to you buying it...Gearhead mk2 said:
Alternatively, you might be a Mass Effect fan and you've never heard of Dead Space. Same idea. You see a video with Mass Effect in the title, you click it, you find out about Dead Space ect...
Plus there's the completionists, the people that have to have everything. Some people who love Dead Space are going to buy ME3 just so they can have that extra armour set. Plus, it's no coincidence these games are in their third iteration. You buy the third game and like it, then you're naturally gonna play through the other two.
So all in all, EA fork out a bit of money to get the staff for Dead Space 3 to make an extra armour. Probably wouldn't take long to do either. Put it up on YouTube (no need to spend money advertising it that way) and bam, quick and easy money.
Assuming this will be an Origin exclusive, then I shan't be picking it up. I enjoyed the first two but I'm not installing Origin for any game. Except Baldur's Gate III maybe.
I don't really see a point in this kind of thing though. Is the hope that fans of Mass Effect will buy this because they get a bullshit freebie "exclusive" to them? Cross-pollination maybe, I think that's the business jargon.
They're never over-powered. Frankly, quite often they're barely "powered". The Blood Dragon Armor in both ME2 & 3 sucked and Ser Isaacs armour in DA2 sucked. They're generally better only than whatever one started the game in and not a lot else. They looked cool tho. Also, you don't generally get these at the start, but after the beginning when the game begins to open up.loa said:
I don't really see a point in this kind of thing though. Is the hope that fans of Mass Effect will buy this because they get a bullshit freebie "exclusive" to them? Cross-pollination maybe, I think that's the business jargon.
