Gamers Ship 400 Cupcakes to BioWare in Protest of Mass Effect 3

[GasMasksAreForChumps]

anc[is]

400 cupcakes can not be divided evenly into 3 different colors.

I perused the original thread a bit yesterday, it's really something like 402, which divides into 134 of each. I was also greatly amused by someone with the idea of day 1 milk DLC and post release sprinkle DLC.

A professional bakery is making them, there will be no poison. There will however be a Marauder shields cake as well.

So they are going with the maruader shields cake? Most excellent! Marauder is a bloody hero, and deserves to be recognized for his valiant attempt at stopping Shepard.

 

[The Random One]

Huh, it only took them like two weeks to come up with an idea that isn't stupid.

OK. My plan is to send them a cake. And my card will read, 'This is my cake. I made it the way I wanted to make it. It may not be the best tasting cake ever, but it's the cake I made and I wouldn't change it even if people complain.'

...It probably wouldn't make a lot of sense if I ordered it from a bakery, though. But I'll think about that later, who wants to give me $10?

 

[laserwulf]

"Hmmm, how can we express our opinions in a measured and mature way that demonstrates we are thoughtful, reasonable adults? Ooh, I know!..."

At least she'll approve:

Spoiler

 

[him over there]

we rage because we love

See. This is why I hate fanboys. That line seems like it was directly ripped out of the Hollywood book of cliche lines said by wife beaters. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing a an obsessive lunatic would say and yet fanboys say things like this without the slightest ironic intent.

So everyone who EVER got upset about something they cared about is a wife beater?

Maybe you aren't familiar with that turn of phrase but that "I only hurt you because I love you" shit is scary. It's the typical Annie Wilkes thought pattern that you should only expect from psychotic killers. I don't know what it says about humanity that a Stephen King novel can actually come to life.

Nobody is hurting anybody though, just complaining really obnoxiously. Which makes it an apt phrase, Bioware created something people were truly invested in or we wouldn't have cared and wouldn't have complained.

 

[dyre]

What a pleasant way to voice discontent. We should send cupcakes to Congress!

 

[kickyourass]

I'm confused, tell me again why the cupcakes are supposed to be a bad thing? I mean maybe it's just the way things work in my family, but if you are given a cupcake it's probably because you did something good and the giver wants you to keep doing it. I mean what the hell is the message here, "Make something we don't like and we'll send you pastry?" How is that supposed to discourage them? Are they hoping the Bioware staff will get diabetes?

 

[ms_sunlight]

It's not exactly original though, is it? Didn't they steal this tactic from the Pro Life Cupcake Day [http://cupcakesforlife.org/] nutjobs? I suppose if you must steal tactics from anti-abortion campaigners, there are far worse tactics to steal.

 

[kouriichi]

"Protest!?! They must LOVE us They sent us 400 cupcakes! We should make subpar endings more often!"

While this is far less amoral then using a Childs Charity Fund to raise money, its still alittle.... derp? Yeah, lets go with "derp". This is a pretty.... idiotic way to say "We hated the ending".

Shouldnt you be sending roses or something? To say "youve killed your own community"?

 

[him over there]

we rage because we love

See. This is why I hate fanboys. That line seems like it was directly ripped out of the Hollywood book of cliche lines said by wife beaters. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing a an obsessive lunatic would say and yet fanboys say things like this without the slightest ironic intent.

So everyone who EVER got upset about something they cared about is a wife beater?

Maybe you aren't familiar with that turn of phrase but that "I only hurt you because I love you" shit is scary. It's the typical Annie Wilkes thought pattern that you should only expect from psychotic killers. I don't know what it says about humanity that a Stephen King novel can actually come to life.

Nobody is hurting anybody though, just complaining really obnoxiously. Which makes it an apt phrase, Bioware created something people were truly invested in or we wouldn't have cared and wouldn't have complained.

Yeah. I suppose sending death threats, throwing the worst abuse I've ever seen abuse and mailing creepy cryptic cake messages Godfather-style is totally harmless. The day someone does kidnap and torture their favourite developer we'll be all "OMG! That's just awful. We could have never seen that coming. The gaming community is a really friendly place and it's terrifying to think that one of your mates could just turn out to be a demented murderer all along. Scary."

Seriously, if I wrote Batman comics I would create my own supervillain. He would be called Fanboy and he would be scarier than Joker and Scarecrow combined.

I assumed by we rage because we love it was referring to the ridiculous fanboy pissing and moaning, not the absolutely downright psychotic minority. plus I doubt the people who sent the cupcakes were responsible for any of that, if they were though I agree with your point entirely.

 

[RWillers]

I admit this "protest" is just silly. But it doesn't make it any less awesome. Wish someone would send me a cupcake. *sobs*

 

[him over there]

we rage because we love

See. This is why I hate fanboys. That line seems like it was directly ripped out of the Hollywood book of cliche lines said by wife beaters. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing a an obsessive lunatic would say and yet fanboys say things like this without the slightest ironic intent.

So everyone who EVER got upset about something they cared about is a wife beater?

Maybe you aren't familiar with that turn of phrase but that "I only hurt you because I love you" shit is scary. It's the typical Annie Wilkes thought pattern that you should only expect from psychotic killers. I don't know what it says about humanity that a Stephen King novel can actually come to life.

Nobody is hurting anybody though, just complaining really obnoxiously. Which makes it an apt phrase, Bioware created something people were truly invested in or we wouldn't have cared and wouldn't have complained.

Yeah. I suppose sending death threats, throwing the worst abuse I've ever seen abuse and mailing creepy cryptic cake messages Godfather-style is totally harmless. The day someone does kidnap and torture their favourite developer we'll be all "OMG! That's just awful. We could have never seen that coming. The gaming community is a really friendly place and it's terrifying to think that one of your mates could just turn out to be a demented murderer all along. Scary."

Seriously, if I wrote Batman comics I would create my own supervillain. He would be called Fanboy and he would be scarier than Joker and Scarecrow combined.

I assumed by we rage because we love it was referring to the ridiculous fanboy pissing and moaning, not the absolutely downright psychotic minority. plus I doubt the people who sent the cupcakes were responsible for any of that, if they were though I agree with your point entirely.

I'm just saying the day that someone does finally fly off the handle and go postal on devs, the question is going to come up "where did he get that idea from?" and then they'll look this way and say "Oh. Well I suppose that's case closed boys. Good job." And then we'll probably get studies and legislation aimed at banning gaming forever because gaming communities are like nutri-soil for insane murderers. Still, "we rage because we love" is fucking disturbing on it's own merits.

I see, I suppose the phrase itself though really just comes down to perspective since the logic I'm getting from it is "We wouldn't have a fit if we didn't care so good job making something we cared about". The shorthand they went with I could see appearing in like a psycho thriller or something though now that I think about it.

 

[malestrithe]

This could be a good trend. Now we need to convince every whiny Star Wars fans to cupcake bomb George Lucas with cakes showing Han Firing first, maybe he'll get the point to.

No wait this is kind of stupid. The only thing sweet things tell me is that I've done a good job and I'm rewarded for my efforts. These angry fans are rewarding the people that supposedly screwed up.

 

[Darknacht]

No wait this is kind of stupid. The only thing sweet things tell me is that I've done a good job and I'm rewarded for my efforts. These angry fans are rewarding the people that supposedly screwed up.

Yep, some one at Bioware is sitting around eating their cupcakes and thinking, "What else could I do to sell millions of games and get the fans to reward me with cupcakes? Oh, I know lets release DLC that implies that the whole Mass Effect series was a dream(or something equally dumb)!"

Off topic: Now that the escapist is making us type in ads to post wouldn't if be funny if EA bought ads to make you type 'I love Mass Effect 3's ending' before you post?

 

[lacktheknack]

And then one of the bakers realized that the cupcakes weren't being used to directly energize the team that would redo the ending and demanded his cupcakes back.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Hell, as long as they're not demanding people to return money they donated to children, I don't care how people protest anymore.
Although, I would actually be pleased if I recieved 400 cupcakes, even if they did all taste the same.
Wait... did Mass Effect 3 have 400 endings?
Well no wonder they all sucked, I wouldn't be able to design 400 different endings to perfection!
/silliness

 

[LtFerret]

400 cupcakes

...
I'm assembling a team.
We'll need the best, and people we can trust. Our goal is one frought with peril, but the payoff will be so sweet. We will infiltrate the BioWare headquarters at Edmonton. Those cupcakes will be ours, and no one will even know we were there.

Accepting applications until Friday. We must move quickly, lest our bounty be devoured.

Attacking Bioware's headquarters would require passing through the Edmonton-4 Relay

No Fanboy has ever returned from doing so

 

[weirdee]

400 cupcakes

...
I'm assembling a team.
We'll need the best, and people we can trust. Our goal is one frought with peril, but the payoff will be so sweet. We will infiltrate the BioWare headquarters at Edmonton. Those cupcakes will be ours, and no one will even know we were there.

Accepting applications until Friday. We must move quickly, lest our bounty be devoured.

i hear they got that fierce Marauder Shields guarding the shipment, so prepare accordingly

 

[Link Kadeshi]

They need to send a letter before the cupcakes that states there will be 16 different flavors of cupcakes, that will be totally different depending on your choices, and that it wont be a simple and standard A, B, or C decision.

 

[Gigatoast]

I scooped you guys! HAHA!

 

[Big.Bad.Blowback]

Fan: "So did you like the cupcakes"

BW: "They were great. You have really shown us how much you care."

Fans "So is their going to be a new ending?"

BW: "Sadly not, we are not willing to change the end of our story."

Fans "Well that is too bad. The antidote was in the 'Congratulation on the new ending' shipment. If you need us we will be cancelling the an order."