Bioware, are you taking the piss?

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burningdragoon

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I'm sure you could elaborate, but if a character or two you really liked dying is enough to rage over, it's hard to take your complaining seriously.
 

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Zhukov said:
So.. you hate them so much that you're going to buy their next game?

Yup, that'll show 'em.
Exactly if you hate a publisher/devleoper enough to say your gonna do a boycott; do it right and not some half arsed (non)effort.
 

Adultism

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Oh yeah lets not buy a game that we want to play, that will show the developer, as a matter of fact I'll stop buying games and playing games because I don't like how the industry works anymore

THAT WILL SHOW THEM.
 

Arina Love

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whine whine whine stop crying don't like it don't buy it simple as that. and DA2 was OK.
 

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Adultism said:
Oh yeah lets not buy a game that we want to play, that will show the developer, as a matter of fact I'll stop buying games and playing games because I don't like how the industry works anymore

THAT WILL SHOW THEM.
In a capitalist society, your dollar can sometimes be your strongest form of voice; stopping a company's income tends to give the message that the current status quo is not something their customers appreciate, which forces changes on their part. If you want to see change in the industry, then yes, a good start is by stopping your investing in their current ways.

(Note that this does not give one the right to simply go off and pirate it either; as I mentioned before, that sends the exact wrong message to publishers and such.)

If you have an alternative method to making your voice heard, I'm all ears.
 

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SecretNegative said:
Sewer Rat said:
Daystar Clarion said:
Fappy said:
You mean like not being able to decide how powerful the force is?

Starkiller, a Sith apprentice can tear a Star Destroyer out of the sky, while Yoda, a Jedi Master, has difficulty lifting a fallen piece of debris.
Or... *takes a deep breath*
Not being able to force run due to plot convenience (see generator scene in Star Wars Episode 1)
pff, that "plothole" has been explained:

That made me lol.
If you are serious though, that really is a cop out.
 

Flailing Escapist

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I'll admit that it feels like Bioware has been slipping these past few years.

I know its my fault for clicking on this thread but next time could you do this instead?: (actually you still have time, DO THIS)

is a badass, meatbag!

tag it and label it >> it makes life easier
 

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Adultism said:
Oh yeah lets not buy a game that we want to play, that will show the developer, as a matter of fact I'll stop buying games and playing games because I don't like how the industry works anymore

THAT WILL SHOW THEM.
I don't know why people in general "don't like how the industry works anymore". 2010 was amazing and 2011 even better if you are into indie and alternative games, and things like Steam have been a godsend for that kind of games. Then there are some established devs like Atlus, THQ, Arena Net, to some extent Valve and Bethesda just to name a few off the top of my head trying to do innovative and interesting stuff, sometimes failing, sometimes succeding.

There are over a hundred well established game developers, and a bunch of indie studios. If you are fed with Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Konami (can't forgive what they did to Castlevania), I agree; if you hate Activision, well, i like em, but i can see that; still i really don't think "the industry" is on a downfall, each decade seems to be better for me (started late 80's).

OT: Well... my favourite Bioware game is MDK, and IMO their second best game came AFTER they were part of EA. I know, i know, baldurs gate, yeah, it was interesting and deep, but i found the gameplay lacking to say the least.
 

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Acrisius said:
Clive Howlitzer said:
Zhukov said:
So.. you hate them so much that you're going to buy their next game?

Yup, that'll show 'em.
This. Everyone loves to rage about stuff like this but in the end, they don't show their opinion in the one way that matters, by not buying their games.
HAHAHA, yeah right. One dude not buying something will DEFINITELY show someone who has no idea that dude even exists.
You appear to have missed the point of boycotts.

See, the idea isn't that one guy will not go out and buy their stuff, but that a horde of people won't.
What Clive is getting at is most likely that, in case we're dissatisfied with this or that, we should not buy their games, in order to make them consider what could be improved.

I don't take this thread very seriously, though, due to OP outright stating that he doesn't care that much, considering he is still going to buy Mass Effect 3.
(a game I won't even bother with, on account of Origin and by proxy, EA)
 

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Dandark said:
Didn't you hear? Bioware is dead. They were dragged into a dark alley and brutally beaten to death by EA who then stripped them and started wearing it's their clothes. Then they started passing those clothes out between their friends.
Well golly. Tell it how it really is, Captain Killjoy. ;_;
 

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Dandark said:
Didn't you hear? Bioware is dead. They were dragged into a dark alley and brutally beaten to death by EA who then stripped them and started wearing their face like a mask
I fixed it for you ;)
 

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RyuujinZERO said:
Dandark said:
Didn't you hear? Bioware is dead. They were dragged into a dark alley and brutally beaten to death by EA who then stripped them and started wearing their face like a mask
I fixed it for you ;)
Thank you kind sir :)
 

RedEyesBlackGamer

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ZeroMachine said:
Your rage is null and void the second you buy another game of theirs.

Kudos on the fail, dude. If you hate a company so much as to speak like this, shouldn't you not support them at all?

Also, and everyone, do me a favor and realize this:

DA2 WAS NOT A BAD GAME.

Worst than the first one. Not an AMAZING game. But it was mediocre at worst.
I've called DA2 the most average game of 2011.
OP: Yeah, I heard that they butchered the characters pretty hard. I feel for the fans. Just declare it non-canon.
 

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Ah bioware hate threads my cup overfloweth with entertainment that your ample bosom giveth.In other words har de har har.

I really don't understand the hate I loved Mass effect 1 and I loved mass effect 2 I have faith I will love mass effect 3 form what I played of it SWTOR was brilliant.As far as I'm concerned far from EA running Bioware into the ground the games just seem to keep getting better.
 

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shado_temple said:
astrav1 said:
Lord Revan 117 said:
(Spoilers)
Not only do I wait fucking 10 years for a conclusion to KOTOR's plotline only to be offered a bloody MMO, but you make me kill my main character from the 1st game AND HK-47!? Is Bioware trying to troll its fanbase that have been waiting a decade by killing 2 fan favourites and making us pay monthly for a WOW clone?! This is not fan-service Bioware, after DA2 I hoped you would get your act together. I swear ME3 is the last game i'll buy from you.
Not that I do this but I believe some people pirate in the name of justice. The best way to get a company to change their minds is by hitting them in their wallets by making sure they don't receive money through boycott or piracy.
The trouble is, companies tend to also look at any available statistics regarding the number of pirated copies of the game, and see them not as sales lost to "justice", but rather sales lost to gamers who just didn't feel like paying. If you really want to send a message to a company, you have to have the will to keep away from their products completely, instead of hiding behind rationalizations while you cave.

("you", of course, being this hypothetical justice pirate, not you as in the person I'm quoting)
Sadly that is a very valid point. The exact reason I haven't pirated any Activision games yet.
 

Kahunaburger

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That's not Bioware taking the piss. This is Bioware taking the piss:


...or at least I hope it is. Oh, wait, it has an IMDB page? :(