BioWare Sends 400 Cupcakes to Youth Center
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Oh for...
Mass Effect fans raise $80'000 for sick and dying kids and get panned for it.
BioWare give cupcakes to kids and they get panned for it.
What have some people got against kindness to kids, for Christ's sake? I thought the sending of these cupcakes was a fiendishly clever idea but I also think that, in handing them to someone who will benefit more from them, they're just following our example in showing a little human kindness.
Perhaps if more people were willing to share the love, so to speak, then the world in general wouldn't be a brighter place!
Wardy
P.S Where is this anger of which the OP speaks?
Mass Effect fans raise $80'000 for sick and dying kids and get panned for it.
BioWare give cupcakes to kids and they get panned for it.
What have some people got against kindness to kids, for Christ's sake? I thought the sending of these cupcakes was a fiendishly clever idea but I also think that, in handing them to someone who will benefit more from them, they're just following our example in showing a little human kindness.
Perhaps if more people were willing to share the love, so to speak, then the world in general wouldn't be a brighter place!
Wardy
P.S Where is this anger of which the OP speaks?
Totally incorrect, unfortunately. Most people on the BSN were quite content, especially after Chris Priestly posted a couple of times to talk about the feedback they'd kept via the notes.
Official response that LoganKey gave to interviewers:
"Sam, the Cup Cake Campaign creator, responded today by saying: ?I?m glad that these Cupcakes were received, and also very happy that they got donated to kids who need them. It doesn?t matter who eats them. RetakeME3 sent its delicious message, and did some good at the same time.?"
Official response that LoganKey gave to interviewers:
"Sam, the Cup Cake Campaign creator, responded today by saying: ?I?m glad that these Cupcakes were received, and also very happy that they got donated to kids who need them. It doesn?t matter who eats them. RetakeME3 sent its delicious message, and did some good at the same time.?"
Shame they didn't have a taste, those cupcakes were baked full of delicious irony!
Still I think they made the right call, just not the funny one.
Still I think they made the right call, just not the funny one.
This is awesome. The point was made, and those cupcakes will definitely be more enjoyed by the kids than by the developers. This is the single most courteous war I've watched in recent memory. Little like how in the early days of WWI the aviators would wave to each other as they passed in the sky.shado_temple said:I apologize for yet another BioWare/Mass Effect post, but I thought it was an interesting update to the whole cupcake situation [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116530-Gamers-Ship-400-Cupcakes-to-BioWare-in-Protest-of-Mass-Effect-3] that's been added to the Mass Effect madness.
True to their word, the "Retake" movement sent the 400 cupcakes to BioWare, as pictured below:
Upon receiving said cupcakes, BioWare thanked [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/10635792/88] the movement for the gift, but declined it. Instead, they gave the pastries to a local youth center, a group that probably has a better chance of putting them to use than a few dozen developers.
As usual, people on the BSN forums are livid to hear that someone other than the developers ate them, but I thought it was a clever response. Get trolled by the fans? Troll them back!
Thoughts?
Oh shoot...I think that means that Retake's next move is to gas the Bioware offices. :\
Bioware:
Give $1000 dollars to Canadian Bully Victim Charity and Re-gift the 400 Cupcakes to a poor children's shelter.
Praise from gaming media sites, full support in their actions.
No mention of them maybe doing it for the sake of PR and to further their goals.
Fans:
Give $80,000 to sick and dying children's charity.
Get told that they're all nasty entitled babies and the charity is cut off early by the same websites in question.
Get told that they're just hijacking the charity for their own goals.
Seems fair and unbias in my mind. Yup. No double standard here.
On the plus side, Charities and the poor and sick children are doing GREAT out of this.
Which is a nice thought if nothing else.
Glad to see the cupcakes went so a more needing recipient anyway. This all worked out pretty well in the end.
Give $1000 dollars to Canadian Bully Victim Charity and Re-gift the 400 Cupcakes to a poor children's shelter.
Praise from gaming media sites, full support in their actions.
No mention of them maybe doing it for the sake of PR and to further their goals.
Fans:
Give $80,000 to sick and dying children's charity.
Get told that they're all nasty entitled babies and the charity is cut off early by the same websites in question.
Get told that they're just hijacking the charity for their own goals.
Seems fair and unbias in my mind. Yup. No double standard here.
On the plus side, Charities and the poor and sick children are doing GREAT out of this.
Which is a nice thought if nothing else.
Glad to see the cupcakes went so a more needing recipient anyway. This all worked out pretty well in the end.
I guess this is what DLC stands for then, Delicious Lovely Cake.
While its a nice move that they gave the cakes away, can we just let this whole mass effect 3 thing die now? Its pathetic
Failing that, whens the next big release out? I could really go for a new game to hear weeks of rage/gush right now, just to break up the tedium
While its a nice move that they gave the cakes away, can we just let this whole mass effect 3 thing die now? Its pathetic
Failing that, whens the next big release out? I could really go for a new game to hear weeks of rage/gush right now, just to break up the tedium
Yes, they chose to not eat the cupcakes just like how people had the choice not to play the game. Quite poetic in a way.DazBurger said:
I took a bit of time to read through some of the BSN posts...and who was angry? The overwhelming sense seems to be praise for both the cleverness of Bioware in donating it to charity and the idea to send the cupcakes to begin with.
Who's livid? :/
Who's livid? :/
That's what I was thinking.DazBurger said:
You don't get to make a 4th choice Bioware.
The cupcakes are art, you do with them what we tell you to do with them.
Because it's art.
[sub]Yes, I'm being silly.[/sub]
Yes because when Child's Play had to set a limit to the charity and shut it down because people were demanding refunds because they thought they were "buying a new ending" shows just how 'righteous' some of those gamers were when they were donating their money to the CharityCanadish said:
Actually... I guess you could interpret that gesture as a refusal to play.DazBurger said:
So if I were one of those who like to over-analyse... EA BioWare are saying, if you don't like our cupcake endings, then don't play. And give the game to some needy kids.
But that's if I were to over analyse.