EPTIt was fun and i enjoyed the combat but i'll have probably forgotten about it in a few months, where as DA1 called me back a few times.
Also Launch DLC can go burn in a fire
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
It was fun and i enjoyed the combat but i'll have probably forgotten about it in a few months, where as DA1 called me back a few times. Also Launch DLC can go burn in a fire . | ||
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semantics
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DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On March 11 2011 10:58 Fruscainte wrote: How is it more of an EA thing? They are banning people from playing SINGLE PLAYER GAMES for saying anything bad about their games or getting banned otherwise. That's unforgiveable. Jesus christ... Okay, this is beyond ludicrous, not even sure if it is legal. It is like Blizzard preventing a player from playing single player if he complains about the story in WoL. Unless they overturn this policy i will never buy a game from them again, and i own 99% of all Bioware games released or something. | ||
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takingbackoj
United States684 Posts
On March 11 2011 16:54 DND_Enkil wrote: Jesus christ... Okay, this is beyond ludicrous, not even sure if it is legal. It is like Blizzard preventing a player from playing single player if he complains about the story in WoL. Unless they overturn this policy i will never buy a game from them again, and i own 99% of all Bioware games released or something. It's all about damage control. I've rarely ever seen a game get such poor user reviews and then when you look at the critic reviews it ranges from 70 to 95. It makes no sense. But of course it must be 4 chan because everyone has to like this game. Bioware has never dissapointed me until now. And banning people from playing the game offline? Are you serious? If I pay 60 dollars for a game then I don't care if you like my opinion on it or not you cant ban me from playing it offline, thats insane and 100% unacceptable. I don't care if its EA's fault or bioware's. Im sure bioware has some say. That is complete garbage. For the first time since its announcement im starting to worry about The old republic. | ||
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TyrantPotato
Australia1541 Posts
On March 11 2011 17:07 takingbackoj wrote: It's all about damage control. I've rarely ever seen a game get such poor user reviews and then when you look at the critic reviews it ranges from 70 to 95. It makes no sense. But of course it must be 4 chan because everyone has to like this game. Bioware has never dissapointed me until now. And banning people from playing the game offline? Are you serious? If I pay 60 dollars for a game then I don't care if you like my opinion on it or not you cant ban me from playing it offline, thats insane and 100% unacceptable. I don't care if its EA's fault or bioware's. Im sure bioware has some say. That is complete garbage. For the first time since its announcement im starting to worry about The old republic. wait a minute. am i reading right? THEY ARE BANNING OFFLINE PLAY FOR PEOPLE WHO WHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF IS THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
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Aflixion
United States191 Posts
On March 11 2011 17:12 TyrantPotato wrote: wait a minute. am i reading right? THEY ARE BANNING OFFLINE PLAY FOR PEOPLE WHO WHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF IS THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No, they're not banning people from offline play. The people who whined about it did so before activating their copy of the game, and thus were unable to log in to activate it. Just as with DA:O and ME2, you can play offline as long as you've activated it, albeit without any DLC (since you can't log in). | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On March 11 2011 17:19 Aflixion wrote: No, they're not banning people from offline play. The people who whined about it did so before activating their copy of the game, and thus were unable to log in to activate it. Just as with DA:O and ME2, you can play offline as long as you've activated it, albeit without any DLC (since you can't log in). That still does not make it OK. Banning acc from the forums should be different then banning them from the game options. Until this shit is changed I am boycotting all future EA and Bioware products but will gladly pirate them just out of spite. | ||
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Laston
Sweden3 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + when i finally got out of the deep roads i thought the goal was going to be to chase after the dwarf traitor and that he was influenced by the thing he grabbed but so far it seems all that really happened was a timeskip and no one really caring what he did, maybe it shows up later but it was pretty dissapointed the first thing we did was not use the treasure to find out wtf happened to him story in DA:O felt alot more epic in comparsion but on the other hand combat feels more sped up in this so thats sorta nice. still i find the whole "reinforcement" really annoying cause you can never really tell how long you will be fighting by just seeing the first pack, for all you know "reinforcement" might fall from the sky 3 times witch can make some fights feel very uneven when the reinforcement spawn one of em assasins for ex and he stealths over and slaps your mage silly. | ||
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DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On March 11 2011 17:12 TyrantPotato wrote: wait a minute. am i reading right? THEY ARE BANNING OFFLINE PLAY FOR PEOPLE WHO WHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF IS THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes and no, if you had your copy activated before getting banned you can play offline. In this case the guy had pre-ordered, posted a "Have you sold your souls to EA?"-comment on the forums and got banned just as he got his copy. Since he was banned he could not activate/play his game. You need an active anbanned account to activate the game. Also the ban prevents you from accessing whatever DLC you have bought, so if you paid $40 for the game and $20 for DLC they are banning you from using that DLC and basicly having your $20 thrown away. Problem here for me is that forum bans are carried over into the "shop" part, so if i for example buy a DLC and then complain about it (they ban people for complaining) they can ban me and i will no longer have access to that DLC and be unable to add more, same things with expansions. Since games are account locked once activated, if i buy DA2, activate it for my account, am unhappy with it and post on thier forums what i am unhappy about and they ban me i will still be able to play my game but not add anythign new to it. Including DLC, expansions and i think patches but not sure about the last one. Having a forum ban carry over and prevent me from activating my game or in any way removing content i have purchased/want to purchase is to much for me, especially since they ban you for delivering negative feedback. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On March 11 2011 17:48 -Archangel- wrote: That still does not make it OK. Banning acc from the forums should be different then banning them from the game options. Until this shit is changed I am boycotting all future EA and Bioware products but will gladly pirate them just out of spite. oh yeah that's your reason to pirate. =p Why shouldn't it? your accounts are linked in this instance things you do in game effects how your account is on the forums certain dlc items are unlocked from forum participation from my understanding, in otherwords dont shit in the hands that feeds, you don't necessarily have to agree with their forum rules you just have to be aware that they will enforce it. The guy posted the negative comment which got him warned then did a follow up which got him banned in otherwords he went Martyr. It's a forum made by bioware for in reality bioware not the people in the forum so much. | ||
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DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On March 11 2011 19:24 semantics wrote: oh yeah that's your reason to pirate. =p Why shouldn't it? your accounts are linked in this instance things you do in game effects how your account is on the forums certain dlc items are unlocked from forum participation from my understanding, in otherwords dont shit in the hands that feeds, you don't necessarily have to agree with their forum rules you just have to be aware that they will enforce it. The guy posted the negative comment which got him warned then did a follow up which got him banned in otherwords he went Martyr. It's a forum made by bioware for in reality bioware not the people in the forum so much. I much prefer Steams way of handling it, banned from forums means exactly that, banned from forums. If i buy a shitty DLC i want to be able to tell them that i think the DLC i just bought are shitty without them revoking my account and removing my ability to use it, and doing that without offering any refund. I know the accounts are linked, i just think it is a retarded idea and not really sure it is even legal. | ||
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KaiserJohan
Sweden1808 Posts
Here's an article about it: http://www.fz.se/artiklar/nyheter/20110311/intern-kritik-mot-dragon-age-ii It's in swedish but, it says DA2 even got internal critics during the development, this part is about the soundtrack which is TERRIBLE. Same thing about re-usniog the same environments a hundred times over. | ||
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Aflixion
United States191 Posts
On March 11 2011 19:47 DND_Enkil wrote: I much prefer Steams way of handling it, banned from forums means exactly that, banned from forums. If i buy a shitty DLC i want to be able to tell them that i think the DLC i just bought are shitty without them revoking my account and removing my ability to use it, and doing that without offering any refund. I know the accounts are linked, i just think it is a retarded idea and not really sure it is even legal. As far as I can tell from Stan Woo's post, the BioWare forum moderators aren't the ones locking you out of your account. A ban from one of them results in just a forum ban. If, however, one of your posts was reported by other forum users (via the report post button), then it gets sent to the EA community site moderators. A ban from THEM locks you out of your account. Thus, it's not BioWare that's locking you out for complaining, it's the other users who report your posts. Either way, bans for forum activity should only affect forums. EA needs to fix this. | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On March 11 2011 19:24 semantics wrote: You are trolling right? oh yeah that's your reason to pirate. =p Why shouldn't it? your accounts are linked in this instance things you do in game effects how your account is on the forums certain dlc items are unlocked from forum participation from my understanding, in otherwords dont shit in the hands that feeds, you don't necessarily have to agree with their forum rules you just have to be aware that they will enforce it. The guy posted the negative comment which got him warned then did a follow up which got him banned in otherwords he went Martyr. It's a forum made by bioware for in reality bioware not the people in the forum so much. I cannot believe this is a seriuos post. We, the customers are the hands that feed and they, EA/Bioware are shitting in it with these kind of bullshit! | ||
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Synk
United States297 Posts
I'm just speechless at how much whining is happening over this game, Bioware's forums are the same way ... completely disgusted with the internet community right now. I can't imagine how fucking terrible the developers who worked their ass off on this game are feeling seeing all this crap, its nowhere near the terrible game that people are trying to say it is. In fact its probably one of the best games this year and this is how people receive it, just mind blowing. I'm not just some Bioware fanboy either, I hated the expac to DA:Origins as much as anyone, but DA2 doesn't deserve the amount of hate its getting. Also the people getting their accounts suspended, its a 3 day suspension (not a perma bann )for making personal attacks on EA/Bioware employees. I wish Blizzard did the same thing, how poor the dialog is on internet forums these days is appalling, maybe people would actually think and act decently before the started spewing garbage they would never in a million years say in a face to face conversation. | ||
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Aflixion
United States191 Posts
the Deep Roads Expedition, losing Bethany on the way back *cry* | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
And you are ashamed of us?! | ||
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Synk
United States297 Posts
3 day ban from the forums is OK. But also being banned from the game purchased, really? And you are ashamed of us?! Whatever punishment is needed to make people stop behaving like animals on internet forums and act like decent people I am fine with, obviously 3 day forum bans aren't enough for some people so 3 day game bans are fine by me if that is what is needed to make people snap out of this belief that anything goes on the internet. | ||
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alonndo
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True_Spike
Poland3426 Posts
On March 11 2011 20:28 Synk wrote: I'm completely dumbfounded at the amount of negativity spewing forth from forums about this game. I just finished my first play through of it ( 33 1/2 hours, completed probably 90% of the quests give or take ) and I thought it was a great game, an improvement over DA:O ( put over 100hr into that game on nightmare ). It only had one thing that was kind of annoying at first and that was the camera not zooming out as far but after 30 minutes of play I almost completely forgot about that. I loved the combat and how much faster it played out in this game, it still feels kind of clunky at times though just like in origins but their heading in the right direction. The level design was great, the music was fine ( seriously how can you say it was bad? I just .. I don't even begin to understand that ), the story was kind of cheesy near the end I thought but origins had the same feel ... I think the origins story was better overall though for sure. I'm just speechless at how much whining is happening over this game, Bioware's forums are the same way ... completely disgusted with the internet community right now. I can't imagine how fucking terrible the developers who worked their ass off on this game are feeling seeing all this crap, its nowhere near the terrible game that people are trying to say it is. In fact its probably one of the best games this year and this is how people receive it, just mind blowing. I'm not just some Bioware fanboy either, I hated the expac to DA:Origins as much as anyone, but DA2 doesn't deserve the amount of hate its getting. Also the people getting their accounts suspended, its a 3 day suspension (not a perma bann )for making personal attacks on EA/Bioware employees. I wish Blizzard did the same thing, how poor the dialog is on internet forums these days is appalling, maybe people would actually think and act decently before the started spewing garbage they would never in a million years say in a face to face conversation. So we must praise the changes we, the gamers, dislike, to avoid hurting the feelings of those who worked on the game? Are you on crack? It is perfectly fine to express your own opinion on the game, positive or not, as it is you who bought the game in the first place. The game is nothing but a product and you are free to evaluate it all you wish and in any manner you want - you are the customer! If some people are outraged at the direction in which DA is going than let them speak their mind and maybe the developer won't repeat the same mistakes. Really, how is feedback ever bad? I'm nearing the end of DA2, it's decent, but fell short of expectations. In my opinion, it is not even close to being the best game of the year (and it's march). Once I'm done I'll write my thoughts down. | ||
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