EA Pulling all the Stops on Mass Effect 3 Promotion

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In preparation for the upcoming release of Mass Effect 3: Take Earth Back on March 6th, Electronic Arts is shooting for the moon…..well, not actually, but they are aiming high with weather balloons carrying copies of the video game into space and for lucky locators of the Earth-bound cargo creating a stir in publicity for the release.
 
Cool. After playing the demo, the only way I'll be playing the game is if a free copy drops into my backyard.
 
I'm holding out for reviews before I buy this. Three years ago I never imagined I would be saying that about a BioWare game.
 
Mass Effect 3 is probably the only game I plan on purchasing blind. I haven't watched any of the trailers, haven't watched any of the streams from the demo, etc. etc. I'm buying it purely because I absolutely cannot wait to see how the series concludes.

Technical issues, FOV issues, etc. be damned, I'm going to enjoy this game one way or another.
 
TheOneKnownAsMe said:
Mass Effect 3 is probably the only game I plan on purchasing blind. I haven't watched any of the trailers, haven't watched any of the streams from the demo, etc. etc. I'm buying it purely because I absolutely cannot wait to see how the series concludes.

Technical issues, FOV issues, etc. be damned, I'm going to enjoy this game one way or another.
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Me too. I have to have this game and I've gone out of my way not to spoil it for myself. I haven't preordered yet though.
 
I was waiting for the partial nudity but there was none :(
 
Techx said:
I was waiting for the partial nudity but there was none :(
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Always kind of amused me that people spent hours and hours playing the first one to have "relations" with alien womens which consisted of pg-13 material and no actual nudity. :D
 
I may have to wait it out cause when I reinstalled my OS after a motherboard swap I didn't backup my ME2 saves so I've gotta play it straight thru again since I was at level 30 and had the relationships going that I wanted. I wanted to buy this one day one but I also wanted to go into it with my saved character.
 
It still requires you to install Origin to play it. Will not buy. No amount of promotional campaigning can make me buy a game that requires me to install Origin.

EA can burn in hell.
 
Fail said:
It still requires you to install Origin to play it. Will not buy. No amount of promotional campaigning can make me buy a game that requires me to install Origin.

EA can burn in hell.
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there is the tin foil cap response that I knew was coming. I have Origin on both my computers an EA still has not asked for my first born child.
 
DeathPrincess said:
But but EA scans your program data folder (for EA games)!!!111 :eek::eek::eek:
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If Origin finds my DaO and ME I & II games will it convert them to requiring Origin to play them? Right now, I'm thinking of uninstalling them before I let Origins install as they don't need it to play now.
 
surfhick said:
If Origin finds my DaO and ME I & II games will it convert them to requiring Origin to play them? Right now, I'm thinking of uninstalling them before I let Origins install as they don't need it to play now.
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No. With other games it just adds them to the origin launcher and give you the option to launch from there, but the original game files are unaffected. Lots of origin games don't even need origin to be open to play anyway (depends on the game).
 
Vegas P11 said:
there is the tin foil cap response that I knew was coming. I have Origin on both my computers an EA still has not asked for my first born child.
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It isn't a tin foil cap response..it is just a simple matter of not finding being told when I can and cannot play games I own acceptable. It is simply a stance that some of us have taken to boycott the push for always on drm and the treating of PC gamers like criminals.
 
DeathPrincess said:
No. With other games it just adds them to the origin launcher and give you the option to launch from there, but the original game files are unaffected. Lots of origin games don't even need origin to be open to play anyway (depends on the game).
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Thank you, that makes me feel better. Iill be able to import my characters.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
It isn't a tin foil cap response..it is just a simple matter of not finding being told when I can and cannot play games I own acceptable. It is simply a stance that some of us have taken to boycott the push for always on drm and the treating of PC gamers like criminals.
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So no steam?
 
Dekoth-E- said:
It isn't a tin foil cap response..it is just a simple matter of not finding being told when I can and cannot play games I own acceptable. It is simply a stance that some of us have taken to boycott the push for always on drm and the treating of PC gamers like criminals.
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I'm not a fan of DRM either. I'm currently stationed overseas in South Korea busting my ass for our country and I cannot play some of the games I purchased back in America or listen to my Pandora account that I paid for because the DRM will not allow me to use any of that in this country. DRM blows.
 
DeathPrincess said:
Always kind of amused me that people spent hours and hours playing the first one to have "relations" with alien womens which consisted of pg-13 material and no actual nudity. :D
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Its a shame that none of these games went as far as Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit) did with in-game intimacy :(
 
So sick of all the QQing about Origin. If you don't use it, stop spreading your ignorance everywhere. it is no worse than Steam or any other online service. If you think otherwise then you are both uninformed and a part of the tinfoil hat brigade.

Seriously, GET OVER IT.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
It isn't a tin foil cap response..it is just a simple matter of not finding being told when I can and cannot play games I own acceptable. It is simply a stance that some of us have taken to boycott the push for always on drm and the treating of PC gamers like criminals.
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You do not own the game per the EULA; you are licensed to play them.

Systems like Origin and Steam do not treat PC gamer like criminals any more than consoles do. Go ahead and have your boycott, we'll be playing awesome games while you don't.
 
DeathPrincess said:
Always kind of amused me that people spent hours and hours playing the first one to have "relations" with alien womens which consisted of pg-13 material and no actual nudity. :D
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Suppose there had been alien "nudity"? Watching myself putting my round peg into an alien's "square hole" somehow does nothing much for me.

My thought is that if they are hyping the game this much it most likely really sucks. Videogame publishers do what movie studios do in the event they have to push a really bad movie: they hype the heck out of it before it hits the theaters and hope to make their initial investment back before attendance drops to zero.
 
Vegas P11 said:
there is the tin foil cap response that I knew was coming. I have Origin on both my computers an EA still has not asked for my first born child.
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My problem is less that EA scans your computer or whatever and more that with BF3, you need Battlelog AND Origin just to play the game... I don't want all this third party stuff. And although it doesn't happen often, when either of those two systems go down, you can't play the game, it just seems completely ridiculous.

Well that and EA just sucks in general and has seemingly turned BF3 into quite a mediocre game at best and at worst, an abomination of the BF (not BC) series.
 
Hey EA, I've got a great idea for a ME3 promotion: have a sale on the ME2 DLC. That way, those of us who haven't bothered with the DLC because it costs several times what the base game costs are caught up on the story. That would also give me an incentive the replay the game, and maybe get me psyched for the third installment.

I can deal with Origin if I must, but it seems that the switch away from distributing DLC on steam has caused EA to never put it on sale. Ahh well, I have plenty of other games to play until EA/Bioware decide they want my money.
 
Hornet said:
Its a shame that none of these games went as far as Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit) did with in-game intimacy :(
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WaltC said:
Suppose there had been alien "nudity"? Watching myself putting my round peg into an alien's "square hole" somehow does nothing much for me.
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It's more how obsessive some people got to get to a pg-13 rated scene written for 12 year olds. None of the characters are believable and are all one dimentional, it made the whole thing uncomfortable like a fan made "sexy time" mod for oblivion or something. Whereas they seemed to want it to be kind of "adult" and serious, it was a 12 year olds simplified view of the world.

I know it wasn't really an RPG, and the plot was pretty thin on the ground, but lots of people seem to have paid $60 soley for the inclusion of a breif glimpse of partial nudity. You know, instead of getting free porn from the interwebs or something. :D



Metrocall said:
My problem is less that EA scans your computer or whatever and more that with BF3, you need Battlelog AND Origin just to play the game...
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It doesn't "scan your computer" as all the crazed alarmists decided to spread, and then people took as fact. It scans your program data folder (for EA games) and the folder you install it in, then checks for a few registry settings (like a gazillion other programs). Why would EA scan your computer, and what would they be looking for? CC numbers they probably already have if you bought anything from them, along with your home adress, number and age. Do you really think EA has a huge room of workers going through peoples harddrives for tax returns? It's just being paranoid for no reason.
 
Still won't get my hard-earned free time (which is now more valuable to me than money). So many other games to play on my plate: Wake me when the super-hyper-turbo-mega-dlc-collectors edition comes out for under ten bucks and I will run it in a VM.

I can't understand why people compare steam to origin (yes, both are drm) I like to think of them in term of car rental companies: It's already not the nicest of experiences since it's usually a hassle but it is a necessary evil for many people. Steam is like having an entire fleet of cars and trucks to choose from on any single day, depending on the mood and task, that are almost always available, usually at a discount and are neatly organized in one easily accessible location. Origin is like having maybe three available cars if you are lucky and they are all one make and are only available after trekking to the back lot on the first and fourth tuesday of every month and even then you have to pick up that guy for the office carpool who smells as if rotten kale is seeping out of his pores and asks you all sorts of personal questions even though you aren't friends but you put up with it because he is the bosses nephew and the only parking available at the downtown office is designated for carpools.
 
Day 1 purchase for me. I still think ME1 is high on the list of top 5 of all time great RPGs. I'm hoping Bioware can get the story and presentation in 3 back to how it was in 1 but retain the gameplay from 2. Apparently there are 82 minutes of cinematics which gives me hope the story for ME3 is going to be good.
 
pearle said:
I'm holding out for reviews before I buy this. Three years ago I never imagined I would be saying that about a BioWare game.
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+1
definitely the sensible option. bioware has certainly slipped as it's game have become more 'consolised'.

TheOneKnownAsMe said:
Mass Effect 3 is probably the only game I plan on purchasing blind. I haven't watched any of the trailers, haven't watched any of the streams from the demo, etc. etc. I'm buying it purely because I absolutely cannot wait to see how the series concludes.

Technical issues, FOV issues, etc. be damned, I'm going to enjoy this game one way or another.
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hope that 'blind faith' buying works out for you.

being a pc gamer, i have a 'healthy dislike' for console gimped games. the ME titles weren't bad, just wish they spent some time fixing the inventory management screens (and UI in general) that are just horrible when playing on PC.
 
F*ck the game play. I have a combined 300+ hours in ME1 and 2, so I'm not here for the game play. I'm here for the story.
 
DeathPrincess said:
Always kind of amused me that people spent hours and hours playing the first one to have "relations" with alien womens which consisted of pg-13 material and no actual nudity. :D
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To be fair, you did actually get to see Liara's ass. The problem was the model was identical to Ashley's. You actually get two quick shots of Liara's ass. One is longer than the other. You only get to see Ashley's once. But they are pretty much just pallete swaps of the same model with different heads. Even the side boob is the same. Still I enjoyed the story of both games. The first one had a better story, but ME2 was more fun from a gameplay standpoint.

Hamm3r said:
F*ck the game play. I have a combined 300+ hours in ME1 and 2, so I'm not here for the game play. I'm here for the story.
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I'm here for both. I loved the game play of ME2. I liked what I've seen of ME3, that being said, I wouldn't have made it through ME1, and maybe not even 2 without the story. I've got almost 500 hours into the series now. I will finish it. Origin, DRM, FOV, and other problems be damned as someone else in the thread said earlier.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
It isn't a tin foil cap response..it is just a simple matter of not finding being told when I can and cannot play games I own acceptable. It is simply a stance that some of us have taken to boycott the push for always on drm and the treating of PC gamers like criminals.
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You don't own the game. You own a license to use the game.
 
Dan_D said:
True. This is a distinction that few people seem to grasp.
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I have tried to explain this very concept to people but they get all Bartleby and "prefer not to" when you do. I fear that it is a distinction that more and more people will have to face as the US continues its shift towards an information/copyright economy.
 
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