So, I got the email for the:
BioWare invites you to participate in our Sequel Celebration!
So, I thought, "Awesome!" I already have Mass Effect 2 for the PC (as well as X360), but the idea of playing it on my PC (which I am going to do since I just beat Origins at work! So the timing is perfect!) - without the need of a CD (so it's EA's version of Steam, basically) - was one that appealed to me. Mass Effect 2 for free, just for having Dragon Age II. Nice. (Might need the signature edition to take advantage? Not entirely sure). At any rate, I go and install it - and launch it. And run into an issue where it's asking for the CD. I suspect this is because I already have the CD version installed; and despite launching it from EA's "Steam" (whatever they call it) - it's still prompting for the CD.
So I decide to go onto Bioware's forum, and while I am there even try to
help a few
people who seem to be having issues. So I make my
post with my issue.
Then I see a few threads over in the Dragon Age II forum, for this - makes sense, since it required Dragon Age II. There is
this one and
this one. I am scanning the thread to see if anyone's run into the issue I had posted... and come to realize, once again, why I despise the Bioware Social Forum.
I have no idea WHAT the FRUSK happened between the good ol' days when it was just the Bioware forum of old - to this entire merger with EA, and the creation of the social site.
Bioware's forums used to be full of people with some intelligence - and dare I say, respect. What I see on the social site now - is neither of those. I mean I have NEVER seen so many freaking ungrateful people in my life. People who are complaining because they already have Mass Effect 2. Really? You're complaining because you paid the regular price for Dragon Age II, and they're offering a free copy of a game. You paid NOTHING extra! It's not like you paid the cost for two games, and now this free game they're offering is one you can't use! People are demanding - DEMANDING! - that they be allowed to use this as some kind of discount towards downloadable content, or even Mass Effect 3. Some people asked - but a great many are saying that since they already own ME2, that they should be rewarded somehow. Holy Crap. I have never wanted to reach through my screen and strangle the throats of so many freaking selfish people.
And then there's "The Mac People" - and their, "Oh, look, another deal we can't take advantage of. Will we be compensated or are we getting screwed again?"
Compensated? Really? COMPENSATED? By all that's holy - you own a freaking Mac! So sit there and tell me how awesome your Mac is now, you whining sonsofbitches!
I could literally feel my blood pressure rising ridiculously high at the nerve of some of these people. A great MANY of these people.
Some people had good ideas - like being able to use the code to gift to someone else. I thought that was pretty cool (if they already own Mass Effect 2 - it's a great way to gift it and get others possibly hooked and such). But those rational people seemed so far and few between.
So the entire post seems like a rant - but I swear, it's also an announcement for those that may have gotten DRAGON AGE II and not have Mass Effect 2 - or even if you have it - to download it anyway and play it through EA's "Steam" if you wanted.
