BioWare - Countdown Finished, Bazaar Announced

[Dhruin]

BioWare's countdown has finished and I just know you didn't pick this as the result. Announcing the BioWare Bazaar:
We are pleased to announce the BioWare Bazaar http://social.bioware.com/bazaar

The BioWare Bazaar is a chance for eligible fans to get their hands on some awesome BioWare swag. There will be t-shirts, novels, hoodies, high end PC memory, headphones, even some amazing PCs custom painted with Dragon Age or Mass Effect art.

Earn tokens for the BioWare Bazaar by registering your games and DLC, taking surveys, following us on Twitter and completing challenges, then next week, you will be able to redeem your tokens for fabulous prizes through the BioWare Bazaar auction. Every 15 minutes new items will be available for you to bid on. You can check out the full list of prizes here: http://social.bioware.com/auction_rules.php#prizes

Check out the BioWare Bazaar and start earning your tokens here: http://social.bioware.com/bazaar
More information. (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?newsbit=14700)

[stefan9]

Great epic community event, just excludes about 2/3 of the Bioware community. Non US residents and residents of florida and new york aren't eligible. I have about 6000 tokens from the games I bought but it can't be used.

[Lemonhead]

talk about anti-climax... jeeeez. I thought they were going to announce a new game/ new IP. It's like two or three years ago when they hyped another countdown to launch the new DA-website. The da-forums went wild with speculation and what it ended up being was a very short faq and a big logo....yay.

[Korplem]

What the hell?

[Davion]

All that was worth, was an epic laugh.

[JDR13]

Bioware…. what happened to you?

You used to be cool….

[zakhal]

This must be EA idea. "Youre so popular. Lets make a t-shirt shop for the fans!".

[Davion]

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7894/bioware.png

[Rills]

Bioware…. what happened to you?

You used to be cool….

What happened? EA is what happened. To quote zakhal verbatim: "This must be EA idea. 'You're so popular. Lets make a t-shirt shop for the fans!'"

EA is the reversed Midas Touch. I'll leave the rest to your imagination...

[Hedek]

All that was worth, was an epic laugh.

Indeed, an epic countdown for an epic laugh. Thanks Bioware/EA for making my day. April's fool came early this year! It's a joke right... right?

[turian]

this sucks...

[Zloth]

What? The Dragon Age: Origins PC just has the box art on it? But I wanted a screenshot from when I was playing with a nudie mod! Harrumph. Guess I'm stuck with Falcon Northwest. ;)

[Davion]

Ah well, atleast I'll have 5450 Bioware tokens, suckers! And theres nothing that any of you can do to take them away from me !

:boogie:

[SveNitoR]

Ah well, atleast I'll have 5450 Bioware tokens, suckers! And theres nothing that any of you can do to take them away from me !

:boogie:

I wouldn't be surprised if there is an expiration date :p

"Use these points before the end of 2010 (Outside of US only)"

[Alrik Fassbauer]

That's what I call a patriotic company !

[joxer]

So much for the countdown...
Laugh or cry?
I'll take the laugh.

[k1000]

Not worth having a countdown for this...

[Crilloan]

Lots of teen angst and bashing on biowares social forum. :)

Kinda underwhelming though.


Getting fed up by all US only stuff.

/C

[k1000]

What happened? EA is what happened. To quote zakhal verbatim: "This must be EA idea. 'You're so popular. Lets make a t-shirt shop for the fans!'"

EA is the reversed Midas Touch. I'll leave the rest to your imagination…

Yes, the reverse Midas touch, that's well said. Hope they won't do with Bioware what they did with Origin Systems.

[xSamhainx]

Not saying that I wouldnt like a Morrigan figurine w/ her hip jutted out and a legendarily bitchy look on her face or anything….


This is seriously something that we're supposed to be all fired up about tho???

[Galaad]

That's what I call a patriotic company !

Not so much anymore :(, Bioware used to be a Canadian company and that thing isn't even open to canadians :P.

This is pretty underwhelming, definitely not worth a countdown heh.

[Zloth]

I can't think of any contest that was/is international, off hand. You run into MASSIVE legal problems when you try to do that.

[Dhruin]

Such as..?

[Galaad]

I've participated in international contests on a few occasions and very often across the americas at very least ;). I'm sure there are some legal matters to take care of in some specific areas (Hence why NY, Florida and such are excluded as well) but for the most part it isn't the case.

…Besides, Bioware has offices all over canada and has held contest in Canada and abroad before, therefor they should know what is required to make it happen. I'm guessing this is mainly EA's doing. (The contest and the lack of will to pay attention to other markets)

[Lucky Day]

When I left Canada contests used to require at least 30% of proceeds go to some charity and had to be registered. They also required some sort of skill testing question. It seems to be much easier now with their half billion dollar casinos opening up - mostly to keep Canadians from throwing their money down holes in the US.

[Korplem]

I won a JoWood contest that was on the Gothic 2 development site... I think it was 2003. Anyway, just wanted to A.) Brag again and B.) Prove the ease of international contests.