TheMightyEthan

This, so much this. *Edit* - Only quoted part of his comment, not the whole thing.

Doesn't seem like they're going to help me either. *Edit* - This sure is helping to refute the negative view of EA so many seem to hold...

Got a response from EA support on twitter, so maybe I'll get more help there.

I know, the earlier conversation just made it seem like you guys were acting like you both needed a PS3, and I phrased it as a question instead of a statement because I didn't want to sound like a dick and also I was only 99% sure, not 100%.

That's fake challenge though. That's punishing me because something came up in the middle of my play session and I have to quit. That's retarded. Otherwise, yes, I am all for strict item rationing in certain kinds of games.

Here's the ad link: http://ebm.em.ea.com/c/tag/hBPXqMZB7uauvB8hUAYDulXVjGW/doc.html Don't know if it will work right for people in other areas.

Sure. HTML of what though? The ad? lmao I was thinking the same thing.

In my experience grocery stores and the big warehouse stores don't tend to have people approach you for help in the US, but smaller stores and specialty stores do. When I was in college my friends and I would play a game at the mall where the goal was to go to a store like American Eagle (clothing stores seem to be the worst) and walk all the way to the back, touch the back wall, then walk back out the front of the store without any of the workers talking to you. We hardly ever won.

What I actually came in here to post: Never have I encountered a store that actually refused to honor its own ad, even when that ad was mistaken. *Edit* - I do see the big asterisk on the 50%, but notice the box art for KoA, and the text at the bottom does not mention KoA as one of the exclusions (even the part that got cut off in the screenshot). Also, I had to take two screenshots to get the whole chat so I spliced them together.

Most of the time when ordering online we don't have to pay tax at all, so

I don't buy anything off the stacks in the aisle (except occasionally the "bargain bin" type things) or endcaps because they're almost always more expensive than the stuff on the regular shelves.

No, from what I can tell it's on sale in Europe but not the US. I only checked the site though, didn't try the client.

Is it possible to have everyone except Shepard die in ME2? I think if your whole squad dies then Shep has to die too. *Edit* - @Vargras: I haven't noticed that. Though I will say that the more someone dies the less inclined I am to try to revive them, and Vanguards tend to die a lot (not because they're bad, but because it's kind of the nature of the beast). Another problem with reviving Vanguards is that often they've charged across the level, so it's just more difficult to get over there to them.

I'm holding out for $30. Actually, there's a 50% off sale on Origin this week, and KoA was in the e-mail ad I received, but apparently it's not actually discounted.

There's a testing phase in there, it's just shorter than the whole game test phase (which makes sense cause there's less content).

I thought the dialog was very well written. I do agree with your complaints (except the first one), they just don't ruin the game for me. As for the first one @elev3n:

At our grocery store they have dedicated baggers. Or bagger, since they only ever have one damn lane open!

As long as they don't have an item that limits your ability to save. Goddamn that's frustrating.

We still have to take it on trust that that's how it is, and tbh Bioware has already squandered a lot of the goodwill they had with fans with gutted sequels (DA2 as the worst example), and EA's "goodwill" was really ever only "at least they're not Activision." I still think the solution is transparency, but it has to be transparency during the actual development. Doing it after people have already gotten mad just doesn't work nearly as well. Disclaimer: I'm inclined to believe that chart accurately portrays how they do it, I'm just expressing how I think a lot of people feel.

That's all you got if you actually played Mass Effect 1 too. I mean, there was a situation around it, but it boiled down to you already knew the Rachni had almost conquered the galaxy millenia ago, but that this one was saying "if you let me go I promise to be good." You still had to take her at her word.

I hope this holds true, my biggest complaint with the Uncharted series was the reliance on bullet-sponges.

Can't you cross-play between PC and PS3?

I think more transparency from devs would go a long way toward fixing some of the negative perception people have of early DLC. Like if they were open about the dev process, letting fans know what was going on and when so that they understand what's happening and (hopefully) don't feel like the dev is trying to deceive them.

This is really general, but I'm going to put it in spoilers anyway just in case:

Yeah, most states already have some kind of generic ID card, but normally it's not free and it's optional (it's basically a driver's license without the "license to drive" part). AFAI knew all the states that had passed voter ID laws had made that generic ID free to avoid the "poll tax" issue, so I assumed Texas had done the same. Apparently not.