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Mass Effect 3 Protesters Sending Cupcakes to Bioware
At first, fans disappointed with ending of Mass Effect 3 tried to rally supporters to their cause by raising money for the charity Child’s Play, which helps get entertainment to sick kids in hospitals. But last week, Retake Mass Effect and Child’s Play parted ways, with the charity becoming concerned that their platform was becoming associated with a cause other than their own. Without that option, fans started to get creative.
Some fans are continuing the charity drives, and decided instead to try and raise money for “Kids Need to Read,” an organization that gets some nerd cred by being co-founded with Firefly and Castle’s Nathan Fillion.
Others got creative, deciding that the best way to make themselves heard may be by wooing Bioware itself, and what better way to do that than with cupcakes?
Yesterday, user LoganKey, first name Sam, posted a scheme to send 402 cupcakes to the Bioware studios in Canada. He raised the $1005 he needed in under an hour.
“We’ve done orders of this size before, but never with this kind of, you know, drama,” said Dale Temple, owner of the Edmonton, Alberta-area bakery Fuss Cupcakes, who will be filling the order. “He [Sam] was very polite, knew what he wanted… He called me before he had raised the money, you know, just with an idea, and within an hour he had called already.”
The idea is that the cupcakes would somehow communicate the notion of lack of choice in the endings to Mass Effect – a tall order for a pastry, no doubt. Proposed messages for the boxes include:
- “No matter what color you choose, they all taste the same”;
- “No matter what color you choose, it’s all vanilla ;-D”
- “We rage because we love”
The cupcakes themselves will be a mix of red, blue and green for the “different” endings of Mass Effect 3.
Source: Forbes
Fuck everything about this
Some gaming industry “professionals” claim that Steve Jobs and the iPhone had a bigger impact on videogames than Steam, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony combined.
According to a survey distributed to 1,000 videogame industry professionals, the iPhone has shaped videogames more than any other device or console, and Steve Jobs has shaped videogames more than any other human. The questionnaire was sent out to industry attendees of the London Games Conference, and asked participants to make a top five list of various professionals and hardware. Based on the answers received, the LGS ranked them according to the number of mentions.
The iPhone took top honors in the "products" category, earning an impressive 53% of voters claiming it belongs in the top five of all time, and 17% as number one. The full results were as follows:
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iPhone: 17%
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Wii: 7%
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Xbox Live: 3%
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PlayStation One: 3%
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Steam: 2%
As for people, Apple also took the throne, with Steve Jobs being mentioned in the top five list of 46% of survey takers, and as number one by 26%. Here’s how he stacked up against other industry giants:
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Steve Jobs 26%
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Gabe Newell 16%
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Shigeru Miyamoto 7%
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Tim Berners-Lee 4%
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Mark Zuckerberg 3%
Fuck everything about this.
Source: The Escapist
Kalypso backstabbing EU users with unfair price for Dungeons!! (updated)
Thank you everyone, who joined Kalypso forum and said something about this unfair price.
We won something, but not much. The price has been lowered 5€, down to 44,99€. BUT this doesn’t fix the problem. We get now ripped off by 52% instead of 67%.
Beware. There are more Kalypso games with ultra unfair price as written in my post also. I think that they will simply delete the it and ban me from the forums.
WARNING!! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME (DUNGEONS) because of awfully unfair price for EU! Unless it’s on sale with a very cheap price!
Yay, finally, Dungeon Keeper franchise sequel Dungeons is available as the Steam news claims.
Pre-Purchase DUNGEONS – Steam Special Edition and receive M.U.D. TV to play now!
Assume the role of a mighty Dungeon Lord and create your own diabolical dungeon. Lure Heroes into your labyrinthine with the promise of treasure and a good fight – only to trap them with your ingenious devices.
DUNGEONS – STEAM SPECIAL EDITION includes an exclusive extra mission, all new maps to play in sandbox mode and a variety of unique prestige gimmicks to customize your dungeon!
Pre-Purchase offer ends February 10th, 10am PST.
But hey, wait a minute. Wtf is wrong with the price, 49.99€ ($66.55)?? and in US only $39.99 (30.00€)? That’s 67% more expensive!
And not only in Steam!
Impulse:
Dungeons is available for pre-order worldwide for $39.99 USD | 44.99 EUR | 34.95 GBP. Dungeon pre-orders will be charged immediately with instant access to Ceville. There are NO REFUNDS on this title. Dungeons will be released worldwide on Impulse February 10, 2011.
GamersGate:
Price: 44.95€ – http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-DUNGEONS/dungeons
I wanted this game! Now I don’t! Unless they correct the price politics. But they won’t.
Fortunately there is a thread in Kalypso forums about this Steam Special Edition and one guy asked the question, why is the price in EU 20€ more expensive than in US. Let’s find out what they answer to this. And we got an answer:
They don’t give shit about EU! Ok that is not entirely true, because they finally lowered the price by 5€, but unfortunately it is still far from being fair price :(
Okay, I registered and posted something too, let’s wait answer for this.
So DO NOT BUY THIS GAME (DUNGEONS)! Unless it’s on sale with a very cheap price!
SavyGamer » APB Steam Refund
APB Steam refund update
25/09/2010 in Digital Distribution, News
If you bought APB from Steam, apparently EA are now offering a free game as a refund. Valve put up a brick wall, but EA are making up for the fact that customer who bought their game ended up with nothing to show for it.
If you contact them through this site, and tell them you’d like another game to replace APB, they will give you any game currently available on the EA Store. I don’t think that they will let you get preorders, but it’s worth a shot.
You can pick from the likes of Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Spore, The Saboteur, Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and all sorts of other stuff.
Thanks to CHooligans for the heads up.
DLC for your hardware? It seems Intel fucking did it!
Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do. Intel is asking their customers to pay extra if they want the full power of their store-bought CPUs. Some guy was browsing through the Best Buy shelves when he noticed this $50 card that lets you download software to unlock extra threads and cache on the new Pentium G6951 processor - Intel websites confirms it. Hardware.info got their hands on an early sample of the chip and discovered it’s actually a full 1MB of L3 cache that’s enabled plus HyperThreading support, which translates to a modest but noticeable upgrade. This isn’t exactly an unprecedented move, as chip companies routinely sell hardware-locked chips all the time but they never asked anyone to pay for unlocking the hidden potential.
This new idea is more like DLCs for PC and console games that let you "download" extra weapons and features, when those features were on the disc all along (like with Bioshock 2 and Mafia 2).
Google Dutch to English translation of hardware.info Intel G6951 upgradeable CPU review
http://preview.tinyurl.com/372l5p
Source: engadget.com
Over 1 000 000 views!
The original thread concerning the price differences in Europe (and the rest of the world) on Steam has reached over 1 000 000 views lately! This isn’t a particularly good thing but at least it’s not closed and people still seem to rage about it (after almost 2 years!).
Now go there and leave a reply and make sure Valve notices us once more!
Looks like $1 = €1 after all (and it appears it’s gonna stay like this forever…)
Bioshock 2 with “great” price
(click on the picture to see the deal)
You probably all remember nice hit-game Bioshock that collected many awards and so on. Now it is time for sequel. But like usually, there are no good things without bad things. The good thing is that you can get Bioshock 1 for free, you can give the extra copy to your friend, if you already have one. And there is now multiplayer! Achievements! DLC‘s! And somekinda social networking based on Games for Windows live.
And the bad thing is the price for Europeans, except United Kingdom citizens.
US: $49.99 $44.99 (~32€)
UK: £39.99 £26.99 (2% lower) <- 33% discount not 10% like the others!!!!!
EU: 49,99€ 44,99€ (43% higher)
(Updated) Steam will remember your security code!
UPDATE!
Crossed words in this article are supposed to be treated as false, please ignore them!
Read more about this here in an updated article!
Steam: Braid new low price…or is it?
Valve it’s been almost a year and still you guys are showing those new prices and promos in dollars for everyone, for fuck’s sake you can display all advertisement on Steam regionally all over the world but can’t do it with simple flash animation or gifs? Shame on you!
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