This infuriating scam has me waiting for the eventual “complete” edition of DA2. I’ll just continue my DA replay with my “ruthlessly determined but not evil” sorceror girl.
I hear you on that, but it’ll be at least 9 months to over a year before that’s available.
Other than Shale’s and the Keep DLCs, I don’t think I missed much. Though I do want to play Witch Hunt (though I hear that’s not too good) and Leliana’s Tale, I don’t think I’m missing much outside of Awakenings. I dunno if it’s cheaper for me to pick those three up separately, or buying the complete edition.
Which scam? I am just curious because I know people are upset with how EA/Bioware is tackling the issue of revenue lost from previously owned video game sales by putting in DLC in new copies of their games.
I can sort of see why they do it, and I usually buy Bioware games on day 1 so I just feel like all of this release date DLC is a bonus for me.
Or are you just ticked off that they eventually release all the DLC with the game in a package at the same retail price a year later?
i don’t mind the concept of bundling some DLC with new copies. that i totally understand. i also don’t mind post-release DLC if the game feels complete as-is. i’m a big believer in “pay in individual value, not market value”, so I often get games for much less than they release for.
Anyway, while I don’t have a problem with new game bundled DLC, I do have a problem with mandatory pre-orders. It just seems like a cheap way to ensure I’m on board without any way to ensure I am buying a quality product. Let’s be honest, here. BioWare makes brilliant games, but they are often flawed and need post-release support to fine-tune.
I got DAO ar launch and love it, but I’ll wait this time around. Once you give games about a year (which is super-easy; just have a child), you find that by staying about that far behind the curve you can reap the benefits in cheaper games. I still buy new because I still want to reward the publisher. But I can’t get behind this idea that I’ll need to put X amount down months and months in advance of a game’s release to ensure I receive a package of content.
Instead of feeling incentivized, like Cerberus Network or Shale, I feel punished. And that’s not the way to treat customers, especially when the product sells so well as-is.
I don’t blame or otherwise disdain people who got on board with the Signature Edition. I wrestled with it over the past week because I knew how I felt but also how much I want to play it. In the end, though, I just can’t get behind that practice. Besides, RDR is coming down in price…
So, January 11th has come and gone. Bioware is announcing more free stuff for those who pre-order between now and March 8th. Everyone who already pre-ordered before or on Jan. 11th is getting even more stuff.
nice!!!
it’s going to be torture when that release date nears, I can’t friggin wait!
It’s good that existing pre-orders are also getting the new stuff. It would be most annoying to have to chose between two different bonus content sets. It’s bad enough when different retailers offer different bonuses.
Good to see that they are making it even more beneficial for early purchasers. I usually don’t pre-order my games but I simply have to with Dragon Age.
I don’t mind it so much except when a retailer I’ve never used offers something I want. I dislike opening new accounts or opening accounts I’ll hardly use.
It looks like I spoke to soon. It seems that a lot of UK Signature Edition orderers are getting screwed out of the two new items as detailed in this thread
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/5750005/1
I know it’s a long one. To be honest I don’t particulary care about the items themselves, but I still want them damn it. I would probably change my pre-order purely out of principle except it is no longer possible to order the signature edition. Hopefully they’ll sort it out.
http://dragonage.bioware.com/da2/demo/
DRAGON AGE 2 DEMO
The entire world stands on the brink of war, and you are the one person at the center of it all. On February 22, 2011, BioWare™ will release a demo for Dragon Age™ 2, allowing gamers on all platforms to experience a portion of this epic action RPG. Featuring enhanced graphics, faster, more responsive combat and a gripping storyline, the Dragon Age 2 demo is your chance to find out firsthand why IGN, Game Informer, MTV and The New York Times’ Seth Schiesel have endorsed Dragon Age 2 as one of the most anticipated games of 2011.
More info at link.
That’s a great way to demo the game! It sounds like whatever you do in the demo will carry over into the main game (thank goodness).
From Twitter:
RT @Livestream: LIVE NOW: Tune into @EA as @DragonAge 2 Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw is giving a preview of th… (cont) http://deck.ly/~40ogb
Weirdly, I’m most excited by the fact that there will be an inventory at party camp/home. 
WOO! I never was able to manage my belongings very well.
The Keep DLC was almost mandatory.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/15/felicia-day-dragon-age-redemption/
Quote:
Day’s six-episode run, due to hit the Web this year, is set in Ferelden, the same fantasy land in which 2009’s Dragon Age: Origins and the upcoming sequel Dragon Age II play out. In the Tolkienesque sword-and-sorcery adventure game, several races join forces to combat a scourge called the Darkspawn (think of them as cousins to the orcs in The Lord of the Rings).
A peek at the Dragon Age II narrative shows Day wrote an original story line around a character for herself, Tallis, an Elven assassin.
“Tallis is headstrong, she fights dirty, and she has a really sarcastic sense of humor,” she says. “I wanted to bring a modern sensibility to a fantasy character in a fantasy world.”
Tallis goes on a quest to capture a renegade magician. Along the way, she gathers her own fellowship. “She can’t accomplish her mission alone, so finding allies is tricky,” Day says. “The success or failure of the mission will have a big impact on her future and her freedom.”
Filming took place over a dozen days last month in the L.A. area, with Independence Day associate producer Peter Winther as director and John Bartley (Lost) as cinematographer. “They are going to take this a step above what we have seen on the Web before,” says Day, who also co-produced Redemption.
That sounds pretty darn cool.
Re: The Keep DLC
I never bought any of the DLCs for DA, if only because it took me so long to finish the game the first time around! (I’m still in my second playthrough, but am maybe 60% finished).
This needs to be spread around. Like Random News. Does Felecia have her own thread like Summer?
The keep is only about 1.5-3 hrs to do. I’ve done it so many times now that I can speed through the cutscenes. The extra space is very much worth it for the time invested, but I dunno for the cost.
No, but all her projects do.