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It's US-only Twitter contests and autions of sorts. Specifically, get tokens for registering your interest, registering ME2, DA:O and DA:A (or beating quizzes on them, yes it will be backdated), or winning Twitter contests. Use your tokens for bidding on swag such as PCs, games and merch. Oh, and New York and Florida is excluded. | |
maybe it was an intentional "joke" crash.... I dunno lol | |
This is why you never do this kind of thing; it just causes a flood of people and it ruins servers. | |
Sarcasm is more than a little hypocritical here, given the wonderful, hitchless performance of this site whenever a new Zero Punctuation is released... | |
How is a US exclusive prize auction an "Epic community event"? It doesn't only exclude the country where the company originated, but all the rest of the world, that's a pretty sizeable chunk of the community right there. Not to mention that something like this hardly needed a countdown. March Mayhem was announced well ahead of time to get people preparing, you'd think something like this would have the same response, they have just pissed off most non-Americans and everyone hoping for a new game/DLC announcement. Free Prizes are great and all, but that's a huge amount of exclusion and an insane amount of hype for something like this. | |
Ahh, so that's why it went to standard format when I tried to check it out a little while ago. Think, if I didn't visit the site, iy might still be up. Probably not, but might. | |
That is hilarious! Oh wow, I should feel bad for the many BioWare fans out there but I'm too busy giggling right now! | |
Hah, let's hope it wasn't a joke crash and that they actually got some news :P | |
Grrrr.... a US only contest where you can win free schwag. I want free stuff! | |
What? No Florida? I wasn't going to do the contests, but still. Why not Florida? It'd have made sense if it excluded Hawaii and Alaska, but New York and Florida? That's just completely senseless! | |
I enjoyed both Mass Effect games and Dragon Age, but I really don't care for Bioware so an announcement this "big" means nothing to me, even if it is sequels. | |
Which I am pissed about. Why can't New York participate? | |
Awesome to see that Bioware's home country gets neglected in the contest. Thanks guys no big deal. /sarcasm | |
The website seems to be working, but I see nothing in regards to the countdown. | |
Source. | |
I hadn't even thought about that, but that's pretty stupid... I can't see what's wrong with New York or Florida either.
There is a small banner on the Mass Effect site saying Bioware Bizarre, just below the 'home', 'universe' etc. sections. It took me a while to see it too. | |
Oh snap! Seriously though, at least the site doesn't melt! Bioware have a lot more moolah for this kind of thing too. | |
Does New York and Florida have some gambling laws the rest of America doesn't or something? | |
This contest is dependent on the sponsors providing the prizes, so it's out of BioWare's jurisdiction, really. | |
What. A. Troll. I salute you Bioware. | |
It's not such a big deal imo.Like Blizzard have done stuff like this for years. | |
someone didnt plan this out to much :P | |
This... Last I looked, BioWare, your head office was still just down the street from me...in CANADA.... | |
what's the probability it was nothing and it was all a hoax and the masses of people who visited at the 0 caused the site to do a DDOS like in operation tit-storm etc? | |
Thatīs BioWare efficiency for you; They new a week in advance that their site is going to crash and they even let us know about it (in a very cryptic manner, however). Nice. ...Right, next joke will be better, I swear. | |
At first I thought this was the point, it was not them messing with fans? | |
I called this about an hour ago. When I found out I was right, I entered a mix between bursting into laughter and A blank Expression on my face with my jaw on the floor. Although it's up and running now. | |
I knew the countdown wouldn't be anything cool. I live in the US and I don't give a shit. | |
Why the crap is this a twitter thing!? Guess I'll have to find someone I know that has a twitter account, though I'm not sure I do. | |
It turned out to be an auction for stuff. I really couldn't care less. Even if I did care I live in New York so I'm excluded. | |
Hehe this is incredibly hilarious. My day has been brightened even more. Still I hope that the actual secret is awesome. | |
Go down to their head office and grab yourself a free computer in protest. | |
I was there. It was, indeed, hilarious. The announcement itself, however... booooooring! "Epic community event" my ass. | |
Yeah, no kidding. Let's storm the place! I can see it now, a legion of annoyed gamers congregating there, except the ones without cars, who congregate at the West Edmonton Mall and get on bus #33 to Millgate. It shall be the 33 to Millgate OF DOOM! | |
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BioWare Countdown Ends, BioWare Blows Up - UPDATED
BioWare's mysterious countdown has come to an end in a rather unexpected but completely hilarious fashion: A complete meltdown of the BioWare website. (But now they're back and the real truth is revealed!)
The BioWare countdown first came to light late last week when a six-day countdown clock appeared on the studio's main site as well as the Dragon Age and Mass Effect websites. Speculation ran hot: Some suggested it could be the official opening of The Old Republic beta, while others called for a Mass Effect 3 announcement. But when the clock finally ticked to zero mere moments ago, we got something else entirely: A site crash.
Yes, that was BioWare's big moment: A big, fat kablooie. The official BioWare Twitter reported, "Servers crashed, huge views on our sites. Working to get them back up. Stand by ASAP."
Nice job, guys. Not that I want to be overly harsh about this, but I can't help but think that somebody should have seen this one coming. If you're going to start a big, super-secret countdown and get all the Dragon Age and Mass Effect fans worked up into a lather, then you should be ready when a bazillion of them are staring at your website waiting for zero hour. Otherwise, you end up looking just a little bit silly.
(And yes, we'll update with whatever the big secret is once BioWare gets its stuff together. Hopefully soon!)
UPDATE: BioWare is back and now, as promised, the real truth is revealed! To mark BioWare's 15th anniversary, the company is holding the BioWare Bazaar, a series of "mock online auctions" with more than 400 prizes on the block, ranging from stickers and posters to unique items like Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins branded PCs and Xbox 360s.
Instead of cash, the auctions will make use of tokens, which can be earned by signing up for BioWare's social site, registering games and responding to timed challenges posted on BioWare's Twitter feed. The first Twitter challenge is already up and it shouldn't prove too complicated: Just name your favorite Dragon Age: Origins character.
The auction action begins at 9 am PST on April 6 and runs until 4 pm PST on April 10. Unfortunately (and rather ironically, given that BioWare is based in Edmonton), the Bazaar is only open to residents of the U.S., minus Florida and New York, which I guess are kind of like the American equivalents of Quebec. Full contest rules, a complete list of prizes and all the other details you'll need to know are available at social.bioware.com.
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