BioWare Gets Cupcakes...What Should We Get Square Enix?
Mass Effect 3Okay, so it's probably never going to end. Despite BioWare saying they'll try to address fan complaints about the ending fiasco, the fans still think they need to be heard.
And so, as revealed at the official Retake ME3 website, the ardent followers raised over $1,000 so they could send 400 cupcakes to BioWare's Edmonton offices. No, seriously. They did. 96 people donated and the organizers explained:
"As fans, we want Bioware to do right by us, and fix the endings for Mass Effect 3. But we also want to let Bioware know, that we trust them, and have faith in them. Bioware has been slammed by negativity from all sides in the last few weeks. This is our way, as fans, to drive our message home, but in a (literally) sweet way. We want Bioware to add some more 'sweet' to their 'bittersweet' ending. What better way to do this than with CUPCAKES :-D."
Well, isn't that...sweet. Now, what do the Final Fantasy fans get for Square Enix? We don't want a new ending for a particular game, we're not even sure what we want, but perhaps old-school fans would all agree on one big-ass cupcake that reads: BRING BACK SQUARESOFT! ...you know, or something to that effect. It's interesting to note this backlash from the die-hard Mass Effect fans and compare this to the bitterness of Final Fantasy fans throughout this generation. Perhaps the ME fans can be described as a good deal more whiny, but they're certainly determined.
So who wants to set something up for our good friends at Square Enix? We'll send them something fun, but it has to have a message. We need to all agree on that message; perhaps a FFVII remake? A FFXV that actually feels like both a role-playing game and a Final Fantasy? No offense to the ME followers but if the FF fans unite, imagine what could be accomplished...forget the damn cupcakes, we'll raise enough to finance that damn FFVII remake! Well, all right, maybe not, but you get my drift.
Tags: bioware, mass effect 3, me3, mass effect 3 fans, mass effect 3 cupcakes
3/27/2012 8:35:31 PM Ben Dutka
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BikerSaint
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:02:55 PM
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laxpro2001
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:16:50 PM
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BikerSaint
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 5:07:39 AM
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Fane1024
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 8:30:48 AM
I saw someone (else?) using your demon dog picture as an avatar on another website. I'm not sure if you should be flattered or angry.
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BikerSaint
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 1:39:13 PM
Oh yeah?? Where???
I am signed up at tons of places & sites, & my user ID's at them might be a bit different than here, but each one will have the name "Saint" somewhere within my user ID.
Anyway, I guess I would've been flattered about the pic-jacking, but I actually purloined it myself, many, many, moons ago, so I know there was at least 1 other person that used it.
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Fane1024
Friday, March 30, 2012 @ 2:14:49 AM
I don't know which site it was; I got there via a link and only noticed the comment because of the picture. The person's pseudonym was nothing like "Saint" or I would have assumed it was you.
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Riku994
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:04:07 PM
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On the note of Square Enix, they never did answer your questions you sent them, did they Ben?
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laxpro2001
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:15:57 PM
Its been over 6 years... or at least close to that. I believe it came out in March of 2006
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:43:01 PM
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FatherSun
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:09:47 PM
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laxpro2001
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:20:16 PM
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laxpro2001
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:14:01 PM
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Pandacastro
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:23:52 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:30:01 PM
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Palpatations911
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 11:33:42 PM
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VampDeLeon
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:31:10 PM
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Arvis
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 10:16:38 AM
-Arvis
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:32:29 PM
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If Bioware fixes Mass Effect 3 I will buy it.
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:42:42 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:50:06 PM
After release we all prayed it was just some big mistake and SE would fix things next time. After all, Versus looked great. Then XIV went live and sucked hard, Versus got shelved, XIII-2 was born out of a strange and terrible idea to make more money. Now that one needs to "be continued" it's a long and painful death.
It just seems the franchise has received many many coffin nails over the last 6 years while Mass Effect just had one big hiccup.
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VampDeLeon
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 11:13:53 PM
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Excelsior1
Thursday, March 29, 2012 @ 8:18:30 AM
I don't think any gift would work on Square's current leadership. Wait, I take that back....Microsoft's "gifts" sure the hell worked on Square.
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Jawknee
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 11:12:55 PM
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A dead fish.
=P
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Lenoxseer
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 11:17:05 PM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 12:52:06 AM
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SmokeyPSD
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 7:33:21 AM
Personally I think it's much better than being combative if you feel strongly enough to lean on executives.
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Noel_Kreiss
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 1:28:33 AM
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Beamboom
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 2:21:05 AM
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___________
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 3:45:56 AM
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as for $E best thing you can give them is a hearing aid and a rubber mallet!
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DrRockso87
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 9:08:12 AM
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Square wouldn't even care though. It's sad how far they've fallen.
Whenever someone asks me what game I love by Square this generation, it actually takes me a while to think of one. Last generation and the generation(s) before that wasn't the case.
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oldmike
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 4:28:22 PM
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it was less then a hour after the post with the idea and calling a bake shop for price that the cash for it came in
and as for the cup cakes
they are red, blue, and green but all taste the same
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oldmike
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 4:29:42 PM
so this went past gamer news
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saintaqua
Thursday, March 29, 2012 @ 1:25:03 PM
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Not that they'd read it.
How about everyone sends a yellow feather?
A World Map?
After playing Tales of Graces F I realized I really do want those old style RPGs with new features.
I don't know why that is so hard for them to understand.
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FxTales
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 9:52:26 PM