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This DLC pack free or not?

Now that's a good question. But I assume it will be - for doing anything else would split the playerbase into people who have it and people who don't due to version incompatibility. Also, for now BioWare seems content to make money by selling credits to use on their ingame store lottery.

Lynata wrote:Now that's a good question. But I assume it will be - for doing anything else would split the playerbase into people who have it and people who don't due to version incompatibility. Also, for now BioWare seems content to make money by selling credits to use on their ingame store lottery.

Hell, I admit it. I've dumped leftover MS points into buying a pack or two.

Or three.

Let's stop there.

But they could make a lot more money off of impatience than charging for the new Packs.

Hmm... never thought of that. How nefariously brilliant. Actually... not nefarious at all really, since just by doing well and making in game cash you don't have to pay a cent.

But naturally, some of us will be tempted to drop a few bucks on getting some of those new shinies to try out...

Yeah.. about that.. *pulls collar* I might have brought a couple. *cough*Twelve*cough*

I would hazard the guess that it's free; simply because it would have leaked far earlier if it had a price coming.

I can't believe you guys bought virtual booster packs. Oh well, more free DLC for the rest of us because of it I guess. Us frugal gamers owe you.
Think if i just buy a whole bunch of recruit packs I can get that acheivement for a level 10 gun pretty quickly?

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:

Lynata wrote:Now that's a good question. But I assume it will be - for doing anything else would split the playerbase into people who have it and people who don't due to version incompatibility. Also, for now BioWare seems content to make money by selling credits to use on their ingame store lottery.

Hell, I admit it. I've dumped leftover MS points into buying a pack or two.

Or three.

I did once to see how it went, and would never consider doing it again since the in-game store has started it's nasty little habit of occasionally not processing a purchase, throwing an error message, and eating your credits. That's happened to me 3 times now.

Ouze wrote:

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:

Lynata wrote:Now that's a good question. But I assume it will be - for doing anything else would split the playerbase into people who have it and people who don't due to version incompatibility. Also, for now BioWare seems content to make money by selling credits to use on their ingame store lottery.

Hell, I admit it. I've dumped leftover MS points into buying a pack or two.

Or three.

I did once to see how it went, and would never consider doing it again since the in-game store has started it's nasty little habit of occasionally not processing a purchase, throwing an error message, and eating your credits. That's happened to me 3 times now.

Did you phone Microsoft? They'll reimburse you. It's a pain in the ass but still. (assuming you're on xbox)

I've contacted EA with various levels of success, there's a thread here. I'm on the PC but it seems to affect every platform.

Sometimes, "unprocessed" purchases are still processed - the stuff just shows up in your inventory even though you won't notice. It's how I got my Asari Adept. <3

So ... take a stroll through your guns and characters after a purchase failed. Just in case.

And yeah, I think the number of people willing to spend real money on packs in the store is the reason for why they're likely continueing to release these DLC for free. Works for me.

OMGzzz bros and brahs,

I unlocked the Quarian Infiltrator the other day. I gave it whirl. It's so much fun. Keep in mind at this point I'm still credit farming, so almost only playing Firebase White/Geth/Gold. I only arm her with a Hurricane which I barely even use; I spend the whole game just spamming sabotage and hijacking Geth. My DPS is so much higher, I almost always end in second place now (instead of dead last). She's pretty fragile but hijacking Geth Primes over and over and over again is awesome. The only real hard part is making sure you pick the right targets: Rocket Geth are best (since they can one-shot a lot of Geth), Primes are ideal (but make sure you don't grab their drone!), Pyros can work if they are all clumped up, and Assault Geth are better than nothing. I don't bother trying to get Hunters, it seems like they are nearly immune to it.

It's fun hijacking, but one problem I seem to have is the noobs I'm grouped with don't know something is hijacked, then they shoot it and it's not hijacked anymore :( It's a lot of fun on cerebus missions though. Hijack a turret and cackle with glee as it cuts down the engineer that just placed it

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Yeah.. about that.. *pulls collar* I might have brought a couple. *cough*Twelve*cough*

Heh....yeeeahhhhh my combined Spectre and Premium Spectre pack purchases with real money are somewhere north of 40. I'm......not proud of that.

Necros wrote:It's fun hijacking, but one problem I seem to have is the noobs I'm grouped with don't know something is hijacked, then they shoot it and it's not hijacked anymore :( It's a lot of fun on cerebus missions though. Hijack a turret and cackle with glee as it cuts down the engineer that just placed it

Or hijack the Atlas in the middle of a pack of Atlases...

The ended ruined the game for me, spent years building up this best senario with peace between Geth and Quarians.

I romanced Tali in ME 2 and ME 3, all for nothing. Saved Geth and Quarians, all for nothing.

Tali is now siting on a deserted planet with only Garrus and Joker.

The only thing that kept me from throwing my monitor out the window was the fact that my Shepard lived. Well, time to go find that Garden World and get my Girlfriend back.

btw, feeling like crap now because Legion sacrificed himself to save his people for nothing.

Oh and that whole War between Synthetics and Organics? Owait? I saved Geth and Quarians!

this game

It was your choice to kill the Geth in the end.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:It was your choice to kill the Geth in the end.

There was not other choice, I had to destroy the reapers!

Not to mention the red ending is the only one were Shepard lives.

So, you chose between your Shep's survival and the Geth.

That is a choice.

Alexzandvar wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:It was your choice to kill the Geth in the end.

There was not other choice, I had to destroy the reapers!

Not to mention the red ending is the only one were Shepard lives.

Yes, but of course you did have a choice. You could have controlled the reapers and saved Geth and EDI. You choose yourself over them.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Alexzandvar wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:It was your choice to kill the Geth in the end.

There was not other choice, I had to destroy the reapers!

Not to mention the red ending is the only one were Shepard lives.

Yes, but of course you did have a choice. You could have controlled the reapers and saved Geth and EDI. You choose yourself over them.

I had full Paragon at the end, but there was no way in hell I was going to not come out of that alive. Not to mention best that the Geth and EDI are sacrificed and honored in memory than the threat of the Reapers continue to hang over the galaxies head.

Not to mention if Bioware is going to be a dumb child and contradict there own Lore and gameplay then I'm just going with the "bad and selfish red ending".

I don't see how they have contradicted themselves there. Can you elaborate?

Also, in theory, in the Control ending you could simply let all Reapers fly straight into the nearest sun. Same result as Destroy, but without any other synthetics being sacrificed.

I just re-played Mass Effect 1 after finishing the 3rd game, and while it certainly wasn't as refined when it comes to combat, it was *such* a better experience from a story-telling and expansiveness point-of-view.

The third game isn't 'bad' by any measure, but I feel that it was pretty obviously rushed.

Lynata wrote:I don't see how they have contradicted themselves there. Can you elaborate?

Also, in theory, in the Control ending you could simply let all Reapers fly straight into the nearest sun. Same result as Destroy, but without any other synthetics being sacrificed.

I made peace between the Geth and Quarians, but apparently according to them that's not possible.

Alexzandvar wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Alexzandvar wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:It was your choice to kill the Geth in the end.

There was not other choice, I had to destroy the reapers!

Not to mention the red ending is the only one were Shepard lives.

Yes, but of course you did have a choice. You could have controlled the reapers and saved Geth and EDI. You choose yourself over them.

I had full Paragon at the end, but there was no way in hell I was going to not come out of that alive. Not to mention best that the Geth and EDI are sacrificed and honored in memory than the threat of the Reapers continue to hang over the galaxies head.

Not to mention if Bioware is going to be a dumb child and contradict there own Lore and gameplay then I'm just going with the "bad and selfish red ending".

That's fine. There's no wrong choice. It's just wrong to say "I had no choice".


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Alexzandvar wrote:

Lynata wrote:I don't see how they have contradicted themselves there. Can you elaborate?

Also, in theory, in the Control ending you could simply let all Reapers fly straight into the nearest sun. Same result as Destroy, but without any other synthetics being sacrificed.

I made peace between the Geth and Quarians, but apparently according to them that's not possible.

And I made peace between the Krogan and the Turians. Therefore there will never be another war between two organic races. All organic races are the same just like all synthetic ones are.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Alexzandvar wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Alexzandvar wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:It was your choice to kill the Geth in the end.

There was not other choice, I had to destroy the reapers!

Not to mention the red ending is the only one were Shepard lives.

Yes, but of course you did have a choice. You could have controlled the reapers and saved Geth and EDI. You choose yourself over them.

I had full Paragon at the end, but there was no way in hell I was going to not come out of that alive. Not to mention best that the Geth and EDI are sacrificed and honored in memory than the threat of the Reapers continue to hang over the galaxies head.

Not to mention if Bioware is going to be a dumb child and contradict there own Lore and gameplay then I'm just going with the "bad and selfish red ending".

That's fine. There's no wrong choice. It's just wrong to say "I had no choice".


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Alexzandvar wrote:

Lynata wrote:I don't see how they have contradicted themselves there. Can you elaborate?

Also, in theory, in the Control ending you could simply let all Reapers fly straight into the nearest sun. Same result as Destroy, but without any other synthetics being sacrificed.

I made peace between the Geth and Quarians, but apparently according to them that's not possible.

And I made peace between the Krogan and the Turians. Therefore there will never be another war between two organic races. All organic races are the same just like all synthetic ones are.

But they say "Always", as in, no exception!

What the reapers say =\= the absolute truth. They are flawed like any other race.

I've been getting this "one of your purchases failed to process" bug all damn day. It's lame as hell.

Alexzandvar wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Alexzandvar wrote:I made peace between the Geth and Quarians, but apparently according to them that's not possible.

And I made peace between the Krogan and the Turians. Therefore there will never be another war between two organic races. All organic races are the same just like all synthetic ones are.

But they say "Always", as in, no exception!

"No exception" as in "it will happen eventually". In no way did they claim that it applies to specific species - they merely hold the opinion that eventually you will have synthetics trying to wipe out organics.

Which may still happen now that Shep has abolished the Cycles.

Maybe it happens in a thousand years. Or maybe it happens in ten thousand years. But if it happens, it will be SHEP who's to blame if organic life ends forever, because he/she made the call, argueing that it's worth the risk. That is the entire point of the ending: that life needs to take risks, that some things are worth chancing, and that the species of the galaxy need to take matters into their own hands instead of being a replacable part of a program set up countless millennia ago.

Ouze wrote:I've been getting this "one of your purchases failed to process" bug all damn day. It's lame as hell.

Ugh, that sucks. Still, check your stuff just in case any new toys smuggled themselves into your inventory!

Wait, wait people actually BUY the spectre packs with real world $£? I thought the entire point you would play a horde based online game for more than a few times was to actually earn the credits, its the ANTICIPATION that keeps you playing (its why all decent MMORPGs survive).

If you have a competent team play as salarian/quarian infiltrator/engineer on firebase white against geth, easy 70k credits. asari adept against cerberus on dagger works pretty well too. (i havnt had too much experience with the new classes)

It's the idea of the impulse buy.

You primarily saw a spike in it when the Premium Spectre Packs were labeled as "SPECIAL" and had a time limit as to how long they were available.

Some of the folks I played with would snag "just one" before the time limit wore off if they didn't have the credits to grab one, using spare MS Points they had from the last time they got DLC or whatever for other games.

It's sneaky, underhanded, and brilliant.