The ME:A 'Story DLC Cancelled' Sinclair Networks Facebook hoax

I agree! No wonder Kallo is so precious!

Damn...this thing is already 40 pages deep?..... .....not gonna go back to either page 5 or 6 (where I posted) but i'm going to assume going by the last few pages that this was a huge hoax and all is well and balanced within the universe and the circle-jerk can commence..... .


Meh...people need to get a life, but not really surprising giving the age of the internet and to be fair i don't think everybody fell for it. It seemed like most of us was questioning the un-professionalism of thee entire scenario and was reserved until we heard something official.....haha and of course you have people that say "how could you fall for that?...it was clearly a hoax"..... ....AFTER THE FACT lol....good to hear tho....and regardless of how i feel about the game, it deserves some decent DLC.

Should I've added "in very controlled circumstances (so they can limit the fallout)"? Most of their remaining communication channels are mostly one-way or not geared towards long, thought out, replies. Twitter, FB, Instagram, etc., are not channels that invite discussion in the same way that a forum does. Of course, they also require less moderation.

also a lot.more 'diamond under a mile of bull shit' with a forum.

more or less.

Yeah when he quoted me with that dance, I said to myself "Wait until morning, hun. Wait until morning. Karma's coming for you! "

well put.

The thing was i remembered SN being mentioned in the same sentence as MEA before. And since bioware didn't say 'what who are these people?!' then, it gave the whole thing just enough credibility to be believable. And plus the fact is I personally wouldn't be surprised if bioware did cancel the dlc.

Still the fault was ours. We shouldn't believe any company saying they are working with bioware unless bioware says so. They'd make the announcement.

I wish I was this clever. I got duped by a Facebook Mass Effect Community post from Sinclair Networks announcing the first patch. Went over to their page and everything seemed legit...they had followers, posts before Mass Effect Andromeda that referenced other games, they talked to people in the comments...out in the open, unafraid. I lurked here but never saw anything about them so I created an account to bring it up since it seemed to be a missing piece, not realizing the piece was missing because it was nonexistent. I am glad though that an elaborate hoax got snuffed, an epic troll got epic karma, and BioWare is engaging their fans. That's it and that's all

That's the thing. They established themselves by posting something harmless first. Such as the first patch being released. So everyone would have heard the name but not in a controversial context. Nobody had any reason to question them being legit at that point. They established IMDB pages that crop up if you google for credentials. It was quite a lot of effort, but at the same time not really elaborate. Since they obviously came from Australia or NZ, they chose to place their company on the other side of the world, believing that most people here are Americans and noone would even bother to check in the first place. I wouldn't have done it either, if they had chosen an adress in some town in Nebraska.

What made me suspicious when looking at their FB page was the absence of the Bioware logo in the their made up portfolio. From there I noticed that the logos weren't clickable, which is highly unusual, since every company likes to brag about what they done for these people. What also gave me pause was the 0800 number for a company. So I looked at the phone book, and when that didn't turn up any results I made my two calls.

I have to say, if I had seen that Kellar character first, I would have instantly run a check. Too much bragging for some serious businessman, but no new posts after april. No friends, no links, no nothing. That one screamed fake account.