MEA email survey - anyone?

Oh wow, I just noticed all your work here crashsuit

Yeah typically with these query strings in the URL, only the relevant parts will mean anything to the survey collector. So your 'N64' and 'HOW_BOUT_THEM_APPLES' as funny as they are simply won't match anything and will be ignored. Depending upon how they have it set up, that may cause your entire response to be thrown out, or they may accept the response but flag it into a 'suspect data' category... because trust me you are not the first nor only person to muck around with query strings.

As for the UID accepting negative numbers and alphanumerics, bleh, sloppy error handling there. They should really only accept digits in their valid range (so 1 to some reasonable positive integer, not negatives, not alphas). You could try to inject code maybe, or some other attack, but that gets into hacking so pretend I never wrote this....

Dammit Bioware I thought you were trans-friendly!

IMHO, everyone knows and sees why. Saying that you don't know why is just wrong. ME3 had more talent, more planning, better design, less annoying features, more effort, more care, more space magic. I don't think it came down to money put into its development or some management decisions, no. It had more love for the characters, for enemies, for almost everything. Compared to it, MEA feels soulless, not completely, but generally. It is more flashy, some people like flashy things.

Why Mozart was a genius who wrote music that overwhelms everyone for centuries and Salieri is largely forgotten? Why people buy and read and re-read Kapryshin's ME books and curse every time somebody mentions Dietz? I have mine copy of Deception with a bookmark on page 11 sitting on the shelf and I can't bring myself to continue. MEA multiplayer is one large Deception with shiny cover and messed up content.

We probably cannot put a single name behind ME3 while for some weird reason, for me, Billy is the one who is strongly associated with MEA multiplayer? IDK now and probably we'll never know unless some Kotaku or whatever will bother to write up some history at some point. And no, I'm not pointing fingers or trying to blame somebody for something that is not their fault. Lack of genius is not a fault but it cannot be compensated with hard work and careful thinking, it is still an art and should remain so until some AI finally takes over.

Seems they know they made a hash of things and trying to find a way out.

Questions are how you feel about:
Purchasing item packs in-game which contain random multiplayer items
Purchasing item packs in the Xbox/PS4 or Origin PC store which list the multiplayer items they contain
Item packs that offer a greater likelihood to find a premium item, but that are more expensive than standard packs
Ability to buy a specific item, but at a higher price point than an item pack