N7 Day 2017 - The Thank You Mass Effect Campaign

~1 week to go until N7 Day

There's now an associated specific Tumblr blog/sideblog for the campaign that you can find here (launch post; FAQ post).
You can follow it if you feel so inclined!

That blog is where Tumblr posts made to the #thankyoumasseffect tag on Tumblr will be collected and reblogged; where N7 Day fanworks like art etc that are made for/posted to the tag on Tumblr will be reblogged; where queries etc about the campaign can be directed (this thread or PM etc is fine too though, whatever); where 'submissions' to the campaign (i.e. messages with your relevant sentiments) can be submitted for posting via the askbox or submitting. **

If you don't have Tumblr / don't want to use Tumblr, that's cool! we know not everyone uses tumblr and we're happy to do the crosspost/legwork for you, you can just post it here as you have been doin already (See below)

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** In addition to this: on there we think it would be nice to collect posts and comments made elsewhere on other platforms on the subject of the campaign, like posts made here on BSN for example, to post them there to form a 'gallery' of sorts. Like, if Bob the BSN poster had made or makes a post to this thread saying "I love Mass Effect. My favorite moment was This. My best memory of playing it is That. thanks mass effect!", we'd like to collect all of those together in one place. Quote it or screenshot it etc. And post it to the blog [with your permission, and with a sourcelink provided]. 

So what I'm asking on that subject then, is two things-
1. if you've already made a post like that in this thread, would it be okay with you for us to cross-post it to the 'gallery' as described here?   I'll PM people to ask them individually too. nothing would be xposted w/o permission and nobody is under any obligation to let us do so.
2. please continue to make such posts to the thread, in the runup to N7 Day and around N7 day itself   we can feed it all into the 'gallery', and have a nice collection of everything in one place. if you wanna do this but aren't sure what to write, here's some prompts; what drew you to Mass Effect/how did you get involved with the series? What about it are you thankful for? What are some of your favorite moments? What's your best memory associated with it? #allthefeelsuh

I hope this post makes sense. Sorry my explanation and phrasing is all over the place, I have a real bad headache today. 

Thanks

I can say unabashedly that the Mass Effect games are my favorite games. Period. Full stop. Back when I was a wee nipper attending college, my best friend had an xbox 360. I had zip interest in playing console games or anything that wasn't a certain monolithic MMO (and I didn't even play much of that. Time was too short and games were too dumb! Or so I thought). But I was hanging out, watching him start a Mass Effect game. And the creator blew me out of the water. I hadn't seen anything like it. AND THEN HIS CHARACTER ANIMATED AND MOVED AND INTERACTED WITH OTHER CHARACTERS. WHAT SORCORERY WAS THIS?

Of course, I had to try it for myself. And then I discovered female Shepard. He got first dibs on Mass Effect 2 when it came out (since, you know, it was his game). But that was another wild ride. Every conversation with Mordin was pure gold. And 3 just blew me away. I don't know if I'd say that I love the endings, because I still don't, but I love the visual, active nature of Control with Shepard struggling to hold onto this device that's tearing her apart. That's the good stuff; it's a punch right in the tear ducts. And I love Andromeda. The Tempest is beautiful, and I enjoy walking around it. I like being a green kid struggling to keep everything together.

And I love Mass Effect. For what it is, for what it's gotten me into over the years, for the conversations I've had about it, for all the games I've played, for all the times I've gnawed my controller in vexation, and for vanguard charge.

Mass Effect is my #1 space sci-fi franchise. It's the reason I even wrote my own books (which I may get back into at some point, just don't have the time anymore since I graduated and work).

How did I find mass effect? Funny enough me and a friend are big into shooters and sports games, one day we simply got bored and headed to a store (not a game store either, just a general store that happened to have a small rack of games it'd sell) where I looked at the case of mass effect. Unfortunately it wasn't co-op but I played it myself. That's when the journey began 😁

I fell in love with the introduction right away and the dialogue was great since shooters and such don't tend to have you picking choices. I beat it then got mass effect 2 right away. The experience just kept going, ME2 put more emphasis on the characters and I grew attached to those who were returning members. I then beat 2 and got all the DLC right after and upon finishing arrival I looked up mass effect 3 and I was only 6 months away from its release(should tell you I became a fan relatively late into the franchise, 2011 late). So out comes mass effect 3 and all I had was 😭😭😭 as it was EMOTIONAL!! Game had a kick for that and it was great. I grew further attached to returning members. The story was pretty good too, showed the reapers capabilities, your perception on a losing war and just complete destruction. I wasn't to happy with the ending itself but then citadel DLC comes out and more emotion comes into play. It really was one hell of a ride and I'll never forget it, it legit brings tears to me now thinking on those feelings playing them for the first time lol. To me that shows the developers know what they're doing when they can give you those feely feels that mass effect 3 gave me.

Skip forward to Andromeda and present and my interest is still here, I want more mass effect as it's one of the few special franchises that I enjoy and love. I coman literally give page upon page on mass effect but I'm trying to really keep it as short as I can. So happy N7 day (when it comes) to everyone.

That's how I discovered ME as well it ewas mentioned on a website I happened to be a member of and someone recommended ME to me so I checked it out and watched a few vids and was impressed by what I saw so decided to give it a try and managed to get both ME1 and ME2 for about £15 best bargain of my life I think because I fell in love with the games pretty much immediately. Still to this day I'm still doing several playthroughs a year. In fact will likely be doing another one soon as I have a couple more Shep's planned.

I'm honestly not thrilled with what N7 day will bring us. Prolly just another "gaming for charity" event, with some words from Mike Gamble or Casey Hudson. Nothing big.

Not at all! 😊

linksocarina that's awesome.

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1 Day to go!

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#thankyoumasseffect

I don't use twitter or tumblr .This is the only forum i lurk Can i add my thank you Bioware piece?

I started gaming because i wanted to be a captain, In Star Trek Online back in 2010. Since i jumped straight into MMOs world, I couldn't play any single player games because I hated not having a chat to spamm live. My World came apart in 2015 , when my boyfriend - after years of asking me to at least give a try to games he played - wasn't able to play MMos with me due to work schedule. Out of boredom, I fired up Dragon Age Origins - after seeing a clip of Flemeth and Morrigan in DAI. Useless to say that I literally became an addict for almost one year. So, the next thing for me to do, try the other Bioware franchise. Oh well, new addiction. I never cry at movies , but seriously, ME3 ending had me whimper like a baby. Mordin's death, Grunt trying to hold back the rachni and when i thought i-ve lost him, Thane's sacrifice , Virmire and many many other situations made me cry and laugh . Thank you Bioware ! Now i became a lore expert and buying merchandise as a crazy hoarder. No regrets!

I got into ME since it was announced at X05 in 2005. At the time Bioware was riding high with NWN, KOTOR, and Jade Empire. So Bioware getting into Sci-Fi was a huge deal.

Ah, those were the days.....

Happy N7 10 day, Solas and everyone!

I finished my offering just in time. I wish I had more time to edit, but here it is:

Shinobu that was masterful, well done you made me cry