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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:26:10 GMT
I figured I'd check the bug reporting thread here, and lo-and-behold several people have stated the EA PHONE SUPPORT told them to come here. W.T.F. guys. If that's how it is, then the EA and Bioware employees who lurk these threads need to stop lurking and prove they are paying any attention at all to this forum and close down answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-Andromeda and migrate that S*** over here. This is true utter nonsense as far as I'm concerned, because what should happen is that they should replace the total s***box that is EA ANSWERS HQ with a useful forum remarkably LIKE THE ONE THEY SHUT DOWN. Update - FWIW bsn.boards.net/thread/4529/multiplayer-technical-bug-feedback-structured?page=10bsn.boards.net/thread/4/introduce-forum-members-bioware-forums?page=108It's probably not official policy and someone at EA or EA's Support Subcontractor will probably eventually find that their salary continuation plan needs rethinking, after they find that they really should have purged all the emails with links over here. Also, although it's a little bonkers considering the investment in this game I'm not quite sure how much I think this is actually bad. It's like making the best out of a bad situation, but still completely unnecessary nonsense?
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Post by xaijin on May 3, 2017 16:29:58 GMT
yyyep.
The mean old meanies who told reddit to take their marketing hugbox and fuck off and makes BW employees sign multiple "show me where the internet triggered you" forms per day is EA's go to troubleshooter.
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Post by Bzilla024 on May 3, 2017 16:30:13 GMT
Did you try restarting your machine?
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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:30:39 GMT
Maybe, just maybe, EA Answers should stop trying to get the community (who can't ever fix technical bugs for the dev team) to do their support team's work, and should have real EA/Bioware employees doing the job they are paid for, you know: SUPPORTING AND MAINTAINING THEIR GAME.
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Post by dustin1280 on May 3, 2017 16:31:34 GMT
Are you serious? EA is actually telling people to go to an un-official forum for bug reports?
Meaning the devs are actively watching this forum.
If this is true that is some serious BS
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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:32:40 GMT
I don't think they are actively paying attention at all, except maybe to look for exploiters to ban. I think they are self-aware enough to realize that the solution they provided is complete shit and since support and devs are completely silent and the experts here are not they just send people over here knowing that it's probably to complete waste of the user's time, but at least the user isn't on their case anymore.
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Post by Sailears on May 3, 2017 16:35:38 GMT
Heh, it's both ridiculous bullshit and a joke, and then an extremely smart business move.
I'd guess EA simply don't want to pay for their own forums or in depth support, so get players to do it for free instead...
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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:37:00 GMT
Here's one post where the person was sent here.
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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:38:41 GMT
Heh, it's both ridiculous bullshit and a joke, and then an extremely smart business move. I'd guess EA simply don't want to pay for their own forums or in depth support, so get players to do it for free instead... No one here can fix a fucking thing in the code, so it's simply a complete trash move. It's also not a good business move, because it's fucking transparently shitty and literally prevent things from getting fixed. I've read a number of posts on Reddit and elsewhere that state unequivocally that the devs are ALSO super frustrated that they have no more real communications with their user base since EA ended the real BSN.
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Post by JRandall0308 on May 3, 2017 16:40:17 GMT
I'm actually going to call bullshit on this unless I see an email from EA with the following URL: bsn dot boards dot net Because there *is* actually a MEA support forum here: forums.ea.com/en/mass-effect/
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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:43:15 GMT
You have no idea how impossible that completely empty forum is to find, I suppose. I've been looking for an official forum for weeks and that site never showed up in EA-Answers or in any google search.
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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:44:33 GMT
At the very least they should be spamming links there from EA-Answers and the places that employees actually post. Or in the fucking MEA BLOG, for shit's sake. Honestly that just makes me more pissed off. There are over 25,000 posts in EA-Answers and less than 1000 in that forum you linked.
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Post by JRandall0308 on May 3, 2017 16:45:04 GMT
I found it in 30 seconds from dub dub dub dot massefect dot com
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Post by Pyrceval78 on May 3, 2017 16:46:38 GMT
My search for official forums is what lead me here originally as well, just saying. Nothing official came up from ye olde google.
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Post by Sailears on May 3, 2017 16:46:53 GMT
Heh, it's both ridiculous bullshit and a joke, and then an extremely smart business move. I'd guess EA simply don't want to pay for their own forums or in depth support, so get players to do it for free instead... No one here can fix a fucking thing in the code, so it's simply a complete trash move. It's also not a good business move, because it fucking transparently shitty and literally prevent things from getting fixed. I've read a number of posts on Reddit and elsewhere that state unequivocally that the devs are ALSO super frustrated that they have no more real communications with their user base since EA ended the real BSN. That's the point - I'm saying (guessing) that EA don't care that the player base can't actually fix anything - it just offloads problems they don't want to deal with. Sure in the long run it is a stupid move because players will become discontent with lack of support which could affect sales or whatever, but they've probably made all the wanted to from MEA anyway. And finally yes I would imagine some devs themselves do care for their product and would like to do more.
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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:47:13 GMT
I found it in 30 seconds from dub dub dub dot massefect dot com There are over 25,000 posts in EA-Answers and less than 1000 in that forum you linked, so you ARE an outlier. Hell, this fucking forum easy eclipses BOTH. The two top read threads here have as many reads as the those other two have posts.
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Post by JRandall0308 on May 3, 2017 16:49:36 GMT
I'm not saying the real forums are worth anything, I'm saying they exist and are easy to find with rudimentary web navigation skillz.
Also still waiting for proof that EA is actually directing people HERE.
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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:51:58 GMT
No that's the bullshit part, and dozens or hundreds of people HERE will tell you they found this forum while looking for the official one and not finding it.
You won't get proof from phone support self-reporting so keep looking. I believe that person, but why don't you PM them and put them to the question yourself.
Again, you ARE THE OUTLIER and as such your experience is cannot be generalized to the general population.
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Post by JRandall0308 on May 3, 2017 16:53:33 GMT
The person making the claim is responsible for providing the proof. I'm not a fucking investigative journalist.
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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:54:56 GMT
Bullshit. I quoted the post so my investigation is done and that's enough proof for me. You want more, go do it yourself, outlier.
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Post by JRandall0308 on May 3, 2017 16:57:19 GMT
You made an outrageous claim (that EA is directing people here). The fact that you are the second person to make such a claim proves nothing. I thought the guy you quoted was full of shit also.
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Post by hanskey on May 3, 2017 16:58:41 GMT
No my "Claim" is that that guy says he was directed here by EA phone support, end of story. The timestamp clearly shows his post was made before mine and was what triggered me to make this thread.
Again, I don't owe you shit pal, so go beg someone else for treats.
This isn't the D&D sub-forum at PA, this isn't Reddit so save your "extraordinary claims need, blah, blah, blah" crap for someone who gives any kind of fuck about what you think or want. We heard you call bullshit and now you're just thread shitting. *move on*
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Post by JRandall0308 on May 3, 2017 17:04:08 GMT
You wrote:
So is it "several people" or the one guy you quoted?
*popcorn*
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