Hey, it might not be clear, but console versions of Dragon Age 2 are eligible. So if you have DA2 for PS3 like me you can still take advantage of this and get ME2 for PC for free, even if you already own it for 360 like me...
I think this is awesome. If EA is going to continue to break down the barriers between the platforms, they have totally won me over.
Um, we already have been hearing tons about Dragon Age 2, and DA:O came out only a couple months before ME2. So there's no validity to an argument that it's too soon.
I did not idle to gain gold at all, I simply played normally, did all the quests available before becoming king and got married a couple times. With proper real estate management you can make over 100k/tick easy. More to the point, since I don't think you can easily hit 6.5m without donating any money at all, its practically a given that the player will probably have to donate some amount at some point to hit that goal. The problem is that the player is "tricked" just as you say into believing they still have more time to do so. Nobody wants to play a game for 20 hours or more and then be "tricked" into a bad ending they don't feel they deserve and can't undo.
Personally I had over 10 million when I became king, so I immediately donated it all to the treasury (1 million at a time..). Then proceeded to keep all of my promises etc, and save the world at the end. But, I don't understand your point at all. The game tells you that donating from your own savings is a viable strategy, in fact I don't think the decisions alone will put you up to 6.5m. So, I don't see how the moral decisions are relevant to this discussion at all. But, if this game is about making the player feel the impact of the moral choices they make, why does it suddenly decide to mislead the player and make them feel like they had no control over events at all? Seems contrary to me. However, I'm positive this was simply an oversight, and completely unintentional.
Your Hero weapons ONLY morph when you take the upgrades on the RtR. Each upgrade morphs a particular part of the weapon (or it's aura). The morph is picked at random from the morphs you qualify for, so if you reload you can get a different one. For this reason it might be worth while to hold off upgrading until the end of the game. To be honest, the weapon/morphing system seems poorly designed to me.
I think Brad maybe let it color his opinion of the game as a whole a bit more than he should have, but the problem IS as bad as he makes it out to be. A player could have 30 million in their personal vault and be prepared to donate it all to the royal treasury but isn't given the chance because the game jumps the shark. The game actually has a ton of major issues that could be resolved just by giving the player a more sensible save system. I myself had a family disappear on me (still showed up in UI but the NPCs themselves were no where to be found, even after moving them to another home, I could not even divorce the spouse), felt like my world was broken and made me want to start over.
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