Rally your allies for this weekend’s Operation Raptor by promoting at least two characters to your single player campaign. All promotions will result in an increased N7 rating.
- Allied Goal: Promote 150,000 characters. Victory Packs awarded to all players upon successful completion.
- · Individual Goal: Promote 2 characters. Commendation Pack awarded to individual players upon successful completion
Commendation Packs will be awarded to individual soldiers who complete their training and a Victory Pack will be awarded to everyone if the Allied Goal is achieved. Packs will be available to download the following week.
Additionally, a 10% XP bonus will be applied during this timeframe! Now’s the time to shoot for two level 20 characters and build up your N7 rating with this weekend with Operation Raptor!
Creston wrote on Mar 29, 2012, 11:08:Well you haven't bought every variety of razer hardware that comes with ME3 codes now have you
I also enjoy trying out different specs from time to time, and since I NEVER get respec cards from my fucking Spectre packs (whereas others have like 18 of them), promoting's the only way I can respec.
Creston
Question, what does it mean "Promote 2 Characters"? Promote at least two characters to your single player campaign? I'm lost.
Every time you promote a toon, you get a small bump in your N7 multiplayer rating. There are 6 classes iirc (soldier/sentinal/adept/engie/infiltrator/vanguard) with a max level of 20 meaning the highest your N7 rating can possibly be is 120 (6 maxed 20's). So when you see nuts running around with 200-300 N7 rating, these people have ground out characters and promoted them like nuts.
Of course, all the benefits of long term play (more unlocks, better weapons, non human characters) exist and clearing a 20 means that every time you get the same character unlocked, you don't waste all that XP, but still, way to create a hamster wheel. I play the MP mode because it's fun but I couldn't be f#cked buffing my already over the top SP readiness score...
jacobvandy wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 22:31:
Don't think anybody in their right mind would be persuaded to buy the game based on this stuff, but overall I enjoy the MP moreso than I did the campaign, so I think it's kind of cool. Haven't been playing for a while, though, outside when they have an event like this.
Anybody know if you have to promote two characters specifically during this timeframe? I've already done at least one.
Kajetan wrote on Mar 29, 2012, 02:22:Rilcon wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 23:16:It matters to retailers. If a game collects dust on the shelves they will order less from this type, series, even publisher in the future. And the big retailers can send unsold copies back to EA. No sale, no money.
Shipped or Sold doesn't matter much to EA.
Dev wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 22:38:Careful you might expose an ea Viral Marketer.
Edit:
Are you sure of that number? A quick google says they've SHIPPED about 3.5 million copies, which is not the same as SOLD.
jacobvandy wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 22:31:
Anybody know if you have to promote two characters specifically during this timeframe? I've already done at least one.
Rilcon wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 23:16:It matters to retailers. If a game collects dust on the shelves they will order less from this type, series, even publisher in the future. And the big retailers can send unsold copies back to EA. No sale, no money.
Shipped or Sold doesn't matter much to EA.
Asmo wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 23:34:Because the bit you quoted starts with a Q. Notice how its missing the Q and says "uestion" ? Thats because the code for quote has a bracket followed by a Q. So it thinks that ] q means close quote.
edit: I have no idea what happened to the formatting, looks right in the edit pane... = \
Rilcon wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 23:16:It certainly does matter. It matters for future sales, future franchise health, the size of the actual fan base out there, vs how many copies are gathering dust at gamestop.
Shipped or Sold doesn't matter much to EA. They're a publisher, not a platform holder; whether the retailers they sold the copies to can peddle them off or not doesn't matter all that much (except for potential DLC sales and future retailer interest, of course).
The Half Elf wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 23:19:
Question, what does it mean "Promote 2 Characters"? Promote at least two characters to your single player campaign? I'm lost.
Dev wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 22:38:Parallax Abstraction wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 22:35:Dev wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 21:54:
You'd almost think they were desperate to get more players and/or sales by how often they are doing these things.
The game's sold over 4 million and the multiplayer population on 360 is packed, as some friends also tell me it is on PC. It's doing fine.
Ok, I was just saying the first thing I thought of when I saw this. You are right, if its sold 4 mil, its doing just fine.
Edit:
Are you sure of that number? A quick google says they've SHIPPED about 3.5 million copies, which is not the same as SOLD.
Parallax Abstraction wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 22:35:Dev wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 21:54:
You'd almost think they were desperate to get more players and/or sales by how often they are doing these things.
The game's sold over 4 million and the multiplayer population on 360 is packed, as some friends also tell me it is on PC. It's doing fine.