[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by briz1046

In theory I agree with you , however the way This one was done is the reason to believe that marketing had some call over this If it was simply a matter of getting feedback all they needed to do was select the participants by whatever criteria they chose and announce it to those people The fact is though that it has been used to promote you tube channels , Twitter accounts and so on , often discussed as little more than a chance to play the game early or demo Not saying this necessarily to be critical , EA is a business whose purpose is to make money for it's stockholders , but to deny that this has been used as a marketing tool is in my mind naive

Sure, there was some marketing to it, but Steve was handing them out randomly here at OS.

OS is a niche market and I don't see OS as a place to market and I don't feel Steve was using it as marketing tool, either.

As the poster said above me, I don't really think it's that big of a deal.