First Mass Effect 3 space trips end up in the trees
The plan? Launch copies of the game into "space" via a high altitude balloon in several locations around the world. Fans could track the balloons' progress on the Mass Effect web site and if they were the first to retrieve the balloon when it landed they could keep the game.
Those plans got off to a shaky start on Thursday when EA released two balloons with copies of Mass Effect 3 from San Francisco. As reported by G4TV.com, the balloons made landfall later on Thursday in two rural and awkward locations south of the city. One landed in the high branches of a redwood tree while the other is reportedly on an inaccessible cliff.
BioWare was clearly afraid someone might try to get the Mass Effect 3 copies at the expense of their own lives. In a Twitter message from BioWare's David Silverman, he stated, "Balloon 1 is on a cliff somewhere or on top of a Redwood. Please do not kill yourself for these."
Today, another balloon took off from Las Vegas and has apparently landed somewhere in the desert south of the city. The official Mass Effect Twitter page has been keeping track and as of the writing of this post it looks like this package will in fact be retrieved by someone.
Tomorrow, two balloons with a Mass Effect 3 game package will launch in New York City, followed by two more from London on Monday and another two balloons in Berlin on Wednesday.
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Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/first-mass-effect-3-space-trips-end-up-in-the-trees
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BALLISTIC_SP00NPosted:
isoblueguy lmao fail! next it'll land on somebody's head in NY and cause a fatal injury.
that would be hilarious, yet sad.
K__APosted:
lol the next one lands in the ocian and someone tries to get in and gets eatin by a shark :P
DrGrimPosted:
anyone even been to ign.com lately? they sent two people out there to get a copy, they found both but i think i read it correctly wen it said they gave up on the one in the tree but got the one near the cliff
NinjaNoFearPosted:
Whoever will go to the cliff will be crazy i wonder if that game will stay on that cliff forever ?
-Robin-Posted:
Next thing you know, the top story in the news is going to be of someone dying by trying to get the a copy of a video game before its release...
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