{"id":35118,"date":"2012-03-30T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T11:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=35118"},"modified":"2012-03-30T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T11:10:12","slug":"bioware-donates-mass-effect-3-protest-cupcakes-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/35118-bioware-donates-mass-effect-3-protest-cupcakes-to-charity","title":{"rendered":"BioWare donates Mass Effect 3 protest cupcakes to charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those 400 cupcakes gamers were planning to send to BioWare to protest the way Mass Effect 3 ended with a clever icing\/choice theme? They were sent to BioWare. Then BioWare sent them to charity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Rav9ijyyZk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"608\" height=\"100\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over on BioWare&#8217;s forums, community coordinator Chris Priestly explained that although &#8220;we appreciate creative and thoughtful&#8221; feedback from fans, &#8220;we decided ultimately the reason that they were sent was not done in the context of celebrating the work or accomplishment of the Mass Effect 3 team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BioWare regularly works with many deserving charities,\u00a0 as such it was decided that rather than passing out the cupcakes to staff or wasting good food, to donate them on behalf of our fans to a local Edmonton youth shelter,&#8221; added Priestly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that for the kids that have to use this facility, something as simple as a cupcake is a rare treat and would definitely brighten up their day. Thank you to the fine folks at the local youth shelter for accepting the donation and to the fans who donated the cupcakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s a happy ending, at least.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/social.bioware.com\/forum\/1\/topic\/323\/index\/10635792\/88\" target=\"_blank\">BioWare Social Network<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related article<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Gamers plot sending 400 cupcakes to BioWare in Mass Effect 3 ending protest\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34958-gamers-plot-sending-400-cupcakes-to-bioware-in-mass-effect-3-ending-protest.html\">Gamers plot sending 400 cupcakes to BioWare in Mass Effect 3 ending protest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mass Effect 3 \u2013 choose your own review (PS3)\" href=\"..\/pc\/34680-mass-effect-3-choose-your-own-review-ps3.html\">Mass Effect 3 \u2013 choose your own review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mass Effect 3 multiplayer stats revealed\" href=\"..\/news\/34386-mass-effect-3-multiplayer-stats-revealed.html\"><strong>Mass Effect 3 multiplayer stats revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mass Effect FPS was planned then canned\" href=\"..\/news\/34359-mass-effect-fps-was-planned-then-canned.html\">Mass Effect FPS was planned then canned<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BioWare keeping mum until more people finish Mass Effect 3\" href=\"..\/news\/34304-bioware-keeping-mum-until-more-people-finish-mass-effect-3.html\"><strong>BioWare keeping mum until more people finish Mass Effect 3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cupcake-based Mass Effect 3 ending protest diverted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":34972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,427,813,423,2761],"class_list":["post-35118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-bioware","tag-electronic-arts","tag-mass-effect-3","tag-mass-effect-3-ending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}