Well considering it was made here we should be getting a launch here.
Agreed. Paris was cancelled due to some technical issue. Possibly the same thing for Canada, couldn't get permission to launch weather balloons-i.e. they have to contact flight control for permission to launch.
Interesting tech on this though. (No wonder it's so easy to track people with GPS devices.) I followed today's NY launch. It was launched from near Allentown, PA and you could track it from just after launch (when they turned on the GPS transmitter) to when it landed. All this on Google maps. Plus it gave altitude, latitude & longitude, speed. At the end I switched from Google map view to satellite view to be able to see that it landed in trees in someone's backyard. Top speed that I noticed was 156 kph and maybe a high altitude around of 23,000 meters (77000 feet). Once it hits a certain altitude up to 80,000 feet the balloon bursts and a parachute opens.
The San Francisco launch had 2 balloons, each with 10 copies (5 PS3 & 5 XBox). One was on a cliff and another way up in a tree. To go chasing these, you had to sign a waiver. I don't think either was recovered (last I heard).
The Los Vegas launch was late and they put 20 copies in it. Last I heard from some of the comments, it appears someone got to the package and took out 12 copies, didn't wait for BioWare's ground team, so only 8 copies were available for the 40 or so people who did show up.
The NY one only had 1 balloon launch with 2 copies in it. The team that got it, just followed the BioWare tracking team.
Someone on the forum suggested a better idea. That they should have hidden copies in the cities or towns and did a GeoCache hunt for them. Which sounds like it would have been fairer and more likely to succeed with less problems.
Google map view.
Switched to satellite view for the landing - rich neighborhood, looks like almost everyone has an inground pool. It landed in New Jersey, just west of the Hudson River, the New Jersey/New York State line.
