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[phrizek]

I touched upon this in another thread, but it bears repeating here, in greater detail. A number of companies have, in the past, gone back to address the criticisms levied at their games by fixing and upgrading those games, sometimes overhauling them completely. Divinity 2 comes to mind, where it was re-released in a new package with updates and fixes. CD Projeckt RED went above and beyond when they released their Enhanced Edition update to The Witcher for free, which dramatically overhauled and improved a buggy game. I also recall the developers of Hydrophobia completely retooled their game with their Hydrophobia Pure update, which fixed many of the problems reviewers were concerned about. I am sure there are plenty of other examples as well.

Judging by its reception on the internet (see metacritic, reddit, Amazon’s sales charts, and any game forum for people’s opinions on the game), it is clear that Dragon Age II has been a PR disaster for Bioware. A lot of people have lost faith in a company that at one point could do no wrong. I know that I personally will never pre-order another Bioware game that isn’t called Mass Effect 3. Simply put, with the launch of DA2, Bioware has lost a lot of its luster. Let’s not kid ourselves about this.

So now the question remains as to how Bioware will respond. Should they own up to their mistakes and release a fix pack that addresses some of the issues people have about the game? I'd imagine that at the very least, such an update should retool the game to get rid of all of the recycled environments, replacing them with new, unique ones, as well as fix many of the bugs in the game. Perhaps get rid of the junk loot system that serves no purpose other than to take up inventory space until you reach the next shop. Releasing such an update would go a long way towards mending Bioware’s now-tattered image in the eyes of consumers.

Is such a thing too much to ask for? Many lesser studios have done more for their fans. I think Bioware should seriously consider such an action before inundating us with loads of dlc that do nothing to address the fundamental problems of this game.

Discuss.

Modifié par phrizek, 16 mars 2011 - 07:04 .

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