ashayet_casis wrote...
Hello,
I like many of you, have never posted in these forums before – I prefer to sit and listen, so speak. However, like many of you, my unhappiness and disappointment has spurred me to add to the discussion going on here. It’s the apparent belief on the part of Bioware that the ending created “lots of speculation from everyone” that I really have a problem with.
To begin with, the idea that everybody is, or should be, ‘speculating’ about the ending right now shows a remarkable lack of understanding. In order to speculate about something, you must first have a solid base to extrapolate from – an idea, or a truth that you understand and that makes sense. What people are doing at the moment is desperately trying to find some understanding where there is none to be had, because nothing about the ending as it stands makes any sense in relation to the contents of the game. Without that understanding it is impossible to speculate, because there is no basic understanding of an idea to expand upon: people are feeling empty because there is simply nothing there of any substance.
We don’t have this basic understanding to build on because, apparently, we simple video game consumers didn’t need to know the answers to any of the rather essential questions we would have asked. How can we speculate on anything when the material required to do so is something we didn’t need to know?
Secondly, the insidious implication that this lack of understanding is somehow the fault of us, the consumer. The fundamental truth here is that when information is being communicated, the onus is on the person doing to the communicating to make sure that their audience understands what they are trying to tell them. It is the job of Bioware as the creator of a video game, an interactive product, to communicate the ideas behind and in the game to us effectively, so we can understand and enjoy the product. When a huge number of your consumers, from all ages, levels of education, nations and language groups simply don’t understand what you are trying to say to them, then it is your failure, not ours.
Finally, ending a trilogy that people cherished and invested in with a dialogue box saying ‘congratulations you beat the Reapers, now buy DLC’ is bordering on obscene, and is an insult to our intelligence.
Thanks.
this +1 agree 100%
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