WvStolzing wrote...
A few more thoughts about the immutability of the artwork:
Shakespeare radically revised or even rewrote some of his most important works multiple times. We know this because some earlier editions got published without his permission.
There are 3 versions of Hamlet, of which the first is VERY different from the other two. You may want to google, for instance, for the earlier version of the 'to be or not to be' soliloquy: it's COMPLETELY different. It's also speculated, that there was an even earlier version, possibly co-written with another playwright.
King Lear, likewise, exists in two versions. Present-day editions (and performances) usually combine bits from all known editions; because i) Shakespeare himself never published his works; he never set down 'officially' what his 'exact intentions' were; and plays were likely being revised from performance to performance; and ii) the earliest publications (the unauthorized ones, and the first posthumously-'authorized' publication) are themselves heavy interpretations, that require further 'adjustments' along the way.
Romeo and Juliet is by far the most rewritten play of Shakespeares, maybe even the most of all time.
Its believed that he rewrote it 16 times. 5 of those 16 times were complete rewrites. Due to his patron being upset by the story, if I remember rightly from my creative writing class at Theatre School it had a happy ending to start with, but the lord he wrote it for wanted it to be bleak and wanted the main cast to die.
It was VERY common for playwrights to rewrite whole plays, even Marlow did it I think.
I think the modern culture of pressure and the inability to admit/accept your own and others failures has a lot to do with the lack of people changing their stories/ideas around to improve them.
Please remember people that we are not all perfect, the Mass Effect creators were under a hell of a lot of pressure to do ME3 very fast, I can believe it if they did a lot of 18+ hour days at times. The product they gave us had a hell of a lot of good things going for it and was enjoyed by almost or maybe all of us.
Yes they made a mistake with the end, but they cant fix this over night. I'm pretty sure the developers and everyone else to do with it want to make it so that more people are happy with the end and will change it. The choice to do it will come from higher up, so don't insult or harass people who are as eager to make this right as you.
As for the lack of communication, well they cant say yes we will redo it when they don't know if they can yet. I'd rather they say nothing (or very vague things) than have them say YES we will do it, just to come out and say whoops, we changed our minds.
Be cool, Be kind and don't let any one fall Behind.
Hold up on the line!!
P.S: - Sorry for the rantishness!!
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