cerberus1701 wrote...
GBGriffin wrote...
cerberus1701 wrote...
Meh. You got the game for free.
If the conspiracy theorists are to be believed, then you only got "half" of the endings, all of which paint a dark and grim ending instead of the "full experience" just because the company wanted to spite potential pirates and NDA breakers rather than actually reward you.
Well, since I know (and we have seen here) that people wipe their backsides with NDAs it's what I'd do with the game.
Again, it really comes down to which is more believable:
The fact that BioWare/EA/whomever decided "Hey, let's release an incomplete product that, if leaked, will surely ****** people off, but that's okay because we'll have taught people that piracy is wrong!" or the fact that they just wrote a poor script, "marketed" (read: lied through their teeth) it, and probably didn't expect this level of backlash prior to launch.
Again, what possible purpose does it serve to generate negative pre-release buzz over positive buzz? It only stands to hurt them. If piracy is, as you suggest, inevitable, why wouldn't they acknowledge this as a fact and make sure that, when it did got leaked, people spoke highly about it? That it included at least one happy ending, or more than Zaeed-esque dialogue? Why would they reward contest "winners" with a crappy version of the product? At what stage does teaching a few individuals a lesson about piracy trump actually successfully marketing a product?