I've read some spoilers, read some rage-posts and some people trying to calm their minds.
"Shepard dies."
The words describing the first minutes of ME2. The line we heard first.
So what happened then?
"My Shepard dies?!" Rage-storm and people trying to calm their minds.
Then:
"Shepard will be the main-character of Mass Effect 2."
People started to complain in the forums:
"I don't want a cloned Shepard! I want my Shepard!"
Shepard turned out to become a cyborg, the tutorial of ME2 told us, that Shepard was totally no clone.
The cyber-face of Shepard was revealed:
"I don't want a cyber-renegade-shepard!"
The surgery-upgrade for the Normandy came.
A good play on the crowd on ME2.
Reveal of preliminary story-decisions to see the reaction on them. Meanwhile levels could be build, gameplay and balancing was done. What does it matter for the recruitment/loyalty-missions if Shepard is a clone, a robot or a cyborg?
If a story-fact is taken bad by the community, BioWares writers "revealed" something that made it all better.
Possibly they merely adapted things.
And it turned well.
Why shouldn't it be continued?
Mass Effect 3.
The final part of the trilogy. What would happen to a billion-dollar-franchise if the key parts of it lay awaste?
What would happen to a franchise, that manages to sell replicas of it's weaponry for several hundred dollars?
A way to gather enough information about the reaction of the potential costumers towards every possible outcome?
Release a script, count on people reading it and their reactions.
Feed the crowd with spoilers through different channels.
Read their reactions and modify the game.
Risk a leak of content via the space-edition?
Risk the pre-orders that exceeded the calculations by far, if some crazy fan found the game and gave nothing on the nda?
Or feeding false stuff to the forums to keep everyone busy until they paid their game?
Personally I'd prefer to see EA and BioWare smart enough on their marketing-strategies to do the above(or something even more twisted), but otherwise you never know.
The wrong people making the wrong decisions...history has hundreds of them at far more important matters than electronic entertainment.
So if my theory is true, BioWare-Devs are leaning back, taking a sip from their drinks and enjoy while the forum-mob ignites.
If I'm wrong, the ends are true and BioWare was really ignorant enough to lay the ME-universe awaste in more ways than letting the reapers destroy it in the game, I think the game will end the reaper-cycle in more ways than intended.
Modifié par TekFanX, 28 février 2012 - 10:44 .
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