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Either it's a fact or it's not. Bioware might have gotten abit sloppy on the deadline, thus encouraging their consumers to hold onto their ME3 Copies forever (Hinted by the developers in their tweets), as in indication of- "We'll deliever you guys the ending you deserve, not the one you were given".
In preperation to the ****storm, they enforced the new rules on the forums, and i've gone relatively silent, maybe as in still in preperation stage to finalizing the actual ending we deserve. A piece of indication that the story is not OVER is the Destroy ending + Perfect that gives you the visual indiciation that Shepard is indeed alive still, and is found in the rubble prior to entering the beam in the final assault.
They won't go out in public just yet to announce that the game has an unfinished ending, instead- they're going to let the consumers internationally get their hands on it, and enjoy it- and when the time is right. They're going to announce a FREE DLC (Ever thought why the Prothean DLC character was actually pricetag for 5-10$? It's because to help fund the refunds from presumable events, like you said would occur- it's a backup plan that would generate some controversial discussions, and rightfully so- but Bioware got no way out of this one, and I admirely respect them for their actions on this end.)
Look on the bigger perspective and try to piece the puzzles together, and it'll all make sense. I'm fairly confident this is the case, and I'd bet my game on it that I'm right on this. Funny enough, I'm usually correct when it comes to gaming development, because I've been partially involved in the Dawn of War franchise.
Bad PR is worse than no PR at all
Considering the game is pretty much awesome 99,95% of the game, I wouldn't call it bad PR that all the reviewers are high-praising it, and there's alot of people that'd agree on this. The game isn't bad, but the closure/ending is. Besides, PR in any way to gain something publicity is good- celebreties in a sense are walking proof of this. Hell, even in politics here I live, there's been alot of controversial discussion regarding a politic group- but it's mostly been negative- and at the end of the day, the group has gained more followers and intrest, despite the fact last years election they pretty much had the worse-run in their history of election time. That should give you an indication that even bad PR can give you quite the edge.
At the end of the day, the Prothean DLC tie-in and profit they made out of it, will and I bet you on it- collect more dosh then all the refunds this game will ever recieve, so they're the ones that are fairly satisfied with the outcome. The game has sold millions of copies already, and I doubt you'll see millions of copies of refunds. Maybe at best I'd say a hundred thousand k. People will tend to just accept the ending as it is, and will recieve the good news about the extra additional information in the end. Going back to Gamestop and demanding a refund and all is just some half-arsed process and I don't think the majority will even bother about it.
Modifié par Fingertrip, 12 mars 2012 - 10:57 .
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