leapingmonkeys wrote...
What is happening here is Business 101. BW lost sight of the fact that they are producing a game, not a work of art. If they want that game to succeed, they have to pay attention to their market and deliver what they are asking for. It is really just that simple. Instead, they are being arrogant and defensive, and the result is that they are losing market share. Its just everyday, basic business. When you ignore your market, you lose. Remember MOO3? Large market for the game, but the developers ended up arguing with the market about what should be in the game. Eventually, they decided to ignore the market and release their "superior" game. The end result? No more MOO. No more franchaise. Financial ruin.
Its Business 101. Its normal. Its expected. Its right.
If Bioware wants to ever release another game and have it do well, they need to put their egos aside and deliver what their market is asking for with ME3.
Congradulations you win the lets play the exact same game over and over, and watch the exact same action film over and over future. You want consequences for your choices dude? You're going to get it with this game alone, something as big as Mass Effect decided to go the art route and not the popular mainstream route. So what do the fans do? "Grab your pitchforks and torches this means war!" We have one legitmate reason too devalue the game and it's because they didn't expand on what happened to everything else it just kind of ends and leaves in the open which is somewhat lazy.
It really depends on how you look at it, but regardless they deserve this because "my choices affected only most the game, I don't see how they affected my endings." I hate too break it to everyone but it never did. IF you hate this game because previous choices only affected the run and not the ending. Then you must hate Mass Effect 1 & 2 right? Because they did the exact same thing there as well. If your complaint is my Sheppard can't go have a happy retirement then again that's personal taste, and really doesn't matter how you feel about it, not everything ends happily. The only complaint that really holds any water here is that "they didn't expand on the ending," and maybe there is a reason behind that too? Maybe this is the end of Sheppard because Sheppard failed? Maybe you don't know what happened to everything else because bioware was trying not to write itself back into a hole and maybe as they've stated they want to do is make another game and use that too expand on everything?
But no you want it now, so everyone is going to get on their tip toes and scream like spoiled children who have been put in time out. Congrats, what EA and every other developer will see you saying right now is this. "I loved 99% of the game, all the action and stuff awesome, but the ending was different. I didn't like how it didn't follow a generic ending, I didn't like how it made me think, give me what everyone else gives me or I will do everything in my power to make you lose money." Good job, very classy guys.
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