Over $20,000 raised in Retake Mass Effect - Child's Play - Page 5 - General Discussion

#101
Erode_The_Soul

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 05:53

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strive wrote...

I don't understand how some people are upset at this "petition/charity". At least people are protesting in a positive way, or would you rather them bomb metacritic and amazon with other disgruntled fans. Maybe pirate the game? There are dozens of worse ways they could protest.

Agreed.

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#102
Astindan

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 05:53

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Wow, I'm surprised this raised so much, I disliked the ending, but this is a very interesting approach.

I like this approach.

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#103
Viyu

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 06:16

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Erode_The_Soul wrote...

strive wrote...

I don't understand how some people are upset at this "petition/charity". At least people are protesting in a positive way, or would you rather them bomb metacritic and amazon with other disgruntled fans. Maybe pirate the game? There are dozens of worse ways they could protest.

Agreed.

Agreed too, but its not like people don't have the right to do those things. They're not necessarily wrong for bombing it in my opinion. Casey Hudson lied and said we'd have multiple endings. They did not tell fans this game would not have multiple endings or choices, like fans were used to having with Bioware products. In fact, they did everything in their power to make sure fans stayed ignorant of the truth, once the endings got leaked. Things like this WILL happen if you're not honest.

Modifié par Viyu, 14 mars 2012 - 06:27 .

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#104
The Last Guardian

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 06:22

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Astindan wrote...

Wow, I'm surprised this raised so much, I disliked the ending, but this is a very interesting approach.

I like this approach.

As do I. I really think that if it hits the 100K mark then EA will really take a sharp notice (at least that's what my hope is:()

Plus were doing it for a good cause, and our actually helping real live HUMAN BEINGS.

Win, win.

I really hope people will do more charity drives like these for the ending dibaocle. Would love to see one for St. Judes.

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#105
gangly369

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 06:45

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Wow. Good job people. Definitely good your donating to charity. Your doing it for a stupid reason, but whatever. Much rather have this than the typical drama queen 'i'm leaving bioware forever' thread.

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#106
piezor

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 06:58

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To who-ever hasn't watched this, please do.
Ohh and it links to the petition...

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#107
starscreamerx31

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 07:09

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I dont know how some of you can oppose this method of protest. Maybe alot of you ste mad cause some if you guys didnt have the balls to pull this off and raise 10,000 with grand results. Regardless of what any one states the fact remains that 85% want a better ending and the small 3% minority are the ones crying saying how dumb this charity protest is. Some of you around these forums disgust me.

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#108
gangly369

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 07:10

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starscreamerx31 wrote...

I dont know how some of you can oppose this method of protest. Maybe alot of you ste mad cause some if you guys didnt have the balls to pull this off and raise 10,000 with grand results. Regardless of what any one states the fact remains that 85% want a better ending and the small 3% minority are the ones crying saying how dumb this charity protest is. Some of you around these forums disgust me.

U mad bro?

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#109
NewUszi

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 07:18

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I think it's a fantastic idea. Redirect the negative energy and, at the very least, help some sick kids out.

Vote bombing and forum vitriol... clearly those aren't better than donating to a charity in protest? I donated.

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#110
batlin

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 07:22

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I can't believe people are offering EA money for what amounts to a cutscene.

It's like EA doesn't even have to TRY to make money anymore. You people are rewarding them for ******-poor writing.

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#111
SearchXDestroy

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 07:34

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batlin wrote...

I can't believe people are offering EA money for what amounts to a cutscene.

It's like EA doesn't even have to TRY to make money anymore. You people are rewarding them for ******-poor writing.

Actually, were supporting a worthwhile charity, and making a point, but hey keep on rolling bud :bandit:

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#112
Fiery Phoenix

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 07:35

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Seems to be just below $30,000 now. Quite impressive.

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#113
Dave of Canada

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 07:37

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Donating to a good cause doesn't need the "ending" excuse, this is getting absurd.

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#114
Legendaryred

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 07:41

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Not even a day and already close to 30k? very impressive, hats off to these guys.

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#115
Ronin1325

Posté 14 mars 2012 - 08:08

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jreezy wrote...

Viyu wrote...

How is that entitlement? Casey Hudson said...

Casey Hudson: It's not so much that there is a fixed set of alternative endings, but all of your choices really determine how things end up in the universe. So, how you approach the end-game, for every player, you're going to have a different set of results in terms of who is alive and who is dead, and which civilisations survived and which ones were wiped out.There is a huge set of consequences that start stacking up as you approach the end-game. And even in terms of the ending itself, it continues to break down to some very large decisions. So it's not like a classic game ending where everything is linear and you make a choice between a few things - it really does layer in many, many different choices, up to the final moments, where it's going to be different for everyone who plays it.

We ARE entitled to a different ending.
Why'd you prove my point?

It's comments like this that get tiresome after awhile. YES, we ARE entitled to a different ending. There are plenty of official Dev quotes that said this is exactly what we were going to get. The game was advertised as such. A consumer is entitled to get the product he/she bought & paid for.

Anyway, this is a stellar thing for the gaming community to do instead of just complain (although of course, complaining isn't always bad.

). And though I had never heard of it before today- er, (looks at clock) yesterday, it is a perfectly appropriate charity to give to considering the issue. And for those who think it's kind of a silly charity, there are piles of studies that have been done to show how much playing games & entertainment like this helps. It can keep a kid's spirits up when they are going through rough treatments, or keep them from going crazy when forced medical isolation seperates them from everyone & everything they've ever known. That's hard enough on adults, it can be permanently damaging to little children.

My wife & I would donate more, but we recently lost both our cars on the same day, so that's set us back a bit. We donated what we could though.