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[d00b1eman]

To Whom it may concern.

Let me preface this statement with this disclaimer...



this isn't my first go round with Bioware.



i've been a fan for a very long time. started with KOTOR, went on to
KOTOR 2, never got a part 3.. which was pretty messed up, and maybe a sign of things to come. also played Jade Empire as well as Mass
Effect 1 and 2, and here recently 3. I was at the midnight release of both games as well. the one reason why i loved the
company and the games so much was because of the dialogue based choice
feature and the characters that i created. I always felt like i was in control of the story. my shepard was a black woman, an orphan who looked at anderson like a father figure. in my head i had a whole back story (seems silly now) about where she came from, why she made the decisions she made, etc, etc. me and my friends would spend hours talking about our indivdual shepards, where they came from and why they made the choices they made. infinitely fascinating conversation. numerous
times over the years while i played these games i always wondered how
many hours the writers on this team worked in order to create all of the
different options.. and just shook my head in disbelief. i know this must've been a monumental task. i was
impressed by Mass Effect 1, and after i completed Mass Effect 2 (with 6
different characters) i waited in anticipation for part 3. then i hear
that it's being delayed until 2012 which i had NO PROBLEM with. i knew
that there were plenty of variables as far as all the choices you made,
and i couldn't even imagine how they would combine all of that and
create custom endings based on your choices. i just trusted that they
would do like they said.



and then i played Mass Effect 3. a few things that really disappointed me.



all throughout the game the choices i made in the other 2 titles were
essentially swept under the rug. Udina being the human councilor (in both my paragon/renegade games i
chose Anderson) the council returning, and looking EXACTLY like the
council that i sacrificed in my renegade playthrough.. the rachni queen being alive whether you
killed her or not.. as well as a bunch of other things that just make me
feel dumb for investing so much time and effort into Mass Effect 1 and
2. i take that back. it didn't make me feel dumb as much as ridiculed.



but they saved the best for last.



In one of the biggest BOHICA moments in gaming history, your entire Mass
Effect experience is shattered with the realization that no matter WHAT
you decided to do.. the ultimate choice is not yours at all. you're
given 3 options by some little annoying kid and instead of telling him
to kiss your commanding bum you meekly limp towards your fate.. and the
only choice you have is whether you would like a red, blue, or green
ending. so after the 100s of hours of gameplay.. the only choice that
really matters is the color you want to end the game on. and the
cruelest joke of all? making you do all of those citadel missions, only
for everybody to die anyway. going all over the galaxy running errands
is NOT what a commander would do. COMMANDING TROOPS IS WHAT A COMMANDER
WOULD DO. what happened to the squad loyalty mission dynamic, where the
success of that person was tied to whether or not they were loyal??? i
spent hours doing this in part 3 because i incorrectly assumed that like
in part 2.. it actually made a DIFFERENCE.



last point.



i'm 34 now... grown with hardly anytime to "game" anymore. i buy maybe 2
or 3 games a year. i was looking forward to this game so much i took
the entire week off because i knew it was gonna be many sleepless nights
as i grinded through. the plan was to replay the game over and over..
watching the saga unfold. but now that i see that none of the decisions,
none of the missions ever really matter i don't have the desire to play
any of the titles. in me you had a true fan. i would've bought every
DLC pack, every game, everything and ANYTHING with your name on it..
because we had a trust between us. you promised me that you would
deliver the goods, and provide me with a game that BECAUSE of the
decisions I MADE the game would directly be changed because of it. that
simply wasn't true. let's be honest... you were in over your heads. you
knew that you needed probably at least another year to make it right,
but you also knew that in about a year the new XBOX would be out, right?
or was it EA pushing you to complete it so they could give their end of
1st quarter numbers a good solid boost? ultimately i will never know.



but here's what i do know. Commander Shepard deserved better. she
deserved to be whole, she deserved a chance at happiness... she deserved
to finish that series with her friends and loved one. instead she died
alone with the weight of the world on her shoulders never knowing
whether or not what that kid said was the truth.. or a lie.



The Commander Shepard I KNOW would've NEVER accepted this fate. NEVER.
and neither will I. i DO have a choice. and my choice... is to never
purchase another bioware game again. good luck in your future mass effect installments, i know the DLC content that you will eventually release will be excellent and many people will buy. but if i'm the type of guy you were trying to keep.. the lifelong gamer with an eye for detail and an obsession for great RPGs sadly you just lost 1.