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[deathscythe517]

Yes it's another one of those threads, except this is about the people reacting to the ending.

First and foremost, let's get it out of the way, I have a stake in this. I'm part of the Retake group and thus I believe that criticism of the endings is not only correct, it's healthy.

Now onto my issue with people trying to defend Bioware/EA.

As many of you have no doubt noticed that the people who defend Bioware/EA seem to resort to the following talking points at least nine times out of ten.

1. Gamer entitlement, or rather trying to shame you into believing that you criticizing the business you paid money to somehow makes you a weaker human being.

2. Artistic integrity, or rather the fact that evidently you can defend the most ill-conceived nonsense by calling it 'art' as inevitably there will be at least one person who agrees. Their motivations for such are purely their own.

3. "You don't get it man" <- This ties in with the artistic integrity thing, except it doesn't resort to calling it art and instead simply says that you lack the intelligence to comprehend the deepness of the ending.

4. Treating a business like a person, no, Bioware is not a human being, EA is not a human being, they are corporations, they are businesses. You're not going to make them cry and go into a suicidal depression because they are not -people-, they are run by people. but the businesses are not people.

Addressing the first, it's truly a wonderful scheme we've hammered into people in western society, if you complain about a product you are somehow not strong enough or an enemy. The marketing essentially writes itself, either you're with us or against us, corporations nudge people into browbeating other people into purchasing their product by preying upon insecurities. You don't want to purchase X? What are you gay?! STUPID?! A whiny little cry baby?! <- This kind of tripe wouldn't fly in the twentieth century but evidently it's insidiously being fostered by modern ad campaigns, corporate PR groups, and even the people who fall for this crap.

It is not only healthy for you to criticize the businesses you purchase from but there was a point in history that it was downright encouraged, if the product was not good enough for the masses, one would improve it until the product could easily last two life spans and give you the most bang for your buck. These days the quality of items, not just video games, has been steadily declining - and this can be attributed to the popular myth of the 'unpleasable majority' perpetrated by companies in an effort to allow them to cut corners, thus maximising profits while minimizing effort. From there they can simply spin some advertisements to make it seem like people who support their product are in some kind of club, are less masculine, or any other of scummy marketing tactics.

So while goods continue to cheapen, their quality continues to sink, their profits continue to soar because people either see no alternative or feel alienated if they don't follow the herd. This is the exact opposite of a working market economy, in a working market economy if a business is producing subpar goods it is supposed to be PUNISHED for it until it rectifies things or it fails and gets gobbled up by the competition. This is why bailouts rarely work, because you're essentially creating the business equivalent of a walking corpse. While the video game industry (or any industry really) has not really been bailed out, the tactics used to create a sort of unpaid 'PR' department is largely the reason quality has been dipping.

You don't like how they do things? Censure! Idiocy! You are too daft to understand! Shut up! This is the wrong approach. It is your right as a customer to raise hell until it is more in line with your desires, what others say be damned.

I will continue this rant later but for now I must rest...so essentially WIP.