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[GreyLord]

I'm leaning more towards she doesn't know anything overall. She's paid to do various things, the main to be the comm mgr. if I see correctly.

I don't even think she knew the game really until recently, and played and finished it in January?

She can relate to what you are saying from her play through, but I'm not certain she's privy to anything, and if she were I don't think she's allowed to tell anyone outside the company.

[Zolt51]

pavi132 wrote...

She is probably doing more harm than good, honestly.

Then don't bloody read her tweets and go play something else. You aren't going to get any more sense of closure from staying on this forum. 

[lucidfox]

...Because I despise Twitter?

[SecElit3]

@izmirtheastarac Your choices still have impact, esp based on which end decision you made.

That one

[Marta Rio II]

To me, these tweets boil down to the following sentiment:

"The endings are whatever you imagine them to be.  If you think it was all a hallucination, then it was!  Congrats, you figured it out, you smart person you."

She says this, and Bioware doesn't have to do anything more than state, "Yep, there are many interpretations of the ending, each equally valid.  Making a new ending DLC would invalidate some of these creative, thoughtful interpretations, so we have decided not to do that."

I think it'll turn out that we've kind of shot ourselves in the foot by coming up with a theory makes far more sense than what the writers originally intended. 

Modifié par Marta Rio II, 16 mars 2012 - 03:55 .

[KingDan97]

She's totally getting fired over this for not putting a big ole' "These are my opinions and do not reflect the intentions of my employer" Anywhere on her Twitter feed or within her tweets tonight. This isn't being cute and coy, this isn't being ambiguous, this is an employee making distinct statements about a project she has and had no involvement in as an employee of the company. She has no more(I'd bet less) information than Chris does, but at least he doesn't go running his mouth in a heavily trafficked public source to a group of people who are quite frankly desperate for anything good, even if the source is about as in the know as the guy who gets the coffee.

[xeNNN]

shamE12 wrote...

She just asked someone to link her to this thread. Jesus christ this is turning me into a stalker.

we are the bioware mass's in search of the ending > we are allowed to stalk aldkfja;lkdjfkalsjdlfk. 

[Savber100]

...if she's playing us for fools...

Gosh there is no way that she'll dare try to rail the fanbase... would she? O_o

[PlumPaul93]

xeNNN wrote...

i swear she's playing us.......

She's just trying to calm down the ****storm this ending has brought Bioware.

[ElectronicPostingInterface]

I will give her credit, I didn't think about QTE.

That said, I would need a map to figure out how a "rescue" could work because the details as don't seem to work out.

[Ryven]

SecElit3 wrote...

This one:

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@ReanKnopke @mcderose I don't think anything you saw/read/heard today should make you sad about the endings. Some theories still hold true.

Someone needs to tell her that the stuff said today doesnt make me sad about the endings. The endings make me sad about the endings.

[aksoileau]

She's trying to just say the ending is what we want it to be.

So red totally has shepard getting in a ship and somehow making a short FTL jump to jungle planet to live happily ever after.

YAY

/puke

Modifié par aksoileau, 16 mars 2012 - 03:55 .

[Slash1667]

Syrellaris wrote...

KorPhaeron wrote...

MJF JD wrote...

 then why are you in a spoilers forum?

https://twitter.com/#!/jessicamerizan

I don't for a moment think there are any other endings, this was a hallucination, etc. Bioware/EA is letting these speculations go on for two reasons. First, they are letting people vent. Secondly, they are weighing options.

Years ago, I worked for a PR damage control team and everything right now is going by the book. First, re-affirm and ignore (also known as doubling down), then try and define the detractors in the mainstream with things like "this is all a big mistunderstand", etc. while remaining civil in the hopes the detractors go rabid. Meanwhile go dark and use countermeasures through third part sources to prop up your position and brand the outcry as driven by hacks, haters or a minority trying to wear out the detractors on these outlets or "shock troops" while protecting the corporate core. Next, offer something distracting (notice SWTOR is free this upcoming weekend) known as the "faux olive branch"/ask the angry people to explain their concerns (without agreeing to commit to a compromise), buy more add time (definitely going on right now), and hope it dies down. If the pressure is still on, determine the economic viability of 1) ignoring the outcry and banking on the fickle nature of consumers to get over it or 2) determining if we can make money off of fixing it.

If it is any consolation, the decision whether or not there is a fix DLC, etc, won't be made by the writers so illusions to things they wanted to convey don't matter much atm (to wit: the leads comments yesterday). I suspect he's been called in and politely told by the PR guys to not do that again. This is now a corporate problem, not an artistic struggle with fans. Somewhere in the EA bunker, attorneys, PR guys, writers and brass are sharing numbers b/c in the end this will come down to hard currency.

As one who despises the endings, I'm hoping the suits tell the visionaries that the customers are loud enough and numerous enough to swollow their pride and get them out of this storm. For those that love them, I readily accept your position and respectfully disagree.

Why waste my time ?

Or you are just trying to create chaos like everyone else is that does not like the endings. As there are plenty of us that do like the endings and believe they make perfect sense. Which they do. Your choices during the three games are reflected back at you and you weigh them down in your final solution.

If you had payed serious attention to the story and delved in deep, like I hope many people did, then you would have known why this ending makes sense.

Here let me break it down for you.

1) Synthetic life gets created by organics to serve them and make there lifes happier. When this goes awry, the synthetic life forms manage to gain some sort of VI intelligence and become a swarm. This swarm gets tired of being slaves and rebels.

You see this with the quarions and the Geth. Legion even explains it to you in ME2 and ME3. He also explains why it happened and what his solution to it is. He even goes as far as applying his solution or trying to at least. This one of your major plot choices. Effect is shown inmediatly.

2) The fallen reaper even explains it in detail, though cryptic. You (as shepard) do not understand the complexity of the issue and why they are doing it. YOu get this explained later on in the citadel by the catalyst.

He explains it very carefully that synthetics will in the end, always rebel against the ones that made them and do to there superiority, will win the war against the organic life forms.

The solution to this was creating a hybrid. This is what the reapers are. They are organic / synthetic hybrids. As he explains you are partially synthetic. A cyborg if you will.

3) The three choices are exactly that. The destruction option resets the cycle. Organics stay alive and all synthetic life forms die out. It is now up to the organic lifeforms to ensure that future generations will not make the mistake of creating synthetic life. Which they will and the cycle repeats.

The Control option is a balanced solution. You gain control of the reapers and thus can keep them away from organic life for good. The decided outcome is simple. If you united the Geth and Quarians. They are your proof they can live together. but for how long? Are they up for it?

the Neutral option or..Synthesize is an option you take when you believe organic and synthetic can life together with forced materials. fusing Synthetic and organic DNA. A new life string as the cataclyst explained it. You are the living proof of how that works out.

If you payed attention to the storyline, you know Cerberus revived you using Reaper tech. Hence why you are classified by the catalyst as partially Synthetic. Why? The videolog showed it. the doctors purely said that with everything they had there disposal they cannot revive you as you are clinically brain dead. Yet Lawson found a way.

Sorry, it's still one "being" enforceing its will on the entire galaxy. Never in the triology has Shepard so meekly accepted that. The endings are broken and rationalize it the way you want it can make sense but still won't be believeable or satisfying.

[ChampDude]

I think she's just caved into fan theories because either A) She is so upset about the endings that she is as desperate as us or She doesn't want to get the flak for all this being the only one that's actually saying anything so she's deflecting any antagonism she could possibly receive by agreeing with us.

Either way I'm with The Angry One. Imagination =/ Closure.

[Savber100]

SecElit3 wrote...

@izmirtheastarac Your choices still have impact, esp based on which end decision you made.

That one

Is it impact that we'll be able to see in ME3?

Ask that.. <_<

[xeNNN]

Tequila Man wrote...

The Angry One wrote...

How should I put this....

THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF TIMES I COULD BANG MY HEAD AGAINST THE TABLE THAT WOULD RESULT IN ME IMAGINING ANY KIND OF ENDING DIFFERENT FROM THE SINGLE BLEAK, TRI-COLOURED NON ENDING WE GOT. EVER.

Sometimes, I think Angry One should just post for all of us.

this. 

he/she is the embodiment of our anger i swear lol.

[pavi132]

Actinguy1 wrote...

ToastPants wrote...

Someone with a public twitter account please tweet her that 90% is not an arbitrary number, it's based on polling a sample size of around 50,000 people.

I'm on the side of those enraged by the ending, but this is not a scientific poll.  It's what's called a "self-selecting sample."  It's a sample of the sort of person who goes onto a gaming website and votes on the ending.  For a scientific sample, they would have to (for example) randomly call at least 1,000 people who bought ME3 and ask them about the ending.  (1000 is a generally accepted sample size in the scientific community, provided that you truly are choosing participants randomly.)

The only people who can carry out this kind of poll, unfortunately, is Bioware or EA themselves. They can do it pretty easily too by distributing to a random sample of game owners by email using the criteria of whether or not they registered a copy of the game or not. They have all the information to do it and we don't. That means, unfortunately, they won't do it as it could harm their case. It's much easier to say "You're sample is biased. You can't be right about this being the majority." than it is to actually carry out a legitimate survey just for it to possibly yield negative results for them. Basically, they can hold this "You are the minority and can't prove us otherwise. Any polls you make are biased" over our heads as a tool against us forever and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.

[CyanidPontifex]

KorPhaeron wrote...

I don't for a moment think there are any other endings, this was a hallucination, etc. Bioware/EA is letting these speculations go on for two reasons. First, they are letting people vent. Secondly, they are weighing options.

Years ago, I worked for a PR damage control team and everything right now is going by the book. First, re-affirm and ignore (also known as doubling down), then try and define the detractors in the mainstream with things like "this is all a big mistunderstand", etc. while remaining civil in the hopes the detractors go rabid. Meanwhile go dark and use countermeasures through third part sources to prop up your position and brand the outcry as driven by hacks, haters or a minority trying to wear out the detractors on these outlets or "shock troops" while protecting the corporate core. Next, offer something distracting (notice SWTOR is free this upcoming weekend) known as the "faux olive branch"/ask the angry people to explain their concerns (without agreeing to commit to a compromise), buy more add time (definitely going on right now), and hope it dies down. If the pressure is still on, determine the economic viability of 1) ignoring the outcry and banking on the fickle nature of consumers to get over it or 2) determining if we can make money off of fixing it.

If it is any consolation, the decision whether or not there is a fix DLC, etc, won't be made by the writers so illusions to things they wanted to convey don't matter much atm (to wit: the leads comments yesterday). I suspect he's been called in and politely told by the PR guys to not do that again. This is now a corporate problem, not an artistic struggle with fans. Somewhere in the EA bunker, attorneys, PR guys, writers and brass are sharing numbers b/c in the end this will come down to hard currency.

As one who despises the endings, I'm hoping the suits tell the visionaries that the customers are loud enough and numerous enough to swollow their pride and get them out of this storm. For those that love them, I readily accept your position and respectfully disagree.

Why waste my time ?

I like this human. He understands.

[Maugrim]

Jessica Merizan ‏ @JessicaMerizan

@Jebuz_Mutation well the Normandy can go FTL and so can other ships still on Earth soooooooooo...

Now I'm not smart and didn't go to Berkley like Jessica here but maybe there is a smart person that can confirm my hunch that there are no habitable planets that could be reached in the implied time between the battle and the crash landing?

ETA: Imagine it's been terraformed! Right?!

Modifié par makenzieshepard, 16 mars 2012 - 03:58 .

[Wattoes]

aksoileau wrote...

She's trying to just say the ending is what we want it to be.

So red totally has shepard getting in a ship and somehow making a short FTL jump to jungle planet to live happily ever after.

YAY

/puke

^^

I can lay in my bed and make an entire story up for myself.  When I play a trilogy and invest hundreds of hours, I dont want to completely "make up my own ending".  Some things being open is fine, but the whole thing?  Thats brutal.

[Quietness]

makenzieshepard wrote...

Jessica Merizan ‏ @JessicaMerizan

@Jebuz_Mutation well the Normandy can go FTL and so can other ships still on Earth soooooooooo...

Now I'm not smart and didn't go to Berkley like Jessica here but maybe there is a smart person that can confirm my hunch that there are no habitable planets that could be reached in the implied time between the battle and the crash landing?

ETA: Imagine it's been terraformed! Right?!

Apparently also normandy can self repair in moments.

[pavi132]

Zolt51 wrote...

pavi132 wrote...

She is probably doing more harm than good, honestly.

Then don't bloody read her tweets and go play something else. You aren't going to get any more sense of closure from staying on this forum. 

I meant in terms of company PR. Relax.

[tamperous]

I feel bad for her,

They're putting her in a bad spot. If some people really believe her and take hope from her tweets only to be crushed again they may make her the target of vitriol like Hudson and Walters this afternoon.

They really should only be doing this from the faceless ME3 account.

Modifié par tamperous, 16 mars 2012 - 04:00 .

[xeNNN]

PlumPaul82393 wrote...

xeNNN wrote...

i swear she's playing us.......

She's just trying to calm down the ****storm this ending has brought Bioware.

i know but this is being interpreted in one way

1) playing us.. lol 

because well most of us are just so desperate for a good ending to our beloved game that we will pick up on anything from the bioware staff and distil hope in it \\akjsdfklasdfjklahsdf


ah nuts to this 


HOLD THE LINE! *snaps out of hope state*

[Walrusninja]

If Bioware made a restaurant you could have anything you could imagine ... literally.