Copy of my second letter to BioWare and general sense of how I feel. Keep at it folks, don't give in.
Dear BioWare,
I tried to contact you last week, but in regards to a lot of important issues
seemingly being up in the air right now, I wanted to reiterate a few things.
First of all, I want to make it clear that there is no malice or ill will
here - only disappointment, and a desire to see things made right. My history
with BioWare has been that of what I would call an invested fan. I have felt
that way from the days of Baldurs Gate through NWN, KotOR, Jade Empire, The ME
series, Dragon Age, SW:ToR – you name it, I played it. It was a history where,
if BioWare developed a game or created an IP, that was enough for me to know
that it would be good.
So I bought your games. I told my friends to give your releases a try. I
defended you against those who would doubt you during the EA purchase
announcement in the wake of ME1 and felt that if one company could avoid being
dismantled by an extensive corporate machine with an apparent history of taking
previously solid developers apart, you guys were it. And things seemed good.
ME2 was great. DA:O was great. The first real disappointment was DA2, but I
didn’t have a solid emotional investment in that game, so I didn’t say
anything.
But that’s not the case now. Mass Effect is an important game series to
me – I consider myself invested in it, and so it matters to me what happens to
it. And the current ending of Mass Effect 3 does not seem to live up to the
quality the three games leading up to it have established. It also doesn’t live
up to statements BioWare staff have made about what to expect. Some statements
even seem to be direct opposites of what the current ending actually is. It
feels out of joint with the rest of the trilogy, as if it were developed in
isolation.
So, I am deeply disappointed you would let it end this way. I ask
therefore, as a long-time fan, supporter and consumer of your products, that you
would please develop and release an updated and expanded ending, that is more in
line with the spirit of the trilogy, and more in line with what your pre-release
statements seemed to suggest. There are myriads of suggestions and theories
about the ending floating around and I won’t throw in a lot of details here, but
I’ll add my voice to the much-repeated belief that if you read the text posted
at http://arkis.deviant...ILERS-289902125 you
will find it illustrates the spirit, feeling and general sense of an ending I personally
would want to see.
Sincerely,
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