I wanted to say one more thing to all the people involved in ME3:
I can understand how you might feel right now. I imagine some are feeling hurt, some might actually agree with us, sitting at home, telling their wifes/husbands "I could have told'em this would happen".Most of you however probably feel very disapointed. When you release something like this, a work of art that you've spent the best time of your life on (let's face it, working on a title like this is evey game developer's dream), you dream about getting only the best of feedback. People loving all the good stuff, all the little details you worked so hard into getting in the game.
Now all people seem to talk about is this fu**ing ending. Nobody seems to care about all the work you put into. About the little cameo you dreamed up. About that one poster that was such a great easter egg that was YOUR idea. About that piece of dialogue you loved SOO much and were looking forward to reading reactions about.
Well guys and gals you know what? People DID see all that, and people LOVE you guys for it. They truly do. And trust me. Most people would love to tell you all about those great details and how much they enjoyed them. And I'm actually glad you opened a "damage control" thread in which people can tell you about that.I'm pretty sure that thread was not just about damage control on the fan base, but also about finally getting some positive stuff back so your own employees can finally read some of the nice stuff again.
But look at it this way... You are getting an emotional reaction here like this industry has hardly ever seen before. Certainly not for a unique IP like Mass Effect. This can usually only be expected for something that has a major IP behind it like Star Wars or Trek or whatever. So what you have done here is create a new Star Wars. One that people are so passionate about, one that they are loving SO much that they just don't want to see it die like this.People are not just disappointed so much because they didn't like the end. They are actually disappointed because they know you may have destroyed something here without planning to, that you may have damaged something that is really, really unique and precious. They WANT this to be great and the new Star Wars. They want to be able to tell their kids about this like their parents are nowadays talking about the original Star Wars. This is their favorite world; they have been there from the start. THAT's what this is about. They are actually on YOUR side.They just want to make sure that all the work and love you put into this doesn't go down the toilet, just because of 5 freaking minutes that were messed up just because of some bad judgment.
You know, had George Lucas messed up Return of the Jedi, nobody would talk about him now. You know why? If that movie hadn't sold, there wouldn't have been any way to fix it. Sure he makes a lot of tiny changes these days to polish it up but back then... no way to do that. YOU can. You have the chance to say "ok, those 5 minutes were maybe not such a great idea. Let's add something to it. Let's puck up this indoctrination idea or come up with some other creative idea and actually fix this and make sure it stays what is already is: The best damn piece of SciFi gaming out there. Period.
All these fans are really behind you. They want this bird to fly. They just want to make sure it doesn't get hit by a bus on its first solo flight.
So to repeat the message: We love what you have done here guys. We love ALL those great little moments and we are 100% aware of them and we'd LOVE to sit across a table or net-line with you guys someday and talk about how wonderful your ideas were, no matter how small they were. because those little ideas, that's what great games are all about. All we want is that 5 freaking minutes that apparently just weren't meant to fly, prevent all that from happening and turn a great game that should be remembered for all the live being put into it into something that turned out to be a major fan base disaster. We don't want that, you don't want that, so let's get this PR crap out of the way and let's work together on fixing this.
You always told us how Mass Effect is really a game that is built both by Bioware AND the players. So let's turn this PR message into a real effort to make things right!
Modifié par KeldorKatarn, 17 mars 2012 - 05:05 .
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