arthurhallam wrote...
okay, so, many of the retakers are contiously talking about how they're not entitled, & i don't want to generalise a very large group of people.
but if people keep talking about their rights as consumers (as many of you do) & about the so-called lies of the company, you really do come across as entitled little brats. maybe it's my leftist political outlook, but i can't help but think of you as the exact sort of people who'd vote for ron paul.
you speak as though spending some money on a piece of creative fiction gives you the absolute right to determine its fate & if that does not confirm your expectations because of some half-assed marketing spiel, your human rights have in some way been breached.
give it a break. honestly, just stfu.
now, i'm not against the notion of a creative work being changed. i've stated on many occasions that it's great that games can be changed after the fact. don't accuse me of thinking otherwise. nor do i think the mass effect trilogy is a work of art. incidentally, i don't believe games are an art form. (not all narratives, not everything that is beautiful, not all works of creativity are considered works of art.)
but i'm not going to sit here & complain because the creative work did not match my expectations, irrespective of what a company told me beforehand.
imagine a brattish kid gets promised something for christmas & doesn't get what they want— do they threaten to sue their parents? no, they throw out all the toys from their cots. which is exactly what many of you are doing. it's unbecoming of adults to behave in this way.
I find it supprising that you say you have a leftist sort of mentality and then go against consumer rights......thats kind of a corner stone of the democratic party. In fact, ron paul would be against any sort of government group, he would say the free market would take care of it thus if you dont like it dont buy it, which certainly is something alot of the people say in regards to the ending, and it is true.
But consumers of course have rights, and we have rights to speak out against a portion of product we feel is lacking. While purchasing a piece of creative fiction doesnt give us the right to determine the direction it goes, it does give us the right to speak out and say, we are not satisfied with the product, and it would be nice if you change it. Now of course, Bioware has the same right to ignore those that speak out against how they finished the story, lord knows plenty have done that before. BW however choose not to do that, and I for one am glad. Course I still believe this was planned all along, BW just hadn't planned on the level of fan response.
Going to the FTC was a little far, I dont think this warrented that kind of reaction, but that doesnt mean consumers dont have rights, they do, and should be protected from companies.
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