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[blah64]

Twitter.....reallly?

[Texhnolyze101]

They killed her so they could put that butter face in the game so they can get a good review with IGNorent.

[Siven80]

Shame she died offscreen (Though i did like the twitter stuff).

She would have been a far better character to have on the normandy than Allers IMO.

[Edrick1976]

JadedLibertine wrote...

Emily Wong's dead and this is how I find out about it. According to the wiki she died in a badass way so at least I'll have that to console me. They should have put in a rolling news feed itself in the game to put out this sort of information.

I haven't been this down since finding out that urbane debonair poetry spouting Krogan from Nos Astra in ME2 had died. He left a widow and had a daughter. He was awesome, the Krogan George Plimpton.

Waite Charrr from ME2 is dead???? Where in the game did you find this out????? DUD I loved charrr

[Burnham1]

My problem isn't with the writing itself. It is how poorly they advertised it. This was written on March 5th. I just found out today by sheer luck of entering a random thread on an extremely fast moving forum.

This is something that needed to go into multiple places, or be alluded to in multiple places. This should be a news feed in game at the menu screen on that little computer that shows you galactic readiness. This should have been posted on the Mass Effect website, on their Facebook, and put as an official announcement on this forum.

I have no problem with them using social media as a means to tell some stories if they do it in an interesting way. I felt this was done in such a manner. It just needs to be better advertised. A lot of people missed this, and a lot more still have not seen it and likely won't. That is a pretty big mistake and a missed oppurtunity.

Modifié par Burnham1, 23 mars 2012 - 04:58 .

[brian_breed]

Edington wrote...

JadedLibertine wrote...

Emily Wong's dead and this is how I find out about it. According to the wiki she died in a badass way so at least I'll have that to console me. They should have put in a rolling news feed itself in the game to put out this sort of information.

I haven't been this down since finding out that urbane debonair poetry spouting Krogan from Nos Astra in ME2 had died. He left a widow and had a daughter. He was awesome, the Krogan George Plimpton.

Waite Charrr from ME2 is dead???? Where in the game did you find this out????? DUD I loved charrr

On the Rachni mission, you find the corpse of a Krogan with a message for someone on the Citadel named "Ereba." When you deliver the message, you get to hear it.

I bawled.

[SweetJeeba]

Is her death mentioned in game?

And man I would have so lived to romance Emily Wong over Aller's. There should have been a dialogue option for her to dress a little more professional

[SweetJeeba]

brian_breed wrote...

Edington wrote...

JadedLibertine wrote...

Emily Wong's dead and this is how I find out about it. According to the wiki she died in a badass way so at least I'll have that to console me. They should have put in a rolling news feed itself in the game to put out this sort of information.

I haven't been this down since finding out that urbane debonair poetry spouting Krogan from Nos Astra in ME2 had died. He left a widow and had a daughter. He was awesome, the Krogan George Plimpton.

Waite Charrr from ME2 is dead???? Where in the game did you find this out????? DUD I loved charrr

On the Rachni mission, you find the corpse of a Krogan with a message for someone on the Citadel named "Ereba." When you deliver the message, you get to hear it.

I bawled.

Felt a ping in my gut too, can't believe she didn't recognize me when I gave the message.  I'm the whole reason they stayed together

[ahandsomeshark]

Edington wrote...

JadedLibertine wrote...

Emily Wong's dead and this is how I find out about it. According to the wiki she died in a badass way so at least I'll have that to console me. They should have put in a rolling news feed itself in the game to put out this sort of information.

I haven't been this down since finding out that urbane debonair poetry spouting Krogan from Nos Astra in ME2 had died. He left a widow and had a daughter. He was awesome, the Krogan George Plimpton.

Waite Charrr from ME2 is dead???? Where in the game did you find this out????? DUD I loved charrr

You find his body during the missing scouts mission in the caves with the rachni. Then you have a sidequest to deliver his final message to Ereba(I think that's her name). It was actually really heart breaking. And one of my favorite things in the game.

[brian_breed]

When you combine THIS

pacientK wrote...

Getting sick of all this out of the game content. I couldn't care less about twitter, facebook, comics and
other bull####!

But tens of thousands of customers, and millions of potential customers, do. Emily Wong is the perfect sort of character to this publicity stunt. She's a relatively minor character, so her loss will not derail the story. She's a news reporter, so the text blitzes falls in line with her character. And while a minor character, she still has enough of a backgruond that someone who stumbled across the ANN twitter feed could google "Emily Wong Mass
Effect" and learn more about this universe.

I bet a lot of you would be just fine with the twitter and facebook stuff - which you DO NOT NEED AN ACCOUNT TO READ - if Bioware just included those updates on the "what's new" sub-tab on the social.bioware.com homepage.

with THIS

Burnham1 wrote...

My problem isn't with the writing itself. It is how poorly they advertised it. This was written on March 5th. I just found out today by sheer luck of entering a random thread on an extremely fast moving forum.

This is something that needed to go into multiple places, or be alluded to in multiple places. This should be a news feed in game at the menu screen on that little computer that shows you galactic readiness. This should have been posted on the Mass Effect website, on their Facebook, and put as an official announcement on this forum.

I have no problem with them using social media as a means to tell some stories if they do it in an interesting way. I felt this was done in such a manner. It just needs to be better advertised. A lot of people missed this, and a lot more still have not seen it and likely won't. That is a pretty big mistake and a missed oppurtunity.

you have the only reason this thread exists, aside from an increasing amount of libel against Bioware.

Modifié par brian_breed, 23 mars 2012 - 05:02 .

[insomniac13]

I would much rather have Emily Wong on my ship than ****ing Jessica Chobot! Too bad Bioware felt the need to stuntcast some Internet celebrity in order to pander to geeks.

It's also a shame the she died on Twitter.... Seriously Bioware? TWITTER?

[vometia]

JadedLibertine wrote...

I haven't been this down since finding out that urbane debonair poetry spouting Krogan from Nos Astra in ME2 had died. He left a widow and had a daughter. He was awesome, the Krogan George Plimpton.

That was upsetting.  He was right up there with Tennyson.  I bet Ash was a fan.

[Alibenbaba]

This was a straight forward sci-fi story until now. Who invited Brecht to the party, there's no need to break the fourth wall

[spartan5127]

Emily Wong should have been the embedded reporter. That would have been artistic integrity.

[TheShadowWolf911]

Dauw wrote...

God, twitter needs to die already. Or remain a circlejerk site for journalists, the cultural "elite" and hipsters.

Either way is fine with me. I feel like an old fart for saying this but social media and all the desperate attempts to integrate it into everything nowadays drives me mad. I want to have all the information about the game in the actual game, not have to go to a self-important social networking site or download an app. The time I could have wasted on keeping tabs on social network stuff is time I spend elsewhere, well.. being social.

i feel the same way.

[Litefire]

KrAzY WiSh wrote...

Wong should of been the reporter embedded on the Normandy.

this is exactly what should have happened.  Sorry not a fan of IGN product placement. .

Modifié par Litefire, 23 mars 2012 - 07:48 .

[spacefiddle]

EsterCloat wrote...

bledsun wrote...

One of my Edmonton friends had someone from the bw team come into the coffee shop he works at the morning of launch day. He told them about my complaining about Emily Wong's death. The response they had in defense of her twitter snuff was that ME3 was pretty much Hamlet the videogame.

Doesn't everybody di...

Ohhhhh.

I hope you just made that up, because that's the most pretentious gorram thing I've ever heard.  Maybe they were just screwing with your friend.  I can hope...

[spacefiddle]

brian_breed wrote...

pacientK wrote...

Getting sick of all this out of the game content. I couldn't care less about twitter, facebook, comics and other bull####!

But tens of thousands of customers, and millions of potential customers, do.

[citation needed]

I know everyone who loves social media wants to tell us all that.  And yet here's a whole bunch of loyal, passionate customers, who didn't know a thing about it.  And now that we do, don't like it.

When did this twitter nonsense occur?  How was I notified about it?  When I preordered, did it tell me I needed to follow the Twitter feed to get complete info?  Why is it suddenly OK for ingame info to NOT BE IN THE GAME, because you love Twitter?  What stopped them from doing a Twitter stunt AS WELL AS keeping ingame info in the game?

If you can answer all these questions, let me know.  Until then, it's a crap move.

[Fistleaf]

Old thread, but I only found out about Emily Wong's death today. Bioware should summarise these kind of minor plots somewhere prominent, not on Twitter.

[GreyLycanTrope]

If they didn't bother putting it in game I prefer to ignore it entirely, Wong is alive as far as I'm concerned.

[spirosz]

Fistleaf wrote...

Old thread, but I only found out about Emily Wong's death today. Bioware should summarise these kind of minor plots somewhere prominent, not on Twitter.

Twitter is canon, remember.  

[ElSuperGecko]

I would have much preferred to have been able to choose between Emily Wong, Khalisah Al-Jilani and Allers for the spot on the Normandy.

Allers would have been left behind, each and every time...

[CaptainCommander]

Khalisah Al-Jilani should of done what Emily did. Suited her character more! Redemption who always doubting Shepard. Emily Wong deserved SO much more! Even if she did the reports on the Citadel like she did in ME2.

[jm_mcroy]

I just heard about this (mention of it in a fanfiction). I'm disappointed that it took me this long to hear about it. I was sad that it was a T***er thing. Kinda like having all the apps on iT***s, but not And***d. I do not use T***er and barely use Fb. I just found the posts and it was a decent story, if short story. I prefer the ME2 method with the posts on the game's homepage. I liked that. The writers even got to say goodbye!

Also, I don't have any disdain towards Allers/Chobat (she's a fan). Still, Wong would have made a better choice for the reporter (keeping the 4th wall intact).

[Eshaye]

This Mac Walters is pissing me off if this was his idea. What a terrible, terrible way to tell the ending stories of background characters, it should all be via the game. And I actually use twitter quite a bit.... >.>

edit: Thanks for raising this thread, I didn't know about this either. I am very sad. 

Modifié par Eshaye, 27 février 2013 - 05:44 .