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[KRAETZNER]

I would of waited a decade.

[blitzing bear]

Yes even if this choice was given to me before the game came out

[emperoralku]

 I would have waited as long as it took...

[Sainta117]

Duh, YES!

[FS3D]

ahandsomeshark wrote...

FS3D wrote...

 Would I wait until November for a properly-developed product that included a properly-thought-out story and a suitable series of endings that could have the promised and advertised wildly-diverging outcomes to the story?

Yes.

Would I be frustrated at waiting longer?

Yes, but that's an acceptable compromise compared to what we got.

Would BioWare and/or EA have actually put release date back 6 months in order to properly flesh out the story?

Hell no. They would lose sales, and as we all know, EA is all about the mighty dollar.

Would they actually lose sales if they hadn't set an unrealistic release date in the first place? I mean if after ME2 they had said ME3 wouldn't be done till 2013-2014 would they actually have lost sales?

That's not a question I can really answer. I'm leaning toward the answer being no, they wouldn't have, especially given they are losing sales now due to this business with the endings and lying to their customers.

However, how EA perceives the risk and how the risk actually would have turned out are likely two different things. I suspect that the bean counters at EA considered it an acceptable option on the basis that they believed the vast majority of people would lap up anything they put out in regard to the Mass Effect universe, and they never saw the RetakeME3 movement coming.

[Kingthlayer]

granyte wrote...

as long as it took

sc2 took 10 years but they succeded to not scew anything

Other than only releasing 1/3rd of the game.

But yeah sure I would have waited a bit, always other games coming out.

[Oakenshield1]

Releasing it in November wouldn't have made any difference because EA would have just made BioWare work on Multi more.

[Kingthlayer]

FS3D wrote...

ahandsomeshark wrote...

FS3D wrote...

 Would I wait until November for a properly-developed product that included a properly-thought-out story and a suitable series of endings that could have the promised and advertised wildly-diverging outcomes to the story?

Yes.

Would I be frustrated at waiting longer?

Yes, but that's an acceptable compromise compared to what we got.

Would BioWare and/or EA have actually put release date back 6 months in order to properly flesh out the story?

Hell no. They would lose sales, and as we all know, EA is all about the mighty dollar.

Would they actually lose sales if they hadn't set an unrealistic release date in the first place? I mean if after ME2 they had said ME3 wouldn't be done till 2013-2014 would they actually have lost sales?

That's not a question I can really answer. I'm leaning toward the answer being no, they wouldn't have, especially given they are losing sales now due to this business with the endings and lying to their customers.

However, how EA perceives the risk and how the risk actually would have turned out are likely two different things. I suspect that the bean counters at EA considered it an acceptable option on the basis that they believed the vast majority of people would lap up anything they put out in regard to the Mass Effect universe, and they never saw the RetakeME3 movement coming.

November will always sell more copies because of Christmas.  It's why Call of Duty does it the same time every year(though people will still buy that even if it came out middle of July)

Kind of surprising BioWare tends to release in the early year now, started with Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age 2 and now Mass Effect 3.

[me again 21]

My god yes.

There were so many missed opportunities in the way of exploration, side story lines, and in general gameplay that Bioware just missed. They should've extended the deadline for this game and given more of a budget so they could release an amazing ending to a trilogy that deserved better than it got. There was so much potential in this game, and more so in the entire series, and it really just sort of fell flat with this offering.

[Sir Leigh Leigh]

Yes, ME3 feels rushed. Would wait another year if it meant I was going to get a satisfactory conclusion.

[Greyward]

Absolutely. For this and for most any other game. It is rare that a game I'm anticipating will "loose me" because its delayed.

[pacientK]

scrapmetals wrote...

I would have waited another three years for a better game. I would have waited as long as it took. In fact, if Bioware right now recalled all the games, I'd gladly send them my copy and say, "Take as long as you need. I'm fine waiting. Please, just... make this right."

[survivor_686]

yup

[Generic Name]

I've waited this long for Diablo 3. Waiting until November would have been nothing.

[Dracotamer]

Gladly.

[TheMadBlimper]

They could've released multiplayer and took an extra 6 months on single player for all I care.

That would've been preferable to what we have now.

[JulienJaden]

If that meant them implementing everything they promised, I would have waited another YEAR.

You hear that, EA? Make good games!
Oh, I guess you don't know how that's done, so, let me give you a hint:
Give. The producers. Time. TO FINISH. The game.

[tanuki]

Yes.

[Precursor2552]

I would have waited until March 6th 2013.

[Cyph3rX]

Yup.

[Vhalkyrie]

Yeah, I would have waited.

[Vorodill]

I would have waited. Still, I didn't feel that the game was incomplete, except the ending, of course.

I mean, come on... no ending? Cause I didn't get any ending.

[zennyrpg]

Of course I would have waited any amount of time.

But EA was not going to give them the time they needed. Its not so much about loosing people by delaying as it is about maximizing sales/development costs. The sad thing is EA probably made the right decision financially- if they would have spent 50% (taken another year) they might have gotten 33% more sales. I don't know the numbers but i do know they sold a ton of copies. How many more sales would they have really gotten if they spent another year? Especially since, as someone already said, they expected audiences to eat anything mass effect up.

[Asepsis]

I would have waited years.

[ArenCordial]

I would have waited as long as it took to get it right.