Phobius9 wrote...
Inxentas wrote...
Phobius9 wrote...
The game has been out less than a month in some countries. I wouldn't expect Bioware to officially say anything about anything until either PAX or at some point next month (which is when I believe they've said they will shed some light on the situation). Hoping for anything before that is, in my opinion, getting your hopes up for nothing. I'm sure they're as frustrated at the situation as we are, but don't forget - there are probably legal or PR reasons for not responding that we're not privy to. I don't see Bioware as a company that just 'ignores' it's fans - indeed evidence suggests otherwise.
While this is understandable from a business standpoint, that's too late. Next month I will be playing the next shoot-the-aliens videogame because this one is boring me. Next month I will have forgotten about ME3, because this isn't 1999 anymore. This is the age of utilizing nasty business tricks to sell (parts of) video games, the age where you can't buy a second hand game without being locked out of content, the age of pre-order bonusses, empty promises and flat out lies.
What I am saying is, it's up to them to make a move, and they better be quick about it, for their own sake. I can only speak for myself off course, but I am losing interest. Fast. Acting quicker on the current customer dissatisfaction might save them some fans. Legal issues are not OUR issues. If they have some monkey with a tie above them that keeps them from doing their work, then that is their problem. I do not wish to take business or art into consideration at all: I am a consumer that knows jack **** about business or art, nor do I care. I just want to play good games.
1) I bought something, even payed extra money for extra content.
2) I'm not happy with it, so the developers lose credit with me.
3) I will not buy the next BioWare game for the release price.
It is up to them to make this right, if they want to, when they want to, but it is up to me to decide if I want to to through with this as a loyal consumer. And currently I am not. Five years ago I absolutely had to have the latest BioWare RPG. Right now I couldn't care less what BioWare is going to do in the future. It's probably nothing I'm willing to purchase anyway. Sorry for sounding so negative, but that's what exposure to the endings will do with a person.
But can you honestly say that, should Bioware release 'ending DLC' and it's so amazing that everyone raves about it, that you won't download it? If you do, dosn't that render the period you spent ignoring the game/playing something else mute? And surely the next Bioware game, Mass Effect or otherwise, is years off anyway? In that time people will have played other games and moved on anyway, but that dosn't effect the sales of the new title when it comes out.
I'm not sure I'm doing a good job of explaining myself here. I'm not having a go at you, I can sympathise with your feelings, really I can - it's not my intention to dismiss them as irrevlevant either. All I'm trying (failing?) to say is that, time tends to mellow people's opinions. I can imagine that a lot of people saying "I'll never buy another Bioware game again!" could be putting their cash down when the next title drops in a few years time, or when the next bit of DLC for ME3 comes out (assuming it's any good).
Blerg, that dosn't really say what I wanted it to say. Sorry. I think I'm running out of coffee my end...
No problem, I understand where you are coming from. But yes, within 3 months this game will have lost all relevance. I dislike DLC in any form, in retrospect I probably should have waited untill ME2 had released all of it'd DLC. As I said I have 6 imports, which have al ran through ME1 and ME2.
Then Overlord hits. I did the same mission on 6 carreers.
Then LotSB hits. I did the same mission on 6 carreers.
Then Arrival hits. I did the same mission on 6 carreers.
They are experienced as seperate 'adventures' if you buy the game new and wait for DLC. Had I bought the game half a year later for a bargain price, I'd have a single, fluid experience. So yeah, I can honestly say I am not planning on buying any BioWare products for full price anymore. In case they do release some ME3 DLC that 'solves everything' I'd probably buy it yes... due to previous investments... but it won't affect my decision to stop buying BW games at full price. They are just being grouped together with other 'meh' developers of which I buy games once they hit the 30 euro mark.
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