Gigamantis wrote...
Again, I want Bioware to ignore tantrums and bully tactics, but that's what the majority of this movement was. I do think they should acknowledge the constructive fans, few they may be, but they should do what is most creatively satisfying. The fans ideas, honestly, have been absolutely horrible for the most part so hopefully they're not actually being considered as appeasement.
Also, the precedent it sets is for boring formulaic games that try not to upset anyone. That's fine in the short term but gets boring really fast. Any company that wants to have any kind of future needs to let the creative people be creative. That means that while they can acknowledge their uncreative fans they still need to let the actual creative people work uninhibited.
Okay, I hear you. I believe you have have concern from a good place in your heart. But my friend, I think you are over-worried about an out-come that is highly unlikely.
With all the information floating around about the ending, and the happenings going on. Really, this isn't the case of someone being creative, or stepping outside the box intentionally for an artistic deal. In the making of, which I wish I had a link to back me up, I have heard that the ending was litteraly changed at the last possible minute and made off of one written sentence. That being "Make an ending to make them think"
Now, you're probably going to say "Well, that's artistic". No, it's not. In this kind of situation you put someone on the spot, forcing them to whip something together and gave them no detail to work on.
In all the stuff I learned in the trade I wished to make my own, that being artist, one thing I learned was irrefutable. Detail. You have to give DETAILS. When working with other artists in a project, when being commissioned, whatever, you need details. Otherwise, you have nothing to go on other then speculation and personal tastes. And that doesn't fly when you work for others.
And when it comes to big time project's more detail is required. Otherwise you end up with a big mess.
Most people are correct, this whole thing with the ending of Mass Effect 3 doesn't fit properly. It turns the whole game on its head and stops making any form of coherent sense. Almost exactly like a dream. And the way it abruptly stops just doesn't fit the way the series has been building up. In other words it's a mess as it stands.
Now, we've heard all sorts of stuff, that they were rushed, and that this was the plan all along, conspiracy theories. We've heard vague PR responses, and seen nightmarish ammounts anger, hate and ego from both sides of the spectrum.
But y'know, those response's were coming from people who deny, deny, deny, and then whatever it is comes out anyway. So, odds are this was probably going to happen anyhow.
But setting a bad prescendent?, no, game's are already doing that. The worst companies make the same half-hearted quick-buck grabbing games all the time, and they would keep doing that even if this whole ME3 mess happened or not. Why?, because they see a market there, and people are buying.
At this point, I think everyone is just letting emotions run high. Especially here where a newspaper, which is probably behind on its information just repeated everything we already heard.
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