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Veggiesofmanycolors wrote...
He and Bioware have worked so hard to appease angry fans with the ending. He even went so far as to make the clarification DLC free but now everyone is being so mean to him. It must feel so terrible to have your fans turn their backs on you even though you try so hard to win back their support.
I don't hold any ill will towards the man, indeed I respect his many accomplishments, but I don't feel much sympathy at all.
In the end, both Mr. Hudson and Mr. Walters are receiving EXACTLY what they desired. They specifically intended for there to be "lots of speculation from everyone", and they received it in spades. Having done no focus testing, and if Final Hours is to be believed even cutting out most of the writing staff from the development of the ending (not to mention the faux pas of leaving the ending to the last minute), it's not as if either of them are unfamiliar with the often tumultuous relationship between game developers and gaming fans in general, nor with Mass Effect fans in particular. If they lacked the foresight to consider the unintended consequences of their conscious decisions, that's their failing and being the seasoned writers/developers they are, they certainly are experienced enough to have been able to predict the possibity of how people are currently reacting.
"He" even went so far as to make the clarification DLC free? Any proof on that? Since we're swapping suppositions here, I'd bet a chunk of change that decision was made in the PR / Marketing departments. Mostly for reasons that have been hashed over in the dozens of threads since the announcement.
I'd actually argue that the fans have not realistically heard anything, much less anything substantive, from anyone on the development team whatsoever. When you look at the messages (I hesitate to call them conversations, as that implies a state of duplex communications), the fans have for all intents and purposes really only heard from the PR department. Which is the further reason I don't feel sorry for Mr. Hudson, and why I disagree with the assertion of "try so hard to win back their support". If they really were trying that hard, then they wouldn't have immediately punted everything over to PR and ran silent/deep. They'd have been at least somewhat engaged in the process. If they really were trying that hard, then the BioWare PR department wouldn't still be calling the shots at this point in the game. Nor would they have dropped the "No ending/ending DLC discussion at PAX" hammer at nearly the last minute.
To be blunt.....they intentionally set in motion the events that led to the current mess, and are more than experienced enough to have been able to predict it. Not sure why that deserves sympathy. If you get bitten by a dog, you won't garner much sympathy when that event started with "well, I did kick him in the nose"...
Since we're still swapping suppositions, I'm honestly left with the impression that they hold more than a small amount of contempt for the fans who have issue with the ending, maybe even stoked a bit by the embers of ill will regarding the script leak brouhaha late last year. Which, to be perfectly honest, they have every right to feel that way. I just wish (and if this were two years or more ago I would have expected) that they could at least be open and honest about it, instead of hiding behind their PR department or tired claims of "artistic integrity".
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