Shinobu wrote...
- Because many people have not been playing the SP campaign, EA may have the mistaken impression that SP is a "lost cause" and so may not fund the Ending DLC properly -- especially since they are committed to giving it to us for free.
Honestly... at this point i couldn't care less about it. As you said.. its their best and last chance to get me back as a customer, but this also implies they already have lost me as a customer.
I am waiting the whole thing out and i don't care if they give it their all or only half-a** it. This extended cut will decide wheter i am buying future Bioware products without waiting for prices to drop to 2nd hand deals or glowing customer reviews. They are giving it us for free, so i am willing to listen to what they have to say.
The thing is.. i don't plan to goad EA into giving them fundings by doing anything more than i already did. Why? Because if they don't care right now to do it properly, they won't do their next thing properly.
ME3 isn't the first game they screwed up. I didn't care for how ME2 felt rushed, because i thought they did ME2 in the way they did it, so we don't needed to go through introduction processes for ME3. So we wouldn't need to build up and upgrade our Ship and whatnot. Maybe we'd get a cool hideout if you don't destroy the collector base or something... but well thing is.. ME2 felt rushed to me, but i didn't care, because i thought it was a plan.
Then there was Dragon Age 2. Which didn't even just make me feel like it was rushed because the story wasn't up to their game, but because the whole thing was a rush job from start to the end. Its level design was horrible, its story fell appart in the last act. I couldn't bring myself to care about the characters, i was forced into situations where i had to be a jerk to gay people because i didn't want to be gay, and basically the game was just substandard. I've actually seen Indi Companies produce higher quality games.
Now there is ME3, which was a good game for most part until they decided to flush the whole Series down the toilet. From what they said we'd get and what we got in the end i can only say "it was rushed, otherwise there is no reason an ending which is everything they promised over and over again it wouldn't be".
So quite frankly, if they don't make good on their word now with the Extended edition and give it their all, i am done with them. I am actually already done with them, they scammed me out of my money for DA2 and ME3.. and without titles like DA:O, Jade Empires, KOTOR and others i would have already walked away. I had probably told people not to buy it, like i did, and that would have been the extend of it. Only because i enjoyed a lot of their past works i am still here and giving them a change to turn it around.
This isn't me feeling entitled to something, this is me being scammed into buying something i wouldn't have bought if i had known the state it was in before i bought it. This is me being upset you buy a cat in a bag with Videogames and getting told i am a whining crybaby for complaining if the cat turned out to be a rat.
So their extended edition is their chance to make it up to me. I give them that chance. I don't expect them to take it and i won't go out of a limb to help them. I already accepted that Bioware isn't what it used to be anymore. There are a lot of other companies that i can pay money for my entertainment. And anyway.. Bioware isn't a singular studio anymore. Since 2009 they are just a branch of EA.. EA merged Bioware and Mythic into their RPG and MMO devision. So its not like there is some sort of Studio left. Not like it used to be at least.
Besides, even if they give it their best and it doesn't meet my expectations i will walk away anyway. It doesn't matter either way. If i like it i stay, if not i am gone. Simple as that. If they don't give it their all, i can't expect them to give their best with the next product either. The extend of the Extended Cut decides what i believe i can expect from Bioware in the future.
EA not funding them properly? Well then thats what i can expect with future titles as well. More Rushjobs and underfunded projects. So whats the point in trying to show EA anything?
They do or they don't.. there is no try with this one. No failsave, no third chance. They set it right or we part ways. No hard feelings. Its not like they need my purchase anyway.
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