Mass Effect: Deception update?

#51
Ajensis

Posté 28 mai 2013 - 07:42

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This whole Deception thing has made me realise that I need some better perspective on the video game franchise and their developers. Hopefully someone here can help me out: are Bioware being inconsiderate and "bad", or is this a rather common thing to happen in this business, and pretty innocuous in the grand scheme of things? It's so easy to think 'Bioware treat the fans badly, saying they'll rewrite Deception and then not doing anything and not informing us', but maybe it's just what anyone else would've done too. Not that it justifies misinformation and/or lack of information, just trying to see the bigger picture here :-)

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#52
JamesFaith

Posté 28 mai 2013 - 02:51

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Ajensis wrote...

This whole Deception thing has made me realise that I need some better perspective on the video game franchise and their developers. Hopefully someone here can help me out: are Bioware being inconsiderate and "bad", or is this a rather common thing to happen in this business, and pretty innocuous in the grand scheme of things? It's so easy to think 'Bioware treat the fans badly, saying they'll rewrite Deception and then not doing anything and not informing us', but maybe it's just what anyone else would've done too. Not that it justifies misinformation and/or lack of information, just trying to see the bigger picture here :-)

I wouldn't blame BW so fast.

Re-edition of Deception need co-operation of four subjects - BW, EA, William Dietz (if corrected version, not whole rewrite) and book publisher. Book can stuck on any of these subject and probably no one would openly admit which one because it should cause some bad blood between them.

So BW should mean their promise honest but there should be other problems which they can't solve personally.

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#53
durasteel

Posté 12 décembre 2013 - 09:04

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I would guess that BioWare probably did their edits and corrections quickly, but that the publisher is not very eager to release another edition of a book that only sold a few hundred copies. The reviews on Amazon and B&N were brutal, and quickly included the info that the publisher had apologised and that corrections were promised. Who would buy a book after seeing that?