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 Uh... So the DLC was as advertised, just like I feared. The smart move would no doubt have been to retcon like crazy (well, even more), all the while insisting that the company's trust in the team's vision remains unshakable and that's how everything was supposed to turn out in the end anyway, but unfortunately the realities of the market forced a rushed release. But evidently it was all worth betting grandma's farm on.

Ok, let's get this out of the way. The added scenes did manage to somehow improve the original Destroy ending (not the Synthesis one though; the sight of Reapers walking old ladies across busy intersections will haunt my nightmares for a long time yet) but does little to address the fundamental flaw in the whole edifice, that being of course the unyielding holding up of the cold insanity of the grand Starchild plan as a somehow worthy finale for the series. Not being a big philosophy buff, I no doubt cannot grasp the elegance an overworked and sleep-deprived writer might convince himself to see in this last-minute Hegelian twist, but hey: if you have to force it, the dialectic is not sound. The Universe just sprang it on Shep 'cuz he's "The Chosen One" or what? Ugh, that takes me back to the countless very "video-gamey" video games where I spent the whole playthrough wishing NPC's would shut the hell up about ancient prophecies and such and grant me some agency in matters. As Kant would have it, we cannot be sure we have free will, but assuming we do is surely the only shot we have of living meaningfully.

Anyway, it strikes me that BioWare, while trumpeting the "unprecedentedly awesome audience reaction" for ME3 betray a worrying lack of seeing any distinction between getting people to react to their product and simply getting a rise out of them, and it suddenly and bewilderingly seems that maybe the company that created all those stories I loved apparently doesn't have any deeper insight into the nature of their own medium than. well, anyone really. If games are art, what kind of art are they exactly? And if the whole series barring the ending was carefully vetted by a (for lack of a better term) committee of writers, would it not mean that excluding that part of the "author" is in fact compromising the integrity of the work?

Sorry about rambling etc., but this whole episode has been weirdly hurtful for me, and apparently plenty of other people. "Butthurt" you say? Soulsick, more like. In any case, the whole debacle has seemed significant in some ways I guess we cannot quite see yet. I guess one factor in it is seeing how "the market" respond to these events. Probably worth observnig for studentsand professionals of such things.