Greylycantrope wrote...
CronoDragoon wrote...
In fact, most people are either satisfied or happy with the EC:
www.gamezone.com/products/mass-effect-3/news/majority-of-fans-satisfied-with-mass-effect-3-extended-cut
based on one poll, which asked if it met expectations, not about satisfaction.
Yeah, there were other polls on here where fans were ok with the EC or liked it and it was not the majority just loved it. The thing is a lot of people had low expectations for the EC and I followed an awful lot of pre-EC and post-EC threads and comments about it here and on other sites and the comments were not glowing. Some were really happy with it, but that was not universal. Some said it was better, but not what they wanted. Some said it made the ending playable and at last they could finish and sell it. A lot of this type of sentiment. And I'm being serious.
In page after page of comments on the EC, some said it was great, and when I asked what people really liked about it, I got 3 responses. 2 said they really liked having more explanation and it didn't fall off a cliff like the originals. 1 said he had played ME1 and 2 awhile back and didn't really care that much about the story so it didn't matter what he picked at the end. Others that appreciated the endings posted and said they loved being reaper god, thought it was cool what EDI said in synthesis, that they might become immortal, and there were a lot of comments in this vein.
On other websites there were a lot of "too little, too late" comments. When Leviathan was announced, I went to a bunch of different websites and a lot of comments were of the kind saying "I'm done with ME, so why now?" or "pretty pointless" and some saying, "cool, more ME". After Leviathan, review sites tended to give it about 7.5 out of 10 and reviewers said, "meh", or said something along the line of, "I'm not saying don't buy it because it has great visuals", it was compared to a shooter, and some said it was pointless if you'd already played the ending.
Comments on Leviathan on a lot of sites, ranged from people saying they had played ME3 through once and were going to play ME1 and 2 next for the first time to others saying they thought ME3 was already done, to others saying they finished it a long time ago and were done. Some did really like the shooting and the husk head and underwater scenes.
All of the things in quotes, to be fair and up front are not direct quotes and are paraphrased. I know I'm not the most objective person, but I truly did try to characterize this as best I could with exactly what I read. It is anecdotal, but it does indicate that a vocal population does still have issues.
My point here is not to bash ME3 or Leviathan, it is to say that there is still a large group of people that don't just love it all. Any company that ignores that and any fan that won't see it, might find the fanbase has greatly changed. Now, BW may want that. This whole debacle might have been a way to judge if an MMO would better suit them and if a new group of fans might want an MMO with microtransactions. I guarantee that people that disliked the original and EC endings don't tend to want an MMO and are ok with MP, but not if it impacts SP.
I'm just saying there are indications that some (perhaps a lot) of people that liked the endings want more of an action and less of a story RPG. Yes, my opinion but it fits everything I have read. There are others that like them too, but given what BW hoped ME3 would be, a lot of this fits, and they were very interested in an MMO before The Old Republic's problems.
I think we can still try and voice our opinions that we want ME to continue with rich stories and characters, but in order to bring others back or even keep those still waiting who want that, it's a positive move to at least look at the franchise and what people liked.
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