chidingewe8036 wrote...
If the fanbase remains divided on this topic the result will be a mediocre game, with mediocre reviews, mediocre profit, a mediocre story, and a mediocre following.
1) Some want Shepard back
2) Some want ME4 to be a prequel
3) Some want ME4 to be set millions of years in the future or whatever that is all about
4) Some want to play as Liara, Wrex, and Thane's races ummmmm ok whatever
5) Some don't give a crap anymore
6) and some seem as though they want a brand new look to Mass Effect
as long as this remains the issue Bioware will do whatever they want to do and deliver some half arsed forced trilogy with the Mass Effect title slapped on it that will dissolve into mediocrity, not a really good starting point for the next game.
I am just one voice but I really hope for all of our sakes that the Mass Effect fanbase and Bioware themeselves thread carefully with this one, we don't want a repeat ME3. ME3 has more flaws than it has good qualities and if they are not addressed by it's creators the next game will be MEDIOCRE at best.
What is that Garrus said? Yell loud enough and............well if you played the game you know the rest 
Well, good luck. The fanbase was pretty coherent and mostly agreed on things (900 plus pages in the We Are Listening stickied thread of people mostly agreeing on major points) with the original endings and we got the EC. The EC did essentially nothing but attempt to make the endings feel better. They added a few things that to me are pretty much meaningless because the endings are basically the same with a bit more chit chat from the kid. And they retconned a lot of what they said was meant to happen, still not fixing one major flaw in all that retconning (ruptured mass relay in Destroy ending that should screw the Sol system). They added "happy" effects, muted down the straight up RGB effect (though in the files the endings are called red, green, blue) and added in some things to make it seem better. But the endings are the same things as they originally were.
In fact, there's been a lot of cohesiveness and agreement on things that has been straight up ignored, so I'm sorry but thinking that even trying to do so now is a lost cause. I know, I tried it. I asked everyone to consider compromise and to try to work together to get everyone back to the same point-fans would consider paying for optional DLC to fix their game and make their desire for any additional DLC more likely. Bioware would consider looking at the debacle with new eyes and try and put all the hurt and anger in the past. Fans that like their endings would not protest or throw fits if Bioware decided to appease others that want something different.
For this, I got called selfish and all kinds of names. Some of the most idiotic things I've ever heard on this forum were said-things I consider idiotic. It was said people would hate that because if it was a happier ending (not sappy happy, not Disney, not bunnies and rainbows) it would become canon because too many people would want it (hmm, in most businesses this means money and if true it means that people do not like what they now have).
Or, some said they wouldn't buy it, and wouldn't want it made, because it would ruin their own game just because it exists, even if they never saw it-that one makes real sense to me (not). Some talked themselves into circles and ended up agreeing with me, but could not admit it so they left and came back to start up a different line of protest. Some who even had threads where they made suggestions to Bioware for DLC, said that it was wrong for me to ask because Bioware does not take suggestions. I can't deal with this level of irrationality. It's not my reality. In my world, people make sense. Trust me, if I were happy with these endings, and others were not, I'd want them to have what they'd like as well. If I'm having fun, I want it to be shared by others. But some people are actually not very nice people in my book and have no idea how selfish they appear to be nor how irrational. And the majority of the people in the thread, agreed with me.
I give kudos to the idea of actually trying to form a consensus and to try and get people to work together, but no matter what you do even if everyone is united behind one idea (not ever going to happen because people like different things), Bioware will ultimately do what they have most likely already made up their minds to do. They are giving you the illusion of choice, but you have no choice here. You have no impact. In fact, if you say you would really like A and B to happen, but please never do C and D, you will get C and D. They seem to really have a very poor ability to understand the things they have "listened" to.
You must understand that big companies like EA hire people to determine what customers will like. And they look at where the money is in the industry. They erroneously think that other than Sports games what will sell well into the future are FPSs that are light on story and heavy on "action". And the fact that Montreal will be making ME4 does not give me any hope.
Modifié par 3DandBeyond, 17 décembre 2012 - 03:19 .
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