ld1449 described precisely what pissed up the fans.
The whole marketing of "we can't open precedents of customers commanding the direction of authors" when various developers already changed their scripts due to backlashes, and we even have one precedent more than a century long, that is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Then the veiled offense in the excuse for "Extended Cut", in which Bioware practically threw at our faces how stupid we were, and it was then reinforced by Twitter, by stating that it was "clarification". Extended cut was a gift to the people with limited minds that didn't get the obvious. Just go back and read Muzyka's letter.
Speaking of him, Zeschuk and Muzyka started the move to put their money on their pockets and leave in April. Zeschuk even moved back.And guess what happened? Both him and Muzyka stated in April they weren't going anywhere. They had no plans of leaving Bioware. Again, check your own blogs, and you will see Muzyka lying at our faces in April, and then 6 months later, admitting he filed his resign letter before posting the blog.
By the way, point me another developer that have their representatives avoiding the public. No chats, no presence on their own boards, not even the comments open on their own blog. Only Twitter, where they can erase anything they don't like. The situation is so bad that not even their own Community Managers are allowed to chat with them, making people like Priestly have to
guess what to tell constantly, this last year. It was visible how he and Merizan were kept as much in the dark as us, during EC production.
And then came Omega.... Seriously, what do we have to take on a DLC with no ramifications in its self-cointained story, with no new squadmate, and full of bugs, that could only come from non-paid interns works. All of this for the highest price EVER on a DLC.
That doesn't even make sense.If Bioware is in need for money, they should charge LESS. It's a Downloadable Software, you don't print, you don't pack, you don't transport. You make a SINGLE UNIT, and customers copy themselves on their own hardware. Selling 500,000 for 560BP is a greater profit than 20,000 for 1200BP. Because the total costs remain THE SAME, and the income INCREASES.
We can still presenting the lies and traps, as the "no need for multiplayer for better ending", that was later fixed, and then retconned as if it was ALWAYS that way. Was not.
But Better not to elongate this post. ld1449 already summed the greater issues.
Modifié par Optimus J, 05 janvier 2013 - 11:35 .