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[Rayne Tempura]

Dear BioWare

I am not sure if this is the appropriate forum for this post, but seeing as how it concerns all future games, I thought perhaps it wouldn't be wrong of me to post here. Let me start off by saying I adore your company and I love your games. Like most people, I was upset by some choices you guys made, but that hasn't made me less of a fan. What I would really love to see from you in the future is... stop making a canon version of your stories. Your games are designed in such a wonderful way that the player gets to create his/her own character and experience their very own story by making a myriad of unique choices. When you turn around and make a canon version of that experience, it takes away the value of my experience.

Not to mention, I do not think these video games need to be books or comics. Creating books and comics about other characters and aspects of the universe is one-hundred percent awesome and everyone loves that, especially those of us writing fanfiction and other stories set in that universe. However, a solid story based on what you already told us through the game that turns around and solidifies events to have gone a certain way... that is not okay.

I understand if it must be done in certain universes, such as Star Wars,  but when they are worlds of your own devising, I see no reason to cement anything about it except the overarching plot. A warden killed the archdemon. Shepard stopped the reapers. I'm not sure if you were required by TSR or WotC or whoever was in charge at that time to create a canon version of the Baldur's Gate saga or not, but it happened and it was, frankly, horrible. Not to mention, making canon alienates in some way a portion of your audience. I'm a girl and my primary playthrough is always as a female, so when something gets turned canon and gender gets decided, it's almost always a male. I am not suggesting sexism is at work or anything, or that I'd be happy if one or two heroes were females. That's not it at all. I'd be happy if canon was taken away completely.

I really have no intention of ranting about my opinions or belittling someone else's choices, and if that is what came out then I am truly sorry I was unable to present my side in a respectful manner. I just wanted to say that, from my perspective, the stories are wonderful as they are. Every time you turn something from the game into canon, I feel like I lose pieces of my own experience, like you gave me this wonderful story and are now taking it away as it happened for me. So, in the future, please consider changing how you canonize your stories.

Thanks very much for your time,
Rayne

[David Gaider]

Rayne Tempura wrote...
Not to mention, I do not think these video games need to be books or comics. Creating books and comics about other characters and aspects of the universe is one-hundred percent awesome and everyone loves that, especially those of us writing fanfiction and other stories set in that universe. However, a solid story based on what you already told us through the game that turns around and solidifies events to have gone a certain way... that is not okay.

How do any of the books or comics "solidify events to have gone a certain way"?

Wynne is alive in DA: Asunder. If she died in your game, she'll still be dead in future games... and the events of DA: Asunder will either never have happened or have happened in a different fashion. The events of the comics and novels do not dictate what occurs or has occurred in your personal game continuuity... and isn't that what you mean by "canon"?

Modifié par David Gaider, 14 janvier 2013 - 10:24 .

[David Gaider]

nightscrawl wrote...
As long as you're here... is there any way I can get you to comment on the canonicity of the prequel novels? It doesn't seem as if players mention this very often, being more concerned with conflicts with their own games, which as you've explained, isn't an issue.

The two prequel novels are canon-- there is nothing for them to conflict with.

And it is fine to assume that, if your particularly playthrough matches up with the events depicted in Asunder or the comics, those  events occurred in the way they're portrayed and will be treated as such in future games. If your particular playthrough does not, then those events either happened differently or not at all. In a game we have the luxury of that kind of variability. In either case, you'll only see how it works once DA3 comes out.