In my defence, I've always taken a "if we say something, read it with a grain of salt" policy because I don't believe anybody should outright believe claims of "sources". And even if we are given information from "sources", there's only so much we can do on our end to verify how correct that information is, and even then it's impossible to know if the sources are correct too (depending on how they got the info, their positions, etc). For the original article (http://www.rocketcha...s-effect-40991/) we also very deliberately labelled it as "Mass Effect 4 rumour roundup", because even though I trust where it came from, I can't see the game for myself and it would be wrong for me to claim I had. I cant verify what I can't verify, even if I can privately verify the persons the info comes from.
The Tomb Raider Xbone/PS4 framerate info is a good example of how sometimes what we're told, while true, doesn't come across as we intended (http://www.rocketcha...tes-revealed/). Generally I was right, and I know for a fact where the info comes from was 100% reliable, but the way it was communicated and my own poor writing had me use "average" in the wrong context (I blame colloquial Australian slang!), leading people to misinterpret the info. In the end, the info was pretty damn close to accurate: Xbone ~30fps, PS4 ~60fps. But the fluctuations in the framerate weren't communicated properly.
Additionally, while some stuff would get a thread on a forum like NeoGAF, I explicitly didn't put this up as a thread because I didn't feel the info was substantial enough. As others have pointed out a lot is already confirmed, heavily hinted, or conjecture based on what we know. Even the more interesting stuff, like a sequel, wasn't outright confirmed to me. It's a lot of fluff. Hence rumour, hence no thread on bigger forums. But I wanted to write about it because, end of the day, I'm an embarrassingly huge Mass Effect and hearing what I heard made me want to share it regardless. And so here we are.
But at the same time, I don't have hard feelings for people who don't want to trust what I've said, because I've been on the opposite side of the fence and usually feel the same way. I hate "sources" because it's vague, empty, easily falsified, egocentric, and overall just bad journalism. But it's also a rock and a hard place, because like you said, I obviously can't reveal the people who say what they say. For that reason I always implore readers of my website and any other website discussing rumours/leaks to take a cautious stance above anything else. Let the track record prove validity, but unless you see/hear/feel it for yourself it always, always pays to take it all with a truckload of salt.
Finally, just want to touch on the PAX thing: I wasn't referring to anything new or upcoming, but the report from a few months ago (not originally mine, even if I did later discuss it) of a private fan event that took place at one of last year's PAX (which we know, for a fact, happened), and the person then spilling beans on the IT forums of what was discussed between the attending group of fans and BioWare staff. The post was later removed, and in all had far more interesting stuff than my wishywashy wall of text, but I wanted to include it because chased it up.
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for all intents and purposes, a completely new setting, seeing as time has brought changes/advancement/allowed for new species to have been contacted.
