bjdbwea wrote...
I still have not fully discarded the theory that EA holds a grudge against Liara because of the media campaign against ME 1. I don't even know much about that whole debacle, but didn't they especially cite the Liara romance? EA doesn't like bad PR, like any company. We will see soon enough if there's anything to that theory.
You have a good point there and is something I've thought about previously. The question is how much is it a drving factor coming from EA and how much is it just BW not standing up to protect their work/character? Don't know the answer to that.
I think it is more likely EA would have said said "no more nude scenes" and less likely they said "no more Liara", however if the decision was made by BW I could see them using an "out" with the current Liara story to remove the f/f romance option from the game.
That said, EA certainly does impose release dates, and which content to outsource into comics for example. Depending on when these decisions were made, there could just not have been enough time for the developers to do anything different. Plus, don't forget that the problems started way earlier. The decision was made not to produce an actual second part of a trilogy, but to make ME 2 a completely new game. I have little doubt that this would not have been the decision of the "little" people who actually worked on ME 1, and obviously cared so much about it. That the gentlemen in charge at BioWare don't care that much was obvious when they sold out.
All true, though while EA will certainly drive them to a release date I doubt they care much which content gets cut to make that happen. I also would have doubts that EA is responsible for the gimmick of intrducing the suicide mission, though I suppose it could have come from them. Whatever the case, it is clear that a "decision maker" somewhere along the line said "this shall be" and whatever the real sequel that the "little" people as you mentioned originally had in mind was lost.
But as far as I know, this topic isn't well liked in this forums, and it's already somewhat off-topic, so I'll leave it at that.
Meh, like I care what the forum does/doesn't like. Besides its not like devs or mods actually read these threads.