Eh, that could also just be them doing some PR work to try and salvage a bad situation.I think the big thing that points to the fanwank maybe having some basis, is that Bioware people have mentioned that if players knew what was coming (DLC-wise, I assume), they would have had a completely different reaction to the ending. Which leaves you wondering what exactly this upcoming thing would add that would change a person's reaction to the ending.
Also, the Cruicible/Catalyst controls were on the outside of the station, right? Wouldn't that require that Shep be wearing a helmet, etc? Or did they add magic atmosphere bubble over that area?
Bioware's free SWTOR weekend and Operation Goliath then came out right after this post, tracking right along with the 'distracting olive branch' step of the process.Posted this yesterday, I'll repost here. Hope it helps to see what's on the other side of the mirror atm.
I don't think Bioware is out of touch with their customers though I agree with an earlier poster that right now they are assessing their options. Nor do I think that everyone speaking up for them at the moment is a "yes man" or shill. That said:
I don't for a moment think there are any other endings, this was a hallucination, etc. Bioware/EA is letting these speculations go on for two reasons. First, they are letting people vent. Secondly, they are weighing options.
Years ago, I worked for a PR damage control team and everything right now is going by the book. First, re-affirm and ignore (also known as doubling down), then try and define the detractors in the mainstream with things like "this is all a big mistunderstand", etc. while remaining civil in the hopes the detractors go rabid. Meanwhile go dark and use countermeasures through third part sources to prop up your position and brand the outcry as driven by hacks, haters or a minority trying to wear out the detractors on these outlets or "shock troops" while protecting the corporate core. Next, offer something distracting (notice SWTOR is free this upcoming weekend) known as the "faux olive branch"/ask the angry people to explain their concerns (without agreeing to commit to a compromise), buy more add time (definitely going on right now), and hope it dies down. If the pressure is still on, determine the economic viability of 1) ignoring the outcry and banking on the fickle nature of consumers to get over it or 2) determining if we can make money off of fixing it.
If it is any consolation, the decision whether or not there is a fix DLC, etc, won't be made by the writers so illusions to things they wanted to convey don't matter much atm (to wit: the leads comments yesterday). I suspect he's been called in and politely told by the PR guys to not do that again. This is now a corporate problem, not an artistic struggle with fans. Somewhere in the EA bunker, attorneys, PR guys, writers and brass are sharing numbers b/c in the end this will come down to hard currency.
As one who despises the endings, I'm hoping the suits tell the visionaries that the customers are loud enough and numerous enough to swollow their pride and get them out of this storm. For those that love them, I readily accept your position and respectfully disagree.
I actually meant writing a completely separate story entirely. Scrap all of ME3 and just expand on the canvas left from ME1 and ME2.
Wait, what the SMURFING SMURF?!?[biod_end002_600epilogue_loc_int.end004_finale_v_d.end004_finale_v_dlg]
1: We see a child, maybe they look a little bit asari, a little bit human. They are looking at the stars on a planet some 10,000 years after the events of the game.
2: There is an older male here as well, the child looks to the "grandfather" and asks...
Uh, what? A guy blogging about his cat can qualify under the First Amendment. It ain't exactly restricted only to things of alleged artistic merit.I'm kinda torn on the "It's art" issue. On the one hand, we desperately want games to be treated as art so that they would fall under the First Amendment.
Somebody pointed out on rpg.net that both the Control and the Synthesis endings are Shepard deciding that one of the villains was right all along! Both villains being guys who were indoctrinated but didn't think they were!A friend of mine had a discussion over why she liked the ending while I hated it, and her counter-argument to the lack of change between the three choices was, "But they're huge changes! Destroying the Reapers is totally different from combining organics and synthetics."
Uh-huh. Gee, how wonderful, that one ending requires me to genocide an ally, and the other two require me to abandon what I believe in and start flying the banners of either one or the other indoctrinated puppet.I'm not doing this for myself! My way is the only way any of us will survive. I'm forging an alliance between us and the Reapers, between organics and machines! And in doing so, I will save more lives than have ever existed!
--Saren, on Virmire
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