I have no problem with any of the above nor to I hate Mass Effect 3 itself. The ending, maybe 1% of the entire game at most, is total garbage. The rest of it is brilliant!

1) "It cannot be altered or deleted." Fallout 3 had a DLC which changed the ending of that game. ME2 had many DLCs which both made additions and changes to the game. It CAN be changed, deleted, or done anything else they wanted to do with it. 2) "If BioWare does change the end...expression of its original creators." These games have been about the choices and direction the PLAYER takes Shepard. This has included different possible endings in both prior games. Nothing was set in as an artistic expression or vision of the creator 3) "Gamers are audiences, and Mass Effect 3 is a piece of art." A game is not a piece of art. I can't see the argument, especially in the ME series, to say otherwise. Further, some movies have alternate endings. So even in narrative art there are changes to better connect to the target audience. 4) "As paying consumers..." Yes, but BioWare and EA are not artiest, they are for profit companies. ME3 has been out only a week and the price has already dropped. DLCs have been a further source of income for the company. Unless the DLC changes the ending, they would throw sales as those who find the ending so bad will not buy one unless it is to change the ending. at $10 each at comes to over $400,000 per DLC. This is not art but a product. When a product is found to be defective, the producer has the choice between changing it or losing sales. Most companies trying to make a profit, especially in this economy, don't see losing sales as good.

Not just for XBox, have played the PC Demo though twice and continuously more excited about the upcoming release :)

@demi_veritaz, that is entirely by the dealers, not Microsoft. Each computer shot decides on their own what they want preinstalled on their computers. My company has preinstalled Windows XP on every system until now, which now preinstalls Windows 7 on every system. MS may be underhanded at times, but in this case it isn't them doing it it's the shops not wanting to give a good service to their customers.

I've been trying out Windows 7 and even in Beta 1 it is FAR better than Vista SP2 and XP (Even with a free Vista from MS for testing I use XP). Unless MS totally screws up this will rock!

Right, get firefox if you want to open your system wide to malware getting in. Was this artical witten by hijacker programers?

Vista will be good, but right now it is not something to get. There is much work that needs to be done with driver support and most software will not take advantage of any of the features Vista brings. To start the only versions to consider are 64 bit as that is Vista's design and the 32 bit versions are slower then XP, by a large amount in some cases. So unless you have 64 bit hardware there is no point in even looking at it. In 6 months to a year then is the time to start considering it. Gamespot in off in one minor area, Basic is actually the version that most users will be using as it has all of the actual benifits Vista brings while the other "higher" version only add extras that are of no real benefit to most users.

I'd really want them to bring back the Microsoft Force Feedback 2 Joystick.