I don't care who I'm giving my money to, but I want all my games in one space. I begrudgingly opened up an account on GOG because they have a lot of the games steam is missing, but I don't want to go any further than that. Uplay can go suck it! So can Origin. And so can MS if they go the same route. Steam beat you all to the punch.
@N30F3N1X:Okay, so we differ a bit. I didn't feel ME3 was full of plotholes. The only gripe I had about the game was the ending. It wasn't until after I completed it (I embargoed all net traffic on the game so as to avoid spoilers and being influenced by the opinion of others) that I found out a large number of gamers took issue with other aspects of the game.
Frankly, I thought the actual gameplay was the best in the series. The writing wasn't as good as ME2, but still held up. Still wish there were more RPG elements in it, but I'm okay that they focused on a different path. Though, I'm still hoping Andromeda leans more heavily towards RPG.
Also, making the Crucible a "giant cannon of flaming anal doom" would pretty much be a DEM anyway....
This is similar to another project I'm following, Star Citizen, where Chris Roberts says the game's real money for in-game money isn't pay-to-win because you can only buy stuff that you can get in the game.
That will always be, in my mind, pay-to-win regardless. Anything that influences your advantage over other players, that you've purchased outside the mechanics of the game, is pay-to-win. And stating otherwise is just an attempt to cover your ass and not alienate players, while still leaving the door open to those micro-transactions. So they frame it as "pay to reduce the grind". Ugh....
The only people who should be sorry for ME3's ending are the director and anyone else who had a role in defining it. Frankly, most of the devs should be just upset as these guys as we are, if not more so.
While I don't have the visceral hate for the ending some do, it was still highly disappointing, especially after such a great game, and series of games.
Their first mistake was making the Reapers so invincible that they needed a deus ex machina so solve the corner they wrote themselves into, thereby the negating the epic clash that could have been based on your war assets, fully and physically represented on screen...which is what I thought we were going to get.
The obvious other problem -- which they should absolutely have realized was a problem -- was that your choices didn't actually play a role in the final outcome of the game. I mean, that was the whole point, wasn't it?
I still say Mass Effect is one of the greatest series I've ever played, and I actually see ME3 as the pinnacle of the series pre-ending. That's why the ending will always hurt.
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