@TomMcShea but those decisions mearly informed the final choice you made, out of three decisions presented to you that remain static no matter what you do in game. You can go back and replay as another Sheppard making the inverse decisions but that's not going to change red green blue being the options you can take, which isn't what was promised.
@TomMcShea we were promised during various interviews with the development team and on promotional advertisements that we would get different endings based on our choices through at least this game (taking out ME1 and 2 for a minute). Failing to deliver that with three endings, the choice of which are in no way defined or influenced by any choice you have ever made in the game, that is a clear violation of advertising standards laws (or similar whatever your country). That's why there are already people complaining to the bodies that deal with this. On a personal note however if I hadn't been promised any of that i would have just thought bad ending and got on with my life.
This isn't a question of artistic integrity at all, its a question of lying to the people who your trying to sell your game to. This is a legal dispute over false advertising. A dangerous precedent to set indeed, allowing game developers to think they are above consumer protection and fraud laws
Most of the things said to her are really unacceptable and Bioware probably should go after them, you just can't let that kind of behaviour stand. You want to exercise your free speech by abusing someone fine but how about showing your faces? no? There's a word for that cowardice. On the topic of entitlement though, of course gamers have no entitlement to the games we're buying. We are buying a product not shares. However that being said you would have to have zero business sense at all to ignore the constructive criticism that comes your way, especially when it comes from the people who are buying your game. DA2 comes straight to mind where one of the Devs (name slips my mind right now) basically said what we thought didn't matter, sales of it said otherwise. I think that both Devs and gamers need to have a good look at the sort of relationship we have. The direct interaction between companies and players is still fairly new and I hope will mature somewhat and we find our way to a much more constructive relationship (what can I say I'm an optimist)
Right now the biggest thing stopping me from getting vista is the over inflated UK pricing. it costs to upgrade to the ultimate version only $249.99 (£127) in the US but here it costs £236.99 (Prices are off amazon.com and amazon.co.uk). I mean come on do they really expect me to sit here and be so completely ripped off it must surely border on criminal? I understand that they need it to be slightly more expensive than the US version in case the conversion rate changes, but seriously come on twice the cost? how can anybody think that is good business practice.
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