Do you work for EA? Fact is we all paid $60 for the game and are buying DLC is we chose to. Maybe if EA wasn't milking this game and driving away their fans, they wouldn't need a subscription fee and would be able to count on more people buying DLC. Instead, they do things that make people boycott or lose interest, and then seek to recoup losses by scamming the people who remain.
Rented servers still out of control. Where's the incentive to get this service when abusive raging teen admins kick/ban you from every game you play because you killed the admin? Will this premium service allow you to not get kicked/banned? Rip-off either way. RIP BF3, you used to be a fav.
Looks like LucasArts is joining EA in the corporate takeover of creative game making. Won't be getting Battlefront 3 but we sure will be seeing Call Of Duty 12 before long. Video games as art? Yeah, about as much as recent movies... and their endless generic remakes and spin-offs...
I love how gamespot is only showing twitter feed from Pro-Bioware people who do not want the ending changed. Like that's going to convince all of us, "oh ok I guess the ending wasn't bad, it was good! Because it was art or something!" No, it was false advertising on a gimmick that was not in the game. That is why people are outraged, not because they just didn't like where it went or disagree with the artist's views. As if gamespot wouldn't be outraged if they ordered what was promised to be a copy of the Mona Lisa but the artist sent a 5-minute doodle of the trollface emoticon and said "Don't be outraged at my artistic vision."
All we gamers wanted was for Bioware to keep their promise of having our choices matter. Even 3-4 minutes of narrative at the end describing what happens to the Alliance, Krogan, Quarian/Geth, etc..- even just 3 minutes of that would have satisfied most people. Bioware couldn't even do that, and falsely advertised it's "choice" gimmick as proven by the game's linear quests and unchanging cutscenes. Gamespot, stop defending Bioware and admit that it isn't about "opinion" but about Bioware failing to live up to their own promises.
The fact is, most gamers and I are not necessarily mad about the ending; it is the fact that Bioware promised us that our choices would matter and our Shepard would be unique, and then it turns out that they lied. Their whole selling point was that the story would be based on player decisions; but it turns out that the ending was just a generic sham that did not deliver on that selling point. I consider this false advertising and no different than if another game promised a unique feature of some kind that flat-out was NOT in the game. Like if COD multiplayer was missing it's killstreak rewards or if Starcraft 2 was suspiciously missing the Zerg race. I hope Bioware fixes this somehow. The anger over the ending isn't a matter of entitlement, it's a matter of falsely promising content in a game that never actually happens. They promised a story that would be molded on "thousands of variables" but this did not happen. I'll not be buying any other RPG games from Bioware or any associated company again.
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