Thread: :: [ MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA ] ::

Hur dur. Yeah, but there's no denying that they wanted to distance themselves from the biggest PR disaster they've ever had with the series. Are you really so fucking naive to believe that they didn't give a shit that they were getting blasted over social media, and even some gaming press? Regardless who was saying it, that kinda shit is TOXIC to any big company like this, and you can bet EA was tapping them on the shoulder asking why the latest title in this big franchise they're paying for is getting such bad press. I mean, hell, they even released some half-assed DLC to try to appease people upset over the ending. You don't just work on something for 2 years, and shrug it off when people start shitting on it. As for Casey Hudson and Mac Walters writing the ending themselves, I haven't heard anything compelling to disregard the Patrick Weekes post. I was never very close to any of this, so I spent a little bit of time looking it up on Google. When a slam post about it all was posted from the guys account on Penny Arcade, I'd say it's very likely it was him. Did someone really just hack his account to post some fantasy to discredit the game, or did he post it out of frustration, and then realized his fucking job was on the line? Occam's Razor is the side I'll stand on here. If you buy into most of the lip-service that any huge-ass company has to say, then you're a fool. They don't care about you, or me, or any of their fans. The people working 9-5 might, but not the company. They are only interested in making money. Do you really expect Bioware to go, Oh yeah, our lead guys totally wrote a fucking ending that a bunch of people did not like, and that post on Penny Arcade was totally true. One of the biggest aspects of making money is protecting your brand, and you can bet your ass that Bioware is going to do everything they can to let people forget about that ME3 ending. Don't be naive. Go look at the sad tales of Randy Pitchford and Peter Molyneux to get an idea of how keen developers are to actually tell you the truth. It isn't anything new, because developers have been slime-balls since games on floppy discs were sold in ziplock bags. Also, you completely and utterly fail to realize how it was such a shitty ending. It has nothing to do with not having a perfect solution. ME2's suicide mission had quite a few less than perfect outcomes, and that was perfectly okay. It was the idea that you press one of three fucking buttons, and space magic wins it all. There was nothing there-- no substance. It was so fucking baffling and shitty that we are still talking about it today. I was never a Retaker, I was just a guy who played all three games, and watched them decline starting with the second. They tried TWICE to fix the ending, and it is still bad. If they had any artistic integrity, didn't care about whiners, and were perfectly okay with the ending, then they would have left it exactly how it was. Oh and the entire message of Mass Effect was hope, and cooperation between species racism is bad. It's the Star Trek ideal of humanity working together with our brothers and sisters out in space to create an idealized utopia free of bullshit. The Reapers thought this was impossible, so they sought to destroy life before life destroyed the galaxy. Fuck man, the Normandy itself carried that very message, and so did Shepard throughout the entire series. The ending shits on that, because it isn't us that matters, but a machine made by some dead-ass species from thousands of years ago. There was no problem with a difficult ending, but rather a problem with an ending that threw all of that out of the window in favor of a super neat, and easy ending that just tied shit up in absurd ways. All of the sacrifice, choices, and decisions you made throughout the three games amount to nothing but a lame-ass button press and some space magic. Instead you get a message that your hope and struggles mean shit, because you can't win unless you have space magic. Furthermore, I don't much care about your pathetic, sad little straw man. Oh but they said mean things and sent death threats to Bioware, therefore their issues are invalid! Since you don't like the ending, and don't buy Bioware's shit, then I guess you're just a crazy person! Fuck off. I was perfectly happy to discuss this with you until you tried to pull that shit.