User blog comment:Phantomdasilva/Fan Entitlement and the sanctity of artistic vision/@comment-4933332-20120327075857/@comment-4933332-20120327090115

"real issue which is customer satisfaction " Here's the thing,artist have the right to not care about consumer satisfaction. For example, Bob Dylan release an album "Self-Portraits" with the stated aim of pissing off and alienating all his fans and temporarily manage to succeed with that goal.

Of course we have the option of abandoning Bioware because they don't care for consumer satisfaction.

In any case, I feel like I'm arguing with semantics here considering that I spend majority of this essay arguing why requesting to change the ending ISN'T fan entitlement and Bioware changing the ending ISN'T betraying their artistic integrity (as long as they do it sincerely). Most of the stuff about artistic integrity at the beginning was there to show that I do understand the opposing points of view but demonstrating how changing the ending doesn't have to compromise your artistic integrity.

I guess from my point of view I'm a bit more pessimistic because, if Bioware half-arse the remade ending merely to placate the fans, I believe that type of effort will reflect in the quality of their work. After all, if they mess up the ending once, what makes yo think they won't mess up the remade ending again.

I believe that if the ending is going to be remade it has to be done by someone in the writing team who was personally and professionally dissatisfied with the ending made and take this task with the attitude of professional redemption. If the same people who primarily worked on the original ending and was proud of it then were given the task to change the ending they were proud of, well the  results could be absolutely disastrous.