User blog comment:HELO/Le-WHY-athan/@comment-5287758-20120908050047/@comment-3581090-20120908150610

Oh, I appreciate it. I don't think BioWare really had much of a choice, given the initial outrage, so my appreciation is somewhat tempered by the fact that at least some of what they did--especially in light of their immediate reaction to fans' immediate reactions--was to save their own skin instead of some concern over our approval. That said, I readily recognize that they didn't actually have to try to "fix" anything, and that does speak greatly to their credit.

Also: part of my point in this blog was that "Leviathan" (and the "EC" gets a quick mention, as well) was actually pretty good. So my complaint isn't about this DLC but the original incarnation of ME3. If that somehow makes feel like I don't appreciate them, well, then okay. Because they screwed up--if not in the exact way I proclaim they did, then in a similar enough sense that I'm not completely off my nut.

Also also: BioWare already has my money with any (and I mean any) product they release with the words "Dragon Age" on it. I don't care how backwards or stupid or insulting they might get in the future, I will be paying back my appreciation for DA:O for as long as they will take my cash. And I feel confident that my purchases will speak much more clearly than any point I could bury in a 50,000 word rant about my high (but I don't think impossible) standards.

...but, in case it doesn't: I do love you, BioWare. But we fight the hardest with the ones we love. Because, when you love someone, every little thing involving them reaches Shakespearean levels of intensity.