User blog:The Milkman/Why BioWare HAS Betrayed Us

Seems nowadays, everyone has a reason to hate BioWare. It's sad to think that just a couple months ago, BioWare was my favourite developer. Despite their past achievements, they seem to move from one colossal mistake to another. You can blame anything from EA, to greed, to pure laziness, but no matter how you slice this lie-infested cake, BioWare has betrayed us. Here's why:


 * We were blatantly lied to. Casey Hudson himself even stated that Mass Effect 3 would have "wildly different conclusions based on the player's actions in the first two chapters". He also mentioned that we wouldn't get A, B, and C, endings, but the fact that this is exactly what we got seems a bit...tantalising. This either shows a surprising lack of dignity on his part, or an unsurprising excess of ignorance. How can they make a 360 turn from the best writing the industry has seen in the past half-decade to absolutely terrible in the last ten minutes? Honestly, how can a team of skilled and seasoned writers not realise that their ending is horrible, when thousands of others instantly recognise how terrible it is? I find it odd that we know more about to write an ending to Mass Effect 3 than they do. If it's bad enough for fans to ban together, raise nearly $30,000 for charity, and demand a new ending, why wasn't it so obvious to them? It's either ignorance, or a greedy ploy to sell DLC. Let's hope it's not the latter.


 * They photshopped a stock photo. They took what would have been an epic reveal into an epic let-down. Even if they generated the photo, it doesn't make much sense to give us that and not the real thing. We have made love to her twice now. We want something to show for it. The same can go for other love interests. Talimancers, Mirandamancers, Jack Sackers, and Calibrators can all agree it was a petty cop-out.
 * DLC can't fix it. Sure, we may be able to move on, but we won't forget. God forbid you don't have an Internet connection, leaving you stuck with an incomplete game. But no matter how much they charge (or if they charge at all) the fact will always remain that they sold us a game with an unfinished narrative. Did no one double check the writers? No, I think not. Failing to edit poor writing seems to be a speciality of BioWare now.


 * The indoctrination theory. Many fans have clanged to this in the need for closure, but even with this theory to explain it all, it STILL has plot holes! If you have a low EMS, your only option is to destroy the Reapers. If the AI was manipulating you, why would your his only choice to you be its destruction? Even if it's true however, it doesn't excuse the fact that they gave us a fake ending. It was a red herring-a plot to goad us into buying more DLC. They ended their trilogy on a cliff-hanger. It doesn't take a lot of common sense to know why that's an extremely dumb idea. If it were all a dream, why not reveal that in the actual game?

This is indeed a dangerous precedent. Game developers not listening to their fans, and businesses not caring about the consumer. Ever notice how some stores decrease portion sizes, but the price remains the same? You end up paying the same amount for less.

Yeah, that's what BioWare just did.

Further Ranting
Check out these videos by AngryJoeShow. They are well-done and do an excellent job of explaining what went wrong.
 * 10 Reasons We Hate Mass Effect 3's Ending
 * ME3 Indoctrination Theory & DLC "Ending" Proof