More ME3

[skull_bearer]

Well, this is a shitstorm of epic proportions. And may the excrement fly high and far because after this, I'm going headlong mainstream in demanding a better ending. And I do think it's justified, in the same way that the people who left the theatre after seeing 'The Devil Inside' were justified in demanding their money back after they got a climactic ending that was basically 'to find out more, go to this website'.

Bioware, dude, if the main fan theory concerning your ending is 'and then he woke up and it was all a dream' and this makes it a better and more fulfilling ending, then you are in the shit. If 91% of the people polled on your own site (98% in another poll) want a better ending, that shit is eyebrow high. If Amazon is no longer selling your game because customers have complained they weren't getting what they paid for, then that's a metric ton of shit.

And if Blizzard and Minecraft have both added elements in their games that are for the sole reason of mocking you, you have now drowned in shit.

(note, I don't believe in the Indoctrination theory, no matter how comforting it might be, for the same reason I don't believe in conspiracy theories: never put down to agency what can be explained by stupidity. It's a great theory, I like it, but Bioware really thought they were doing a 2001 ending and shot themselves in the foot so thoroughly we may have seen the world's first groinbullet)

(also, for people bitching about this creating precedents; look up 'Fallout 3, Broken Steel'. Long gone dude, long gone)

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[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Hell, you want to talk precedents - Dickens rewrote the ending to Great Expectations, Doyle brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead. Somehow, literature survived...

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

I'm loving how some of those going OMG death of the author point out JK Rowling as an example of not bending to fan pressure. LOL, the only difference there is that JKR had a better grasp of her audience!