James wrote:http://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2012/03/discussion-mass-effect-3-and-consumer.html
I'm not a big fan of that type of ignorance.
That article's author, and everyone like him, are people who basically enjoy complaining about other people complaining. It's an oxymoron. Not only this, but it's usually perfectly fine for them to complain about a dissatisfying product, but only them.
Considering that it's pretty much the consumers who pay BioWare and EA's bills (I understand there's also people called "investors" and the like, but they're less likely to spend money on something when the consumers aren't), I'd like to consider myself entitled to an opinion, at the very least. And hey, even if I'm not, that's the beauty of free speech! Win-win for me, baby!
I also definitely can't agree with the author on his argument that game's "aren't expensive". It wholly depends on what you consider expensive and where you're buying games from. I buy retail copies of games for less than a US retail store, like GameStop. However, the "average" price for video games where I live in around $80 USD.
Compare that to the price it would cost me to buy a $60 US game from something like Amazon and have it shipped to New Zealand. It'd cost me $75-80 US. Funny that.
Also consider that peoples ideas have changed dramatically with the idea that we're currently in a "recession". Ultimately, the term "expensive" is really, really objective.
James wrote:Now, as you know it is:
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I don't think I'd have minded the "original" ending that much, the actual one just doesn't make sense to me. To me, it basically reads as:
[spoiler]"The Reapers want to stop organic life from creating synthetic life that then becomes much more advanced and independent than their organic creators (like the Geth). To do this, they destroy virtually all organic life and "restart" the whole process."
That's how I understand it, from what I've seen from the ending and from what I've read online. I understand the dangers that devices like AI can cause, but destroying most of the organic races seems extremely counter-productive. Yes, the world is "reborn" as such, but what's the point? It's reborn to die again in ~10,000 years. It never gets any older, and the races never actually learn from their past mistakes. They're simply wiped out to make them the next time round.[/spoiler]
It's the old adage: How can one learn, if one never makes mistakes?