TB writes: Any notion that we don't live in an overly litigious age went out the car-door window when that Albuquerque granny spilled McDonald's coffee all over her aging pubic mound in 1994 and thought, "Gee, I think I have hundreds of thousands of dollars coming to me... also, ow, my pubic mound." We love to get pissed off about the trivial and ideally grab headlines in the process.
Nowhere is this more evident, perhaps, than in the world of videogaming. Over the years there have been plenty of games boycotted and whined about for somewhat legitimate reasons like excessive and wanton sexuality and running really fast with really really sharp scissors. But these aren't those games. These are games that were boycotted and bitched about for the dumbest, goofiest reasons anyone could imagine.
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But after seeing loads of gameplay i kinda changed my mind, im not that petty
Im Still pissed there not in it though
As for Jesper, I'm not surprised that he isn't returning. He hit it big time with the Assassin's Creed series. He's off doing AC3, Darksiders 2, and more. Here's to hoping he has a wonderful career, which I'm sure he will. He is a genius.
Hopefully they realise what a mistake the whole thing is.
He accompanied the Hitman series since its creation, it's an heresy to not let him compose Absolution's soundtrack !
"I was going to boycott the new Hitman game because David Bateson (47s voice actor) and Jesper Kyd (composer) got dropped "
wow, you have to be kidding, that was the most important part of the Hitman series ... such a bad news.. hope its not true!
"Nobody care in the middle east"
is that why they burn down embassies and protest violently over a "drawing of muhammad".
Here is a radio video featuring Richard Dawkins and a muslim discussing the thing.
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Like it or not, this is a business, not some happy go lucky everything is free good time fiesta.
Look, they are a business... people are losing their shit at them for trying to make money.I mean, people act as if they are violating human rights or something.
The ending was disappointing, and yes Bioware did betray the trust they made with the gamer, but atleast they are trying to mend it.
I actually agree with the article writer... the entire ME3 controversy, not just the ending was completely stupid.
1) People voted on the femshep, then people complained that the model was overly sexualized, due to her hair colour.YOU PEOPLE VOTED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE! And then Bioware opened up a new poll to change her fair color, and now we have the new standard fem shep... also, Im sure most people already had their own Shepard, so why complain about the standard?
2) The DLC bitching is consumerism at its finest. EA is a business, they new how anticipated ME3 was an they capitalized on it. Hell it even won "Most anticipated game of 2012 on the VGA's" so they tried to squeeze every penny out of it. People need to stop this notion that all extra content should be free. EA puts a set amount of funding into a game. If it goes above that funding, content must be taken and charged extra for it... they are a business.
3) The ending is the only thing I agree with, but atleast Bioware is attempting to make it right with the extended cut... if it will satisfy players, or still leave them pissed of is left to be seen.
Look, these are businesses.. their goal is to make money. Some businesses care about their costumers, where as some really care about the money, and act like they care in order for damage control or in order to generate customer loyalty to guarantee their products sell...
That line is way to blurred... and we can not tell exactly who is who on that spectrum... the only people who know where they are on that spectrum are the businesses themselves
1. I never voted. These are presumably the same people who complained about the original "Dark Energy" ending when the script got leaked. Wouldn't be surprised if they are the same people who made up the "Indoctrination Theory" to explain away all the inconsistencies and fool themselves that the game was perfect beforehand. Women being sexualised in video games has happened since Custer's Revenge and will continue onward.
2.DLC is planned from the outset parallel to main production. Charging your fans to pay for a central character in a game is absolutely preposterous especially when they claimed it was "After certification". Very cute.
3. No extended cut will be able to fix the damage that's been done to Bioware's reputation unfortunately and I cannot bring myself to watch a brand that made some of my favorite games become some nickel&dimer studio. ME3 is now £19.99 over in the UK and no-one is buying it because of all the hullabaloo over the ending and to a lesser extent; the various other problems with it. (Lousy hit-box detection, glitched ammo, bad writing etc)
I agree with you on the plain fact that a business is to ultimately make money but EA's philosophy on ripping off their consumers isn't a compelling attribute to have.
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If you look at pretty much any one of the 17000 members of the L4D2 Boycott group on Steam, you will see that most went ahead and bought the game anyway. Well done lads. Great victory.
The contest did not yield a blonde Femshep. The redhead won. People are angry about being lied to about the ending and quite frankly those of you that continue to defend such practices are doing more to harm the industry than any amount of e-rage from overzealous gamers. If it had been any other type of product they would be sitting in court over it, but since it's a video game it's perfectly ok to misrepresent what you're selling apparently.
There's always them dam quarian death stars even if you let the geth wipe them out -_-
Honestly, I found the rest of the game great. I could have even lived with the Asimov's Robots ending had they not said it would be the exact opposite.
You pretty much nailed it. The original script (leaked version) basically ended with a conversation with a reaper and with it explaining why they do what they do.
You would then be presented with an option to help the reapers or destroy them.... My issue with the ending we got is that the only way it makes sense is the indoctrination theory. I dont like the idea of a game where we can make our own descisions FORCES a "twist" on us.