Interview with RetakeMe3 Organizers From Hold The Line
RetakeME3 is an organization that is advocating for a new ending to BioWare’s Mass Effect 3. Here is Kait, a representative from www.holdtheline.com and retakemasseffect.org, giving a little background on the group and what to expect in the future.
(BioWare, Mass Effect 3, PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Wow, there's an ORGANIZATION for this? It's one thing to be vocal about your displeasure with Bioware and the ME3 ending, but to form an organization over it? Good grief. Too far man.
Imagine what would happen if people were this passionate about real world issues instead of the ending to a video game. Because that is what this all boils down to. Even in the realm of pressing game industry topics, this is a non-issue. If BioWare caves to community pressure and changes the ending to the game, then the argument of whether games can be art is lost.
When an artist makes a painting does the art community have the right to bitch and moan over it and force the artist to change it to their specifications? If I was disappointed in the ending to Lost or The Matrix Trilogy (I wasn't, on both counts) does that mean, if enough grief is given to the creators, I can get endings changed to whatever the audience agrees upon?
No. And why? Because entertainment is art. Make of it what you will, even hate it you want to, but to think that we as consumers have the right to make a developer change the game that they wanted to make is asinine.
People are acting as though Mass Effect 3 is a new sandwich they tried at McDonalds and it wasn't as good as they had hoped. So now, they are going to organize and protest in an attempt to bend the corporation to the will of the masses and remake the sandwich the way they would have if they were running things...which they aren't.
Truth be told, we haven't seen the end of Mass Effect 3 and I'm not talking about the "revised" ending. If BioWare is doing anything like ME2, there will be more . Hell, ME2 wasn't totally completed until the last DLC was released which was over a year after launch.
I get the feeling all people really expected was a generic game where you battle a big final boss, watch a predictable cutscene, and the end credits roll. BioWare tried to go against convention and offer the audience something different.
And now, their "fans" want to crucify them for it. It's a shame.
Stop buying into their art BS.They lied to the fans, who have been playing the series for around 4-5 years.
They promised "wildly different conclusions" and 16 endings. Instead, we got 7 near-identical "endings", And a message after completing it that basically just said: "buy the real ending DLC".
Of course the "fans" want to crucify them for it. If having an artistic ending means that it makes no sense AT ALL, and brakes every promise and moral, then I don't think anyone give's a f*ck about Casey Hudson's artistic integrity.
As an adult, I have come to realize that promises are exactly that: promises. Especially when it comes to business. I have no idea what is going on over at BioWare because I don't work there. Neither do any of the people organizing protests and voicing their outrage. So I can't claim to know what happened between their promised ending of ME3 and the actual content.
But whether the fans have been lied to remains to be seen because the game is not over and even the series is not over. No one but BioWare knows what the future plans of Mass Effect are. All they have said is that ME3 would be the end of the TRILOGY.
My point is that since there is going to be more, until BioWare officially ends the game, they should be given the benefit of the doubt.
As you said people have been playing the series for 5 years and they would dismiss all of that over the final 20 minutes of this game? Hardly.
People are assuming that they shipped an incomplete game and they are going to charge for the rest of it. All I'm saying is wait and see.
And that's the problem. They either ended it very badly, or are going to sell the real ending later on. But either way, the fans have the right to complain, even if they're slightly overdoing it. Hopefully the extended cut will bring answers.
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When an artist makes a painting does the art community have the right to bitch and moan over it and force the artist to change it to their specifications? If I was disappointed in the ending to Lost or The Matrix Trilogy (I wasn't, on both counts) does that mean, if enough grief is given to the creators, I can get endings changed to whatever the audience agrees upon?
No. And why? Because entertainment is art. Make of it what you will, even hate it you want to, but to think that we as consumers have the right to make a developer change the game that they wanted to make is asinine.
People are acting as though Mass Effect 3 is a new sandwich they tried at McDonalds and it wasn't as good as they had hoped. So now, they are going to organize and protest in an attempt to bend the corporation to the will of the masses and remake the sandwich the way they would have if they were running things...which they aren't.
Truth be told, we haven't seen the end of Mass Effect 3 and I'm not talking about the "revised" ending. If BioWare is doing anything like ME2, there will be more . Hell, ME2 wasn't totally completed until the last DLC was released which was over a year after launch.
I get the feeling all people really expected was a generic game where you battle a big final boss, watch a predictable cutscene, and the end credits roll. BioWare tried to go against convention and offer the audience something different.
And now, their "fans" want to crucify them for it. It's a shame.
They promised "wildly different conclusions" and 16 endings. Instead, we got 7 near-identical "endings", And a message after completing it that basically just said: "buy the real ending DLC".
Of course the "fans" want to crucify them for it. If having an artistic ending means that it makes no sense AT ALL, and brakes every promise and moral, then I don't think anyone give's a f*ck about Casey Hudson's artistic integrity.
But whether the fans have been lied to remains to be seen because the game is not over and even the series is not over. No one but BioWare knows what the future plans of Mass Effect are. All they have said is that ME3 would be the end of the TRILOGY.
My point is that since there is going to be more, until BioWare officially ends the game, they should be given the benefit of the doubt.
As you said people have been playing the series for 5 years and they would dismiss all of that over the final 20 minutes of this game? Hardly.
People are assuming that they shipped an incomplete game and they are going to charge for the rest of it. All I'm saying is wait and see.