ME3 Ending PetitionFollow

To start, I haven't played ME 3 and won't be playing ME 3. I tried ME & ME 2 and didn't care for them (yes, I'm a bizarre specimen) so there's no love lost or gained from me on this. I just found it interesting.

So as most of you probably know, there's a bunch of people upset about the ending from ME 3. What do they hate about it? Beats me, I haven't played. Apparently it invalidate your previous hard work and people think it sucks. To that end, a bunch of people are petitioning BioWare to change the ending. Facebook page. I think it's a fool's errand but, hey, if people want to grouse let them grouse.

Perhaps more interesting, someone decided to link a petition to Child's Play, the charitable organization linked to the Humble Bundles. Instead of just ********* you can ***** AND make a donation which I suppose adds a little more weight to your sincerity than just random pissing and moaning. Will it matter? Beats me and I suspect probably not but the worse case scenario is that some people complain and some sick kids benefit. Better than the status quo which just involves complaining.

I posted this separate from the ME3 thread because I didn't want to hijack that but also there's a larger question here of how legitimate it is to expect a developer to change a game after the fact based on people not liking the plot (vs game mechanic/bug fixes). To be clear, everyone has a right to make noise with their noise-holes but should there be any expectation of results?

Edited, Mar 14th 2012 11:48am by Jophiel

-shrug- People should just make a mental note about what they like and don't like about a company. When making purchases from that company in the future they should keep in mind what that company has done in the past with their games and use it to weigh the pro and cons about a game. But of course that would require more thinking than the average gamer is willing to put into purchasing. Especially when it comes to a popular franchise such as Mass Effect.

The developer won't change the ending like that. I swear people are getting more needy about their wants and this industry grows. I remember back in the day if you had a crappy ending from a game you complained but you didn't expect the developer to create a new ending.

On a side note I think that people were expecting so much from this game that it would have never lived up to what people wanted.

I agree but I'll also note that the cost keeps growing as well. I may feel more bitter about a sucky $60-$80 game than a sucky $30 game.

I know the obvious answer to that is "Don't buy it for $60" but the publishers are relying on that initial rush of first wave players before the game winds up in the Steam/Amazon discount rack. Not to mention console players. So there's some give and take from both sides.

I assume that's partially what the charity petition is supposed to represent. You're not sounding as much like "Gimme free stuff because I deserve free stuff" when you follow up by dropping an average of $25 into the Childs Play kitty.

Edited, Mar 14th 2012 12:03pm by Jophiel

I'll stop being annoyed at it's ending as soon as someone explains how Red XIII grew a/n uterus using in game evidence.

Edit: SpoilerA uterus? An uterus? An uterus looks correct, but doesn't sound correct ...

Edited, Mar 14th 2012 1:29pm by lolgaxe

Comparing PC games to Sega Genesis games fails on a couple fronts, the most obvious being the availability of console game rentals. Comparing PC games now to PC games over time would make a lot more sense. Also, what was the price of games five years ago instead of fifteen? The $60 sticker shock didn't happen because everyone's been paying it since 1995.

Edit: Now I'm curious. Trying to access reviews for older games fails to give me their original retail price or else all the site pages are defunct. I have a bunch scanned PDFs from Compute! Gazettes at home but those would mostly be Commodore 64 games.

Edited, Mar 14th 2012 12:59pm by Jophiel

I think comparing PC games to those sega genesis games (only one example, all consoles were the same way) is fine. Especially since those older console games typically were beatable in one sitting.

Look at money spent per hour of gaming rather than cost of the disk/cartridge. The hobby is definitely cheaper than ever.

Regarding the cost jump in PC games, what's most painful about the 60 dollar price is the cost relative to alternative means. I think 60 dollars for Skyrim is straight up ridiculous when I can buy the game a few months later for 33% off.

Money spent per gaming hour of Mario 3 is probably fractions of a penny/hour for me at this point.

I probably have literal months of my life tied up in Paradroid which cost me all of $15 in 1988 ($27 in today's dollars).

Yeah? well you're olde!

Those are both pretty good reads, thanks for sharing.

It's quite possible some sort of plot fix will be worked into a DLC, because I can see that as being fairly profitable concept for DLC. Outside of that, no.

I think expectations go hand in hand with what will realistically occur, but for those who might consider it in the context of some sort of deserved end for all they've been through I'd say this: "The very end of the last game game (hopefully) in the Mass Effect series, and you're disappointed? What took you so long?"

I wonder if it's worse to sound entitled or worse to sound like a colossal ****.

Meh, it's his schtick.