I played
the new mass effect 3 last week. And I was chocked when I got to the end, this
is not news a lot of people have said the same thing. Gamers all over the world
have collected money and pleaded with Bioware to give them a new ending, to no avail.
My biggest surprise was the response the fans got from Bioware, they gave them
the speech of artistic freedom and that they were sticking to the vision they had.
But if you create a universe and invite people in you have a moral responsibility,
if you say that your choices matter then you cannot take away the final choice.
All gamers that played the game put down a lot of hours of their life to make Commander
Shepherd come to life and it is not right for Bioware to take his or her fate
in their hands when it really matters. Then they should have made the game differently
in the first place. It is like they think that we will not play the game online
if the end is too satisfactory.
And I cannot
answer for anybody but for me the online game looses all its appeal when I know
that I can unify the galaxy, save all the species possible and it will not make
any difference because Shepherd fails in the end anyway. The Commander does not make any difference it
is 16 endings but in truth it is just one. The end of the world they so
lovingly created and the thing that kills me is that they made me care about
the people in this universe and I for one would have loved to play an online
game in rebuilding the worlds after the war as a continuum on the story. It
would not even have to be about Shepherd. It could be that you would had to
create a new cadet in the alliance fleet or have had your own choice of origin
a lovely game and needed in this time of war and chaos all around us. To see
that there is hope means so much to so many. And to me as a fellow artist it is
our responsibility to make the world a better place because in the end we have
the power to do so. It cannot come down to how much money you can make and then
try to pass it off as artistic freedom.
I have made
a vow to myself I will never buy another Bioware game as long as I live if they
do not take their responsibility and hear their fans pleads for help. It is the
staggering figure of 91% of the people they owe everything that do not like the
ending of their game. That has to mean something. I am a big Bioware fan, I
have almost all their games but it ends now. I will not be disappointed like
this again, like any bad relationship it has to end.
If they
have something up their slew it is time to reveal it, if it is a way to
continue the story, or if it all was a bad dream of Shepherd come out and say
it before it is too late. I will now play Dynasty Warriors 7 and fraternize with
the heroes of China and put Shepherd in the past because as it is now she is in
suspended animation, I will never finish this game with the ending they gave me
then I would rather create my own. Call it artistic freedom.
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