By now I’m sure you're all aware of the Mass Effect 3 ending debacle. With the game being many people's choice for their most anticipated release of this year, and its perfect score, all the negativity surrounding the game may seem slightly unwarranted...
There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.
I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.
But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.
EA coming back for the crown of being perceived as the worst company in gaming.
One of my favorite series is the THPS franchise, and it was packed with ads, but it didn't bother me. Posters for skateboard companies, JEEP, and Nokia phones. It did sort of fit in with the game world, but that was the past, these days ad would be intentionally intrusive or unskippable loading screen type of imagery. Ugh, I know EA would do it in a horrible fashion. Screw them.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.
Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.
Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.
Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
I think the evidence for this is pretty solid and hard to ignore. This explains all the violations of the mass effect canon, and the frankly non-sense explanations for the existence of the reapers. I find it hard to believe bioware would or could screw up the ending that bad. That being said, if this idea somehow proves to be false, they screwed up royally. Hard to ignore how space casper is the same kid in the beginning of the game that no one sees. Bottom line: the ending was either the most brilliant ending I have ever seen, or the biggest disaster I have seen. I hope it turns out to be the former, and if so, I hope bioware can prove this was the plan all along, not something they took from fans to put out the fires
I think the theory is the only thing which can save the ending. It's so good that I feel Bioware were going in that direction anyway but because they couldn't finish the new ending they stopped it at the decision making so they could get the games out to retail while the continue working on the rest of the ending.
There not just small things in the game where you probably could dismiss them as small plotholes, overlooked possibilties or even coincidences.....it's all been built up way too much to be shrugged off as any of those. It pains me to see that people dismiss this theory when theres so much evidence to support it, it's not like fans have complied a load of made up, exaggerated BS, the stuff is really there and everything makes more sense when you link the indoctrinated theory to the ending.
Anyway if this theory is true then the people who wouldn't want the ending changed (god knows why) wouldn't have to worry anymore since instead of changing the ending all their doing would be adding onto it, which, as I've said they've probably been doing since the start thus putting the "To be continued through DLC" message at the end of the game and showing Shepard alive in just one of the endings.
To me this theory is what makes me laugh at the people who are defending the crap out of the ending and call the people with common sense "idiots", "crybabies", "moaners" and making it look like a bad thing Bioware listed to us and are changing the ending
Pherhaps though and this is a bit of a stretch, if Bioware were that smart, that turning fans against each other was their plan from the start to continue the unfinished ending they couldn't get done on time so they have a good excuse to charge people for the real ending......making it look like it's the fans who have complained fault and that Bioware were only listening to fan feedback even though this was there plan from the start. As I said bit of a stretch and totaly wrong...but it's a genius plan. Every issue has another side of people to defend it
The more I read about this, the more I start to believe it. Kinda depressing though... I chose the control choice. If this is true I allowed myself to be indoctrinated, something I thought I could never allow to happen... Brilliant if true.
Just a thought. Control is essentially the same thing reapers do. Indoctrination. The control choice is very akin to what the reapers are already trying to do to all organic life. So the kid makes it sound like a good idea. It's even the action the Illusive Man wanted to take, someone who was clearly indoctrinated.
The synthesis ending is another one the kid puts favor on. The combining of organic and synthetic life. If you remember correctly, that is basically the whole plot of Mass Effect 2. Collectors harvesting humans to pump their genetic goop into a giant human-reaper construct that is both a machine and a organic. The reapers believe in both indoctrination and "saving" organic life by turning it into robotic abominations. The kid is in favor of both of these choices, the only choice he makes sound like a bad idea is the choice that effectively kills the reapers. Self preservation isn't strictly a organic trait apparently.
The list of plotholes in the endings could go on forever, but the biggest one to me is probably the Mass Relays. Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC had you destroy one of them. Destroyed that entire system. Every choice you make will result in every relay being destroyed. Nevermind Reapers harvesting organic life, be more scared of the madman destroying the entire galaxy. Isn't there suppose to be a relay right behind Pluto? I take it then, Earth was completely destroyed.
While I'm ranting, anyone else upset we never actually found out why Haestrom's sun was dying? It was mentioned a few times in Mass Effect 2, something about dark matter, yadda yadda yadda science talk. I kind figured that'd somehow come into play in ME3, like they were setting it up for something to come in effect later on the adventure.
Also, weren't we promised to have the mystery of the Keepers answered in ME3? Maybe I missed it by being so WTF'd by the ending, but I never really saw any significant reference to them at all. They don't even really make an appearance (other than the single one at the docks) until the end. Even then they're just kinda there, doing stuff. Not significant or important, completely overlooked.