BattleMonkey
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It's amazing how much time and money is being wasted on such a trivial issue.
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"Angry" fans send Bioware 400 Cupcakes
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It's amazing how much time and money is being wasted on such a trivial issue.
Zomba13
Member
How do you know the people who donated won't vote on important things?
because it's just easier to shit up threads with smart comments
Zomba13
Member
People my age won't give to charity or help the world but they will bitch about what other people do with their money on a video game forum...
Randolph Freelander
Member
So word on the street is all the writers and crew were left out of the loop in regards to crafting the ending. And now the writers and crew were left out of enjoying a playful retort to said ending.
Well played, BioWare.
Well played, BioWare.
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
they are sending him to PAX, so maybe he will be able to hold on to three of them and make a joke about it. Anything really to stop people from targeting the only writer to come out of hiding and say something that made sense.
And wasting time and money on drugs is such a more important endeavor. I mean it's not like people don't waste money on entertainment in general. Hey though keep riding that horse.
charlequin
Banned
some jagoff said:
That'll teach people to send cupcakes instead of just, like, dropping a deuce on Dr. Ray's 540i.
jediyoshi
Member
I can see how you'd think voting and giving money somewhere are mutually exclusive actions.
Extra Sauce
Member
Why?
Pachterballs
Banned
damn this thread. I'm not really eating carbs now but fuck it makes me want a cupcake.
Child's Play requested no more money be sent. Charities are protective of their images and don't want to be seen, or perceived to be, in support of a movement or cause. In this case, Child's Play was concerned people might think it was supporting the movement to change Mass Effect 3's ending.
I'm really sad with what most of you guys are saying. Actually, I've been reading these site for years and I'm disappointed.
What is wrong with people today is this: pointing out that everything is wrong, but with crossed arms, whining: "This is wrong. Somebody change it!" and actually doing nothing to change the situation.
You really think a bunch of 14-year-olds could pull this together? This is work of MEN. Of real fans. They are sending a really clear message: "We are gamers and didn't like the way you lied to us. Here are our best and non-offensive method of protesting".
We can trash Bethesda, Bioware, Capcom, Nintendo of America or whatever, but can you organize as a group and to things differently instead of just complaining?
I'm really pround and happy that are still gamers that stood up for somethings. And this will give a message to other developers: gamers aren't a bunch of nerds who will buy anything we put on a disc with good marketing.
I expected more of you.
(and I bet a lot of us [me included] spend almost, or sometimes more, thousand bucks with lesser important things. And I bet this isn't one person thing, but donations).
What is wrong with people today is this: pointing out that everything is wrong, but with crossed arms, whining: "This is wrong. Somebody change it!" and actually doing nothing to change the situation.
You really think a bunch of 14-year-olds could pull this together? This is work of MEN. Of real fans. They are sending a really clear message: "We are gamers and didn't like the way you lied to us. Here are our best and non-offensive method of protesting".
We can trash Bethesda, Bioware, Capcom, Nintendo of America or whatever, but can you organize as a group and to things differently instead of just complaining?
I'm really pround and happy that are still gamers that stood up for somethings. And this will give a message to other developers: gamers aren't a bunch of nerds who will buy anything we put on a disc with good marketing.
I expected more of you.
(and I bet a lot of us [me included] spend almost, or sometimes more, thousand bucks with lesser important things. And I bet this isn't one person thing, but donations).
dragonelite
Member
Tell me how and can you assemble a team.
Pushing a donate button is hell of a simple thing.
Brad Grenz
Member
I'm really sad with what most of you guys are saying. Actually, I've been reading these site for years and I'm disappointed.
What is wrong with people today is this: pointing out that everything is wrong, but with crossed arms, whining: "This is wrong. Somebody change it!" and actually doing nothing to change the situation.
You really think a bunch of 14-year-olds could pull this together? This is work of MEN. Of real fans. They are sending a really clear message: "We are gamers and didn't like the way you lied to us. Here are our best and non-offensive method of protesting".
We can trash Bethesda, Bioware, Capcom, Nintendo of America or whatever, but can you organize as a group and to things differently instead of just complaining?
I'm really pround and happy that are still gamers that stood up for somethings. And this will give a message to other developers: gamers aren't a bunch of nerds who will buy anything we put on a disc with good marketing.
I expected more of you.
(and I bet a lot of us [me included] spend almost, or sometimes more, thousand bucks with lesser important things. And I bet this isn't one person thing, but donations).
What are they standing up for, other than passive aggression? If nothing else, the ME3 Enders have at least innovated in the area of acting like a dick while playing the victim. Transparent attempts to appear more reasonable by attaching a cause to an unrelated charity or sending gifts actually designed as a big "fuck you" is not effective. It's petulant. It's childish. It's not the action of adults. You might as well be holding your breath in the candy aisle.
You got a point. But I think it's a better solution to the problem, anyway.
heliosRAzi
Banned
Competent endings
They started donating to bring attention to the problem and to stop the "entitled" insults from flying around. And this is a creative and mature way to address concerns. And it's not the only form criticism has taken. There are videos, articles, and essays on the matter. It's not petulant. It's not childish.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Bioware said:
I'm not sure if I'm reading this paragraph right. Does it sound incredibly stupid to anybody else?
Maybe it's sarcastic?
Strummerjones
Member
There are loads of other games they could have bought instead, but they chose to prop up a game by a publisher notorious for nickle and diming people in crass and cynical ways. They could have supported something new and different but bought the lowest common denominator from a company notorious for gouging people and then were surprised when they got burnt.
They could have taken a chance and said "the third game in this boring series? Fuck this, I'm going to do some research and try a game that does something different even if it doesn't have megabucks lavished on it. That would send a real message to developers and publishers to not treat us like easily pleased idiots". Instead they bought the game with good marketing.
I'm sure the next step for the vast majority of these people once the collective backslapping ends will be to buy the inevitable sequel(s) and endless DLC as they always would have and will do anyway.
Still, while videogaming gained nothing, at least a charity got some money.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
What? Most of the people who bought the third game and are complaining genuinely enjoyed the journey with their character from the first two games, it had nothing to do with marketing. The people who jumped ship on the series because they did have issues with the story likely didn't bother.
charlequin
Banned
Literally 100% of the anger at the ending of Mass Effect 3 is predicated on how incredible 97% of ME3 is and how thoroughly Bioware otherwise delivered on the premise of their three-game-long interconnected saga and the idea of your choices carrying forward specifically. Absent the ending problem, ME3 would've been a strong contender for GAF's GOTY and it would've deserved every bit of the praise it got in the process. It's an excellent game, a demonstration of what AAA budgets paying AAA teams can accomplish given the right vision and talent, and something that (again, absent the problem that arises in the last ten minutes of play) is well worth supporting.
I know it makes you, like, super wicked awesome to stick it to the man or whatever, but the pose is pretty irrelevant here.