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BioWare Apologizes for Mass Effect: Deception Errors [Comic: Chapter 16 - Complete]

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LiK

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http://www.gamespot.com/news/bioware-apologizes-for-mass-effect-novel-errors-6349818

Gamers who picked up a new copy of the latest Mass Effect novel Mass Effect: Deception now posses somewhat of a collector's item.

Mass Effect: Deception didn't exactly tell a true story.

Writing on the official BioWare forums, community manager Chris Priestly apologized for the string of errors fans found in Mass Effect: Deception, and said changes are being made for future editions of the novel.

"The teams at Del Rey and BioWare would like to extend our sincerest apologies to the Mass Effect fans for any errors and oversights made in the recent novel Mass Effect: Deception," wrote Priestly. "We are currently working on a number of changes that will appear in future editions of the novel."

Last week, Mass Effect fans published an extensive Google Docs catalog of errors found in Mass Effect: Deception, a novel set in the Mass Effect universe. These mistakes included timeline missteps like Nick and Gillian aging six years since the events of Ascension, which is set only three years before Deception.

Mass Effect: Deception released on January 31. It was penned by William C. Dietz and published by Del Rey. Dietz is the author of several game novels, including those set in the Halo, Resistance, and Hitman franchises. Dietz also served as a writer on Resistance: Burning Skies for the PlayStation Vita.
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Should've had QA read the book, lol

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Hilarious rage comics adaptation from GAF's own LumpOfCole. Chapters will be added here as he posts them for easy viewing.

UPDATE: The epic story is COMPLETE.

Prologue: http://i.imgur.com/AELwf.jpg
Ch 01: http://i.imgur.com/Ng7oJ.jpg
Ch 02: http://i.imgur.com/NPlYL.jpg
Ch 03a: http://i.imgur.com/iKqe2.jpg
Ch 03b: http://i.imgur.com/gt0NY.jpg
Ch 04: http://i.imgur.com/e8JZC.jpg
Ch 05: http://i.imgur.com/qsZCx.jpg
Ch 06: http://i.imgur.com/Q0va5.jpg
Ch 07: http://i.imgur.com/xSyRb.jpg
Ch 08: http://i.imgur.com/FwSGA.jpg
Ch 09: http://i.imgur.com/0fNJS.jpg
Ch 10: http://i.imgur.com/56b8n.jpg
Ch 11.1: http://i.imgur.com/2Cor3.jpg
Ch 11.2: http://i.imgur.com/847kR.jpg
Ch 12: http://i.imgur.com/yGMt2.jpg
Ch 13: http://i.imgur.com/Ycmcs.jpg
Ch 14: http://i.imgur.com/TYtFw.jpg
Ch 15: http://i.imgur.com/kcJh8.jpg
Ch 16: http://i.imgur.com/0ClZT.jpg
 
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erpg

GAF parliamentarian
Haha, Dietz, author of Halo: The Flood? What's the excuse this time? Another time constraint?
 
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hamchan

Member
Can't believe how screwed up this book is. Don't know why Drew Karpshyn didn't just write it. Even the Bioware books are buggy now.
 
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delirium

Member
Lyphen said:
Haha, Dietz, author of Halo: The Flood? What's the excuse this time? Another time constraint?
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I just think that some of these writers just don't care. I mean most of these games have huge encyclopedia-size amount of back story and they just want the money.
 
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Bisnic

Really Really Exciting Member!
Don't read the books nor do i care, but i hope ME3 wont have such mistakes.
 
scarybore

scarybore

Member
As someone who read the book, that's a lot of shit they would have to fix. Considering nothing of any real consequence happens, they would be better off removing the book from sale and pretending it never existed.

Lyphen said:
Haha, Dietz, author of Halo: The Flood? What's the excuse this time? Another time constraint?
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Nah, he just didn't give a shit, just like Kai Leng!

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Emitan

Member
Deathcraze said:
Considering nothing of any real consequence happens, they would be better off removing the book from sale and pretending it never existed.
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So it's the same as every other Mass Effect book? Mass Effect 1 actually gives you a plot synopsis of the first book if you talk to Anderson about it! And ME2's book is barely mentioned outside the tutorial area with Tali.
 
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Derrick01

Banned
I'm honestly surprised they acknowledged the errors at all. They haven't commented on any of their own plot holes/inconsistencies through ME2+DLC or the comics.

This is the only ME book I haven't read so it must be really bad for Bioware to take note.
 
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Aaron

Member
Deathcraze said:
As someone who read the book, that's a lot of shit they would have to fix. Considering nothing of any real consequence happens, they would be better off removing the book from sale and pretending it never existed.
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Even if it's shit, people will still buy it because it's Mass Effect. That's true for the vast majority of game books. They'll fix the more glaring errors, and count even more monies as the people who bought the first edition also buy the second. Best thing to do is not buy books that are shit, no matter what game they're connected to.
 
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monome

Member
Wonder if they will offer a free update to Kindle customers.

ME books have gone downhill since the first one, Karpshyn or not.

Kai Leng is shit.
Biotoic academy plot has become dull.

I strongly believe tie-in books to have mandatory shitty stories to make the games' stories shine.

Praise the video games Gods for the glorious Halo Crytpum.
 
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Lifejumper

Member
It gets even better:

The director of the ME games Casey Hudson actually approved the book.

Casey Hudson
Finished my final review of the #MassEffect Deception novel. A really fun lead-in to #ME3! Kai Leng is a badass. January 31 release.

I think Casey Hudson is one of the best in the biz. But he should have foreseen this.
 
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Darklord

Banned
Didn't they bring back a character that died in the previous book? And characters had completely different personalities(racist now hitting on aliens, ect)? They'd have to redo the whole book.
 
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Izick

Member
Are the second and third Mass Effect novels any good?

I read Revelation and thought it was alright. I thought it did a nice job building up to Mass Effect.
 
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BattleMonkey

Member
Darklord said:
Didn't they bring back a character that died in the previous book? And characters had completely different personalities(racist now hitting on aliens, ect)? They'd have to redo the whole book.
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Pretty common for multi authors working on a franchise, characters constantly go out of character, but they wont see that as an error. Only actual factual errors would get fixed, any stuff that seems off or out of character will remain.
 
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erpg

GAF parliamentarian
I think Bioware/Mass Effect fans simply need to come to terms with the fact that the most interesting lore told in this universe was in the first's Codex. And everything following that was ruined by Mac or other writers.

Darklord said:
Didn't they bring back a character that died in the previous book? And characters had completely different personalities(racist now hitting on aliens, ect)? They'd have to redo the whole book.
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Dietz portrayed Halo's Master Chief as Duke Nukem, so this is no surprise.
 
scarybore

scarybore

Member
Billychu said:
So it's the same as every other Mass Effect book? Mass Effect 1 actually gives you a plot synopsis of the first book if you talk to Anderson about it! And ME2's book is barely mentioned outside the tutorial area with Tali.
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You could at least argue that the previous books helped build the universe, going a bit more in depth into some things and pointed at things to come. There's bugger all in Deception really.

Aaron said:
Even if it's shit, people will still buy it because it's Mass Effect. That's true for the vast majority of game books. They'll fix the more glaring errors, and count even more monies as the people who bought the first edition also buy the second. Best thing to do is not buy books that are shit, no matter what game they're connected to.
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I was amazed when I read people saying as much on the Bioware forums, personally I'm done with the books and the comics as monome is right, the quality has been going downhill. Well, the comics were always shit, but you know what I mean.

Catshade said:
Obligatory:

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Haha, hadn't seen that. :)
 
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Emitan

Member
Deathcraze said:
You could at least argue that the previous books helped build the universe, going a bit more in depth into some things and pointed at things to come. There's bugger all in Deception really.



I was amazed when I read people saying as much on the Bioware forums, personally I'm done with the books and the comics as monome is right, the quality has been going downhill. Well, the comics were always shit, but you know what I mean.



Haha, hadn't seen that. :)
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No world building? Skipping it then. That's why I read them.
 
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BattleMonkey

Member
chickdigger802 said:
Slightly off topic, but are any of the TOR novels worth a read?
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Fatal Alliance was drawn out and borin. Deceived was good, but really short. Revan had questionable story choices with fans, but has lot of good background for the games setting and seems to go into stuff that will likely play a major part in the games future.
 
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EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
ha ha ha fuckin nerds who buys and reads videogame novels get a real book ya dorks
 
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Ciastek3214

Junior Member
The patch will be available as a DLC. Only 10 bucks. Oh, it will also have online pass, and will be necessary to get the best ending in Mass Effect 3. Galaxy readiness, lol.
 
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EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I can explain.
 
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ElyrionX

Member
I saw this on Penny Arcade and clicked onto that file where they compiled all the things that book got wrong.

Holy mother of god. And not at the amount of errors in the book but at the amount of shit that fanboys actually know about a goddamn fictional sci-fi universe.

I mean, krogan biology? FFS, I bet they know less about human biology than they do about krogan biology.
 
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