And we can’t do that because that’s not our story, we wouldn’t know how to write that story.” There are people who just outright rejected the whole concept of the endings, and wanted us to start from scratch and redo everything. But speaking to the Official Xbox Magazine (OXM), Mass Effect 3’s lead writer Mac Walters acknowledged, “There was some feedback that we can’t address. Two days ago, the olive branch that Muzyka and the rest of BioWare extended finally arrived in the form of free downloadable content (DLC) simply known as the “extended cut.” It offers elongated versions of the three original endings in which Shepard is forced to choose how to resolve the Reaper invasion the player has spent the last three games staving off, as well as an additional ending where Shepard can now refuse to make a choice at all (see links below).īioWare was contacted for this story and stated that they are not holding any more interviews regarding the extended cut at the moment. And while Diablo fans themselves have rushed to Blizzard’s defense, Mass Effect players continue to rage (three months later, people are still airing their grievances on our original story about the issue). It prompted a frank and emotional apology from BioWare’s cofounder Dr. The passion of this backlash, even when compared with recent controversies like Diablo III’s suspicious server issues that pose immediate legal and ethical questions, was overwhelming. Since its release this past March, the final act of the acclaimed Mass Effect trilogy sparked ubiquitous fan derision from across the internet, spawning its own grassroots movement known as “Retake Mass Effect” to target BioWare and even independent platforms such as Amazon in their effort to seek out a better resolution to the game’s ending. If any videogame developers still doubted the Anonymous adage “the internet is here,” the explosive protest against Mass Effect 3’s ending that brought the legendary BioWare studio to its knees has left them forever humbled.
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