I'm just going to chime in here as well. I've got all the Mass Effect games on multiple plattforms and I had no illusion I would get the remaster for free, but we don't even get a small discount?!? That's just Illusive Man level ***********...
I had no illusions as well getting the remaster for free. First: it's EA. Second: the amount of their investment.
I mean, it's only a remaster. Not a remake. I bought the grand remake of the grand Mafia 1, which was bundled with the remasters of Mafia 2 & 3. This whole package had cost me only 30 bucks. Bravo Take 2. On the other hand, the trilogy of the Mass Effect series costs the double amount of 60 bucks, and its first part isn't a remake, it's only a remaster!
Hypothetically, if EA would give for buying this collection on their house client a cumulative discount, maybe 1 percentage point for each base game and each DLC owned on Origin, it would naturally promote the use of Origin and boost it to a higher level. Origin sales are sales EA doesn't have to share with its competitors. If they want to promote Origin's use, it's a necessity to give loyal customers good vibes. And this means well thought reward structures. Ubisoft and others did a lot of thinking work in this field. For example, Ubisoft gives Units for playing their games (aka achievements) trough its client, which then can be used for buying in-game content (items and missions alike) or a 20% discount code for it's bigger games and addons. EA, on the other hand, has nada, its client only succumbs to a mere means of DRM.
Yeah am upset with EA, not giving us origin loyal customers a discount, at least a 20% for the trilogy we own
Same here. I own this on console and PC, bought the DLC back when it was points and the DLC authentication has gotten more broken over the years on PC and they absolutely should have offered people who own everything a discount at least on PC- console is understandable because much more work. The DLC authentication issues with Mass Effect 2 are the worst of the trilogy and should have long been fixed, not become a worse problem with every reinstall. Various issues went unpatched for years.
Cheap move and I'll match it by buying on Steam. I will still get a copy in my Origin library I can run without Steam like I can Jedi Fallen Order, EA will just lose 30% of the price to Steam and I'll get to take screencaps with ease. I know punishing them would be just waiting but since a friend said I was easily exploited by anything Mass Effect, I can at least make it sting a little.
Yours truly,
A Mass Effect fan who is currently wearing merch, you know like the sort she's happy to buy alongside a Legendary edition release- the kind of fans who are highly skeptical of an official sequel to the trilogy as just another tri coloured knife in Shepard's back and aren't going to preorder the new Mass Effect game without something more than nostalgia set a hundred years in the future.
It seems silly for EA not to offer a discount...if people arent going to buy due to high price then its maths even an idiot can understand:
WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE 50% OF 60£$ OR 100% OF NOTHING?
In fact if I were to buy it, at the same price I would buy it on Steam instead of Origin.
Any discount on Origin would give them more profit than buying on Steam.
Keeping in mind they only really needed to massively update Mass Effect 1, far more than any of the other two versions. I think the price they are charging for just remastering with ZERO new content is silly. But really, your getting nothing, but a prettier game. HALF the price would be at least semi-fair. But, $60 for the same game you already have? No. I love this trilogy, but I am tempted not to buy it. They aren't even offering like per-purhcase goodies for buying the game sooner. Its so bad.
That's my problem with it as well.
...they don't offer anything new.
We don't get an improved ending,
we don't get the possibility to romance whoever we want, no matter the gender of our Shep,
we don't get new content of any sort
we don't get a multi player
we don't get goodies
we *just* get a "prettier" version of a game we, admittedly love, but already own, at the same price as a brand new game.
And to be honest - a modded version of ME already gave me that without any additional money spent.
I want to show my appreciation for this game, but seeing that the publisher themselves don't do anything from their end -like giving a discount for loyal players- makes me wonder if I should buy it at full price.
If I do, they'll not learn from it & probably pull the same stunt again in the future.
If I don't, they'll think it's not worth it & not update any other of their older games.
But please - someone on here said something (I'm paraphrasing) about the devs getting part of the money... don't fall for that. They surely don't.
All the money you spend on this new version of the game is going to go to EA. There won't be any bonuses for good revenue for people who worked on bringing it to us.
Community ManagerWhile the visual improvements are certainly among the most visible changes being made, I'd definitely be remiss if I didn't point out there were a number of gameplay and systems changes as well.
While the first Mass Effect is definitely most heavily impacted, changes were made to all three games in the trilogy. Those changes may not be as drastic as some hoped for, but a lot more effort went into this than just converting everything to 4K.
That's not to minimize any of the feedback here, as it's perfectly reasonable to look at the changes made and decide on a personal level whether those are enough to pull the trigger on the Legendary Edition at this point or not. I just want to be sure all that additional work done by the developers isn't overlooked. 🙂
Thanks for all the continued discussion, folks!
