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Thanks for the reply! I agree that the game, Bioware, and EA were treated badly by trolls. There were legitimate issues with the March 16 preview release, and many fans provided constructive feedback and critique. Many people who posted comments on forums, however, continued to whinge on about their unending disappointment in Masse Effect 3's ending, or DAII's repetitive maps, or the inclusion of gay and transgender characters, or the horrible affront of having women (I am one) in gaming - which is an occupation or hobby only owned by said whingers. They are not fans. They are cyberbullies and - in some cases- criminals.
Frankly, I believe that the entire gaming industry needs to reinvision itself - and not just as a profitable capitalist enterprise. There is power in networks, and the industry just hasn't figured out how to leverage that power well. When you filter out the trolls, and you look at initial sales for the game as a "work in progress" versus "finished product" - it did very well indeed. Why stop investing now, when you risk losing the entire network that you've spent years building and sustaining? It just doesn't make sense.
Bear in mind a lot of those so called "player reviews" early on were based on people playing the pirate version with its broken hacked exe. Happens with every AAA game these days. Even saw one person complain a game was broken, then proceed to demand help from the developers in fixing the crack version. That is how stupid some gamers are.
- 9 years ago
@lexandro_Albion wrote:Bear in mind a lot of those so called "player reviews" early on were based on people playing the pirate version with its broken hacked exe. Happens with every AAA game these days. Even saw one person complain a game was broken, then proceed to demand help from the developers in fixing the crack version. That is how stupid some gamers are.
Huh. That would explain why I saw almost no bugs in comparison.
- Anonymous9 years ago
AFAIK the game shipped with anti-tamper DRM built in. So as soon as the exe was cracked the anti-tamper tech kicked in and caused a lot of so called "bugs" that were actually indications of hacking.
- 9 years ago
@lexandro_Albion wrote:AFAIK the game shipped with anti-tamper DRM built in. So as soon as the exe was cracked the anti-tamper tech kicked in and caused a lot of so called "bugs" that were actually indications of hacking.
yea buddy of mine just bought the game a day before 1.09 came out because he got frustrated with his pirated version. witch is funny because 1.09 finally removed that denuvo garbage.
- Fred_vdp9 years agoHero+
@lexandro_Albion wrote:
Bear in mind a lot of those so called "player reviews" early on were based on people playing the pirate version with its broken hacked exe. Happens with every AAA game these days. Even saw one person complain a game was broken, then proceed to demand help from the developers in fixing the crack version. That is how stupid some gamers are.
I saw one of those on this forum recently.