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Re: Why reduce the Money credits over to Mass Effect 2


@mcsupersport wrote:

I agree with most posted here....but then I am on PC, so I will just use a save editor to give myself the credits and resources I need.  I played a bunch of ME1 and ME2 on original, and have no desire to spend hours farming for resources and credits to play a game I like just about everything else.

I wish they would spend time fixing actual gameplay bugs instead of changing stuff no one was complaining about.  Personally, if you are maxed level at end of ME1, with max money, you SHOULD get a bonus into ME2....and as a Spectre, if some banker stole 9,899,999 credits from me, then I would probably be paying them a visit to discuss the situation.......


I'm waiting for a save editor to come out as well (if someone hasn't made one already) to do just this for my second and subsequent playthroughs. I didn't mind earning credits on my first or second playthrough years ago when I VERY FIRST PLAYED THE GAME. However, after countless playthroughs, it's one of the reasons I only play ME 2 and 3 on PC. The amount of credits and time you have to spend mining resources could be spent doing more enjoyable aspects of the game. I am playing my first playthrough of the Legendary Edition without any mods and am playing it "as intended". But, being able to go into a save editor and max out the credits and resources is great and saves me time in following playthroughs.. That being said....

You need to realize that not everyone has or wants a gaming PC and prefer to play on console. This was BioWare's chance to make the mining minigame a smaller part of the game. Make the planets award more resources so people don't feel forced to spend hours mining. Make the side missions that have zero consequences and don't carry over award more credits so you actually feel compelled to do them rather then pinching penny's.

For the record, I feel the reduction in credits was not needed. Nothing needed "balancing". Please revert the change back to the way it was before this patch. 

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  • Yeah the save editor on PC isn't a fix here - I'm on PS5, because I like to do my Mass Effecting on my lounge setup...so the save editor isn't an option.

    It did feel like I was uber rich coming into ME2, I'll say that much, but yeah - since you have to now buy all the DLC stuff, surely something in the middle is the best option.

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