Bioware - Now Really Jerking Our Chain

[chiefohara]

Yes, Shepard is going to "live" through the ending of ME3. Except he/she isn't - Shepard is dead and instead the Catalyst is going to be in control of Shepard's body, and try to prevent the galaxy from developing more advanced Synthetics in the next ME game codenamed "Mass Shift".

Some of us haven't finished this game yet. It's been less than a month since release, you think that's a good time to put up unlabelled spoilers?

Buddy just stay off the forums until you finish it, thats what i did.

People will be talking about this for a long while yet, so any time you check a mass effect thread you are taking serious spoiler risks

 

[Savagezion]

You know except the catalyst possessing your body thing, it sounded kind of interesting.

I gotta agree with you on that. Mass Shift sounded dumb as hell but that part did sound interesting. It was like a hybrid of literal ending and the I.T. Mass Relays having been blown up, bwuh... If I must, I guess I could force suspension of disbelief.

Also, the whole time I was there I never got cookies from anyone's sister. =(

Maybe the "cookies" were "cookies".

The dead give away is "Dragon Age 2 was not yet in alpha status". This person clearly has no idea what the hell they are talking about.

 

[Shinigami214]

Here you go mates. Confirmation that it's false.

You know except the catalyst possessing your body thing, it sounded kind of interesting.

Quick question - why is everyone automatically taking his word for it?

Isn't anything Bioware/EA says automatically equally suspect? Would they really come out and admit that its real, if it was?

I'm not saying that this leak is genuine - but simply that Bioware/EA's contribution to its falsity or otherwise are hightly suspect and in no way gospel.

Because if it was real they would be better off ignoring it than drawing attention to it to later be proven wrong and less trustworthy.

It if the dlc was real that twitter message would be a stupid move no matte how you go about it.

I disagree.

Good PR practice is to move against any leaks early and decisively to stop them from gaining traction with your publics.

Companies/entities/governments do this all the time. They first deny a piece of information - as a matter of public relations procedure - only to then admit it under pressure.

It serves two purposes. First, a quick denial can sometimes undermine the validity of a leak, making the possibility that it gets ignored or forgotten easier.

Secondly, it quashes the potential for more, possibly more revelatory leaks that would have possibly followed on the momentum of the prior leaks.

Additionally - but this is mere speculation on my part - I'm fairly confident that the outrage prompted by the end of ME3 has caused them to revise their plan somewhat.

Meaning that if the info outlined in the leak *was* their plan, they can safely say 'its fake' - not because its not accurate, but because they have since then reconsidered their post-ME3 plan and are now coming up with something that won't get them lynched in the street.

 

[Syzygy23]

Huh... I don't know much about BioWare, (being 12 and all)

God I wish I was your age again. Sure there's the inconvenience of being horny all the time, but nothing beats being a kid. Cherish it. It all goes downhill once you turn 20.

I must be lucky, I seem to have dipped slightly and then hit a plateau.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

The DLC thing sounds vaguely plausible, but the Mass Shift stuff sounds like total bullshit.

Quick question - why is everyone automatically taking his word for it?

Especially when his name is EVIL CHRIS

 

[Shinigami214]

Yes, Shepard is going to "live" through the ending of ME3. Except he/she isn't - Shepard is dead and instead the Catalyst is going to be in control of Shepard's body, and try to prevent the galaxy from developing more advanced Synthetics in the next ME game codenamed "Mass Shift".

Some of us haven't finished this game yet. It's been less than a month since release, you think that's a good time to put up unlabelled spoilers?

Buddy just stay off the forums until you finish it, thats what i did.

People will be talking about this for a long while yet, so any time you check a mass effect thread you are taking serious spoiler risks

I haven't played ME3 yet - I simply accepted that to be part of this discussion I'd have to 'spoil' it for myself, so I just went online and read/viewed as much as I could about it instead.

To clarify - I don't plan on buying ME3 until I see how this thing plays out. I know its a drop in the ocean compared to the sales the game has racked up already, but its my little line in the sand.

 

[putowtin]

Here you go mates. Confirmation that it's false.

You know except the catalyst possessing your body thing, it sounded kind of interesting.

thank you!
Seriously does everyone just jump on any whisper of DLC for ME3?

 

[AngryBritishAce]

Here you go mates. Confirmation that it's false.

You know except the catalyst possessing your body thing, it sounded kind of interesting.

Thank god this was put down quickly... not even BIOWARE could screw us over THAT much

 

[mental_looney]

That is really fake sounding and pretty crazy plot wise, organic bits not burning up on the atmospheric re-entry. Mass shift being 1000 years in the future and the organic bits of Shepard still walking around catalyst possessed...

The phrase dragon age getting pushed out the door while still in "alpha" shows nt indication of what alpha testing builds are like which on the last game I saw in alpha was mostly placeholders everywhere text instead of voice acting and notes on things from level designers and artists such as add xx here or needs more x in this area and so many many many bugs. Dragon Age 2 while a controversial game in content was by far a finished product.

 

[Shinigami214]

Yes, Shepard is going to "live" through the ending of ME3. Except he/she isn't - Shepard is dead and instead the Catalyst is going to be in control of Shepard's body, and try to prevent the galaxy from developing more advanced Synthetics in the next ME game codenamed "Mass Shift".

Some of us haven't finished this game yet. It's been less than a month since release, you think that's a good time to put up unlabelled spoilers?

Buddy just stay off the forums until you finish it, thats what i did.

People will be talking about this for a long while yet, so any time you check a mass effect thread you are taking serious spoiler risks

I haven't played ME3 yet - I simply accepted that to be part of this discussion I'd have to 'spoil' it for myself, so I just went online and read/viewed as much as I could about it instead.

To clarify - I don't plan on buying ME3 until I see how this thing plays out. I know its a drop in the ocean compared to the sales the game has racked up already, but its my little line in the sand.

Hey you may just be a drop in the ocean, but you should be the only drop you should care about.

This whole mess would have solved it self if people just looked at it like that.

If only.

Looking at the posts since your comment however, its depressing at how quick people are to assume that simply because Priestly said its fake, it MUST be so.

Sheeple.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

He is a better source than 4chan, also if you are only going to follow information that follows your predetermined conclusion you might as well ignore information all together.

Not to mention that lying about it would only make it worse. Ignoring it would be a better strategy. Now that I mentioned it, they never said the indoctrination theory is fake. They've been ignoring that one. Hmm...

 

[Shinigami214]

He is a better source than 4chan, also if you are only going to follow information that follows your predetermined conclusion you might as well ignore information all together.

Not to mention that lying about it would only make it worse. Ignoring it would be a better strategy. Now that I mentioned it, they never said the indoctrination theory is fake. They've been ignoring that one. Hmm...

I already addressed the point re 'ignoring it would be better strategy' in a previous post in this thread. Good PR practice says otherwise.

Re Draech's post - your suggestion that I only follow information that supports my predetermined conclusion is flawed - Strawman argument.

I am not suggesting that Priestly's statement should be automatically disregarded. I am simply saying that we shouldn't jump to conclusion that Priestly = truth because it might not be the case.

Note I said 'might not be the case' not 'surely is not the case' - what I an advocating is a healthy dose of scepticism - towards both the 4chan leak, and Bioware/EA's reaction.

 

[Timmibal]

Read the entire thing. Volus in a non-enclosed suit? Already proven bunk in that new ME book which even the Bioware staff are admitting is non-canon. 'Too small' Elcor? Bunk. Completely incorrect assumption about how FTL and Relay travel operates? Bunk. Timeline which has century-long holes in it? Bunk. Completely revised gameplay which does not fit with anything Bioware has done in the past? Bunk.

Written on 4chan by a supposed 'virtual lighting tech', a position which does not exist and if it did, would not have access to that kind of classified storyboard info?

I'm gonna go ahead and say the whole thing is a bad fanfic.