NinjaDeathSlap said:
5.) Say Bioware is starting to abandon it's old fan base, is there a reason why?
Maybe it's because you never stop bloody complaining!
Great work thrives on criticism, granted. However, such criticism needs to be constructive, not hyperbolic, and people need to feel appreciated before they give you their best work. Maybe (just a suggestion) you should consider being a little nicer to the people at Bioware who work very hard to produce games for you. If you have a problem with one of their games, how about you contact them, and express politely, and coherently, where you felt the game was sub-par, and suggest ways it could have been improved, rather than bitching about how much the game sucks to people who can do nothing about it, offering nothing constructive, and acting like Bioware have personally betrayed you. If you're going to style yourself as the sort of person who will never be satisfied with anything, then why should they even try and impress you, when they can just go and find people who are generally more complimentary and easier to please to sell games to?
I'll just speak about this for a bit. I don't understand why I must be nice to Bioware. They're not my friends. They're a company. If they want my money they have to make a game I want to play. They haven't been doing that for quite a while.
I have never made a post on their forums so it's not like I rant at them all day long. I have however explained plenty of other places why most of their games since (and somewhat including) KotOR are not very good. Mass Effect is a rare exception and I quite like that one. Then they made Mass Effect 2 which pretty much wasted that potential. I think it's a fair use of forums and people are of course free not to read what I write.
Bioware certainly haven't betrayed me. As I said, they're not my friend. They have lowered their standards since BG2 though, and I for one would like to see them return to that. It's not going to happen due to todays consumers seemingly being upset if they have to work for anything.
Furthermore, I have no idea why I should be nice to them when they employ a dolt like David Gaider who can be very abrasive when people disagree with him.
I can be completely satisfied with a game. Even a Bioware game. They just haven't made that sort of games in a decade.
Though it's all a bit academical as I wont be buying Mass Effect 3. There is just no way they can salvage anything after Mass Effect 2.
Ah, wait. I'll say a bit about their marketing as well. Why on Earth do they spoil every damn NPC beforehand? There are still NPCs I haven't met or played with in Baldur's Gate but in ME they reveal them ages before. And it's not like there are many of them. Also Dude McBroson looks silly, as does Miss Uncanny Valley. I though it was bad enough with Miranda and her creepy face.
But their marketing. You say it's to provide a hook. Perhaps. And perhaps it even works on the sort of people who like boobs and explosions and crummy music. But at the same time it alienates people like me. If they want me to be interested they should show me the game and not tits and guns. The same goes for The New Shit for Dragon Age. That commercial almost prevented me from buying the game. And I kinda wish it had. Damn but it was a trudge to get through that one.
