AgedGrunt said:
RJ 17 said:
To correct your "Boycott Windows" example: it would be like buying a Windows OS and then having to pay another $10 in order to use the calculator program.
Not a good analogy. Calculator is functionally unique, useful and essential in work; Javik in ME is redundant, optional and unnecessary. It's comparing utility with extra content.
The issue with that statement is that all the adjectives used to describe both the Calculator and Javik are entirely subjective. The completely objective link that makes it a fair comparison is that the Calculator comes built into the Windows OS, just as Javik comes built into ME3. The difference: MS doesn't charge you $10 to have the Calculator show up and be usable, EA did this with Javik.
There's still evidence of Javik in ME3 even if you don't have him, as seen by the random soldier guy standing in the back of the crowd during Shepard's final speech to the crew before heading out of the Forward Operations Command. That guy is a placeholder, because something is supposed to be there. That something is Javik. As such: he was
meant to be in the game, then removed from it and sold as an "optional" character.