Why I am not going to buy Mass Effect 3

[MrHide-Patten]

Seeing as how I'm traveling to the land of dirt cheap products (America) its certainly on my buying list.
My guess is that its part of content that was cut from the original script when it was leaked. So am I grossly offended? No.
When you buy games from upwards of 100 dollars a lot of pricing comes off as arrogant whining when people are complaining about 60. Aussie, aussie, aussie...

 

[Fijiman]

I didn't plan on buying ME3 in the first place because I haven't played the first two. Even then, it's clear that what they're pulling here is bullshit.

 

[Teh Jammah]

I'd planned on buying the col. ed version from the beginning and i'm prolly still gonna but...


... RAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck you BiowEAr... wish I could quit you...

 

[Adultratedhydra]

Im going to buy ME3 because its a game series i enjoy and some people whining about "TEH SLIPRY SLOP!" wont change that.

 

[Anthony Wells]

Reading this thread has made me depressed.....depressed i only recently came into the money available to purchase mass effect 3...i was gonna purchase collectors edition....but i cant cause they stopped selling it...and reading through this...plus all the cools shit you get with collectors...makes me depressed and jealous of those who were able to afford it... its a sad world...


more out of my personal thing im surprised Zeel hasnt shown up in this thread screaming about: "i told you so" or something about how EA are evil corparate people ripping shit out of our games for money...before i posted i looked it up..appears he was suspended...he's gonna track this thread down im sure...eventually


OT: whatever..miss out on a good game your loss not mine. I would advise you not to forgo the game just because of this but hey its your decision

 

[Alma Mare]

who the hell makes a 24 minute video about why they won't buy a game that has not even come out yet? I'm seriously sick of the Bioware/Mass Effect 3 bashing bandwagon. Nearly every major video game publisher does DLC in some form or other. I don't love it either but it's not going away.

As long as the DLC isn't REQUIRED to get the best ending in a game, and or is the games ending ,I.E. Fallout 3's Broken Steel DLC, then people have literally ZERO right to complain about when it comes out, what it contains, and how much it costs.

Zero right, huh? Lol. I love when publishers decide to try to see how much they can get away with it and people like you show up to their doorsteps with a bottle of wine and a tube of lube. This has to be the most ass-backwards industry around.

 

[SageRuffin]

I'm getting the game because I wanna see how my FemShep's saga ends. And I'll be getting the CE because of all the extra goodies that come with it. Hell, the artbook alone had me by the balls (I like artbooks). And honestly after the reveal in ME2 that detailed (spectacularly, I think) the eventual fate of the protheans, I, and my Femshep, have said nothing short of "fuck all" to them ever since.

So fuck this TotalBiscuit guy or whatever the guy's name is that created that video, he has no say in what games I'll cop and enjoy.

 

[Fidelias]

While I'm annoyed by this, I'm still getting the game.

I highly doubt that this character is going to be central to the story. Most likely, Bioware will make the Prothean borderline psychotic, or have amnesia or something, because they're not going to give people a character that will just be able to explain EVERYTHING in the game. This is just another squad member, just because he/she/it is Prothean, does not make it plot-central, just lore-central.

And I've loved the series since Mass Effect first came out, so don't just say that I'm "not a fan".

Still, all this crap is a stupid idea. All EA is doing is causing people to get pissed and NOT buy their game. No one's gonna buy the Collector's Edition just because you get some extra content and a sketchbook.
Every gamer knew whether they were going to buy the game, and what edition they would buy, as soon as ME3 was officially announced.

I'm certainly not upgrading to collector's edition, but I'm not cancelling my order either on just some wild speculation that EA is witholding major plot events based on a quick announcement of DLC.

 

[Monkeyman O'Brien]

Meh. I will just buy it used then patch in the extra bullshit. I aint gonna touch it till I can remove Origin anyway.

 

[Raesvelg]

Eh. I find that this revelation... doesn't matter overly much to me.

If people really want to know the lore, it's not like it won't be available for free online within hours of the game coming out, most likely, so it's not like not being willing to shell out the extra money is going to prevent you from learning the lore ever in your natural lifespan.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I loved Mass Effect, and Mass Effect 2 but after watching this video I have cancelled my pre-order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri0vrJ-y2zM&context=C39179a6ADOEgsToPDskJl3lWj020_lrFLeeTgWUh4

This kind of thing just goes too far and is the king of money grabbing nonsense I just can't stand. All I ask is that you watch the video and consider the implications.

Edit: The video in short explains that bioware and ea are forcing you to pay for a game changing character those of you who who have played mass effect will realise the significance of this kind of Team-mate.

Spoiler

It is a Prothean

The content is only avalible for those who are willing to fork out for the collectors edition or pay extra for day of release DLC

It's not part of the story, it's just bonus DLC. The story can be and WILL be included with the full game. Calm your jets dude.

 

[Goofguy]

I made it 20 minutes in to the video and realized that it was just a rambling manifesto after the first 5 minutes. I can understand his displeasure regarding the DLC however, that could have been A LOT more concise, holy crap.

That being said, I am going to reserve judgement on this until more information is divulged. If the Prothean is completely absent from the normal retail version of ME3 then yes, I will be livid. However, if the DLC is the difference between a quest giving Prothean and a squad mate Prothean with NO IMPACT on the story, then I'd really have no issue with that.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

I won't be buying it either. I played ten hours into the first one, and I was not having fun playing it. Which is why I didn't get the second game and also why I will not be getting the third.

 

[The Pinray]

Why are "hardcore" gamers such self-entitled cry babies?

The game is going to be good. I will buy it. I will enjoy it. Have fun with that stick up your ass, friends.

 

[SycoMantis91]

I think it's far from obvious that this Prothean is an integral part of the story. What did the Protheans do? They saw the Reapers come down, and then most of them were killed. The ones that weren't really didn't have much success figuring out how to stop the Reapers, they just figured out a way to hide their most important minds and hope their pods could outlast the invasion. I would actually be amazed if this Prothean has some crazy inside knowledge that no one else does. The best he/she could do is replay the attack in his/her head again. If it wasn't able to figure something out by the time the Reapers left, it's probably not going to.

I'd love to see this Prothean and talk to it and find out from its perspective about its race, the attack, etc. but I think too much is assumed when we all say "this is going to be extremely important!" We don't know that. But yea, EA does suck but I'm not surprised and will still buy this game as soon as I have the expendable cash.

 

[EyeReaper]

i don't really see why this is such a big problem. If anything it will be like the Arrival DLC for ME2, that was all up in the plot, but was it essential? no.
I also don't get why you guys think day 1 dlc is bad. if it was dlc to begin with, why not be glad that if you want to buy it, you can buy it sooner?

 

[Something Amyss]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri0vrJ-y2zM&context=C39179a6ADOEgsToPDskJl3lWj020_lrFLeeTgWUh4

God, that guy might not necessarily sell your point the best way possible.

His complaints about being entitled to full game content but dismissal of online passes is really ridiculous. More to the point, he assumes a lot more content than has actually been specifically stated.

Great for sensationalism, bad for anyone actually looking for honest discourse. It's not rational to assume that this is going to be integral to the plot, despite the Protheans being a major chunk of the ME canon.

And you are not entitled to it.

That being said, I wholly endorse your right to boycott a product based on feeling that you are being mistreated by the producer or that the deal as-is sucks. I think for all the shit EA's pulled, the people opting out of the game will be too few to make a difference, and the DLC will sell well enough to send the message that this is okay. But by all means, fight on.

 

[Dys]

So did you just get into gaming or something? the industry is and always was, about making money...lets me say it again...the industry is and always was, about making money. If this is a problem for you then I think its time to give up gaming because people have been charging for excessive DLC for ages now and I don't see it changing anytime soon.

As demonstrated by the freeware games of old?
Look, this might not be inherently obvious to the kids who think gaming was invented by the xbox 360, but most game devs don't do it for the money. To think otherwise implies you've not been around the gamin community for long yourself. This is new, and it is still being trailed by publishers. Gamers eventually need to draw a line in the sand and stop buying games that are shamelessly scamming them.

Most indie developers and modding teams either charge the bare minimum to support development or rely entirely on donations. If you were to ask any game developer...ANY developer they would say they make games because they love to play them, not because they can make money. If you're good with making tedious code work and want money, you go work for IBM or a bank, you don't develop games.

Go to your collection, look at your games and take out the ones published by EA, Activision and THQ (publishers who really push DLC) and throw them into the garbage or delete their games from your hard drive. If you don't do this, then you are still supporting excessive DLC and its "money grubbing nonsense" and quite frankly I can't take a word your saying seriously. If your going to take a stand because of one game, then you need to take a stand against everyone that does this which is pretty much...most of the industry.

Did you actually watch the link? The issue isn't with DLC itself. THQ DLC is generally unimportant to the core game. So you can buy a couple of extra units for dawn of war a few months after launch? fine, that's not really any different from releasing the same thing in an expansion pack. The issue isn't with charging extra for extra content, the issue is with charging extra for core content. It's unethical to create a game and simultaneously release an "extra" pack that contains story elements necessary to the story.

If it was developed during the games development and is crucial to the story, it is a part of the game. If it is either aesthetic (and therefore irrelevent to the story), free (to those who buy new) or developed after the game is released then it can be considered DLC (though downloadable content should never really be on the game disc to begin with).

 

[Frozengale]

So people say they're not going to buy ME3 because of this, which means they had the money to spare for ME3 but have now decided to not spend it on it.

So, what are you spending that money on? What in your normal day to day life is a much better investment? You don't need that money to live otherwise you wouldn't have considered spending it on trivial games in the first place, so what is better? Clothes? Drink? Extra food? What?

Why do gamers whine about inconsequential bullshit? This is pocket money, this isn't anything new that the gaming industry has invented, and I dunno about you but there's nothing that I would spend this money on that could be considered better than this.

Well I don't know about you but I like a lot of different types of games. I might not spend it on ME3 because I will have decided there are better games worth my time/money. I have a list of games/movies/books that I add to quite often and that I intend to complete one day. Right now it contains probably around 1.5k worth of things that I hope to get in the next 5-10 years. I would rather spend that 10-20 bucks on that list then on one Prothean that is Day 0 DLC. And the business move they have made makes me less likely to buy games from Bioware in the future. So now I have 60 bucks that I can instead use to buy something like Catherine. Or maybe I'll use it to buy the final Season of Avatar. Who knows.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

eh i will agree this is pretty shitty, i won't cancel my pre order, i just won't get the collectors edition..simple as that. ill wait till the character either goes down in price or they have some kind of holiday sale on DLC stuff.