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Why am I not surprised by this? (EDIT 4) RPS and PCG articles on this story. (/EDIT 4)
Oh, right, because I sort of predicted it.
I expect BioWare's spiral down the toilet of EA's incompetence and subsequent destruction to accelerate to warp speed now.
(EDIT)
And look, we're already seeing the typical "hey don't worry, just because the top guys jumped ship doesn't mean we're actually sinking" poppycock that always follows this sort of thing.
(EDIT 2)
For the record, I still haven't even bought Mass Effect 3 yet, and I'm almost assuredly also not going to buy any future ME game headed by Casey Hudson, of crappy ME3 ending trolling fame.
(EDIT 4)
I did eventually buy Mass Effect 3 for the Xbox 360 for dirt cheap, but I never even took the shrink wrap off of it before I ended up selling it (along with everything else), much less actually played the damn thing.
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And all the people in the comments of the joystiq article calling the two doctors "scum" and "sellouts" and what not (which I don't really agree with, even though I do think those two guys made a terrible mistake when they let their company get bought up by EA) are fully balanced out by the people on the other side talking about "sanctimonious" and "nerd rage" and "whiners" and "sniveling babies" and "entitled" and so on and so forth blah blah blah ad nauseam. I really and truly need to stop reading the asinine comments on sites like this, and I keep telling myself that every time I end up doing so anyway, but I never learn. Seriously though, at this point in time, anyone who uses any variation of the word "entitled" in any way while they are discussing the video game industry automatically loses whatever argument they may have been in, as far as I am concerned, no matter how well reasoned they may have been otherwise. I am that sick of hearing it.
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Oh, right, because I sort of predicted it.
I expect BioWare's spiral down the toilet of EA's incompetence and subsequent destruction to accelerate to warp speed now.
(EDIT)
And look, we're already seeing the typical "hey don't worry, just because the top guys jumped ship doesn't mean we're actually sinking" poppycock that always follows this sort of thing.
(EDIT 2)
For the record, I still haven't even bought Mass Effect 3 yet, and I'm almost assuredly also not going to buy any future ME game headed by Casey Hudson, of crappy ME3 ending trolling fame.
(EDIT 4)
I did eventually buy Mass Effect 3 for the Xbox 360 for dirt cheap, but I never even took the shrink wrap off of it before I ended up selling it (along with everything else), much less actually played the damn thing.
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(EDIT 3)
And all the people in the comments of the joystiq article calling the two doctors "scum" and "sellouts" and what not (which I don't really agree with, even though I do think those two guys made a terrible mistake when they let their company get bought up by EA) are fully balanced out by the people on the other side talking about "sanctimonious" and "nerd rage" and "whiners" and "sniveling babies" and "entitled" and so on and so forth blah blah blah ad nauseam. I really and truly need to stop reading the asinine comments on sites like this, and I keep telling myself that every time I end up doing so anyway, but I never learn. Seriously though, at this point in time, anyone who uses any variation of the word "entitled" in any way while they are discussing the video game industry automatically loses whatever argument they may have been in, as far as I am concerned, no matter how well reasoned they may have been otherwise. I am that sick of hearing it.
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Date: 2012-09-19 06:53 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-09-19 06:56 pm (UTC)From:Heh. Don't worry Aaryn, I think most fans that actually cared about that are already well adjusted to the new level of passion and creativity in BioWare since joining EA with how all their choices through 3 ME games got them 3 different colored endings.
(Fan Rage induced extra DLC ending not withstanding.)
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Date: 2012-09-19 08:55 pm (UTC)From:Well, either that, or it's like you speculated in IRC about the whole online reputation management stuff coming to fruition with the bought fake profiles and the like. (I can't recall at the moment if it was you or I or both of us who posted to LJ about that or when, and can't find the links after a brief search either way, or I'd have linked back to them here.)