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Originally Posted by Crunchy in milk
Commissioned art puts power into its sponsors hands. Bioware/EA went to great lengths to make sponsors of their fans.
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Paying $60 to buy Mass Effect 3 is the equivalent of buying a ticket to see a movie or to get into an art gallery, you're giving money to enjoy someone's creative expression and while you're free and encouraged to have opinions on it, you have absolutely no say in its development whatsoever. There's absolutely no way you could argue that Mass Effect 3 is commissioned art, BioWare encouraging fans to be open and vocal about their opinions in no way means they suddenly have any actual tangible stake in how the game turns out. Unless your copies of Mass Effect 1 and 2 actually came with the majority of shares in BioWare when you bought them, having simply paid for them gives you no right to feel like you're involved with the creative process.
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Originally Posted by Crunchy in milk
Monetizing the fuck out of their product bit them in the ass. If they want artistic freedom and integrity they should aim for it, next time.
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They released a finished game which fully realized their vision for $60 and that's that, absolutely none of the DLC they may charge for is or will be essential. The monetization of video games is a distressing trend but it's a completely different problem and has no bearing on the core experience of Mass Effect 3.
As for artistic freedom, I don't think you have to worry about BioWare every trifling with something as silly as that ever again.
