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Originally Posted by SamandMax
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[...]
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Art Galleries display a collection to make money. If no one goes to a show, different pictures are put up on the wall. Displays are still reviewed, and popular opinion and word of mouth advertising still dictate what a gallery displays.
Do you truly believe
all movies are bastions of creativity isolated from the need to sell, and utterly guilt free of pandering to the masses? That's almost worth a smiley.
Money in their pocket, and the creator/publishers desire to maximise profit is the only power any fan needs to influence content.
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Originally Posted by SamandMax
There's absolutely no way you could argue that Mass Effect 3 is commissioned art
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I think you mean you're unwilling to accept it, not that there's no argument for it.
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Originally Posted by SamandMax
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.
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The more commercially focused games become, the less freedom for artistic expression by their creators. DLC is just an extension of this. It doesn't matter if its story based missions, nick-knacks, made before, during or after the main game. If you want to sell any DLC to fans, you need happy fans.
This limits the direction you can take the core experience (the game itself). When pandering to customers becomes a part of your creative process, their $60 is an investment, and their interest in future titles from you, commission.
A lot of fans will see this ending DLC as a victory, but I'm honestly not one of them.
