Kotaku reporter has some extra bad news

If they say "no" people will stop paying for multiplayer DLC and lose interest. That would also have a negative effect on perceptions of Dylan.

Just keep on playing/paying those Apex missions!

Probably dealt with her love for Alec Ryder and some new necrophilia romance options.

This is all depressing.

Anthem needs to be a success or I don't even know if we'll get DA4.

He should write whatever he wants but he is pimping this story for his book. When  I read  the comments for that article it was all about his book that people were going to buy his book and him talking to them about it. He used this article to drum up business for his book by saying (at the time which he could have edited by now) that there were stories like this in his book. The whole article was essentially an advertisement for his book. Thus, my point is be honest  about what you are doing and why. His motivation was quite clear at the time. 'Buy my book. Here's a kind of teaser to what my book is like.' That is not 'crazy pants logic' - it's being fed the fuck up with people and their agendas acting like they care about things they don't and  are only self serving in reality. His whole reddit post is basically a saving face, saving his name post.

So yeah, fuck this guy. Maybe he wasn't the one who originally wrote the 'end of MEA' article. I don't know because I didn't check. But he is one that is capitalizing off implying BW has problems, MEA might be dead, blah, blah, blah which is upsetting to many people in case you have not  seen the hundreds of comments from people who want more MEA and  MEA DLC. Now he is doing some nifty dancing around in his little reddit post. He's giving himself an out by saying he is not saying there won't be very clearly which my guess is because he knows there will be. Meanwhile, his behavior is not unlike one of those tabloid journals that knows a story will generate sales so they run with it, twisting facts along the way to look however might be most compelling. And with that I once again say fuck this guy.

A business should not need to stop and acknowledge every tabloid that twists facts to get clickbait. If they do, then they spend all their time putting out fires when in the end, the DLC will come. There is nothing but sound business logic in that. Moreso when it costs them time and money to address every little piss ant who decides they want to run some stupid story for click bait and every lazy website that decided to just copy and paste that story. If you ran a business you would understand this. 

If someone keeps saying lies about you that you know aren't true and will be proven false at some point in time, do you waste time and energy trying to tell people these are lies? Or do you just keep doing what you do knowing that at some point in time those lies will be proven false? And frankly which action is more powerful? Trying to argue against lies when the proof is not ready yet or waiting till the proof is ready, releasing it and then letting that be your drop the mic moment. Not bothering with lies is always the better way. There is power in that. It comes from a position of strength. Letting the evidence speak for itself is always  more powerful than trying to tell people things and have them twist your words because you didn't say it exactly how they wanted to hear it (which they already did mind you).

How are they getting rewarded exactly?   Outside of a couple of people trying to score some kind of political points of ME:A it's most vocal detractors have been Mass Effect fans.  What would reward them is EA/BioWare getting it's act together, treating the Mass Effect franchise with the respect it deserves and not rushing out some unfinished cash grab again.   

They still get the free patches that fix what they griped about so their issues are fixed, but those who liked or at least tolerated the game get nothing because of the complaints. 

That wouldn't be an issue if they had released a completed game in the first place.

Alternately, release quality modding tools so that intrepid individuals with programming talent can help the developers correct their mistakes. I'm not joking, either. It's absolutely a valid method and I'm not entirely certain why EA hasn't given it a shot.

That's a subjective view. As I said, many people liked or at least were fine and tolerated the game as it was when released.

Because Frostbite is used for many MP games and DICE does not want people able to easily mod those games thus ruin them by having players cheat. 

Call it business. Noone gets rewarded and noone punished. To even say something like that is pure hyperbole. There's no incentive either way. Noone gets something out of that.


I would have loved for that game not being OK, but exceptional. I would have liked for additional content that makes the framework they provided come alive. As it is, they only provided the promise on something they didn't deliver. Dangle a carrot in your face to pull it back at the last moment, such as they did with many quests in this game. Maybe in expectations of their being lots and lots of DLCs, expansions or future games, maybe because they couldn't get around to finishing the quest.

Noone gets anything out of this but their experience with the game. Which was fun, but not exciting, such as with previous Bioware games.