BioWare is laying off 50 people

That's an interesting perspective and I wonder how valid it is. Afterall I think they did make the message fairly shortly into the whole thing that they were actually going to fix it which probably opened up the door to hope. Boy wouldn't have that been an interesting alternate history if they hadn't 'fixed' it at least personally.

Now as somone who very much hated the original ending and was very much following the 'retake ME 3 ending' movement...didn't really participate per se just followed the news and bugged my Dad about it...this was also always in the back of my head. Sure its a nice idea and its nice that Video Games can patch stuff easily to appease stuff and I can't say its an entirely unsympathetic idea...but it does change that precedent and the line between creator and consumer always tends to be 'I create world, you consume it, if you like it you will probably consume the next thing I do' and bending over backwards to change it...for a major plot point like an ending...is one thing, the camel's nose if you will, but where else could that lead? 

So much so that I do half wonder if that wasn't the reason for the internal delay given certain things which happened right around the delay happening

That whole business with the original ME3 ending was strange. Surely anyone with the slightest insight could have predicted it? It wasn't just 3 colour coded paths but the explanation being so brief and effectively allowing the antagonist to determine how you should proceed. Also, what led up to it from seemingly being blasted by Harbinger to the confrontation with TIM to the weird space elevator.

I remember playing through the final section after a long day at work but was so eager to get to the end that I kept going until I got there. So, from a role playing perspective I was really feeling like Shepard, in other words exhausted mentally, by the time I got to the AI Star Kid, and quite frankly was befuddled by the choices and the colour coding. Hadn't I spent 3 games working to the point where I could rid the galaxy of the Reapers, so why was that path coded red? Hadn't I just killed TIM for wanting to merge with the Reapers, which did seem like a lousy idea, to why was that path blue? The green path was straight ahead and there was a beckoning white light, although synthesis sounded off to me. Didn't I have some sort of vision with Liara involving white light? Perhaps that was a clue, so I took it. I wasn't bothered about whether I survived or not, I just wanted to save the galaxy. Then I saw Joker's eyes, followed by every other race and blew a fuse, thinking I had been tricked by my enemy. Only to discover by coming to the boards that apparently that was genuinely considered by the writers to be the ideal ending, because you could only achieve it with a certain level of readiness and resources. The ending where Shepard was hinted to have survived if you took the red path was only achievable at that time if you did enough multi-player missions.

So, you had a poorly explained finale, subverted expectations with regard to succeeding against the Reapers and a possible outcome confined to playing multi-player and no one on the team raised an issue with this? I get that the Devs should remain true to their creative vision for the story but there is a difference between watching a film for roughly 2-3 hours and feeling let down by the ending and playing countless hours over 3 games to be similarly confused and deflated. Even if, as was suggested, that final part was down to the lead writer, surely someone would have learned about it before shipping and red flagged it? Perhaps they did and that is why they got out the amended ending relatively quickly. So, it appeared as though they were responding to the backlash but had already anticipated it.

No, when this happened to me and I was disappointed by an author that I had previously admired, I just stopped buying their books. It is possible for someone to become creatively bankrupt and just keep going with a setting when they should have stopped.

It is probably best not to speculate why the delay happened but blaming it on fear of the fans is not a good idea, unless of course that related to the game being technically sub par. Let's face it, they'd had 8 years working on the story, so hardly an excuse for not having a satisfying conclusion at that stage. ME3 had been working to the much shorter turn around time between games and it would seem an even briefer time to devise a conclusion to the story.

They are a former BioWare dev that worked on Dreadwolf.

I do agree with their statement that if people are using this as an excuse to harass current employees, then they're a cunt. Means a little less coming from someone like me though because I'm Australian and Australians call everyone, including their friends "cunts" but the point remains.

OTHERWISE the headline is not misleading. It was also expanded on in the first sentence of the article: "All of Keywords Studios’ unionized QA workers were laid off from the studio in late September after Dragon Age: Dreadwolf developer BioWare declined to continue its contract in August". Let's see if this dev has a background in words ... nope an animator. Okay then, yeah the headline's fine and is accurate. Yes it lacks nuance but you can't have a 100 word headline. 

Nice rant though, keep drinking from the Well of Hysteria, +2 to all screechy internet rants. Jesus Christ, do devs expect the media to pander or what *rolls eyes*

EDIT: It's also likely not a coincidence their contract wasn't renewed right after they unionised. 

Polygon is generally rated high in reference to factual reporting. If you regularly find yourself with a problem with Polygon, most of the time ... it's not a problem with polygon.

mediabiasfactcheck.com/polygon/

"We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record. (D. Van Zandt 12/25/2019) Updated (08/19/2022). Headlines always reflect the content and use minimally loaded wording."

They've got a vested interest that the company, and the game, is not only viewed in the best light but is played by as many people as possible. It makes them a not-at-all objective commentor on this subject. For example, that they want people to see their work (a different tweet) is likely related to their vitriolic rant about people boycotting the game, which people have every right to do.

Jesus Christ, this is what happens when people don't read articles anymore. This is not old news, this happened less than 2 weeks ago and the gaming media got hold of it at about the same time Polygon got hold of it. This is about the QA staff being laid off by Keyworks, this is not about their contract with Bioware not being renewed.

Clickbaiting is usually used to refer when the title produces a switch and bit with the audience, saying clickbait is any headline that encourages people to read an article is a useless definition because every headline is crafted that way. People need to read more. 

People need to read more articles, not skip over headlines.

See, this is how I know you never actually read the article. FROM the article:

"All of Keywords Studios’ unionized QA workers were laid off from the studio in late September after Dragon Age: Dreadwolf developer BioWare declined to continue its contract in August." It is literally the first paragraph in the article

Please point out where I am incorrect? Just insults doesn't help.