Modder at Nexusmods unlocked whiter/paler skin tones for CC presets

I mean i would never rate Mass Effect 3 a 5/10, it is way better than that. Same goes for Fallout 4 by the way, which got metabombed. 

Just baffles me that no review thought the ending was meh! And it is the end of a trilogy! Imagine Frodo walking up to Mount Doom and then be Introduced to Sauron's real master, Steve. Steve would then proceed to tell him some mumbo jumbo that no one could make sense of. So Frodo gets 3 choices - Merge every living creature in Middle Earth with the ring, so they are all one. Destroy it, but then it destroys every hobbit in existence because reasons, which also includes him. Or control it, where he controls the ring and with it Sauron to repair Middle Earth. Then 3 months later Tolkien would add a chapter where you can also throw Steve into the lava, but then everyone dies. 

Ah man I love that Flynn knows the lore and that was a nice burn. Even though I am still in raging mode when it comes to bioware devs.

While the fact that this game is a "entertainment medium" which is used to explore and present differing levels of "diversity"(at least in some respect), it can very often be used as a political podium and I am inclined to believe it was.

1. Hainly Abrams and Biowares groveling apology.

2. Several male NPC models with a female voice actor; Angaran on Voeld guarding the food storage, Angaran resistance trainer and a turian bodyguard to the Warden on Kadara.

3. Sara Ryder getting hit with a huge stick in the face and made less like her actual real-life model(artistic license on the description of the model's face.) to appeal to generic female audience and feministic/sjw/liberal/progressive views on what constitutes a "real woman" and their representation. Yet, Scott Ryder model is almost identical to the model in real life. 

4. The entire gender pronoun situation concerning the Asari.

I would be less inclined to believe it was social agenda checklist if it weren't so obvious. There is a simple way to check though; present those same things in a different way.

For instance; design the Hainly Abrams situation where the player can insult/disparage/criticize the entire situation in any given context and not allow for any support whatsoever. Design a situation where the Angaran/Turians are explicitly against transgenderism in any form and present it in a way that shows that is a positive thing and make Sara Ryder even more "sexualized" than normal and go even beyond what is presented as the model likeness(exaggerated breasts, model walk animation...etc). Design a situation where Asari are explicitly meant to be sexually attractive to humanoid species and do not present a situation where this could be contradicted.

Do all of that and see if there is backlash. I would bet there would be from the same people that Bioware is currently trying to pander to and those which support/represent what is an extreme minority in society in the first place.

You would see it. DAI brought this into focus and now MEA and you will see it for any potential sequels of the franchise from here on out.

Sick burn huh? "Wow, feminism".

Actually, ideally, I'd have liked to have been more Asari blue, but yeah, if I dial the skin tone as white as I can go in the creator, and it looks white there, I don't *really* want to wake up from cryosleep and find I'm Hispanic. Just call me a control freak....

.... anyway.

Im laughing at people attributing this problem to Bioware being an inclusive company(or try to be.). Bioware gave us the reason behind the problems, and I'm sure they're going to add more pale options in the CC with future content. Bioware is not out to get white people.

I agree with that. There are a lot of things in this game *social justice* wise that are obviously forced, and some are an inaccurate representation. I don't think being inclusive is inherently bad, but when it is unauthentic it makes me believe it is exploitation rather than representation. It seems they're not thinking of real, complex people- rather, the idea of one.

Who's "everyone"?

So does this mod effect Alec too, or is it just the preset for Ryder?

I would try it, if only for the sake of making my custom Sara look a little more like default Scott, so I could use him, but I used a darker skin tone and am now pretty attached to my character, so don't want to change her too much.

I do wish she was a tad less..orange...in some lighting, but it's not just Ryder. The game in general doesn't seem to handle cool toned textures well for some reason. Even the paler shades look a bit sallow in the CC, which is probably why they didn't include lighter. Simply making them paler doesn't really solve it. Too much yellow/red undertones, even in the darker settings, and not enough pink/peach, purple or green. Which unfortunately mismatches with many of the hair colors they gave us. You really need to use a warm toned hair color to go with the warm skin tones, and cool with the cool or it clashes.

But they probably just should have unlocked the defaults to begin with. I like default Sara ok, but not a big fan of the pony tail hair style.

 A lame jab and he knew it. Which is why he apologized in another tweet. Chris Priestley was working at CDPR at the time, which probably had something to do with it.