A sincere attempt to defend the ME3 ending spoilers

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**KamikazeCanuck**

purplefood wrote:
Necros wrote:Ending was fine by me too. Looking forward to the new one they do, but still I'm fine with how things turned out.

I think the problem was...

1. A lot of folks on the interweb didn't like the ending
2. They screamed so loud about it, like it was sparkly vampires or greedo shooting first, that everyone else had to jump on the hatewagon just because it was fun to do
3. See #2

There's a heck of a lot of things in life to get all bent outta shape over.. a video game isn't one of them. The ending might not have been the greatest, but I really enjoyed the ride and to me that's a lot more important.

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Obrek wrote:Has anybody considered these ideas?

1. I am not entirely sure how a developer/publisher relationship works, I have never been in a position to know. What if EA demanded an open ending to Mass Effect so that they can continue to make games despite BioWare's promise that this is the end. Do they have this power? If so, the Indoctrination Theory could be a rebellion against the ending EA forced upon them, a deep way for people paying attention to determine that the ending wasn't what they wanted or intended.

2. BioWare purposely made the ending the way they did to make their fans wonder why a developer who has done such great writing on past games could write so badly and force them to search for hidden clues as to what really happened, in this case the Indoctrination Theory.

3. BioWare accidentally put in all of these subliminal clues, and their writing was horrible. The fans have grasped for a reason that the game was full of holes and created the Indoctrination Theory. BioWare will now take this community idea and use it to sell DLC and give that as the explanation as to why the ending was bad.

Either way, I'm on the side of the Indoctrination Theory, mostly because of this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZOyeFvnhiI&feature=relmfu

I think this is fairly definitive given the evidence we have from the game and BioWare's history. The discussion about whether or not anybody should be allowed to charge me money for the "real" ending of any video game is something I'm sure we'll be discussing as more DLC is released. I am hoping that anything confirming this theory is free to download.

P.S. I have heard there is going to be a free download expanding upon the endings but, from the press releases, they will not actually change the endings. Whether this release disproves the Indoctrination Theory or not I don't know.

1) No, if EA wanted to make more ME games they would have changed asked to change this ending. This is the opposite of an open ending, the galaxy basically gets blown up. What most likely happened is EA pushed them to release the game faster and they may have resulted in a rushed ending. When the game came out it was already 3 months behind schedule.

2) No.

3) No, the ending DLC is free.

**nomotog**

I think I'm OK with the ending. Maybe because I exterminated the geth and all that mumble jumbo about organics and robots actually made sense. The worst part is that so many of your choices are completely meaningless and the game had been so good about making them mean something up till that point.

**metallifan**

KamikazeCanuck wrote:
3) No, the ending DLC is free.

Wrong. The -extended cutscenes- will be free. Via their twitter, however, Bioware has all but admitted that there will be future DLC that takes place AFTER the events on the Citadel. And I mean 'all but admitted to it' in the sense that, IIRC, one twitter post from Jessica Merizan was "It's not over yet. Stay tuned."

Though I'm totally fine with paying for post-game DLC, just as long as they make the horribly cookie-cutter ending cinematics have more variable scenes depicting all your resources and choices. Getting practically the same ending as someone that didn't play the past two games, didn't do all the side missions, and got -just- enough readiness to not have the earth be destroyed is so disappointing it's offensive... Like opeing your fridge after a long day at work hoping to find that beer you had left over, only to discover your roomate drank it while you were gone.

**KamikazeCanuck**

metallifan wrote:
KamikazeCanuck wrote:
3) No, the ending DLC is free.

Wrong. The -extended cutscenes- will be free. Via their twitter, however, Bioware has all but admitted that there will be future DLC that takes place AFTER the events on the Citadel. And I mean 'all but admitted to it' in the sense that, IIRC, one twitter post from Jessica Merizan was "It's not over yet. Stay tuned."

Though I'm totally fine with paying for post-game DLC, just as long as they make the horribly cookie-cutter ending cinematics have more variable scenes depicting all your resources and choices. Getting practically the same ending as someone that didn't play the past two games, didn't do all the side missions, and got -just- enough readiness to not have the earth be destroyed is so disappointing it's offensive... Like opeing your fridge after a long day at work hoping to find that beer you had left over, only to discover your roomate drank it while you were gone.

Uh, not wrong. The DLC directly expanding the ending is free. Saying some other DLC won't be free doesn't change that.

**Trondheim**

It was horrid due to the fact that it was out of contact, wuth the other games. And it really, really felt like a pice of TFG product