Hey, I have a juris doctorate. Maybe I can do the same!!
If you don't think so, LOL, then don't.
No one is LOL forcing you to buy it. It is optional content for those who want it. LOL. Some LOL people will see it as somethign they LOL want. If you LOL don't, then don't buy it and use the $15 for a nice lunch, put towards some other cool game or DLC or just use it for teh LOLs.
I'm still playing ME1 for the first time, in the new PS3 trilogy edition. Is it my imagination or were the Asari kind of...rehabilitated in the other two games? They're really presented (so far) a little bit unflatteringly in the first game. Space tarts, not to put too fine a point on it.
In the other games they're basically the Minbari. Not so much in the first one!
The fan service comes off like fan fiction.
Okay, so read a number of responses and info on the DLC and watched a bit of it on youtube. Bioware has given up all claim to any of my money. Holy crap.
The villian of the DLC is a Cerebus-made Shepard clone leading a rogue faction of Cerebus uber-mooks who think TIM is bonkers. The mission is being compared to Ocean's Eleven. The fan service comes off like fan fiction. Haven't looked at all the romance clips yet, but in the Tali one she makes Shepards watch "Fleets and Flotillas" or whatever the name of that movie is and enables sing-along mode. I threw up in my mouth a little watching the clip.
Also telling is what their employees are saying to fans. In response to a post on the Bioware forums saying "I just lol-ed at the price , the whole game , Mass Effect 3 cost 18-20$ Brand New and Sealed. And this DLC 15$ ? I don't think so LOL." Bioware's Community Coordinator, ****** Priestly said:
Now to be fair the post he's replying to reads like it's written by a 15 y/o, and I would expect that the Bioware people are beyond tired of all their hard work going unappreciated by so many vocal player. Really though, his job title sure sounds like customer relations, and that's how he's speaking to a customer on the company's forum as a representative of the company? Completely unprofessional. Stuff like that makes me ashamed to have given Bioware any of my money in the first place.
I would say it comes off more like a parody than fan fiction. I know for a fact that there are good fan fiction stories out there that do a better job at conveying these characters motivations and personality than resorting to things that everyone knows about and grinding it into the ground.
Well Aus charges out the backside for all their games, right?
Forums sure are appreciating that Jen Hale quote a lot more today in context. Yeesh.
Even talking to the other Asari, especially the bartender in the 2nd game who i am pretty sure is Liara's "dad", they're all pretty wild when they're younger either working as mercenaries or in strip clubs.
Which one was that?
Well she's young, so sexually repressed?Yep. So what is with Liara, then...she's just a nerdy outcast? :lol
Wow. This is sounding worse and worse.
Honestly, I might buy the occasional EA game now, but I do try to steer clear of the company anymore. I don't like how the keep trying to monetize everything with microtransactions and, while BF3 was fun, it got tiresome after a while and Premium was definitely not worth it. Taking over Bioware basically killed it.
I could see a scenario where the former creative folks from Bioware just head out, re-form, and say "Screw you" to EA and do it over.
It's interesting. I've seen these same kinds of cycles in the field in which I work, where larger entities gobble up smaller ones, then it doesn't work because of culture clashes and such, and the smaller guys break away for another 15 years before the cycle begins anew.
We're seeing this some with the larger entities that gobbled up small development houses in the last 15 years or so. With things like Kickstarter, it seems like the industry is shifting slowly.