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The drama regarding Mass Effect 3 was for me the moment I knew the gaming "press" was beyond saving.
On one hand you had the gamers being not happy on how the ending was dealt with after investing 3 games of their time.
On the other hand some smart-ass decided to call the gamers "feeling entitled" and the rest of the journos rand with that.
This was for me the first big shift, after that came GamerGate and the rest is history.
No FC what that big dip in 2011 is tho.
@Moon @xyfdi @SuperDicq "hey entitled gamers: fuck you, buy our shit."
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Only stupid people buy games, you want to play games just go to you local tracker and download it for FREE! NO COST! GRATIS!
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ME3 was a disaster, promises were made and not respected, the great thing of the ME series was the ability to be able to bring back you saved game of the previous opus and thus have your choices taken into account. Little of that mattered in ME3 and a big fuck to the consumers with the ending.
The original scenarist, Drew Kaspersky, was completely out of the project thus resulting in a generic bullshit story. The gameplay was slightly better than ME2 but not still neutered compared to ME1.
ME3 was a disaster, promises were made and not respected, the great thing of the ME series was the ability to be able to bring back you saved game of the previous opus and thus have your choices taken into account. Little of that mattered in ME3 and a big fuck to the consumers with the ending.
The original scenarist, Drew Kaspersky, was completely out of the project thus resulting in a generic bullshit story. The gameplay was slightly better than ME2 but not still neutered compared to ME1.
@xyfdi @SuperDicq > No FC what that big dip in 2011 is tho.
Smartphones became much more prevalent around then, so maybe this was when mobile gaming predatory tactics started working their way into console gaming.
Smartphones became much more prevalent around then, so maybe this was when mobile gaming predatory tactics started working their way into console gaming.
Ben Kuchera was probably the earliest game "journalist" to do that, he was doing it on the Ars Technica forums before he even had a game "journalist" job lol.
Never forget the air quotes btw.