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	<title>Comments on: Mass Effect 3 devs exploring alternative endings</title>
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		<title>By: CC</title>
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		<dc:creator>CC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someones been watching CSPAN too much.  Constructive Criticism means, suggestions or &quot;That ending was confusing, or gave options with so many open questions that I would like answered (like most on the blogosphere).&quot; vs. &quot;That game was a piece of turd, blah blah whine whine whine, the developers are hateful money whoremongers and this is a conspiracy to oppress the people, take arms, revolution, blah blah blah&quot;... kind of like your comment.

Fact is this:
1.  It is a piece of entertainment (just like a movie or a book).  The creative team can write and lay out whtaever they want.  If you enjoy it great! (most of all of our friends loved the game or at least 95% till the last 10 minutes).  If you don&#039;t or if you&#039;re left in the dark, let your imagination do the rest.  A movie is not re-written due to reviews, (see terrible movies like Gigli and I Am Number 4!).

2.  If they&#039;re generous enough to appease the whiners and come out with more DLC to keep your minds entertained, than don&#039;t whine about the $.  More content = more labor (you think their 100+ staff team of programmers, texture artist, story writers, etc... all work for free?).   In the end, its a business so they can do their best to keep customers like us happy, but it still has to pay the bills and make a little $.  My sister whos a texture artists works 50 hours a week to take care of her two kids.  Ask her to appease your whining bs for free and watch her kid starve? She&#039;ll take you to take a hike.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someones been watching CSPAN too much.  Constructive Criticism means, suggestions or &#8220;That ending was confusing, or gave options with so many open questions that I would like answered (like most on the blogosphere).&#8221; vs. &#8220;That game was a piece of turd, blah blah whine whine whine, the developers are hateful money whoremongers and this is a conspiracy to oppress the people, take arms, revolution, blah blah blah&#8221;&#8230; kind of like your comment.</p>
<p>Fact is this:<br />
1.  It is a piece of entertainment (just like a movie or a book).  The creative team can write and lay out whtaever they want.  If you enjoy it great! (most of all of our friends loved the game or at least 95% till the last 10 minutes).  If you don&#8217;t or if you&#8217;re left in the dark, let your imagination do the rest.  A movie is not re-written due to reviews, (see terrible movies like Gigli and I Am Number 4!).</p>
<p>2.  If they&#8217;re generous enough to appease the whiners and come out with more DLC to keep your minds entertained, than don&#8217;t whine about the $.  More content = more labor (you think their 100+ staff team of programmers, texture artist, story writers, etc&#8230; all work for free?).   In the end, its a business so they can do their best to keep customers like us happy, but it still has to pay the bills and make a little $.  My sister whos a texture artists works 50 hours a week to take care of her two kids.  Ask her to appease your whining bs for free and watch her kid starve? She&#8217;ll take you to take a hike.</p>
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		<title>By: Cooper</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-196666</link>
		<dc:creator>Cooper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Fuckin amen!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Fuckin amen!</p>
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		<title>By: Danny</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-196342</link>
		<dc:creator>Danny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Musica like music in spanish ;)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Musica like music in spanish ;)</p>
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		<title>By: Dansturby</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-196328</link>
		<dc:creator>Dansturby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What kind of stand do you suggest, protesting? because that will accomplish nothing. At this point the only solution must be radical. I&#039;m talking about revolution, taking up arms against the oppressor. people need to be willing to die. Are you?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> What kind of stand do you suggest, protesting? because that will accomplish nothing. At this point the only solution must be radical. I&#8217;m talking about revolution, taking up arms against the oppressor. people need to be willing to die. Are you?</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-196150</link>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shepard pushes a red button and the Reapers go boom. How hard would that have been?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shepard pushes a red button and the Reapers go boom. How hard would that have been?</p>
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		<title>By: Mrephun</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-196114</link>
		<dc:creator>Mrephun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder what would happen if the new ending is just commander shepherd with a blue hat]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder what would happen if the new ending is just commander shepherd with a blue hat</p>
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		<title>By: Anne Watson</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-196057</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne Watson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m afraid that the only way to fix the ending would be to replace Star Child with Harbinger and give us a real final boss fight. An epilogue would be nice, but it&#039;s like putting a Band-Aid on a gaping neck wound.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m afraid that the only way to fix the ending would be to replace Star Child with Harbinger and give us a real final boss fight. An epilogue would be nice, but it&#8217;s like putting a Band-Aid on a gaping neck wound.</p>
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		<title>By: J_korczyk</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-196030</link>
		<dc:creator>J_korczyk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calm down now Ron Paul. I highly doubt you would lay down your life for this situation which means it aint worth it. You could be a very motivational speaker if you didn&#039;t sound so crazy but you do ultimately have a point. If we flip them the bird they&#039;ll do it right back with both hands.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Calm down now Ron Paul. I highly doubt you would lay down your life for this situation which means it aint worth it. You could be a very motivational speaker if you didn&#8217;t sound so crazy but you do ultimately have a point. If we flip them the bird they&#8217;ll do it right back with both hands.</p>
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		<title>By: J_korczyk</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-196027</link>
		<dc:creator>J_korczyk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heart crushing is not even a way to describe that feeling of emptiness that they left you with in the end. It would be as if you fell in love got engaged then your lover at the last second when they said &quot;you may now kiss the bride&quot; stops and says &quot;Yeah I can&#039;t do this can we just be friends?&quot; In front of all the friends and family
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heart crushing is not even a way to describe that feeling of emptiness that they left you with in the end. It would be as if you fell in love got engaged then your lover at the last second when they said &#8220;you may now kiss the bride&#8221; stops and says &#8220;Yeah I can&#8217;t do this can we just be friends?&#8221; In front of all the friends and family</p>
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		<title>By: J_korczyk</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-196024</link>
		<dc:creator>J_korczyk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They could fix this if they listen to there fans and accurately address just the main issues obviously you can&#039;t satisfy everyone but it would be nice to brush off on the big problems the ones everyone complains about.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They could fix this if they listen to there fans and accurately address just the main issues obviously you can&#8217;t satisfy everyone but it would be nice to brush off on the big problems the ones everyone complains about.</p>
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		<title>By: J_korczyk</title>
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		<dc:creator>J_korczyk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spoiler alert:


all we want is an ending that makes sense, with less f***ing plot holes in it, has all the choices and there repercussions actually addressed, what about the romance or non romance, what about the squad members, how bout a better explanation for the reapers, or maybe explaining what happened  with earth and everyone that was trapped when the mass relays were destroyed or why the solar systems survived the destruction of the mass relays Mainly I think everyone just wants to see what all there choices did for an entire galaxy. You can&#039;t just sum that up in one short f***ing cut scene that just shows the Normandy flying away with no knowledge of how it got into a mass relay in the first place crash landing on some random planet! Don&#039;t assume we don&#039;t know what we want these are all issues that have been questioned probably millions of times. and these are just the general issues what everyone can agree upon.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spoiler alert:</p>
<p>all we want is an ending that makes sense, with less f***ing plot holes in it, has all the choices and there repercussions actually addressed, what about the romance or non romance, what about the squad members, how bout a better explanation for the reapers, or maybe explaining what happened  with earth and everyone that was trapped when the mass relays were destroyed or why the solar systems survived the destruction of the mass relays Mainly I think everyone just wants to see what all there choices did for an entire galaxy. You can&#8217;t just sum that up in one short f***ing cut scene that just shows the Normandy flying away with no knowledge of how it got into a mass relay in the first place crash landing on some random planet! Don&#8217;t assume we don&#8217;t know what we want these are all issues that have been questioned probably millions of times. and these are just the general issues what everyone can agree upon.</p>
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		<title>By: Tian Lai</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tian Lai</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;We will not support or respond to destructive commentary,&quot; means that they will eventually ignore the people.  

They know that gamers will continue to buy their product as long as the mass effect and bioware name is on the cover. The people will fail and they will get their way. That is what has become of our society, we as a people have become weak, we have allowed others in a higher position to regulate the disposition of our conduct openly. They are now comfortably corrupt, because we have allowed them to become so. Before, no institution nor agency would dare to openly insult the population, they at least, maintained an ounce of secrecy, and you...the people could convince yourself then to accept their lie, however, now they are spiting in the face of the people. Will you allow it, allow this corruption to spread like a virus through the levels of business until it too bleeds into our government? Will you sit down and continue along this path until your grandchildren would one day ask of you the legend of the free foundation that this country was built upon? Or will you choose to walk against these treasonous, bloodsucking, ravenous vampires and take a stand. 

We can no longer hide my friends, we can no longer look away...they are like children who have gotten used to the luxuries and freedom of this fast paced media frenzy...they have diluted our sense of what is important with deceptive fragments of what they call &quot;News&quot; and have now taken advantage of our inability to maintain public interest - they can do as they please because we will all be more interested in the dog who saved his owners life on CHxxx at 7:00. Does anyone remember the Mass Effect 2 complaint about the words being unreadable on non-HD compatible television sets? What did they eventually do after their initial false pretenses to qualm the anger of buyers? Populate false rumors of a DLC for allowing the game to be more compatible with traditional television sets. And soon after the fires were calmed they released a statement, inconspicuously, that &quot;the game was made for HDTV sets, and that was the quality that they decided to adhere to,&quot; because they felt that most American households should own a HD set. This is the same deal, the company is basically saying &quot;Hey guys, we&#039;ll listen to you...but if your rude to us you can fucking forget it because this is a sympathy gesture&quot; and you the people reply back, &quot;Just shut up and take my money.&quot; 

Either live with  your knowledge now and accept the corruption of these bloodsucking capitalists or take a stand for the rights that were guaranteed to your person  the moment you were conceived and drive these heathen back into their cages.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We will not support or respond to destructive commentary,&#8221; means that they will eventually ignore the people.  </p>
<p>They know that gamers will continue to buy their product as long as the mass effect and bioware name is on the cover. The people will fail and they will get their way. That is what has become of our society, we as a people have become weak, we have allowed others in a higher position to regulate the disposition of our conduct openly. They are now comfortably corrupt, because we have allowed them to become so. Before, no institution nor agency would dare to openly insult the population, they at least, maintained an ounce of secrecy, and you&#8230;the people could convince yourself then to accept their lie, however, now they are spiting in the face of the people. Will you allow it, allow this corruption to spread like a virus through the levels of business until it too bleeds into our government? Will you sit down and continue along this path until your grandchildren would one day ask of you the legend of the free foundation that this country was built upon? Or will you choose to walk against these treasonous, bloodsucking, ravenous vampires and take a stand. </p>
<p>We can no longer hide my friends, we can no longer look away&#8230;they are like children who have gotten used to the luxuries and freedom of this fast paced media frenzy&#8230;they have diluted our sense of what is important with deceptive fragments of what they call &#8220;News&#8221; and have now taken advantage of our inability to maintain public interest &#8211; they can do as they please because we will all be more interested in the dog who saved his owners life on CHxxx at 7:00. Does anyone remember the Mass Effect 2 complaint about the words being unreadable on non-HD compatible television sets? What did they eventually do after their initial false pretenses to qualm the anger of buyers? Populate false rumors of a DLC for allowing the game to be more compatible with traditional television sets. And soon after the fires were calmed they released a statement, inconspicuously, that &#8220;the game was made for HDTV sets, and that was the quality that they decided to adhere to,&#8221; because they felt that most American households should own a HD set. This is the same deal, the company is basically saying &#8220;Hey guys, we&#8217;ll listen to you&#8230;but if your rude to us you can fucking forget it because this is a sympathy gesture&#8221; and you the people reply back, &#8220;Just shut up and take my money.&#8221; </p>
<p>Either live with  your knowledge now and accept the corruption of these bloodsucking capitalists or take a stand for the rights that were guaranteed to your person  the moment you were conceived and drive these heathen back into their cages.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Tye</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-195981</link>
		<dc:creator>Katie Tye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, scratch that... any future ME games without the Mass Relays would be stupid, and so would any set &quot;100 years before Shepard and the Reapers&quot; or w/e. I like the indoctrination ending... but that probably won&#039;t happen. :/ Overall, I say &quot;heart-crushing&quot; is the best word to describe the ME3 ending from a player who&#039;s been in love with ME since 2008...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, scratch that&#8230; any future ME games without the Mass Relays would be stupid, and so would any set &#8220;100 years before Shepard and the Reapers&#8221; or w/e. I like the indoctrination ending&#8230; but that probably won&#8217;t happen. :/ Overall, I say &#8220;heart-crushing&#8221; is the best word to describe the ME3 ending from a player who&#8217;s been in love with ME since 2008&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Tye</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-195980</link>
		<dc:creator>Katie Tye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t want them to flat out change the ending... just explain the ending they gave us better and then give us some closure as to what happened afterward.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t want them to flat out change the ending&#8230; just explain the ending they gave us better and then give us some closure as to what happened afterward.</p>
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		<title>By: Corbin Allen</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-195959</link>
		<dc:creator>Corbin Allen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cancel your TOR account.  It pays for it. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cancel your TOR account.  It pays for it. </p>
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		<title>By: XDog</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-195953</link>
		<dc:creator>XDog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was happy with 95% of the game...its the last 40mins or so that I got all pissy with. So I&#039;ll play up till the end and stop till I get some Closure.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was happy with 95% of the game&#8230;its the last 40mins or so that I got all pissy with. So I&#8217;ll play up till the end and stop till I get some Closure.</p>
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		<title>By: Corbin Allen</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/mass-effect-3-devs-exploring-alternative-endings-22219602/#comment-195950</link>
		<dc:creator>Corbin Allen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They really only have three core choices.  How fitting, right?


1. Indoctrination Theory: The fans have handed them their solution on a silver platter.  BioWare says &quot;yes, it was all indoctrination and hallucination!&quot; and makes the &quot;red&quot; ending the &quot;resist&quot; ending.  It was all a bad dream; the relays didn&#039;t blow (because Shep feared they would, he saw that), the ship didn&#039;t abandon him (because Shep wanted them to escape the carnage and live, he saw that), and the Star Child is having a really bad day.   Dark Matter or some such is the real issue at stake, which would even let BW make the most basic decision from ME1 (Are you biotic or not?) have a hand in deciding your fate as well as that of the galaxy.  Downside?  The fans thought of it first, and even if this was BW&#039;s plan from the get go, no-one will believe them.  
2. Explanation: The ending gets extended with new video clips.  Unfortunately, no new gameplay is included, although perhaps a fourth &quot;screw you, starchild&quot; ending option.   The endings being diversified satisfies the most basic player requests.   Unfortunately, while it might explain everything and make it all feasible, it risks having VO that seems snarky or reprocessed from existing game files, and would still cost as much as normal DLC with no additional gameplay, which would create a whole new nightmare.  Additionally, there are plenty of such &quot;alternate endings&quot; on youtube already, and getting compared to a teenager&#039;s 2 hour long video editing personal project is NOT what BioWare needs to save face here. 

3. Utter Rewrite: The ending is scrapped entirely and replaced.  Like the Explanation option, this may or may not include new gameplay, but unlike Explanation, is more likely to include new gameplay than not.   This gives BW a large canvas but also opens them up to a whole new problem: which ending is canon?  BioWare won&#039;t pick a side in that fight and simply say &quot;the ending you chose&quot;, or more likely, &quot;Wait until Mass Effect 4: The New Saga&quot;, or some of both if ME3 makes a difference in other ME games.  Until then, players may not be completely satisfied with the endings, arguing over whether or not their ending was the right one, and risks alienating the players who prefer the first ending. 

How fitting that after passing off a turd sandwich of an ending, they find themselves staring down one of their own.   Perhaps a lesson in customer service when it comes to the concept of art in business. 

Edit: In either ending-change scenario, I endorse the current endings to be the &quot;bad endings&quot;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They really only have three core choices.  How fitting, right?</p>
<p>1. Indoctrination Theory: The fans have handed them their solution on a silver platter.  BioWare says &#8220;yes, it was all indoctrination and hallucination!&#8221; and makes the &#8220;red&#8221; ending the &#8220;resist&#8221; ending.  It was all a bad dream; the relays didn&#8217;t blow (because Shep feared they would, he saw that), the ship didn&#8217;t abandon him (because Shep wanted them to escape the carnage and live, he saw that), and the Star Child is having a really bad day.   Dark Matter or some such is the real issue at stake, which would even let BW make the most basic decision from ME1 (Are you biotic or not?) have a hand in deciding your fate as well as that of the galaxy.  Downside?  The fans thought of it first, and even if this was BW&#8217;s plan from the get go, no-one will believe them.  <br />
2. Explanation: The ending gets extended with new video clips.  Unfortunately, no new gameplay is included, although perhaps a fourth &#8220;screw you, starchild&#8221; ending option.   The endings being diversified satisfies the most basic player requests.   Unfortunately, while it might explain everything and make it all feasible, it risks having VO that seems snarky or reprocessed from existing game files, and would still cost as much as normal DLC with no additional gameplay, which would create a whole new nightmare.  Additionally, there are plenty of such &#8220;alternate endings&#8221; on youtube already, and getting compared to a teenager&#8217;s 2 hour long video editing personal project is NOT what BioWare needs to save face here. </p>
<p>3. Utter Rewrite: The ending is scrapped entirely and replaced.  Like the Explanation option, this may or may not include new gameplay, but unlike Explanation, is more likely to include new gameplay than not.   This gives BW a large canvas but also opens them up to a whole new problem: which ending is canon?  BioWare won&#8217;t pick a side in that fight and simply say &#8220;the ending you chose&#8221;, or more likely, &#8220;Wait until Mass Effect 4: The New Saga&#8221;, or some of both if ME3 makes a difference in other ME games.  Until then, players may not be completely satisfied with the endings, arguing over whether or not their ending was the right one, and risks alienating the players who prefer the first ending. </p>
<p>How fitting that after passing off a turd sandwich of an ending, they find themselves staring down one of their own.   Perhaps a lesson in customer service when it comes to the concept of art in business. </p>
<p>Edit: In either ending-change scenario, I endorse the current endings to be the &#8220;bad endings&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#039;ve probably read about the indoctrination theory, and even if it turns out that they never intended for it to be true, they&#039;ll probably make something along those lines be the &quot;true&quot; ending. Intentional or not, that would be one of the best twists of all time, and the ending wouldn&#039;t such so much after that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They&#8217;ve probably read about the indoctrination theory, and even if it turns out that they never intended for it to be true, they&#8217;ll probably make something along those lines be the &#8220;true&#8221; ending. Intentional or not, that would be one of the best twists of all time, and the ending wouldn&#8217;t such so much after that.</p>
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		<title>By: French_death</title>
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		<dc:creator>French_death</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Still you will get nothing for the hard paid Game itself
- except you put out your Purse again to pay for &quot;DLC&quot; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Still you will get nothing for the hard paid Game itself<br />
- except you put out your Purse again to pay for &#8220;DLC&#8221; </p>
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		<title>By: Sadfsdf</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sadfsdf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[yeh but you can roll it in sprinkles ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yeh but you can roll it in sprinkles </p>
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		<title>By: Gadgetmania - Wanderinglex</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gadgetmania - Wanderinglex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, at most they&#039;ll probably just create some sort of epilogue about what happened, which won&#039;t help much (can&#039;t turn a turd into gold :-). I keep my hopes up, though...

Oh, and it&#039;s Muzyka - like &quot;Music&quot;, only with an &quot;y&quot; and a &quot;k&quot;... and an &quot;a&quot; in there somewhere :-)...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sadly, at most they&#8217;ll probably just create some sort of epilogue about what happened, which won&#8217;t help much (can&#8217;t turn a turd into gold :-). I keep my hopes up, though&#8230;</p>
<p>Oh, and it&#8217;s Muzyka &#8211; like &#8220;Music&#8221;, only with an &#8220;y&#8221; and a &#8220;k&#8221;&#8230; and an &#8220;a&#8221; in there somewhere :-)&#8230;</p>
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