I swear, watching the news cycle for this bit of PR non-damage control is almost as entertaining as the combat in ME3.

When do you think it’ll end Phil, when Bioware announces the new ending DLC next month?

A bunch of writers making stuff in committee usually has certain problems: namely IQ wise. Somehow they created a good ME3 story and trilogy, until it came time to wrap it all up. That shows that they were good at ‘making it up as they go along’ but not truly innovators or original creators. Original Creators such as the producer/writer of Buffy/Serenity/Firefly/Babylon 5 had it all planned out in a cohesive vision. An MMO is an even bigger committee. The larger the mob, the less individual creativity is allowed.

I envision future MMOs to be largely fan written and modded. If they can add that, a sort of Minecraft “personal story” crafted not by the producer, but by the player, good things will come. Trying to create a personal story from an impersonal template of a large authoritarian group of writers casting down the stone of entertainment upon the feet of the masses isn’t probably going to get anywhere in this century.

If they had turned things upon their head and envisioned the Siith as a peaceful order, and the Jedi Order as the usurpers bringing Chaos, it would have been interesting enough to make people realize that this was the Lost Empire. Creating newer and better enemies would have been nice as well. Copying Buddhism and other religions into the Siith or Jedi Order, could have been done better. But none of these people follow Buddhism or Taoism or Chan Buddhism.

A lot has been done with the SW universe, including people who wrote books off of it. But those books went into the future, not the past. While trying to recreate a SW universe in the past, they could not fully depart from the tropes, yet they lacked the access to creative vision from those who reinvisioned the universe. Things such as a dark jedi pulling a star destroyer to crash land on a planet, excessive but at least it pulls on the imagination. But really Hollywood and increasingly more so with AAA game titles, they don’t really understand how to create the philosophy, the logic of the metaphysics of a world. Creating an innovative vision is left to the likes of MInecraft and the indie producers instead. And they don’t have the reserves to make an MMO. Or rather, the ones that have, made it overseas and they were imported here as free to play.

http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/all-the-reasons-mass-effect-3-somehow-ended-up-disappointing-fans/

Background info on the story.

Right now, their business practice is probably dipping into the negatives because this is about as good for business, either MMO or SP, as Carbonite’s recent sub zero drop.