...this news hot on the heals of the Consumerist results. Coincidence? Likely.

robalNice! I'll check this out immediately...
...along with the rest of the game, when it's released on Steam.

That would be sometime...never. :p

Tough he left bioware lol the writer but yeah that a nice idea a steak in a dungeon and WRITE FASTER WRITE LOL

PerraIt will probably cost money after that.

So that means, either pay full price now to get it free or have to pay for it later. Yeah, that sounds like something EA would pull. Looks like I'll be waiting longer to buy ME3.

You have two years to get it for free... Even then it will most likely still be available for free.

Because this thing is likely to be distributed on Origin, my guess is that even if you downloaded it prior to that date, you're still going to have to pay for it after that date. Say you installed it now, you could get it for free but if you installed it in May 2014, you'd have to pay. Once you pay for it in May 2014, you'd likely never have to pay for it again.

There's got to be a reason why they set the date then. My guess: Mass Effect 4. Each ME title came out about 2 years after the last.

The amount of butthurt over the ending of a videogame is astounding.

Why is there not an equal amount of butthurt over the ending of a nation?

laugh this extra ending was actually worse then the current one:laugh:

I always thought the "ending" was a bit strange.. But come on now, I have already payed for the game, not going to pay extra just to find out exactly what happend.

DannibusXThe amount of butthurt over the ending of a videogame is astounding.

Why is there not an equal amount of butthurt over the ending of a nation?

because things in life are not, and will never be fair or logical. ever.

To call the game art is a huge stretch. There are so many plot holes, the game is super linear, the writing isn pretty average and they ended the trilogy by throwing 5 years of plot and lore under the bus.

Then you factor in that they promised certain things in the year running up to release and then did the exact opposite. That's the reason that most fans were driven into a rage.

Personally I thought it was a decent game. But games on a whole are becoming much too casual and easy, and instead of a decent plot or good writing, game devs are adding in multiplayer.

It's nice that they are adding the extended ending for free, but you can't polish a turd. The ending will still be full-retard.

Spoiler Alert

Bioware games are become less and less like games. They're really just grinds, there's very little skill involved, just time invested. Bioware enhance the UI of each game to the point where you realise that much of what you were doing was 'busy work', repeatedly running through the same levels, or killing the same group of bad guys. I still enjoyed Mass Effect 1 and 2 (haven't touched 3 as I'm not touching EA any more), they were very slick and I enjoyed the story.. but each time I play a Bioware game I notice that the actual gameplay is very bland, and I'm really just watching a movie (all be it one with multiple endings) that I have to put a bit of work in to see the next cutscene.

Sadly the less skill required to play a game the more popular it seems to become, people don't want games they can fail at, they want games that they will get through, bit by bit, piece by piece.

Add to that EA and Bioware were too bare faced cheeky with DLC for Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age : Origins that I vowed never to buy another Bioware game until they did a repackaged version with all DLC included... I paid full price for the deluxe edition of Mass Effect 2, and for Dragon Age : Origins, and I bought all the DLC. Yet a year later once they'd patched the bugs away they cut the price right back. It's fine for them to do it, it's their choice.. but I'm quite happy to wait 18 months and pay £20 rather than pay £80 for an overall worse experience. I don't imagine I'm alone in that either.

And to top it all off.. I could, if I wanted, spend thousands each year on games. They just don't give me the desire to do so.

I guess EA have become the equivalent of mainstream pop music. Nice and bland and inoffensive, marketed and hyped beyond reality and anyone can pick it up casually... but ultimately not deeply satisfying and no real class to it.

My only worry if that's the case is if EA borg up everything else and there's literally nothing left to compete with EA. I don't think that's going to happen. I think we just need to look at EA games as a brand we want to avoid.

It is very sad though to look at what started as Knights of the Old Republic.... Bioware decided to drop the Star Wars franchise and write their own universe, and we have Mass Effect 3... if you look back at KotoR1 you can see it's the same basic type of game, and Mass Effect 3 is certainly more polished.. but they've lost a great deal along the way.

You have to look back further to see where Dragon Age comes from... it goes way way back to Baldur's Gate... then Neverwinter Nights, and again Bioware dropped the franchise in favour of their own backstory... and again the gameplay is better in the originals, but the polish and UI is better in the later ones.

HalkBioware games are become less and less like games. They're really just grinds, there's very little skill involved, just time invested. .....

This.

Wont be purchasing anything from Bioware again.

Wow is this becoming a trend for video games? Ending as DLC?

Bioware lost me as a customer that is assured. I've bought Mass Effect 3 based
on the promised 16 different endings hoping to play it over and over making
different choices with each playthrough and getting different outcomes.
Now I can't bring myself to play it again. Is this what Bioware wanted, to
kill the replay value of the game?
I think that ending was just rushed to appease its corporate mastEArs
and get a product out. The claims of artistic integrity are baseless and
actually insulting. This is a game that has pandered to fans otherwise with
plenty oversize boobs and even something for the gay community...
artistic integrity my arse.
Bioware has been called out on their crap and all it is trying to do
now is polish its massive turd... still a turd.:shadedshu

end rant.

Oh, the drama!
:laugh:'ing at you all bitching about such a matter.
Well, not exactly laughing. I might have even raised a brow and smirked, actually.
www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=312

Wow, the dev team actually caring what the communinity thinks.... Hopefully we get a discount or some kind of kick back for pre-ordering a game with such a horrible ending. But in reality probably not.

SaiZoI always thought the "ending" was a bit strange.. But come on now, I have already payed for the game, not going to pay extra just to find out exactly what happend.

The ending is what happened. The ending that this is has been solely done to appease the cry babies.

I think people who have followed the game from the beginning have the right to express their disappointment if the game is disappointing. And so far it is for me.

Those who are so eager to take shots at these people seem to be those who didn't like the game in the first place and are reveling in the discontent. Or, more likely, they are just motivated to be jerks.

I know that's the main focus of an internet forum for some, but I thought this place was a little better than that.

It's the internet. Most of these limp-wristed pansies who anonymously troll and rage safely behind their keyboards would never even look you in the eye if they met you somewhere in meat-space.

As a whole I liked the Mass Effect experience, it was a fun journey spanning half a decade.
But the last 20 minutes were full-retard. I wonder how they are going to explain Joker and the Normandy crew deciding to leave Earth, before Shep makes his decision regarding the Catalyst and its effect on the Galaxy.
And why Joker decided to abandon the Commander. And why they made the jump to FTL or a mass-relay jump.

So, who are the two users that will be happy to pay for the extended ending??