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Or what about all those directors that come up with multiple endings to their movies? Think of The Butterfly Effect. There's the "director's cut" ending which not too many appreciated. Then there's the alternative one which the director made the standard ending in European cinemas: people felt better about that ending and the director gave in. It's good business for him.
The director's cut can still be found for people who prefer it.
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I see what you're getting at.
Mass Effect is built
with those multiple endings in the game. All of those alternate deleted scenes that you're talking about are
part of Mass Effect already. Just like they are part of the Butterfly Effect. The Butterfly Effect has a static story. 1 path, 1 movie, 1 ending. Mass Effect has many paths spread over 3 games, and variations of 3 endings.
The director of Butterfly effect giving in on his own is different than if he legally had to do it, and wasn't planning on changing his creation. How many writers/directors have changed the ending of their movie post-release because of bad feedback (in modern times)? I assume it's probably just The Butterfly Effect and less than a dozen others.. There are exceptions to everything, though.
The creators of Mass Effect shouldn't
have to change anything in their game for a few reasons:
1: They made it. It's their choice. Not the consumer. The creator. This isn't the food industry.
2: The alternate routes
are part of the game. Don't view 'Mass Effect' as 3 individual games. View it as 1 large game on 3 discs. 1 movie-story in 3 parts. Does Mass Effect 3 give you lots of choice compared to the other 2 games? No. Not really. Mass Effect 3 is the ending of a movie. It's the big fight scene right before 20 minutes before the credits. It's the Skywalker reunion. It's the sum of all of your previous 2 games of choices.
3: Who's to say they weren't planning DLC for after the ending was released. (Maybe they legitimately weren't, but being Bioware, and EA - I assume they had a plethora of DLC ready, or planned from day 1) Why suddenly on this game is the ending "the ending", but with other games people accept that DLC will be probab;y released after the game - but this time nobody thought logically like "Yeah, they might release DLC. They love DLC" and said "What, THAT was it? What the fuck. I didn't like that. I can't believe there isn't more than that. What a joke. I'll complain until they change it so I like it better."
Because at this point it doesn't matter who
liked the game, or the story, or ending they presented. It only matters if they can shut up the spoiled kids who've never been told "no". Squeaky wheel gets the grease. In all of that what is being entirely lost is that there are people who completely love the game and the series for what it was. People that have nothing to complain about other than the other people complaining about it.