I agree 100 percent that the wait and see method of buying games is really the only smart way to go these days. Sure you miss out on any pre-order perks, but I think the trade off is generally worth it, since by waiting you can avoid crappy games, plus you can take advantage of the fact that some games drop in price fairly quickly, so you might end up paying a lot less if you wait.

The way I personally solve the problem that you raised with the honest advertising/reviews and how to know what game to buy: I wait and listen to what the general conscientious is. I have yet to play a Mass Effect game. Not because I don’t want to. Just no time… I bought them, but they are just sitting on my shelf. I have yet to buy the third one, and after hearing everything about the ending, I think I’ll hold off. At least until Bioware comes out with their new ending in a few months. Least, that’s what I do. Never a first adopter! lol

I do understand where you are coming from though, since it could easily be said that people are making a bigger issue out of ME3′s ending then need be. On the other hand I think that the ME3 ending is just a small part of the reason that people are attacking BioWare/EA, I get the feeling that gamers are simply fed up with being let down by the games they buy. It used to be we could at least depend on the professional video gamer reviews to give us an un-bias opinion, but now most of them are unreliable to say the least. If we can’t count on honest reviews and we can’t count on honest advertising, how can we make an educated decision on what games to buy? Well at least that is how I look at this whole mess. ; )

I get the outrage, and I agree with it. The problem was that Bioware got lazy. Change the color of the wave here, and say it’s a different ending. Most likely, it was due to time constraints and deadlines. But is this really a major issue in our lives today? If so, man… People got it way easy. Just voicing an opinion.

What is even sillier, is your saying that you have bigger things to worry about, and yet here you are spending your time leaving a comment on a thread about this issue that is so unimportant to you? No offense, just pointing out that we all have our own ways of wasting our free time and we should be careful when judging others.

Seriously though, I think that all this fan backlash may prove to be a positive thing for the gaming community. More and more gaming companies have become corporate machines solely focused on profit and less interested in the people who are buying their product. When gaming companies and game journalist start taking the stance that gamers are whiny, entitled, children that deserve to be ignored, you know they are out of touch with their own demographic. If BioWare is in the business of making M rated video games they need to keep in mind that the people spending money on their games are not children. Many of the people buying their games are adults with real jobs and real lives. They are people who chose to play video games as a hobby in their spare time. It is true that might have better things they could be spending their time with, and for the sake of the gaming industry we should hope that they don’t all hang up their controllers and turn to other forms on entertainment.

So the problem isn’t the too-short ending. A lot of games have those. The problem is a short ending following a very long gaming experience.

The being said, the ending was short, but in many ways I found it satisfying, thanks partially to the music.

idk, I have bigger issues to worry about.