14 DAY TRIAL // Despite the launch of the Extended Cut downloadable content that will expand the ending of Mass Effect 3, the development team at BioWare knows that it will not be able to satisfy the tastes and the needs of its entire fan base.
Casey Hudson, the executive producer working on Mass Effect 3, has stated, “There was some feedback that we can’t address. There are people who just outright rejected the whole concept of the endings, and wanted us to start from scratch and redo everything.
“And we can’t do that because that’s not our story, we wouldn’t know how to write that story.”
Hudson says, “We’ve seen a whole range of feedback, ranging from people who wanted a total redo, to people who had concerns and questions about the original endings, to people who loved the original endings and have told us they don’t want to change anything.”
When Mass Effect 3 was launched during the first three months of 2012, gamers expressed their strong feelings about the end of the game, which does little to showcase the fates of the various characters players have become attached to and also fails to take into account significant choices.
BioWare encouraged gamers to express their feelings about Mass Effect 3 and reacted by saying that it will deliver a free downloadable content pack during summer to address some of the concerns that it saw as legitimate.
The company added that it had no plans to alter the endings completely or to extend the storyline of Commander Shepard.
Since launch, Mass Effect 3 has been receiving constant multiplayer-oriented balance patches and the company also introduces missions every other week, extending the life of the game modes it has introduced.
BioWare has said that it plans to create other titles set in the same universe but that the saga of Commander Shepard is now over.