Origin refunding Mass Effect 3 purchases

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Ajescent said:

Zim said:

Ajescent said:

I liked the "good" ending of ME3...I admit I've never followed the ME stories I've played about 3hrs of all 3 games combined  but from what I saw of the ending it looked good no idea what people are complaining about. Were they expecting sunshine and flowers? Give over!

... so you admit you haven't really played the games but then decide to tell fans to give over? What an intelligent point. 

http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect-3-ending-hatred-5-reasons-the-fans-are-right/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M0Cf864P7E

Simple fact is the ending is a total train wreck. It doesn't fit in with the series at all. Your post just demonstrates the same attitude of Bioware, that is a complete misunderstanding of why fans are annoyed. It's nothing to do with it being sad. Fans are fine with a sad ending. It's to do with all the reasons listed at those sites. The plot holes, out of tone with the series, lack of conclusion etc etc. 

Even though I think ME3 as a whole experience as a game is fantastic I can kind of understand people asking for a refund. If you look at some of the quotes at the start of that video it's pretty clear Bioware outright lied about the game. ''Wildly different conclusions'' ''....it is an ending.... Will not [leave fans] with more questions than answers'' ''How could .... you be forced into a bespoke ending that everyone gets?'' as well as I remember them stating how the ending wouldn't simply be an A, B, C choice then is completely an A, B, C choice well or Red, Green, Blue choice.  

The reason I said "Give over" is most complaints I've seen are "there is no "happy ending" based on the "happy ending" I saw, I think it ticked most of the boxes for what constitutes a happy ending. It seems most people were expecting an "And they all lived happily ever after" ending and I hate those especially after a long arse epic trilogy which from my understanding is what ME is.

If after such going through such an epic journey, you get a happy ending, IMO there needs to be a "but" and I think this ending covered it well, the 30mins video for me covered everything I needed to know and I liked it.

Maybe I'm the only one and maybe that's because I never played any of the games from start to finish but surely you must conceed people asking for their money back to me is an over reaction and an unwarrented one. Hence the "give over"

''This right here is my main complaint with WRPGs. Oh yeah, we'll give you a choice in everything that happens, even what colour spoon your char eats his cereal with, but ultimately the ending is predestined.''

Seriously firstly you haven't played the games so you can't really comment. Secondly you have no idea about the community. The forums are FULL of people saying the fact it is sad is fine, it's the fact it's nonsense and how we played makes no difference that is the problem. Everyone was expecting the ending wouldn't be entirely happy given what was happening, however we did expect it to be at the bare minimum two things 1. An ending and 2. fit in with the other 100hours of content. It is neither of those things. 

The fact that an entire theory has had to be made up about the ending shows how ridiculous it is. Especially when the theory would actually mean the game didn't even end and we are still waiting for the conclusion. Which given the fact that the last thing we see is basically a ''Hey want to see what happens? Buy DLC'' is perhaps not far from the truth -_-

You haven't really played the games and aren't part of the community, yet the community is saying how it feels and you are saying ''No this is how you feel''. No-one cares it isn't a 100% happy ending.

I had to pull a quote from another of your posts. So your main complaint with WRPGs is that they say they will give you choice then the ending is predestined........ Mass Effect fans are complaining that the entire series has been about how player choice mattered, it was stated time and time again that the choices we made would have BIG effects on the ending and we then got a predestined ending with almost no variation based on how you played. So despite the fact it is your biggest complaint about the genre you don't care when it happens? 

People asking for their money back is fine if they feel they were deceived by the company. If a movie advertised itself as having mind blowing action the you went in and it had no action at all you would be in your rights to ask for a refund. Bioware told fans time and time again how the ending would take into account choices, not be an A, B, C type ending etc.... they lied about it. 

Oh and M.U.G.E.N it's a bit like Lost. Except Bioware stated it would totally not be like Lost, everything would be answered etc. And at least in Lost the ending although weird was still vaguely in tone with what the show had been. The Mass Effect ending is just bad in every single way. It is my favourite game series up until the last 20 minutes of the last game.