People are filing complaints with the Federal Trade Commission for false advertising.

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/5633/article/bioware-fans-file-complaints-with-ftc-over-disappointing-mass-effect-3-ending/

Ahh ... it's so nice when people take that final step into complete idiocy and can be dismissed entirely without hesitation. Maybe now the conversation can be a little more sensible.

Video games right?

@Sackmanjones: Video games.

There's always somethign, isn't there.

Though... given the fact that Casey specifically stated that your choices would impact the ending and... well, y'know... Ehhhh, I'm sure they could chalk it up to how your military/readiness rating can determine whether you see the synthesis/Shepard's breath endings. Not like I'm going to stand against this being complete lunacy, but there's some logic in there.

This is like the woman who wanted a refund for watching Drive cause it wasn't enough like The Fast & The Furious

This is why we can't have nice things people. It's just a videogame people.

Yeah, Marauder Shields was such a shitty final boss.

Oh America.... and video games.

This is implying it wasn't retarded in the first place. People need to stop being entitled and grow up. It's a video game, get over it.

People going too far to make their point, thus making others write of a point that had merit originally. Bioware implied heavily that the games would have more choice impact, but they didn't outright lie. This isn't helping anyone's 'cause.'

@Funkydupe said:

@Sackmanjones: Video games.

Ohh oh okay. I'm gonna distance myself from people complaining about the ending now. I really didn't like it, but I don't wanna be roped in with those basket cases either.

Even as someone who didn't like the ending this is just goddamn silly now.

What's worse is that unlike the charity petition this will give a complete carte blanche for everyone to shit on "entitled" fans.
They now effectively made the situation worse for everybody.
Now it's just a fucking joke.

UGH...

@Tennmuerti: Agreed, completely.

At this point, if Bioware is going to change the ending, they might as well just make it something so fucking ridiculous that no one can take it seriously in any context. Like Shepard waking up from indoctrination, only to destroy the King of the Reapers by flying through space on a magical unicorn and shooting the core with a water pistol. Then he joins everyone back on Earth for a disco/latex fetish party.

Well, fuck. That's just about the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time.

There's always one in a bunch

I didn't like the ending, but fuck, people are idiots.

Your thread title offends me. FTC on you, sucka.

Bioware's accepting feedback on their game's ending on their forums.

@rjayb89 said:

Yeah, Marauder Shields was such a shitty final boss.

Hey! Leave Marauder Shields out of this, he did his best!

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I didn't mind when one group of ending people raised $50k in charity moneys in the name of endings that take your decisions over the series into consideration, but this is just stupid.

Dear god I hate people so much.

@seannao said:

Bioware's accepting feedback on their game's ending on their forums.

They need to stop listening to their fans. It's ruining their games.

I want to punch that Sparkey Clarkson person quoted in that article in the mouth. You aren't sharing in the creation of culture by getting a different ending in a video game. The suggestion that you somehow share in ownership of the story of anything just from having consumed it, be it Mass Effect or Harry Potter for another example of deluded fucks saying this, is categorically wrong. That is exactly the point where you are crossing the line of over-entitlement, and just because you got to choose to be a 'nice' good guy or a 'bad' good guy doesn't make it any less stupid to think you have any personal ownership or authorship in the story that somebody else wrote.

...But yeah. Those ME3 fans are crazy, huh guys?

@Shady said:

@seannao said:

Bioware's accepting feedback on their game's ending on their forums.

They need to stop listening to their fans. It's ruining their games.

Fans complaining this loudly makes it impossible for people who havent played ME3 yet to actually avoid noticing it. It makes their playthrough tainted somehow if you ask me.

America: Land of the ridiculous lawsuit, and the home of the entitled.

-__- there are no words to describe the idiocy of these proportions

Maybe now's the time to shop around my dream ending?

See, I always wanted the races to all collaborate and make a giant Voltron-style mecha that Shepard could personally use to drive the Reapers out of the galaxy.

What I'm trying to say is that if the galaxy forms like Voltron then Shepard would be the head.

The people that filed this are going to wake up tomorrow, claim that they were indoctrinated into doing it and ask to take it back.

How long after this is shot down until the same person starts claiming that Mass Effect 3 is antisemitic?

@Hailinel: Hell I'd buy that.

power to the consumers man. Except i doubt this will give the people who are trying to change the ending any benefits.

I think the correct way to look at this is taking one step back from the crazy people and realizing those are the sane people.
 
The people just below these people are the normal ones, that's how bad Bioware fucked up.

lolwut?

People need to realize that there is such a thing as taking it too far.

@RetroVirus: said the bride to the groom on their wedding night.

@Hailinel said:

At this point, if Bioware is going to change the ending, they might as well just make it something so fucking ridiculous that no one can take it seriously in any context. Like Shepard waking up from indoctrination, only to destroy the King of the Reapers by flying through space on a magical unicorn and shooting the core with a water pistol. Then he joins everyone back on Earth for a disco/latex fetish party.

Still better than what we'd have otherwise.

@babblinmule said:

@Hailinel: Hell I'd buy that.

It apparently seemed to justify ME3's ending after all. Done something stupid in the past? Just use the ''indoctrination theory™'' and people will interpret your stupidity as creativity in no time!

It's a few people out of a much larger collective who did this, not all of them. Nice judging an entire group on the actions of a few individuals however.

@Funkydupe said:

@RetroVirus: said the bride to the groom on their wedding night.

Ba dum tish!

The word "entitled" is getting tossed around a lot, but FUCK what a bunch of entitled asses. This is so depressing.

I have mixed feelings about this. I'm going to say filing a legal complaint is taking things way too goddamn far, and even though I have not played ME3 yet, I really couldn't see how an ending would disappoint me to such proportions. Once I play it, I'll see if I can find reasons to justify the ending.

But then again, they claim it's a case of false advertising. Normally I'd say it's ridiculous, but despite my personal media blackout before release, I do specifically remember Bioware saying your decisions will ultimately factor in to create a "specialized" ending. That's what I keep coming back to. It's because they actually said this the complaint has weight. They should've just kept their mouths shut because in this industry you can't promise anything.

Reminds me of the lady that tried to sue Drive for being neither fast, nor furious.

did you REALLY have to use retarded?

@Gearhead said:

I didn't like the ending, but fuck, people are idiots.

Yeah. Asking Bioware to change the ending was already a bit much but this is utterly stupid.

Hanging around the Bioware forums it's obvious the guy that did this is just that, one guy, and everyone there believes him to be going way way way too far, and giving the fans a terrible name. So there is that.

How is asking Bioware to change their useless ending to a good one a bad thing? The ending is truly horrible and the Mass Effect Saga is so great it deserves better. 
 
Filing this complaint is however silly, even if there is a shred of truth to his complaint.

I don't know about you but I feel glad to be alive.