It's public knowledge that MS wrote Polygon a huge check.
To promote Internet Explorer. Not only is that not a game, but is in fact from a different division of one of the largest companies worldwide. It's also worth noting that things such this are fairly common e.g. ad's on any site whether it be news, sports, humor, or fashion, or even competitors in one area working together in another e.g. Columbia (A division of Sony) paying Microsoft to promote The Amazing Spiderman on Xbox Live or Sony promoting their latest computers already having Windows 8 built in.
People like watching unboxing videos so they can see what their buying and if the extra stuff is worth it, or alternatively want to see stuff like that Xbox that was released a while back that looked like R2-D2 even if they know that they won't buy it, because it's dumb and cool.
So Penny Arcade owes OYUA an apology.
So a while back PA Report posted this article slamming OUYA on July 12th. At this time OUYA and PA has their Kickstarters going. They both start and end at about the same time and article was posted shortly after the start. There is one big difference in those kickstarters and it's about $8,000,000. There is also another major difference in all of this. PA was taking up money to kill ads and be "free." We all know this is a lie because PAX has exhibit space for big time developers and publishers and that space is not free so they are still getting money from them. OUYA on the other hand was offering a physical thing in return for your money. PA was threatened by OUYA and stuck their attack dog Kuchera on it to cool the flames and cast doubt which failed. Now OUYA has a release date for retail stores while PA is the same with Kuchera going around acting like an ass to people on twitter.
If you look back at both Kickstarters in question, you will see that both of them made their goals in fairly little time. Also reading through stuff on the PA Report shows that Kuchera's given autonomy from Penny Arcade and pretty much does his own thing e.g. the occasional movie review. The reason that major publishers attend PAX is because the crowds are there, which makes it an ideal place to show off your game and build a great deal of hype in the process that would otherwise be missed, especially when PAX would still be a large draw without them.
People like this is what's wrong with gaming from the consumer end of things. Polygon got bought off. MS doesn't need Kotaku to do a unboxing video for them. I'm sure them getting all that free stuff in no way effected their view on MS or future coverage.
PS set a goal they knew they could hit. This was after Double Fine so $250k isn't really that big of a number to hit. It was nothing more than them asking for money and seeing who would be stupid enough to give it to them.
And they did choose to remove him from the core content of the game, but I don't think it was just to make From Ashes DLC. Afterwards, they decided the character still added something and chose to create his content anyways, and EA decided to deliver that content as DLC. Any more than that is speculation.
Your post is speculation.
So is every other post about the nature of ME3 -or any- DLC until someone inside Bioware spills his beans.
From what I remember a writer did come out and say most of the writing staff was locked out of any discussion of the endings.
A post from a Bioware writers account did say that.
Then it was deleted and claimed the account was hacked and the post was false.
So a while back PA Report posted this article slamming OUYA on July 12th. At this time OUYA and PA has their Kickstarters going. They both start and end at about the same time and article was posted shortly after the start. There is one big difference in those kickstarters and it's about $8,000,000. There is also another major difference in all of this. PA was taking up money to kill ads and be "free." We all know this is a lie because PAX has exhibit space for big time developers and publishers and that space is not free so they are still getting money from them. OUYA on the other hand was offering a physical thing in return for your money. PA was threatened by OUYA and stuck their attack dog Kuchera on it to cool the flames and cast doubt which failed. Now OUYA has a release date for retail stores while PA is the same with Kuchera going around acting like an ass to people on twitter.
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