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That said I am pretty sure it was said by mods here quite a while ago it was ok to mention websites that are not direct competitors. For instance I know on the Diablo 3 post, Amazon and Shopto are mentioned as places to buy the game. Even though OCUK sell Diablo.

I think (correct me if I am wrong) that the mods just didnt want direct computer part selling competitors mentioned.
 
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Pighardia said:
Hmmmm, what do we make of this then-

https://twitter.com/#!/masseffect/status/185218500011376640

No way they would be that smug if they were just referring to the "clarification" they have talked about
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You're reading into it way too much imo. Something that doesn't make sense now can easily make sense with 5min worth of dialogue added.

They are being very coy about the whole thing but lets not get our hopes up that they will change the whole ending. Assume all they'll do is add come text/dialogue/cutscenes to try and explain stuff.
 
G-Man said:
You're reading into it way too much imo. Something that doesn't make sense now can easily make sense with 5min worth of dialogue added.
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I agree, but the :D after the post.....how could they be that smug about changing the endings when it is something they have been pressured in to by fans? Unless they really do have absolutely no idea how to communicate.
 
Well going by how they handled this whole thing communication wise and how well they communicate with paying subscribers in swtor, i'll lean towards bioware in general having no clue how to communicate :p
 
So Bioware has given the cupcakes to a kids shelter :)

Here are some messages that were sent along with the cupcakes:

"It’s not even in any way like the traditional cupcake
flavors, where you can say how many flavors there are or whether you got color
A, B, or C…The flavors have a lot more sophistication and variety in
them." – Peter Ng, James Petipas, and JS17

"We
rage because we love! Enjoy ;-)" – Peter G & LoganKey

“No matter what color, it’s all vanilla ;-)” – Julie, Bernd
Talasch



"From Marauder Shields" – LukeE



“I came, I saw, I............... Colors?” – Julian Grebe



"Hanar are Pink, Asari are Blue No more endings please
in Red, Green or Blue" – Stuart Smith

"You
have a difficult choice to make - eating a cupcake WILL end your hunger, but it
will also rot your teeth." -
Chrisimo & Emma

"Red, Green or Blue - CHOOSE!" - Michal
"XanderCz" T



"May this sweet cupcake, power your creative process
and new finales!" – Pete Driver



"Hope this can help add some sweetness to the end"
- Quietness from BSN



“Enjoy ;-)” – Alexander Guldmark



"Warning; may contain space magic." – mid.arc



“Om nom nom nom nom. For better ME
endings!” - Adam Sie-Grabowski



“Thanks for your hard work. A little more closure would be
nice, like, you know, blue babies. “ -
BSN: Gibsn



"Consider this: the fans want to give [/b]this to you,
don't miss your chance and sell us all an ending." – J Van der Aa



“"Isn't the option of getting something sweet instead
of bitter enjoyable? ;-)” -Dave Schmidt



“Special delivery for Mordin Solu…I mean Patrick Weekes” -BSN:
Welsh Inferno



"Hated the endings, but much love to all at Bioware!”
–Wrexis



"I finally have a way to thank you guys for giving the
world Mass Effect. Thank you so much!!"
-Justin Onofrey



"Now will you give us something sweet as
well?" -BSN: _NF_Von_Lipwig



“Thanks!” - J717 @
BSN



"Thank you for the Mass Effect games. I really love them. But please give
us the promised decisions. Sincerely a fan (i hope you like the cupcakes
;-))" – Marco



"Choose the red one! You'll get to live
afterwards!...That was a joke. ;-)” – Alex



“I've spent the last 100 hours baking many different
varieties of cakes, pies, cookies and other desserts. Please choose from
one of these three similar but differently colored cupcakes.” –Djandyra



“The stronger the love, the
stronger the heartbreak.” -BSN: Trisskit



“Releasing control of this
snack.” – SnakesSon

“Since
you only gave us the bitter, we thought we’d add the sweet! Please give
your fantastic game an ending worthy of all the minutes that came before.” - Vicky

“With Love”
-Marauder Shields

“"Three
choices can't possibly taste THAT good, right?" – SomeKindaEnigma

“Bioware,
you are my favourite group of games developers. I love all

your work. Thanks to all those who put so much hard work into Mass Effect
3, for giving us characters worthy of deep emotional investment, and many
whimsical and touching moments. After experiencing 99% brilliance, the
ending(s) gutted me. But I still have faith, and immense love for you. I wish
you the best. We campaign because we care.

Enjoy the cupcakes!” – Estelindis

"We
respect your vision of the game, please respect our vision too. It's impossible
to make everyone happy, but I strongly believe you can make the majority happy.
Can we compromise? There's no need to destroy what you have already built, we
would just like more options. Thank you" – Tyrone Landers

“EAT
US!” – Joey Billelo

"Sweet
love, tough love." – Kraegon

“No space magic was used during the creation of these cupcakes”
- BSN unsername Cribbian



“Thanks for all the pleasure you have given me through out all your games.
Every game you made, made me being your fan; proud and privileged. But I have a
hard time trying to wrap my head around why such a beautiful game as Mass
Effect 3 could have such a cold and emotionless ending. But If I could( living in
the Nethelands) I would have come to your office and say I trust you to make it
right” - Nardo de la Rie



“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to eat
cupcakes in the rain. Thank you for five wonderful years of Mass Effect! Keelah
se'lai!” – BSN: nupferl

"Think
of how proud your kids would be, telling everyone...their mom is Commander
Shepard" – Brett Marszalkowski

“Keep up the good work Bioware! Hope you enjoy” - BSN ID : MrCabal – Belgium

"These
endings hurt us, therefore we are assuming control of your calorie count."
- BSN Syokhan.

"Lot of little blue cupcakes for lots of little
blue children." - avatar0

“Marauder
Shields! Remember his sacrifice!” – Anders

“These cupcakes are your salvation, through consumption!”
-Michael Hollien



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Okay, so I'm waiting for my PC version of ME3 to arrive, however, I played the other 2 on the XB360 is there anyway I can modify the PC save file so I have the choices I made in the first two games without going through them both?
 
NeverWinter said:
Okay, so I'm waiting for my PC version of ME3 to arrive, however, I played the other 2 on the XB360 is there anyway I can modify the PC save file so I have the choices I made in the first two games without going through them both?
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Wouldn't bother, not like they change anything anyway.
 
Aedus said:
Wouldn't bother, not like they change anything anyway.
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Importing a save from ME2 makes the game a hell of a lot more fun because characters from ME2 come back in ME3 then. They don't if you don't import anything. Jack, Thane, Legion, Grunt, just to name a few. If you don't import a save game, it's like they never existed. I suggest getting a save from that site linked a few posts up (importing a xbox save on pc is impossible), and choose one with similar choices to the ones you made. Best tip I can give is: get one where everyone lived through pretty much everything, collector base destroyed and maelon's genophage data saved.
 
Must admit less than a third into the game and I find myself disengaging from it. Maybe it's because of all the bad press about the ending, maybe because it doesn't really add anything to the experience in the earlier games but takes away quite a lot of the freedom and fun things you could do - like exploration in ME1.
 
Vern1961 said:
Must admit less than a third into the game and I find myself disengaging from it. Maybe it's because of all the bad press about the ending, maybe because it doesn't really add anything to the experience in the earlier games but takes away quite a lot of the freedom and fun things you could do - like exploration in ME1.
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You're not alone. The core gameplay is barely changed from ME2 so it doesn't have the new ground feel 2 did, the squad members are less interesting.. far less interesting, the plot is unexciting, the quest system/fetch quests are MIND NUMBING, doing laps around the citadel for someone to click on etc. Small bits of welcome interaction/ambience are all gone, like the adverts dotted around the citadel in 2, or the hilarious vending machine, the npcs like the video game salesman, there is nothing like that, the sound bites you get on the news terminals are dire and nothing at all like a news show.

I have played as Vanguard on Insanity/hardest setting since ME and this time it was just retarded. I rarely had to shoot, put charge and nova on hotkeys, press 2, press 3, spin the camera, press 2, press 3.
I actually ended up listening to my own music to alleviate the boredom about halfway through, a terrible terrible sign for an ME game.

It's HALF.. yes HALF the game ME1 and 2 were. Then the cherry on the poo flavoured cake, the ending. I'm quite ok with a bleak/not happy ending in most things, more often than not it makes for a better, more lasting and thought provoking end, but this is out there on it's own, it makes the plopstorm about the last ME novel seem like a distant memory.
 
Vern1961 said:
Must admit less than a third into the game and I find myself disengaging from it. Maybe it's because of all the bad press about the ending, maybe because it doesn't really add anything to the experience in the earlier games but takes away quite a lot of the freedom and fun things you could do - like exploration in ME1.
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You do just seem to be funnelled from shoot-out to shoot-out with very little content in-between.

Cutshaw said:
...doing laps around the citadel for someone to click on etc. .
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You can just bring up the map and find the location or the person rather than randomly walking around
 
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Squark said:
You can just bring up the map and find the location or the person rather than randomly walking around
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Yeah, I did work that out eventually. I suppose in the haze of frustration and disappointment with the whole game and turning off/feel disengaged, I just remembered the wandering around. They still should have added some sort of simple tracking in the codex "x quest is done, go see y".

It wasn't all bad, just most of it. I did love the score.
 
Squark said:
You do just seem to be funnelled from shoot-out to shoot-out with very little content in-between.
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To be fair same can be said about the other ME games.

You can just bring up the map and find the location or the person rather than randomly walking around
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Not all of them get highlighted (there's a few odd ones that don't), that said you do spend a lot of your time running back and forth around the Normandy and the citadel to make sure you picked up all the possible quests/had all the possible conversations with your crew mates.

On a side note, I'd disagree about the squad mates being boring. The only one that really annoyed me was Javik - for some odd reason I sympathized with Liara's disappointment of him :P.
 
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