You know, it kills me how malcontent people are today. I remember people complaining about not liking a movie, so they'd tell their friends to avoid it. If they didn't like a video game, they'd sell it to someone they knew who wanted to try it for themselves. Nowadays, the Internet gives us more power than that. We can write reviews, discouraging people we don't know to stay away from things we personally didn't enjoy. Hell, we can be part of an online community that remains in direct contact with the entertainment business and demand (yes, demand) that things be changed to please us.
I am, of course, talking about the ending to Mass Effect 3.
I played the game. I beat the game. I even enjoyed the game as a whole. No, the ending was not what I would have done, but I didn't make it, so I feel that I have no right to complain. The fact that people are online demanding that Bioware make changes to their video game, alter their artwork, seriously bothers me.
As a theatre student, we were told that the whole point of being part of the entertainment industry is to entertain and audience. The fact remains that art is created for a group; if artists created art for themselves, it's just masturbation. There exists a mutual enjoyment in creating art and having your audience see it, interact with it.
That being said, no, you can't please everyone. I may draw a picture that pleases a group of people because of the style, but someone else might not like it because of the content. Bioware created a game (a damn good one) that a lot of people liked, and that gets overlooked but a bunch of so-called fans who thought that there were too many unanswered questions. That would be fine, in my opinion, if they didn't take it further and make a huge Internet stink on the Bioware and Mass Effect forums, telling the creators to change the game.
It blows me away. Maybe because I just don't get what the problem is with the game. I even asked one of my co-workers who's part of the angered fan-base to try and better understand the copious amounts of hate...and I still don't get it.
Long story short here, kids...I love Mass Effect. All three games. To the point that after I beat the series, I had to stop myself from restarting the trilogy so I could beat some other games I haven't gotten around to playing.
And I don't understand why we, as fans, bloggers, and social site users, feel that we have the right to tell artists what to do.
