Well, i was going to pick up Mass Effect 3 this week - that was until i started reading the stuff about the "endings". They seem a lot different than what was promised (or sold by the PR people). Wow, it sounds like they really messed up. Right now, it seems like BioWare is in full "we're listening to you" (but not really) mode. If they had time to complete day one DLC, they obviously had time to get other stuff going.
i figured if they could go with a "scortched earth" ending (essentially invalidating all choices in previous games), why couldn't dissatisfied gamers use a similar tactic. The tactic here would be for those dissatisfied with the game to help hasten the decline of the game's prices. How is this possible, you may ask? Well, you know how video game companies tend to not like the used game market (maybe this could reinforce why).
Basically what i am proposing is that dissatisfied players "trade" or sell their copies of the game en masse. The theory here is that by flooding the market with used games that the price will come down. The price will come down eventually, but expediting it wouldn't be beneficial to the retail outlets or BioWare/EA. Also, you could potentially impact new orders at the retail level.
However, i am not sure that the critical mass could be achieved for something like this.
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