[Butzilla]

Hi Guys,

In this Thread you can ask your questions to Jessica Merizan and Daniela Heine. The chat will start at 7pm and till then you will not be able to post in it.

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• Endings and Extendend Cut from Mass Effect 3
• What future things can we expect from Bioware? (DLC'S, Mass Effect 4, Community-Actions, Expositions usw.)
• What does a Community Manager at work?

Now have fun and a nice chat!

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Hallo Leute,

In diesem Thread könnt ihr eure Fragen an Jessica Merizan und Daniela Heine stellen. Der Chat wird um 19:00 Uhr starten - und erst ab diesem Zeitpunkt werdet ihr hier eure Fragen posten können.

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Folgende Themen stehen zur Wahl:
- Die Enden und der Extendend Cut von Mass Effect 3
- Was können wir in Zukunft von BioWare erwarten? (DLCs, Mass Effect 4, Community-Actions, Expositions usw.)
- Was macht ein Community Manager?

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BITTE BEACHTET, DASS ALLE FRAGEN AUF ENGLISCH GESTELLT WERDEN MÜSSEN!

[Butzilla]

Also Leute los geht's

Let's start the chat!

[Majed]

Hi there,

thank you for answering our questions! Here are mine:


After EC, is IT still a valid interpretation among other forms of interpretations?

I heard that certain parts of the game are not meant to be taken literal - beside the dreamsequences. Is this true?

IT concentrates on Shepard beeing indoctrinated. But are there friends, allies etc. that shouldn't be trusted anymore by the end of the game (no names, I just wanted to know if there are any)?

[CaptainLoco]

Hello,

I would like to know what we can expect from Mass Effect 4 . Will it play before , while or after Mass Effect 3

[Evil Chris Priestl]

Hello or Guten Tag to everyone.

I'm BioWare's Community Specialist "Evil" Chris Priestly. I want to thank you all for coming to chat with us and for the fine folks at Masseffect-Universe.de like Butzilla for having us here. I know we have a lot of fans in Germany, so Jessica and I are happy to have this opportunity to talk with you.

Please keep in mind we may not be able to answer all of your questions, but we'll do the best we can.

[Evil Chris Priestl]

Hello,

I would like to know what we can expect from Mass Effect 4 . Will it play before , while or after Mass Effect 3

Sorry CaptainLoco, we do not have any information about a Mass Effect 4 or other future games. We can talk about Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3 and DLCs, books, comics, life at BioWare, etc though.

[Moondust82]

Thanks for the chat!

The Gay Romance was a very big thing: I haven't seen any big gay/lesbian romance in a game before. And this means much to gay people. There are a lot of things were acceptance and tolerance is not the way it should be. Sport is one and yet video games have been one.

About future games: Will romances and in special gay romances stay as an important part of future bioware games?

[Jessica Merizan]

Hi there,

thank you for answering our questions! Here are mine:


After EC, is IT still a valid interpretation among other forms of interpretations?

I heard that certain parts of the game are not meant to be taken literal - beside the dreamsequences. Is this true?

IT concentrates on Shepard beeing indoctrinated. But are there friends, allies etc. that shouldn't be trusted anymore by the end of the game (no names, I just wanted to know if there are any)?

Hi Majed! Thanks for joining us.

Yes, the Extended Cut should not affect the overall IT as I understand it (however, there are multiple iterations of this popular theory and it's possible that some speculations have been proven untrue). I actually have a dedicated saved game in which I play keeping IT in mind and I have another game that I view as a strictly literal interpretation.

The team went to great lengths to put meaning and layers of metaphor into the game. There's a lot of cool symbolism if you take the time to look for it. Definitely intentional and we want players to decide what those meanings are for themselves. These games are all about player agency so we feel that it would be wrong to provide a "canon" path or one "true" narrative. Ultimately, the work has to stand on its own and players decide what they think is happening.

[LiaraT]

Hello,

I would like to know what we can expect from Mass Effect 4 . Will it play before , while or after Mass Effect 3

Hi, I nwould love to know this as well, at least a hint

Also, can you give us any info of when approximately can we expect the SP DLC?

[Moondust82]

In the new EC Synthesis end there is a reunion between Kei Jo and Kasumi. AFAIK Keiji is not alive, only the last message is recorded to the grey box in hologram form. What does the scene mean. Did Synthesis end bring Kei Ji back?

[Hunter91]

Greetings,

First of all I want to thank you for the Extended Cut (and all other Mass Effect Games and DLCs of course).
It is such a great DLC, which enclousures the endings of Mass Effect 3.
Still there a quite a few questions:

1. After the Destruction Ending (with more than 3100 EMS): Why is it not possible to see how Shepard is found by his crew or Citadel workers and maybe a wedding scene, if you have a Love Interest? For me, as a Tali Fan, it would have been great to see a wedding scene at Rannoch.


2. How many DLCs for Mass Effect 3 are planned? First I read 3, but then I found out, that this was a translation mistake.


Thank you

[Evil Chris Priestl]

Also, can you give us any info of when approximately can we expect the SP DLC?

Nothing we can confirm yet. It is being worked on now and until the ME3 team are sure it is complete, tested and ready, we don't want to give hints in case we are too soon or too late. It is on the way though. As soon as possible, as long as it is 100% ready.

[Jessica Merizan]

Thanks for the chat!

The Gay Romance was a very big thing: I haven't seen any big gay/lesbian romance in a game before. And this means much to gay people. There are a lot of things were acceptance and tolerance is not the way it should be. Sport is one and yet video games have been one.

About future games: Will romances and in special gay romances stay as an important part of future bioware games?

Inclusiveness has always been an important part of BioWare and we don't include things because it's "politically correct" but rather because our games represent a world with many choices and different kinds of people. It's the right thing to do and we will continue making games that try to capture the wonderful diversity that exists within our world and the fantasy/sci-fi universes we create

[noni]

Hi everybody

Are there any further information to the coming Mass Effect film (not the anime)?
And when can we expect it?

[Evil Chris Priestl]

Hi everybody

Are there any further information to the coming Mass Effect film (not the anime)?
And when can we expect it?

Not much I'm afraid. I can say Legendary Studios is still working on it and are writing it as we speak, but not much more detail yet. Sorry.

[Jessica Merizan]

Greetings,

First of all I want to thank you for the Extended Cut (and all other Mass Effect Games and DLCs of course).
It is such a great DLC, which enclousures the endings of Mass Effect 3.
Still there a quite a few questions:

1. After the Destruction Ending (with more than 3100 EMS): Why is it not possible to see how Shepard is found by his crew or Citadel workers and maybe a wedding scene, if you have a Love Interest? For me, as a Tali Fan, it would have been great to see a wedding scene at Rannoch.


2. How many DLCs for Mass Effect 3 are planned? First I read 3, but then I found out, that this was a translation mistake.


Thank you

1. It was important to us that our endings were open enough to allow for a range of interpretations. For me personally, I wouldn't have wanted to see a wedding scene. However, the game allows for us to walk away with our own conclusions about what happens. So in my game, there's no wedding scene and Shepard has to grapple with her decision that wiped out EDI and the Geth. In your ending, it sounds like Shepard and Tali were able to build a new life together on Rannoch. And from a technical stand-point, everything has to come to an end. The team felt that this allowed for closure while still giving various possibilities without a "canon" post-end plot.

2. I can't say exactly how many we have planned but I'm excited for great singleplayer and multiplayer content ahead. We'll of course share more details as soon as we are able to

[Moondust82]

BW has announced Mass Effect 3 for WII U. Is it planned to bring Mass Effect 1 and 2 to this platform? Or will decisions from ME1 and 2 be non changeable at the beginning of ME3?

[Butzilla]

I have some question from Dukemon. Sadly he can not be here at the moment:

1. Will we be able to buy merchandise articles with Kaidan? (Male Shep and Kaidan together)

2. Will it be possible to buy merchandise directly in germany or do we have to take it at the BioWare Homepage?

3. In ME1 to ME3 we fight against the plans of the reapers to harvest us, why is it possible to let them finish their plans with the Refusal-ending?
In ME3 we fight against the plans of Cerberus, why can we choose the control ending?

[Untitled]

Ich hätte gern gewußt, ob BW die Enden eher als Symbolhaft ansieht, für die Wahl, die man in einem Konflikt hat. Ine ienem Konflikt kann man ja wählen, ob man den anderen zerstört und somit vernichtend schlägt, was ja mit zerstörung angesagt wäre. Man kann ihn aber auch kontrollieren, dem Wiedersacher seine eigene Ideologie aufdrücken und ihn siener eigene berauben, was mit dem Kontrollende erreichbar wäre, wenn auch nur Zeitlich begrenzt, weil man die vollständige Kontrolle nicht unbedingt ewig aufrecht erhalten kann. Zudem kann man aber auch versuchen ein friedliches nebeneinander anzustreben. Synthese wäre dann nicht unbedingt die Verschmelzung der DNA, sondern die Akzeptanz des gegenüber mit alll sienen Stärken und Schwächen bzw. das Verständnis des anderen.

Ausserdem hätte ich gern gewußt, ob BW es auch in Betracht gezogen hat, das Sol System zu zerstören, natürlich nach einer Evakuierungsmaßnahme, da man die Reaper nicht direkt besiegen kann, aber ihnen somit eine schwere Niederlage beibringen könnte. Der Kampf würde dann im Stil der Partisanen weiter geführt. Wenn sie es in Betracht gezogen haben, warum haben sie es letztendlich nicht umgesetzt? Mir fehlt eigentlich diese radikale Option.

I try to translate it. Sorry for my bad english ;-)

From the point of view of BioWare: What did you try to say with the endings? Are they more symbollicaly than "realistic"?

Did you consider to destroy the Sol System to beat up the Reapers asses? I missed that radical option, where I can fight the reapers more in a guerilla-fighting-way

[Moondust82]

Inclusiveness has always been an important part of BioWare and we don't include things because it's "politically correct" but rather because our games represent a world with many choices and different kinds of people. It's the right thing to do and we will continue making games that try to capture the wonderful diversity that exists within our world and the fantasy/sci-fi universes we create

Nice to hear but I really have to give you a big hug for this. Actually this is the way it should be, but many companys fear the reaction of certain groups. We've all seen reactions from around the globe...people who are calling themselves "defenders of the family" have gone wild...not that they would buy video games but anyway. Diversity is not self-evident yet for many companys. So again, a big hug and thank you to Bioware