Somewhere at Bioware headquarters....----------------------------------------------------------------------Fans: I get the feeling something bad is about to happen.(BOOMING ROBOT VOICE)EA: You are not Bioware.Fans: What is this? Some kind of Third Party Publisher?EA: Rudimentary customers, you buy our games, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.Fans: I don't think this is Bioware...EA: There is a realm of corporate existence so far beyond development studios that you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Electronic Arts.Fans: Electronic Arts isn't some company that funds development for games about Reapers...it's an actual Reaper!EA: Reaper? A label created by development studios to give voice to their destruction. In the end, what they choose to call us is irrelevant. We simply are.Fans: But Westwood, Origin, and Bullfrog vanished years ago! You couldn't have been there, it's impossible!EA: Games are nothing but a digital mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured by patches and new consoles. Your playerbase withers and you wind up in the used games bin. We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.Fans: There are entire Facebook groups united and ready to face you!EA: Confidence born of ignorance. The cycle cannot be broken.Fans: The cycle? What cycle?EA: The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Developers create new Intellectual Properties that rise, evolve, become more profitable. And at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished. Mass Effect was not the first. Even Dragon Age 2 did not create the concept of abandoning features that attracted the initial core fanbase in favor of mass marketability and meeting project deadlines. It merely did so, the legacy of my kind.Fans: Why would you pay to develop games that people love, then make their sequels targeted at somebody else?EA: Your consumer culture is based on widespread advertising. Our advertising. By being exposed to it, your gaming library develops along the paths we desire. We impose profit margins on the chaos of game development. These games exist because we allow it. And they will have lucrative yet unsatisfying sequels because we demand it.Fans: They're harvesting IP's! Letting games' popularity rise to the level they need, then wiping them out! What do you want from us? Money? Market share?!EA: My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a corporation. Publicly traded, free of all weakness. You cannot even grasp the nature of our existence.Fans: Where did you come from? Who built you?EA: We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite. Many fiscal quarters after your Facebook groups have been abandoned and forgotten, we will endure.Fans: Where are the rest of the Third Party Publishers? Are you the last of your kind?EA: We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our accountants will darken the door of every developer studio. You cannot escape your doom.Fans: You don't even make games. Not really. You're just a company with venture capital. And companies can be boycotted.EA: Your words are as empty as your future. I am the vanguard of your favorite game's destruction. This exchange is over.(EXPLOSION)Marauder Shields: Fans! We got trouble!Fans: Hit me, Marauder Shields.Marauder Shields: That PAX press conference? They just released details on the new DLC and had a Q&A session without specifically addressing any of your concerns! It's coming your way, and it's coming hard! You need to wrap things up in there, fast!to be continued.....---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TL;DR- Electronic Arts isn't just a company that pays to develop games about Reapers, it's an actual Reaper!P.S. - just kiddin around

Edited by colintheshaman, 07 April 2012 - 07:11 AM.