What I think about Mass Effect 3 Day One DLC

I'm very excited for Mass Effect 3. I think its the first time I'm reading news article every night before I go to bed and replaying my second playthrough this time with a female Shepard.

But recently there has been an ongoing debate that has appeared on my newsfeed. It started when a friend of mine showed me a Youtube video informing what EA and Bioware has done. A link to the video is here

In short, Bioware has decided to release a day one downloadable content (DLC). While Bioware has done it before in the form of Zaeed through the Cerberus key network, this time Bioware has insisted we pay for the new DLC.

So what's the problem? The problem to many people its that the DLC was completed before the launch date and it was essentially stripped from the game apparently. To Bioware's defence, the content was created by a different team who so happened manage to finish it before the game went gold.

*Spoilers Ahead*

The content? An extra character who is a Prothean character who happen to somehow survive 50,000 years. While I'm excited to find out how the character survived and how he/she would impact the game. I hardly feel impacted by it. An extra character, new sidequest, new weapon and different appearance for your squad will not make a huge difference to me. And oh, the price is $10 and those who got the Collector's Edition will get it for free.

While the gaming community debates over this, I think its one the stupidest debate to talk about. There isn't any great philosophical topics nor some huge ethical debate. Yes, if Bioware & EA deliberately cut out content that is supposed to be in the final game, then I have to say it's unethical. But, in the past DLC that Bioware has done for Mass Effect 2, the characters are not even interesting to talk to. So, do I hold my hopes up for the new DLC character? No, I don't.

It was my intention to get the Collector's Edition from the start. In fact, when Amazon sold out their Collector's Edition, I still didn't go running to get a standard version. I waited till another opportunity presented itself and I'm getting the Collector's Edition through BestBuy. Reason being, I told myself, if this is the last game of the trilogy. I better go all out because I enjoy and love what Bioware has done to Mass Effect.

For $10, I feel that almost everyone can pay for it now. As for the matter of EA & Bioware; there are a business and in the business world if a profit can be made, why not? Sorry gamers, but its high time we learned that game companies won't hold our hands anymore and give nice little gifts.

In conclusion, the solution is very simple, either you buy the game or don't support it. If you think that Bioware & EA has become another scumbag game developers then stop buying games. Invest the time and money into something else. I'll always have photography to lean back on to and there's always something to do besides gaming.

Singapore Toys Games Comics Convention

Last night, just finished editing my photos for Singapore Toys Games Comics Convention. Its quite a huge project for me seeing I had about 250++ pictures when I started out. Overall, I'm extremely pleased with my work on it.

This is because the previous year I haven't purchased my DSLR before visiting STGCC and some of the pictures are not great quality. Here are some examples below:







These are a few selected are the good ones I shot. For the full album you can visit here