BioWare considered charging for Mass Effect 3's Extended Cutdownloadable content, community lead Chris Priestly has revealed.
"Probably
shouldn't say this; there was discussion [about] should it be charged,"
Priestly said during a recent PAX Australia panel. "And [executive
producer Casey Hudson] said, 'No, we can't do that. We have to make this
better. We can do a better job finishing the game, providing clarity,
answering some questions.' And it was very important to the team to end
it as best as possible."
Recalling
the fan blowback surrounding Mass Effect 3's controversial endings,
Priestly said the team at BioWare could have ignored the feedback and
just moved on. However, BioWare ultimate reassessed the endings and
released the Extended Cut because "it was the right thing to do."
"It
would have been really easy for them to have hidden. To have put their
heads down and said, "Nope, we're done. That's it. DLC coming next
month,'" Priestly said. "They didn't. And it's hard; it's really hard
when you've put stuff in as a dev team for years making this game to
have people say how bad it is. But they didn't. They listened and they
made the Extended Cut because it was the right thing to do and release
it for free to the fans because again, it was the right thing to do."
Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut launched in June 2012 as
a free download for all platforms. It features new epilogue scenes that
expand on the original Mass Effect 3 ending and aims to give greater
clarity to the conclusion of Commander Shepard's story.
BioWare is currently working on an all-new Mass Effect game described as "fresh and new."
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