{"id":11588,"date":"2011-05-05T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bioware-adjusting-mass-effect-3-for-larger-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11588-bioware-adjusting-mass-effect-3-for-larger-market","title":{"rendered":"Bioware adjusting Mass Effect 3 for \u201clarger market\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to EA’s John Riccitiello, BioWare is looking at ways to bring Mass Effect 3 to a larger market. Speaking at an investor conference last night, Riccitiello stated that the sequel will have greater mass appeal than the first two games.<\/p>\n

“One of the things that Ray Muzyuka and the team up in Edmonton have done is essentially step-by-step adjust the gameplay mechanics and some of the features that you’ll see at E3 to put this in a genre equivalent to shooter-meets-RPG,” stating that the game will “essentially address a much larger market opportunity than Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 began to approach. We’re huge believers in the IP and are purposefully shifting it to address a larger market opportunity.”<\/p>\n

And diehard fans of the series the world over just died a little inside.<\/p>\n

There is no denying that Dragon Age 2, particularly on PC, was also deliberately targeted at a broader audience, and while some welcomed the changes, the consensus among RPG aficionados is that it failed to live up to the standard of the first game. Will Mass Effect 3 meet the same fate?<\/p>\n

BioWare has confirmed a bunch of cool stuff for Mass Effect 3 which suggests a deeper player experience, including weapon customization and more loot.<\/p>\n

I’m going to choose to believe that Riccitiello was just saying that to make investors happy, and that Mass Effect 3 will be amazing.<\/p>\n

\"Mass<\/p>\n

Mass Effect 3 screen shot<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Just how much faith do you have in the Mass Effect franchise? Can EA ruin it by going mainstream?<\/a> << Share your thoughts in the forums http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13086-Mass-Effect-3-will-target-quot-larger-market-quot?p=409988#post409988<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EA "purposefully shifting" Mass Effect "to address a larger market"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}