{"id":34089,"date":"2012-03-14T13:18:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T11:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34089"},"modified":"2012-03-14T17:09:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T15:09:21","slug":"mass-effect-3-ending-change-petition-also-supports-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/34089-mass-effect-3-ending-change-petition-also-supports-charity","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect 3 ending change petition also supports charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving that sometimes good things can come out of bad things, the people behind a petition to change the ending of Mass Effect 3 have also added a Child&#8217;s Play charity donation page.<\/p>\n<p>That way, you can complain about made-up stuff you don&#8217;t like AND save real children, <em>at the same time<\/em>. It&#8217;s a little bit of magic.<\/p>\n<p>The Retake Mass Effect ChipIn page was launched yesterday and has already raised just over $28,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Retake Mass Effect &#8211; Child&#8217;s Play donation drive is a community driven effort to bring positive attention to our petition for an alternate ending to the fantastic Mass Effect series. The Child&#8217;s Play charity was chosen as a charity started by gamers to provide video games for the patients at Children&#8217;s Hospitals all over the world,&#8221; reads the official mission statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to dispel the perception that we are angry or entitled. We simply wish to express our hope that there could be a different direction for a series we have all grown to love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The petition is asking that <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11869-BioWare\">BioWare<\/a> add an ending to the game that &#8220;provides a better sense of accomplishment&#8221; and, perhaps more importantly, actually makes some kind of sense.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/retakemasseffect.chipin.com\/retake-mass-effect-childs-play\" target=\"_blank\">Retake Mass Effect<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Mass Effect 3: everything you need to know\" href=\"..\/pc\/33754-mass-effect-3-everything-you-need-to-know.html\"><strong>Mass Effect 3: everything you need to know<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"..\/pc\/33568-mass-effect-the-story-so-far-part-1.html\"><strong>Mass Effect: The story so far (Part 1)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"..\/pc\/33677-mass-effect-the-story-so-far-part-2.html\"><strong>Mass Effect: The story so far (Part 2)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Debriefing: Mass Effect 3 launch event in Cape Town\" href=\"..\/features\/33977-debriefing-mass-effect-3-launch-event-in-cape-town.html\">Debriefing: Mass Effect 3 launch event in Cape Town<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mass Effect 3 players want a new game ending\" href=\"..\/news\/33973-mass-effect-3-players-want-a-new-game-ending.html\">Mass Effect 3 players want a new game ending<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"New Mass Effect 3 multiplayer stuff incoming?\" href=\"..\/news\/34043-rumour-control-new-mass-effect-3-multiplayer-stuff-incoming.html\">New Mass Effect 3 multiplayer stuff incoming?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mass Effect 3 ships 3.5 million\" href=\"..\/news\/33949-mass-effect-3-ships-3-5-million.html\">Mass Effect 3 ships 3.5 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mass Effect 3 on PS3 has framerate issues\" href=\"..\/news\/33870-mass-effect-3-on-ps3-has-framerate-issues.html\">Mass Effect 3 on PS3 has framerate issues<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saving kids, one complaint at a time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31274,"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":[31,427,813,423,1013],"class_list":["post-34089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-bioware","tag-electronic-arts","tag-mass-effect-3","tag-petition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34089","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34174,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34089\/revisions\/34174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}