{"id":42841,"date":"2012-08-14T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T09:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42841"},"modified":"2012-08-14T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T09:51:51","slug":"only-42-of-players-finished-mass-effect-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42841-only-42-of-players-finished-mass-effect-3","title":{"rendered":"Only 42% of players finished Mass Effect 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bioware has revealed that only less than half of all Mass Effect 3 players actually pushed through to the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Melo, BioWare\u2019s online development director, revealed during a talk at GDC Europe, that only 42 percent of players finished the sci-fi epic.<\/p>\n<p>The completion rate is down from Mass Effect 2, which saw 56 percent of players finishing the game.<\/p>\n<p>Melo also said that the completion rate for Mass Effect 2 did jump up early this year, due to players wanting to prepare their save files to import for the third game.<\/p>\n<p>The developer said Mass Effect 1 only saw completion rates of 40 percent. Dragon Age: Origins was completed 36 percent while Dragon Age 2 was completed 41 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Did you manage to finish Mass Effect 3? Do you always make an effort to finish your games?<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-08-13-less-players-completed-mass-effect-3-than-finished-mass-effect-2\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/42820-big-games-of-gamescom-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Big games of Gamescom 2012<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42718-fan-made-mass-effect-point-and-click-adventure-in-development.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fan-made Mass Effect point and click adventure in development<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42393-mass-effect-3-leviathan-dlc-officially-announced.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mass Effect 3: Leviathan DLC officially announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41375-mass-effect-3s-new-platinum-difficulty-is-too-hard-even-for-the-developers.html\">Mass Effect 3\u2032s new Platinum difficulty is too hard even for the developers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41192-mass-effect-3-earth-free-dlc-officially-revealed.html\">Mass Effect 3: Earth free DLC officially revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than half of ME3 players managed to conclude the Reaper invasion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":33756,"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":[31,427,6209,175,813,425,423,2761],"class_list":["post-42841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-bioware","tag-completion-rate","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-mass-effect","tag-mass-effect-3","tag-mass-effect-3-ending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42841","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42850,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42841\/revisions\/42850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}