BioWare: Fan Feedback is a Big Part of Mass Effect - News

by Nicholas Taylor , posted on 04 March 2011 / 9,598 Views

Speaking in a video interview posted on IGN, BioWare founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have said that fan feedback is very important to the development process of the Mass Effect franchise.

“We responded to the fan feedback for Mass Effect 2, a lot of that came directly from listening to the fans and trying to address the comments they had to make the game even better,” said Muzyka. “And we’re gonna take all that feedback from Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 and apply it to Mass Effect 3 … I think the best is yet to come”

Zeschuk added that “We were actually more than happy to do small directional changes along the way. As Ray said largely for feedback reasons. It’s actually great to get feedback to improve what you’ve made. I think we never really had to compromise on anything,”

Zeschuk mentioned a few changes to Mass Effect 3 due to fan feedback by saying “Some of the elements that we’ve talked about is ‘Hey, look, we’re gonna re-explore some of the whole research and inventory and all that kind of stuff’ … that’s probably one of the areas.” He went on to say that “And hey, I’ll say it for the camera, I love the planet scanning. But apparently other people don’t like it as much. There’s always something to work on.”

They also mentioned that Mass Effect will be continuing beyond the first three games, simply calling them "the initial three games" and mentioning that, after making the first three games, "moving on from there".

9 Comments

armchair_cynic (on 13 March 2011)

Yikes, guess sometimes forget how much of a "minority" we who were disasstisfied with ME2 as an RPG are.

Damn right to what others have said. Hope ME3 concentrates more on being Mass Effect which is plenty of RPG (and plenty of shooter too I admit, just not going overboard like ME2).

Also, two games now in ME2 and DA2 have had some of the messiest plot and storyline work Bioware have ever just. Just disjointed rubbish.

That HAS to change with ME3. I mean it Bioware, its critical.

Also, Liara for squadmate. My Shep needs his biotic Doctor back plz.

geddesmond2 (on 05 March 2011)

Honestly I'm not that impressed with ME2. I'm about 8 hours into it, a level 9 Shepard and the games getting very repetitive. All the talking followed by 20 minutes of gameplay is doing my head in because half the dialogue is crap. I started my game while the cerberus pack downloaded and missed out on the ME1 comic so I don't know half the people I meet. Seriously not feeling this game so far.

Darc Requiem (on 05 March 2011)

I agree with most of the commenters . Give me the ME1 PC Inventory system, ME2 Combat, ME2 Casual and Armored looks for the entire squad, and more squad powers. I agree that there were too many squad powers in ME1 but the went way overboard with the ME2 cutbacks. Especially when some of the squad powers were just versions of ME1's custom weapon ammo >:-(

qmoney88 (on 04 March 2011)

Much like others here, give me more rpg, less third person shooter.

Chevinator123 (on 04 March 2011)

i got feedback for yous MOAR RPG LESS ACTION!

Luzeryn (on 04 March 2011)

You just misspelled 3 times the name of Greg. It's Greg Zeschuk, not Zeshuk.

soulsamurai (on 04 March 2011)

Planet Scannnig killed my wrist on the PC version even with my mouse at 4600 dpi and sensitivity maxed....I like it at first but 30 planets later ..... Also i really hope they bring back some for of inventory system or add A LOT more different pieces to choose from on the N7 armor.