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Originally Posted by cDnStealth
I am not in the least surprised by this announcement and I will reserve judgement until after I have seen the additions.
I am most disappointed that they hide behind this "artistic integrity" label. As an artist myself, I find that their stance comes across as arrogant and condescendingand no self respecting artist would defend something that is so fundamentally flawed. |
It's not arrogant or condescending to believe in what you've produced, and 'artistic integrity' is a genuinely important concept, not something you can simply dismiss whenever you feel like it - especially when it's other people's artistic integrity that you so easily cast aside. You can define your integrity or lack thereof any way you like, but you can't define it for Bioware.
But what actually is incredibly arrogant and condescending is how you and others approach this issue and how you treat Bioware, as if you've somehow objectively established that their artistic choices are wholly illegitimate. Again, I marvel at the fact that there appears to be no room for disagreement or differences of taste - but I guess those are also things that only occur in the other arts but not in games. In games, the people who type the loudest get to decide what is valuable and what is not, and what is covered by the idea of artistic integrity and what is not.