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Updated Mass Effect Liara statue has smaller breasts

Published 11 January, 2012

BioWare listens to fan feedback on bishoujo figurine.

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skowhegan Verified Staff Writer, Eurogamer Network #1 4 months ago

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And the original:

Edited by skowhegan at 11/01/12 @ 14:46
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Boki #2 4 months ago

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And here I was hoping they'd do something about that creepy face too. Why even call this Liara, looks nothing like her
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Doctor_What #3 4 months ago

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Please will somebody get The Daily Mail to do an article about gamers requesting smaller breasted characters.
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deadstoned #4 4 months ago

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Still has baby face and the pose just isn't Liara or any character from Mass Effect.
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Zaiz #5 4 months ago

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Wait, wasn't the fan feedback to make her look like she's an actual adult and not an elementary school girl? Big boobs are much less disturbing than that face.
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arcam #6 4 months ago

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Still got a schoolgirl's face and still squeezing her tits together like a cheap model in Nuts magazine. It's embarrassing.
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Bradach #7 4 months ago

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They're smaller?! What size were they before? She looks like liaras grand daughter
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BigDannyH #8 4 months ago

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Bravo for making the change.

Still won't be buying it.
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Madder-Max #9 4 months ago

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This is just fucking wrong and weird. Almost as good as this "hilarious" shit Bioware are putting on facebook:
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DrStrangelove #10 4 months ago

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Updated Mass Effect Liara statue has smaller breasts

BioWare listens to fan feedback on bishoujo figurine.
Erm... don't... understand. Can't... grasp. ERROR.
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Spuzzell #11 4 months ago

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I'd still feel just as much of a tit if I spent money on this pervy schoolgirl slut version of 'Liana'.

What a piece of crap. Honestly.
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BigDannyH #12 4 months ago

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Really she should be standing bolt upright in an elevator.

I'd prefer that to their current monstrosity.
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Lexx87 #13 4 months ago

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Would.
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Darren #14 4 months ago

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Looks a bit cack to me, like an anime version of what I saw in Mass Effect 2. I guess someone will like it though...
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DwarfyP #15 4 months ago

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@arcam Don't buy it then if it embarrasses you

Edited by DwarfyP at 11/01/12 @ 15:09
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jonbwfc #16 4 months ago

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The 'original' :-

The statue :-

Dear God.
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Subdominator #17 4 months ago

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She kinda looks like a hot version of R2D2.
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darkmorgado #18 4 months ago

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Those complaining about her having a baby face are clearly missing the point of Bishoujo.

It's an art style, and a popular one at that (though not to my taste). Noone is forcing you to buy it, are they?
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smirny #19 4 months ago

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@Subdominator you're implying R2D2 isn't hot...
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TelexStar #20 4 months ago

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@DwarfyP - And I'm sure he won't but that's not the point. The point is that there's something pretty fucking creepy about this side of japanese culture that still likes to promote a sexual look that's an ants whisker away from paedophilia.
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Inmediasress #21 4 months ago

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I'm guessing Bioware targeteted the anime/japanese crowd in their ever lasting quest for the 'ultimate massappeal market pushabutton something awsome happens' fanbse.
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Timotei #22 4 months ago

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@darkmorgado Used panties are popular, doesn't make them right.
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TelexStar #23 4 months ago

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@darkmorgado "It's an art style, and a popular one at that (though not to my taste). Noone is forcing you to buy it, are they?"

Perhaps but it doesn't change the fact that it's still pretty creepy when boat loads of sub 14 year old anime characters are modelled with tits and arse jumping out at you. Calling it art doesn't make it ok.

Edited by TelexStar at 11/01/12 @ 15:42
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metallicorphan #24 4 months ago

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yeah she still looks 10 years old,or probably in her case 50 years old :)
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Phantom_Dynamite #25 4 months ago

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Screw this, were is my singing Mordin Solus statue with the huge package.
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Toothball #26 4 months ago

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In other news, when did the new gallery widget land? I hadn't seen it yet, seems to work pretty well.
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Madder-Max #27 4 months ago

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@Inmediasress

i thought exactly the same thing. ME3 will get so dilutes and spread so thinly that it will evapourate away into nothingness
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hiddenranbir #28 4 months ago

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Dem Japs.
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George-Roper #29 4 months ago

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@Subdominator

She kinda looks like a hot version of R2D2.

Haha, you funny, funny fucker! :D
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Madder-Max #30 4 months ago

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Dagdriver #31 4 months ago

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@Timotei "Used panties are popular, doesn't make them right. "
wait a minute - used panties are wrong???
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Scimarad #32 4 months ago

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Yeah...

Still really, really creepy.
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McBradders #33 4 months ago

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Now to fix the face! You can do it, Bioware!
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Lionheart #34 4 months ago

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Trust you to notice that Breastogamer.
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kangarootoo #35 4 months ago

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So gamers said "You've put big breasts on a pouting little girl! That is weird and wrong."

So the fix was to put smaller breasts on a pouting little girl....

.....I need an emoticon for "I'm not sure you really quite understood the point I was making". It will likely involve a raised eyebrow. Help me out people.
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Amistat #36 4 months ago

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Amusingly, it probably would have worked better with the oversized jubblies.

At least then it's clearly an over the top cute/sexy anime style figure. Reducing the breasts just kinda emphasises the face, which is now the only characatured feature.

Okay, yeah, the pose is still iffy, but again without a clear style for the model it too looks out of place; instead of a sexified anime interpritation of Liara it's Liara with a wierd face doing an out of character pose.

To be honest, I think I would have stuck with the original, there are several other games/movies/series that have had these abstractly styled figures (there are some cool Star Wars ones and a lot of interesting OTT Marvel stuff) and when placed next to more realistic looking versions they make a cool contrast and are pretty solid, diluting the design like this confuses the whole thing making the whole series of models (assuming they're doing more) pointless.

tl;dr, they should have actually kept it as it was :V

C'mon Daily Mail, quote me! "GAMER RAGES AT CLEARLY UNDERAGE GAME CHARACTER FIGURE HAVING REDUCED BOOBIES!!! KILLS SEVERAL KITTENS!!!"
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Bremenacht #37 4 months ago

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Another day
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Bremenacht #38 4 months ago

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.. another pisspoor excuse to promote ME3

pew
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syra #39 4 months ago

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seriously this is the weirdest kind of nerdrage. I think the point of bishoujo was missed alltogether.
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Potioninmypants #40 4 months ago

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Make the tits bigger or i'm not buying it.

Seriously.
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DurzoBlint #41 4 months ago

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She is, of course, still sexualised and pushing her breasts together. Being very, very slightly less gratuitous doesn't make it okay all of a sudden.
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icematt12 #42 4 months ago

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I thought they messed up her face in the Shadow Broker DLC as well, this looks worse. Doesn't strike me as a Liara aged like a human teenager, I say an accurate face is more important than the size of the fun bags.

Edited by icematt12 at 11/01/12 @ 18:52
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stryker1121 #43 4 months ago

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@syra From the Wiki: "Bishoujo, literally 'beautiful young girl,' is term used to refer to young and pretty girls, usually below university age."

So there you go. I wouldn't want the Feds to find the thing in my house, but hey to each his own.
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The-Bodybuilder #44 4 months ago

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The nerd rage is baffling in here.
I'm certain 90% of the complainers here must think this is her new look in ME3 (it's not, btw). If you ARE aware and yet you're still moaning then......why?

That's like watching hentai and being shocked at the ludicrous gratuitous sex.
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Spuzzell #45 4 months ago

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@The-Bodybuilder

I'm not a nerd. And I'm not raging. I just think this statue is borderline perverse and entirely embarrassing, and I don't want it associated in anyway with something I enjoy.

You can like artwork of sexually objectified young girls with enormous tits, but don't expect me to condone it.

Edited by Spuzzell at 11/01/12 @ 19:18
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Gunship #46 4 months ago

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@The-Bodybuilder If BioWare made a blow up sex doll of your sister - but not included in ME3 - would you still moan and ..... why?
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arcam #47 4 months ago

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@The-Bodybuilder No, it's like watching hentai with Alyx Vance, commissioned by Valve, and being shocked at the ludicrous gratuitous sex.
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Ror1984 #48 4 months ago

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Good lord, I'd forgotten about this. Are you sure it's not all a bad dream and you're all a figment of my imagination?
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DarthCheesiest #49 4 months ago

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It looks frickin stupid now!
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Hellion83 #50 4 months ago

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dominalien #51 4 months ago

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Ah, this is bad news.

I'm still going to get it, mind.
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BlinkeredAxis #52 4 months ago

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Liara will appear to non-asari as an ideal based on the species or personal prefernece of that person. This figure should then appear different to each viewer, so there's no point discussing it.
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Ternon #53 4 months ago

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I'm gay so I don't like this kind of vulgar heterosexuality being shoved down my throat.

It is bad enough there wasn't a single gay romance option in ME1 and ME2.

Fuck you Bioware!
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adamholymoses #54 4 months ago

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Wow, I only found this website because I was searching google images for "Naughty blue alien chicks with intimidating bangers and a gun".
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MDJRUK68 #55 4 months ago

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CaptainKid #56 4 months ago

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People wanted smaller breasts?

What's the world coming to.
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kangarootoo #57 4 months ago

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@The-Bodybuilder

There is no rage here. Bemusement perhaps? I find this an equal mix of odd and sad, with a pinch of funny thrown in. Each to their own I guess, but this is surely just a type of scifi Barbie?
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dagas #58 4 months ago

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As long as they don't decrease the size of Wrex's quads, right?
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dagas #59 4 months ago

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@MDJRUK68 Some people have very large hands.
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Sunyavadin #60 4 months ago

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@Ternon Especially when lesbians like myself got our fix.
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busboy33 #61 4 months ago

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@stryker1121:

Then the style shouldn't be used to represent a "real" mature character. If they made a Bishoujo Margaret Thatcher figurine, would she look 12 years old with an up-skirt panty shot? If so . . . why the f**k are they making it in the first place?
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danidrums #62 4 months ago

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I'm on that part of the Internet again....
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Ahskay #63 4 months ago

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A lot of ignorant people in this comment section that don't know what bishoujo means.
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velouria25 #64 4 months ago

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Are her clothes supposed to be flapping in the breeze or something? It just looks like she did a massive fart, and her face is all like �yeah, I farted � but I�m so cute you�re gonna pretend I didn�t. Here � look at my boobs instead!� Weird, creepy little statue.
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guernican #65 4 months ago

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@TelexStar

And who the hell are you to denigrate an entire culture's predilection for borderline sexual assault? You'll be telling me there's no place in the world for female circumcision next.
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matty_matt_mattmatt #66 4 months ago

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9 out of 10 smurfs are dissapointed
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Scimarad #67 4 months ago

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"A lot of ignorant people in this comment section that don't know what bishoujo means."

I'm pretty sure we all know what it means but we just think it's really, really creepy.
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CYPRIOTCleANER #68 4 months ago

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Typical of japs, small bird with huge big tits.
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DarthCheesiest #69 4 months ago

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I had thought that I always wanted a Kotobukiya statue, with a bit more research it turns out the ones I really wanted(Cammy Saluting) were by Yoshizawa Mitumasa, also a lot more expensive.

Still I would like one of these to keep my �2.99 C.Viper company.
I'm a bit worried that I could get into the habit of collecting them though, there should be a Kotobukiya bishoujo Chunli and Cammy soon apparently.

Still don't know what they were thinking with the boob reduction though, make a realistic one as well and leave this one alone. Personally I blame Bioware, they�ve clearly been on the weed too much recently.

Edited by DarthCheesiest at 14/01/12 @ 00:08
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Retroid #70 4 months ago

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That is not a good likeness of Liara at all. I'm also perfectly aware what bishoujo means and this isn't really it, nor does it explain the rubbishness of the likeness.
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OneClassyBloke #71 4 months ago

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Developers really need to avoid listening to fans sometimes. Fan input has ruined games, ironically Bioware series in particular.
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