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Rumortoid: Mass Effect for PC is on the way
9:54 AM on 02.05.2008, Jim Sterling 65 comments

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Until there's an official statement, this is slapped with a rumor tag, but one of our Destructoid Community Bloggers has seemingly discovered that his videogame store will be receiving copies of BioWare's Mass Effect for PC.

The discovery came from an EA newsletter which arrived at the store where Dtoider myaimistrue  works. It lists the game as MASS EFFECT PC DVD 5030945065685 EAN07706226 TBC TBC ACTION 18+ 25 SWE ENG. Complying with one of the cardinal rules of the Internet (pics or it didn't happen), he also provided a shot of the newsletter itself, which can be viewed below.

This isn't very hard to imagine being true, since a game like Mass Effect should be quite comfortable with PC controls, if only because the 360 control mapping was bloody awful (once again, the back button threw grenades and there were three buttons to draw your weapon). A good few gamers wanted to see this come to their computers and now it looks like it'll be happening.  

Destructoid will keep you mouse n' keyboarders posted when there's more news to go on.


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Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 02/05/2008 09:58
Sweet.
Need as Crysis computer though.
MaxVest's Avatar
MaxVest at 02/05/2008 10:02
Excellent, I hope it's true. This was the only 360 exclusive that I was missing out on.
Although I heard it's a mass of shit.
GeneralWong's Avatar
GeneralWong at 02/05/2008 10:09
I remember being told that it was coming to PC after Xmas by my PC loving friend... i had no idea it hadn't been announced :o
Teta's Avatar
Teta at 02/05/2008 10:17
YAY!
I will finally play alien lesbian sex, happy happy happy happy.
Aksumka's Avatar
Aksumka at 02/05/2008 10:20
Good stuff if true.
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Dyganth at 02/05/2008 10:29
Really not that surprising considering the other Bioware RPGs all hit the PC.
Monte's Avatar
Monte at 02/05/2008 10:30
I certainly hope it's true... i plan on get a new computer in a few months and i know i would be quick to get this if it comes out on PC... really, one of my main reasons for not getting a 360, many of the must have exclusives end up on the PC anyway... and i need a new PC FAR more than i need a game console
JustLikeBuck's Avatar
JustLikeBuck at 02/05/2008 10:36
Good. Sex returns to where it is needed: The Personal Computer!
spacecadetjoe's Avatar
spacecadetjoe at 02/05/2008 10:45
i heard sonic rpg is coming to pc
DV2FOX's Avatar
DV2FOX at 02/05/2008 10:50
sounds..interestin'?..

btw what Z stands for in OMG?
burglarize's Avatar
burglarize at 02/05/2008 10:52
Wait a minute, this isn't about Brawl at all!!
Tellurian's Avatar
Tellurian at 02/05/2008 10:54
Hmm. It'll be interesting to see if this also has requirements like Assassin's Creed and other recent 360 ports...
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Fading Star at 02/05/2008 10:55
Cool.
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unangbangkay at 02/05/2008 11:24
Well, DUH. I've said it before and I say it again: my largest misgiving about the whole 360 platform is that at some point, there's almost ALWAYS a PC port of the better titles. Some work out well (Gears) while others not (Lost Planet), but the patient get rewarded. Bioware's never neglected PC users, and Microsoft has absolutely NO reason NOT to encourage devs and publishers to port everything they can to the PC, as they have feet in both markets. It's more money in their pockets, and draws potential Apple users to go PC for the greater title stables (or buy Windows-Mac) to play them with. And since a 360 is essentially a PC with better Live and a crappy heat-dispersion system, it's easy and cheap. And since it came out some time ago that the 360's main purpose was to cement market share from Sony rather than provide a truly long-lived platform, it's pretty much decided. The last reason left for me to go 360 is Ace Combat 6.
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that1dood at 02/05/2008 11:29
DO WANT! Also, IMHO it should have been released simultaneously. It just makes sense.
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Briosafreak at 02/05/2008 11:29
Surfer Girl once stated that Mass Effect PC will be out on fall 2008, so this is not entirely new.
Silverhertz's Avatar
Silverhertz at 02/05/2008 11:56
Sweeet! I can finally get my hands on some blue alien boobies. Yunno...and the rest i guess
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Holiday at 02/05/2008 11:56
OMG, Mass Effect with no frame rate drops and screen texture popping! Hell we might even get side missions that are actually worth doing!
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Rosseh at 02/05/2008 11:56
Mass Effect - Frame Drop = 100% Awesome
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bruceleethree at 02/05/2008 12:03
Rosseh- its cause its development for console first then ported to PC. If it was other way around, console games wouldnt have any frame drop.
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xper at 02/05/2008 12:06
for those of us played it and want to actually play it without the frame rate hitting somewhere way down on the calvin scale, this is great news. it's also great news for real rpg people who get to experience this awesome game.

@unangbangkay
microsoft doesn't seem to care about the pc gaming market anymore. last week valve announced steam works and yet not a word from microsoft. the whole games for windows initiative failed. they took the keys outta the car and said "bye. see ya. casual games whatever". it just shows where their emphasis has been all along, on the 360.
Monte's Avatar
Monte at 02/05/2008 12:19
@unangbangkay
Ya, i would say that most Mac users are going "windows on mac' and not PC; afterall, all the newest Mac's come with the hardware necessary to use bootcamp and put windows on a Mac, and thus access to all PC games... Though ofcourse, that still helps microsoft as microsoft is in the computer game for the sake of it's OS not any hardware... so MS wins whether people choose PC or Mac

i really this is probably the reason i'd choose PS3 over 360... i can run a lot 360's must have's on a PC, and yet, the PS3's must have titles will remain as PS3 exclusives and never see a port to the PC... frankly, i wonder if we should really call them 360 "exclusive" if they come out for the PC aswell (a lot of People tend to use the term "exclusive" only on the console level and not consider PC to be multiplatform)
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CaffeinePowered at 02/05/2008 12:27
Will probably fix the texture pop problems that plague the 360
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moocow21 at 02/05/2008 12:28
Excellent. I have the game for 360, but the more people that can play this amazing game the better.
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Kapkomi at 02/05/2008 12:33
how come when ever Mass Effect news comes up it's Jim posting it?

no offense, it's just that you stated so many times about how much you hated it and i keep seeing you come back to it.

sorry if this has already been asked, just curious.
Namelessted's Avatar
Namelessted at 02/05/2008 12:33
BOOBS
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sacredchao at 02/05/2008 12:45
I knew this day would come, and I'm damn excited.
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NihonTiger90 at 02/05/2008 12:48
My PC still can't run crap, so no Mass Effect PC for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
gyshall's Avatar
gyshall at 02/05/2008 12:51
FUCK YEA! One less reason to buy a console! SHIT YEA!
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mix at 02/05/2008 12:57
I am with gyshall on this one.
myaimistrue's Avatar
myaimistrue at 02/05/2008 13:05
Hoho, internet fame, here i come! *eerie silence*
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brainderailment at 02/05/2008 13:10
Maybe now they'll fix all those shitty glitches. Or not, if it goes anything like the PC version of Gears Of War, that was glitchy as shit.
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unangbangkay at 02/05/2008 13:14
@xper

Games for Windows failed because it offered nothing that PC gamers got for free and was pretty much Vista-only. I don't like Games for Windows either, but it doesn't mean that MS has abandoned PCs, just that it's abandoned Games for Windows. Their ultimate objective is clearly to combine the Windows PC and 360 platforms along with Media Center functionality to create the kind of all-function network where you turn to something made by MS for anything you want to do. It makes zero sense at all for them to segregate those markets (console v. PC). The easiest way to get there is to make 360 games and make sure PC users get them too. PC-centric development is harder going PC-to-360 than 360-to-PC.
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Knives at 02/05/2008 14:16
Makes sense, it is Bioware after all. If this is true I do think the controls and menus will work better on the PC.
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xper at 02/05/2008 15:58
@unangbangkay

you're absolutely right. maybe i was exaggerating a bit. but your comments basically confirm what i said about games for windows.

you're prolly right about that they haven't abandoned pc gaming forever and that they just failed on gfw. they haven't exactly nurtured that market this generation, and i am very skeptical about their future approach. i am being cynical and i have been paranoid ever since their ces presentation.

i hope they can make the integration of everything digital in your house to be microsoft, and actually make the connectivity that they've been preaching about for so many years to actually work.

i'm seeing their ces presentation as a bad sign, and i am worried about them not responding to valve's steam works. i hope they're hard at work, because the last thing i want is for them to abandoned the pc gaming market.
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dEM0N at 02/05/2008 15:59
This is lil old for me because I knew this for a month but... I like news :)
Gong's Avatar
Gong at 02/05/2008 16:04
But ~SPOILER~Saren dies~SPOILER~ :O That obvs means that Xbox is better.

Not surprised. I'm glad my PC gaming friends can get in on the fun.
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Capn Birdseye at 02/05/2008 17:09
Yeah its nice to see PC gamers able to get in on this awesome game.

I don't really get the console hate in the comments though, since a 360 costs the same as a graphics card, and its way more comfortable to play on the couch rather than a PC desk, even if i DID have a PC that could run it I would probably get it for 360 <shrugs>

I got very little slowdown in the game, if at all, so that wasn't an issue for me. Texture popup was evil, though ;)
Eschatos's Avatar
Eschatos at 02/05/2008 17:16
Fuck yeah! I've been asking for this for months.
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Magesx at 02/05/2008 17:22
I can't wait to illegally download it.
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 02/05/2008 17:26
I'm not surprised at all.
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tehuberone at 02/05/2008 17:41
Maybe there will be shorter ElevatorS!!!!
Wedge's Avatar
Wedge at 02/05/2008 18:59
I'd be excited about this, except the KotoR ports ran like SHIT, so I don't know how I'm going to be able to run this.
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jackdoe at 02/05/2008 19:15
Kind of obvious. @Wedge, KotoR I, the only one made by Bioware, ran awesome on my computer. Mass Effect will be very demanding though. Very, very demanding.
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RJG at 02/05/2008 20:18
I was going to get a 360 mostly to play this. Looks like I don't need a broken console any more though.

Also, the PC hardware config (what with a HDD AND ALL) should make those elevators everyone seems grumpy about disappear.
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MonkeyKombat at 02/05/2008 21:05
I hope it comes out with extra content, but i'll buy the PC version again regardless.
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Velt at 02/05/2008 21:21
I want this to happen.
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Atlas at 02/05/2008 21:33
Thanks for bashing Mass Effect... again.

We understand you hate it, maybe you should leave anything related to Mass Effect for other D-toid staffers. People who whine about you bashing Mass Effect all the time really have alot of merit in their complaint by now.
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