"EA said the decrease was indeed due to "casual and trial players" cycling out of the game."

Definition of thesaurus: "A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language." Thank you for making one of the longest, most idiotic +1 posts on the internet.

Oh my fucking god... I've never seen someone post tl;dr on a one sentence article before. And the tl;dr is longer than the article itself. What the fuck, man.

Just a warning that I hope won't go too far into spoiler territory for you.

Listen, Steam is a store.

Oh, wow. You're even more of a dumbass than I thought. "Don't wanna download a tiny program, so much steal it!" If you can't buy a Vauxhall car from a Toyota retailer, is your response to steal a Corsa in retribution? Honestly, no, I don't think you would have bought it anyway if your first response is to pirate it.…

Oh, lawd... Okay. I'll just tell you how it goes then after I'm done playing it because I'm not a picky moron.

I would say that Mass Effect 1 is similar to the original KotOR, it's an epic rush through the galaxy to save it from an evil enemy. Mass Effect 2, however, is equivalent to KotOR II. It's not better, it's not worse, it's just different. It's far more driven by the characters than it is the bad guy or the adventure.…

Just buy it on Origin, for god's sake. It's not that bad.

Shepard's 30 by the time Mass Effect starts.

To. Some. Extent.

So, basically, keep it in a ventilated area. One thing that is common sense but seems to be ignored far too much. I'm almost certain that a vast majority of RRoDs are, to some extent, the user's own damn fault.

Asari can willfully control their pregnancies as it's a conscious decision to meld and take DNA from their partner.

I did. She was a very interesting character once I got to know her.

Hitler, which one do you agree with most? [www.youtube.com]

I haven't played ME2 anywhere near as much as I should have done (once). I don't recall any issues with the interface though.

As I've said elsewhere, it wasn't perfect, but a lot of the people I've seen complaining about the first ME's UI and how little they understood it didn't read either the manual or the in-game tutorials. So I get a little annoyed when I see people bitching about it when a lot of them didn't even try to figure it out.

Because Shepard starts the game with more health maybe? Because he's the one you actually need to worry about dying?

There's a very distinct health number on the squad screen.

... you're kidding, right?