This led some people to believe that the announcement had been a poorly executed April Fools' joke.
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Notably, GameFront was one of the first mainstream gaming publications to publicly criticise Bioware in the wake of the Mass Effect 3 ending controversy and side with dissatisfied customers.
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For instance, the network site catering for Half Life 2 is called HL2Files and the site for the game Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis uses OFPFiles.