Mass Effect Andromeda has sold millions under sales projections

I didn't watch the video, because I can't watch it atm. Is it some random dude spouting speculations or is there actual data involved?

Pretty good analysis with limited data. I think he is, again, trying to make a point that Mass Effect should have been delayed to finish up the polishing. EA's overconfidence in the Mass Effect brand name vs the quality of the game at launch was their mistake. You cannot do that in 2017 when fans have so much access to content and information at the tip of their fingers.

If they really sold "millions less" they wouldn't have just transferred people for that would mean they didn't sell any copies.

And those games, like Assassins Creed for example, got a lot of shit too and lost fans over the years.

I love MEA but it wasn't polished in the least at release. And a poor choice on EA's part considering they lost a ton of their fans thanks to ME3. It's still considered to this day as one of the biggest fuck ups in gaming.

Bioware isn't the only one that gets get picked on due to their inabilities. Look at halos decline in sales throughout the years (because of the use of abilities, unnecessary changes to game modes, bugs still being in there since day one, and I could go on and on cause I'm very disappointed in the halo franchise since 343 took over), look at people bashing CoDs futuristic direction (although they are now trying a game in a WWII setting), look at destiny getting shit on for no dedicated servers, lowering team sizes, changing weapon layout, etc etc. 

so so it's absolutely false that no one cares about other games downfalls, bioware isn't that special snowflake from any other developer out there.

I am not saying the game didn't have issues at launch, but at the same time the reaction seemed to be beyond anything I have seen for any other game.  Heck even the beloved games have had issues that people just ignore.  Telltale is one developer that has performance issues still and doesn't seem to want to do anything about it, I can play Mass Effect: Andromeda at 4k on my PC, but I have issues with Batman.  Bethesda might be changing now, but it isn't because of their bugs people had other issues.  I had issues with the lip sync issues with Horizon Zero Dawn near the end of the game.

The problem I have also is that people were talking about how bad the facial animations were for Andromeda, but they weren't like that for the whole game.  There were instances were it was really bad, but I would say the majority of the game was on par with any prior BioWare game.  People made it out to be that the entire game was like that.

I completely agree that the fans overreacted. It was pretty discusting to see how people just spewed blind hate for the game with the typical idiot remarks. But EA's objection to a delay didn't help. They wanted to have those sales numbers to count for the 2016 fiscal year. It would have been more smart to release is June when there is less competition as well

Those numbers arent too far off from the other guy's, are they? It seems that the question is going to be whether there's staying power beyond the opening weeks.

Any idea what percentage of sales would be physical?

If ME:A had met the 3 million in the first week goal it would not only have been the biggest launch of a ME game, but a Bioware game period, and we would have heard about it during the quarterly earnings call. Instead, there was no mention of the game, even though it was the only major release during the 4th quarter of their fiscal year.

Out of all the posts I've made about ME:A I've never once mentioned facial animations.  Falling through the floor while using Biotics and having to force start the game, enemies stuck in walls either killing you, keeping you from completing a quest, finishing missions and getting killed during dialogue scenes with the dialogue wheel up, just to name a few.  I've never had these types of issues with a Bioware game before.  When you have force close your game, or reload saves from earlier in the game to replay sections you've already completed you go past normal first day bugs to bugs that ruin your enjoyment, or make you not even want to play the game. 

People who were lucky and didn;t experience bad bugs seem to want to act as if other people are exaggerating or blowing things out of proportion because they haven't seen these bugs themselves.  But the technical issues of the game went way past facial animations.  Only game I can remember that was worse than this was Arkham City on PC.

Here is the first link I found on it from Google.


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If I remember the timelines correctly that was after they announced the game was coming in Early 2017 and in that article they said they would delay the game up to five months.  Now it does get fuzzy because the announcement was at the beginning of November and the game was released at the end of March.  So it becomes how they intended to look at the delay, from when they made that comment or when they had the date penciled in.  If it was from when they had the game penciled in delaying until June could have been possible.