If this were ME3, in a couple of weeks we would be getting a second DLC

I thought it would be interesting to compare the present state of MEA to the one of ME3 at roughly the same time in their life spans. In the following table, ME3 was a couple of weeks older but I think it paints a pretty clear picture about the differences between those two games.





Now, to be fair, some of the issues come from Single Player. It's not the MP's team fault that even though we're in a totally new galaxy we have somehow only come across one new race.

What is inexcusable, however, is the apparent lack of care.

They have shown with the Cyclone buff that they're capable of server side balance changes, they are just not interested in doing so on a regular basis like they were for ME3.

No extra XP weekends even though the community has been pretty vocal about the grind.

Barely anything that does not come from Single Player or previous Mass Effect games. Just Stealth Grid and the Ascension gimmick mechanic if I'm not mistaken.

Soon we might get Quarians and maybe some other stuff, but nowhere near enough to make up the gap. And I doubt it will be in a couple of weeks either.

What's depressing is I'm just looking at numbers here, we're not even talking about things like being unable to headshot stuff off host, broken Fiends, losing sound, crashing to desktop, lag, fun factor not really being there etc ... Issues that for the most part did not exist in ME3 at this point. I want to like the game, I really do, but at some point I guess I won't be able to say this game was not a failure/shameless cash grab.