Let's just call it how it is, Mass Effect: Andromeda should've been delayed.

They're going to rely on the day one patch to fix what would've been included on disc had they pushed the game to April.

People hardest hit will be those buying physical and are going to skip everything but the initial install so that they can play the game ASAP and not have to deal with servers, everyone else will probably be fine. I expect multiplayer to be broken at launch, though.

I'm beginning to think reviewers are probably going to play the pre-patched version, which will definitely affect some review scores.

Honestly, I think some of you need to take a couple Xanax and stay offline or avoid MEA news until release day. All this anxiety can't possibly be healthy.

Pushing the date back now would cause more uncertainty for those not on forums every day; I don't think it's going to happen.

The game's ready to go. The best thing for it will be to get it out in the wild and let bioware fix what they can and need to in patches.

I don't think it's going to be as bad as some people think. I read the Youtube comments on that 17 minute video and it was so confusing because it felt like all those people had played the game already. I am so certain that I will get so much enjoyable gameplay out of single player and multiplayer, Bioware has never disappointed me.

If people are really on the fence about getting, don't. Wait awhile and read reviews. Not just IGN or those kind of reviewers. Find out from some of the people here that have played it. I'm sure you'll hear how great/awful it was and you can decide to pay full price or wait.

I honestly don't believe the roll-out is going to be that bad. Should the game have been delayed? Maybe by about a month. From following the devs on Twitter it has been pretty obvious that it has been nose to the grindstone for the past two to three months, and given an extra month they might have been a little bit happier with their lives, however I am confident the game will release well.
Nothing I saw in the IGN 17 minute gameplay demo had me worried. I really liked all of it. The combat looked good, I could see where I would make different choices with weapon layout and powers, and I thought the banter and the dialogue were great. Where they Oscar-winning? No, of course not. We didn't get to see the cinematic conversations because they left them out to avoid spoilers, and so we obviously were not going to see the best of the conversations. I think when it gets to those moments, the dialogue will be very good. I enjoyed the voice actors and the graphics and pretty much everything.
I don't think the multiplayer closed-beta cancellation is a big deal. It was, after all, a closed beta, and so I think the EA early access will be more telling than what the beta would have done anyway, so they will still have a bit to patch any glitches or bugs. It's not like ME3MP didn't have any glitches (I'm looking at you, missleglitcher), and I'm pretty sure that one is still not patched anyway. That never stopped me from putting hundreds of hours loving the crap out of that multiplayer.
I honestly think that people are just looking too deep at things. It would be interesting to see if the development for Horizon Zero Dawn or The Witcher 3 were as open as the Bioware devs and we were given close looks at what they were doing along the way if people would have been as reserved about those games as this one.

Well, lets be honest here. Some Bioware fans, the loud ones especially, can suck and be very vocal about any deviation from the sacred OT (minus the endings because people hoped on that hate bandwagon faster than the Bieber hate train). People didn't like DAI, mostly (I think) for the fairly empty open world and many many many fetch quests. I think if DAI had never occurred people would not be as critical of MEA so far. "It looks like DAI in space!" What does that even mean? It looks like it has a lot of fetch quests? I don't know how anyone could know that. It looks like it has a forgettable villain? I don't even think we knew the villain of ME1 before we played it really. I just think, overall, MEA gets unfair scrutiny. The people who got to play 2-3 hours of MEA LOVED it!! Sure, they said there were some bugs and facial animations could be a bit off, but overall they thought it was wonderful. Combat was great, many said that it felt like a true-to-form great Bioware story, great characters, etc. That's what the people who played the game thought. But I'm sure everyone nitpicking in their infinite wisdom from 17 minutes of edited gameplay and some trailers and gameplay shorts knows better than people who held the controller/KB+M in their hands and actually played the damn game, right? FFS.
Will the game have bugs at launch? Almost certainly. Will their be glitches? Of course. Does this mean the game is horrible and the worst thing to happen ever? No. It doesn't even mean it'll be a bad game! Or mediocre! It can be an amazing game with all of these things. TW3 is often hailed here as the end-all be-all of RPG's.

"The Witcher 3 launched this week, with CD Projekt Red opening up the gates of its intimidating, huge open world. Despite an extended period of bug stomping and a day one patch, it’s not just monsters that plague the Northern Kingdoms; there are plenty of bugs as well."-PCGamesn

"Despite the developer’s best efforts, The Witcher 3 problems continue to plague PC, PS4 and Xbox One users."-GottaBeMobile

"Despite a general outpouring of praise for CD Projekt Red's ambitious RPG, many gamers are reporting a myriad of bugs and glitches. You can see a summary of those complaints at The Games Cabin: One bug is especially nasty and won't even let you start playing; after the cinematic intro, players encounter an endless loading screen. Even rebooting doesn't seem to fix the issue." - PSXextreme

So lets just settle down. There will be bugs, and people on here will say "I told you so, it's horrible!", but that's just what happens during a AAA title release. They'll get sorted out, and I think it'll be an amazing game.

I concur, also this game was delayed how many times already??? 

Man, I love this! Commenters who act and speak as though they actually played the game, giving their opinions about things they have no hands-on knowledge of what...so...ever... Gotta love YouTube!

I'm pretty sure MEA will be just fine on launch date... at least I don't think there's going to be anything a 10 GB day-one patch can't fix.