MEA: The Trolls among us

Such people started posting before the trial as well, bitching about how awful Bioware and their games are but yet they're posting on their fan site... yeah, I completely agree with you OP, I've never understood why you'd come to a fan forum of the game developer you hate and despise, it just doesn't make sense in my eyes.

Maybe, but that's not what I wrote or talk about

If someone has a VALID criticism (like no saves on missions) that's fine. But in my experience people who write such things also don't call the game by names and saying how shitty it is
There is criticism, and there is trolling. I'm speaking of the latter.

Also there is a problem with people "spending hours" in a game that hasn't been released yet, and what has been released is limited time-wise.

I think they're usually called 'new'. And there have been as many or more new members praising the game.
And I thought these forums were here to discuss Bioware games, not simply gush over them.
It looks like you're preparing your 'The haters did it!' defence if the game fails.

Not everyone who disagrees with you is a troll. You're seeing posters with just a couple posts on their account because as the release is coming closer there's an influx of new users.

See the PC gamer preview. It really feels like the game is flawed in serious ways. Expect more negativity around here coming from users both old and new. We'd all love to be able to just dance all gay and gleeful becuase of how awesome ME:A is, but it WON'T be the case.

And again, criticizing is fine I doubt you're one of the people I'm referring to, as I haven't seen you call the game trash and shitty anywhere without any concrete criticism attached to it

Just gonna throw some thoughts in, considering so far I fit this description having only commented on my disappointment at the character creation.

It always strikes me as slightly ironic how often people react negatively towards others giving negative feedback. All I care about is whether you convey constructive feedback or not. Negative feedback is just as if not more important as positive feedback for improving your products going forward.

And certainly not all negative feedback stems from a desire to bash the games or from being out to get the company behind them. Mass Effect is among my favorite franchises and you're damn right I'll point out any issues that bother me, because I care and I want it to be the best possible experience. So no, I don't think it's weird negativity pops up on a fan site.

I've seen these types of topics pop up so often in similar situations and I'm just tired of the implications of how you're a "lesser" fan for daring to provide negative feedback in the hopes of getting an even better experience in the future...

Probably a bit ranty, but that's how I feel about it.

Maybe is something is bad, saying it is good is bad?

Maybe some people have a point. For balanced opinion you have to take the bad as well as the good.

I agree with Fenris, I have been turned off this site for a while now with all the negativity. It's a shame though because there are some great posters on here.

What's MAE?

Trolls are hating ME:A since 2015. Too many trolls are writing their nonsensical reviews, too. It's better not to pay attention to them; we have to PLAY THE GAME from start to end before starting nitpicking every single feature.

More likely is that they're fans of the original trilogy who either moved on to other games after ME3 or DA:I, and now that they've got hands on with ME:A, they're registering here to give legitimate feedback. Ye olde BSN used to get population spikes around the release of a Bioware game too, so why is it a surprise that this place is now more active too?

That isn't to say that there aren't trolls as well, but not every person who posts criticism is a troll. Most aren't.

I sort of fit the description of someone in your original post. I registered a couple weeks ago (was lurking for a couple weeks before that), and I've been mostly critical of ME:A/Bioware. I was registered on the "original" BSN but drifted off because I am "one of those people" who hated ME3 so much that we just kind of forgot about the series after that -- it faded from my memory pretty quickly. I came back because I wanted ME:A to reignite my love for the Mass Effect franchise as a whole. Right now, what I've seen makes me less than optimistic.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way and is on this forum because of it. It's akin to loving the first few albums a band produces, hating one or two consecutive albums because their sound totally changed, and really hoping that they "go back to their roots," only to be disappointed yet again. I guess this makes Bioware is the Metallica of video games?