EA Conference Call touches on MEA's reception & future ME movie.

Yes, three patches. That's how many times the game has been patched. Sorry about your problems with Origin, but that does nada to change the patch count.

oooooh please get James Gunn to direct the movie!! He already said he loves the franchise. Just send the invite already!!

Just... lol.



Also:



I feel like I'm being stabbed with every word....

While the news of the new IP being an online thing made me lose interest entirely, I don't see why this is some kind of death knell to their creating story-driven games, since this wouldn't be the first time they've done this, and their 2 big singleplayer-centric IP's are still going. 

The CEO said ME:A performance had nothing to do with pushing the new IP back, but obviously it did. I think they know they have to get this one right at release. It's pretty big when you push something into the next fiscal year, they didn't do it on a whim.

(-----...The game has been described as an ‘action-adventure’ title with ‘RPG-style progression’ and will be a live service game, although it is not an RPG.---)

It looks like Bioware is not going to make any more games that I would buy in future if I am correct in my understanding on what was said.

Oh good, more focus and content on multiplayer, something I haven't touched since I got bored in the first 20 minutes on ME3 MP. Looks like EA knows where the easy money is, and it isn't from creating a fleshed out and finished RPG experience.

More from EA CEO Wilson:



The Destiny hype was great and I bought into it. But I should have bailed out early, just like the lead writer, Joseph Staten did when Activision dropped a ton of money (1 billion) on Bungie and the game changed drastically from what Staten had plotted out. It too was going to be story based with a tenative 10 year life - except what was left of the story was pretty mangled on release.

I'm curious exactly how this new EA/BioWare IP will 'leverage EA's network' (I didn't know they had one); or what they expect with 'cross-platform presence' (which suggests to me that they don't really know their audience and trying the shotgun approach). All those phases sound like corporate-speak presented to shareholders.

And speaking of Dylan, "the times they are a changing." I wish them success, but I'd neither buy EA shares or into this new IP until long after it's been on the market. I'm still waiting for innovation in Andromeda...

EA isn't known to put out sales numbers that easy. They are tight lipped about all their games.

Don't mind the tack on of MP or even them updating it, what I don't like is people thinking it's essential or important to the franchise, especially when they put no effort in actually improving it in andromeda and there being much better 3rd person horde modes out there.

ME3 there was no issue (was still a watered down horde mode nevertheless)unless you disliked the galactic readiness effecting the ending, but other than that, one team was exclusively with the MP and the other the SP, they didn't take away from each other and it was just a bonus for those who were interested. Not so sure if andromeda was the same way where a different team worked exclusively on the MP,but nevertheless it's not much of an upgrade to ME3 and becomes questionable on adding it if that's how they're going to go on about it. The micotransaction must be to much to pass up on.

i don't mind the MP so long as it doesn't take away from SP really. I'd even play it if it worked, and if it was designed better. I don't like bullet sponges, and I don't like shooting bullet sponges with lag.

Not too much, though. ME's never been all that big by EA standards. They'd have talked about it if it did very well  -- or if it had really tanked and lost enough money to matter to shareholders. 

Oh, gods, no. I hope the movie never happens. So sad.....