Who's accountable for the Mass Effect series being put on Hiatus?

If anyone has seen me post before, they know I'm a big fan of this game. However, this post, in my opinion, is going to take a critical look that will be as objective as I can. That being say, there is blame to be shared by everyone I'd say, but one party stands out far more than others..

Bioware launched an unfinished product that should have stayed in development for at least several more months. If reports are true that they outsourced the animations of characters, they, as a professional game developer with many AAA and highly rated titles under their belt, had the responsibility to play-test and ensure everything was running smoothly. Bugs and glitches in games are, sadly, just a part of the gaming industry. However, the amount of bugs reported by Andromeda, many of which I didn't experience myself but don't doubt they existed, should not occur. The animations should NEVER have been shipped pre-patch 1.05. Again, I had the benefit of not picking up the title until the day that patched was released. They launched an incomplete, buggy product. That's where mass criticism has come in and hurt this game's launch and that lays on their door step.

EA, as the parent company, also plays a part in this as well. Their unrealistic timetables and high pressure, as well as taking away creative freedom of their developers seems to stifle growth and innovation. Their focus on streamlined, "simple" games that are churned out like clockwork with heavy focus on multiplayer components has not done the industry any favors. I don't work for either company, but if reports I've read online (we know how reliable they can be) EA can be a nightmare to work for. Bottom line - they care about money. Not fans. Not good stories. Not even good games. They care how many copies they can push. They are certainly to blame.

Haters are absolutely part of the problem. The amount of people that have bashed this game everywhere from Facebook, to gaming article comments to blogs to.. frankly, everywhere and have NOT EVEN PLAYED THE GAME is astonishing. Many of these people either jumped on the bandwagon of hate or they are simply bitter still over the ME3 endings and quick to jump on anything that hates Mass Effect. There are plenty of people who enjoy the game, myself included, who are drowned out by the people who scream from the roof tops that they hate the game, many of whom only watched a video on Youtube or saw a meme.


However, all that being said, there wouldn't be a negative pushback, even by the mass of haters out there, for no reason if the game was solid at launch. Despite my love for this title, I must say that the blame for ME being put on the shelf, if the reports are true, can't be placed anywhere other than the developer who created it. EA's crunch time might be overkill. Maybe they gave no quarter to Bioware for extra time to fix the problems. However, Bioware dropped the ball with the release of a buggy, poorly animated game to people both overly hyped for the game and eager for any scrape to see them fail. Unfortunately, I have to be objective. The initial launch was awful. I don't think pushback would have been nearly as bad if the game had launched with patch 1.05 to fix the animations... or even if they had just animated the game in-house... or even CHECKED to see if it was properly animated. However, that's in the past. They launched it like they did and the blame for that falls at their feet.

If anyone has seen me post before, they know I'm a big fan of this game. However, this post, in my opinion, is going to take a critical look that will be as objective as I can. That being say, there is blame to be shared by everyone I'd say, but one party stands out far more than others..

Bioware launched an unfinished product that should have stayed in development for at least several more months. If reports are true that they outsourced the animations of characters, they, as a professional game developer with many AAA and highly rated titles under their belt, had the responsibility to play-test and ensure everything was running smoothly. Bugs and glitches in games are, sadly, just a part of the gaming industry. However, the amount of bugs reported by Andromeda, many of which I didn't experience myself but don't doubt they existed, should not occur. The animations should NEVER have been shipped pre-patch 1.05. Again, I had the benefit of not picking up the title until the day that patched was released. They launched an incomplete, buggy product. That's where mass criticism has come in and hurt this game's launch and that lays on their door step.

EA, as the parent company, also plays a part in this as well. Their unrealistic timetables and high pressure, as well as taking away creative freedom of their developers seems to stifle growth and innovation. Their focus on streamlined, "simple" games that are churned out like clockwork with heavy focus on multiplayer components has not done the industry any favors. I don't work for either company, but if reports I've read online (we know how reliable they can be) EA can be a nightmare to work for. Bottom line - they care about money. Not fans. Not good stories. Not even good games. They care how many copies they can push. They are certainly to blame.

Haters are absolutely part of the problem. The amount of people that have bashed this game everywhere from Facebook, to gaming article comments to blogs to.. frankly, everywhere and have NOT EVEN PLAYED THE GAME is astonishing. Many of these people either jumped on the bandwagon of hate or they are simply bitter still over the ME3 endings and quick to jump on anything that hates Mass Effect. There are plenty of people who enjoy the game, myself included, who are drowned out by the people who scream from the roof tops that they hate the game, many of whom only watched a video on Youtube or saw a meme.


However, all that being said, there wouldn't be a negative pushback, even by the mass of haters out there, for no reason if the game was solid at launch. Despite my love for this title, I must say that the blame for ME being put on the shelf, if the reports are true, can't be placed anywhere other than the developer who created it. EA's crunch time might be overkill. Maybe they gave no quarter to Bioware for extra time to fix the problems. However, Bioware dropped the ball with the release of a buggy, poorly animated game to people both overly hyped for the game and eager for any scrape to see them fail. Unfortunately, I have to be objective. The initial launch was awful. I don't think pushback would have been nearly as bad if the game had launched with patch 1.05 to fix the animations... or even if they had just animated the game in-house... or even CHECKED to see if it was properly animated. However, that's in the past. They launched it like they did and the blame for that falls at their feet.

If anyone has seen me post before, they know I'm a big fan of this game. However, this post, in my opinion, is going to take a critical look that will be as objective as I can. That being say, there is blame to be shared by everyone I'd say, but one party stands out far more than others..

Bioware launched an unfinished product that should have stayed in development for at least several more months. If reports are true that they outsourced the animations of characters, they, as a professional game developer with many AAA and highly rated titles under their belt, had the responsibility to play-test and ensure everything was running smoothly. Bugs and glitches in games are, sadly, just a part of the gaming industry. However, the amount of bugs reported by Andromeda, many of which I didn't experience myself but don't doubt they existed, should not occur. The animations should NEVER have been shipped pre-patch 1.05. Again, I had the benefit of not picking up the title until the day that patched was released. They launched an incomplete, buggy product. That's where mass criticism has come in and hurt this game's launch and that lays on their door step.

EA, as the parent company, also plays a part in this as well. Their unrealistic timetables and high pressure, as well as taking away creative freedom of their developers seems to stifle growth and innovation. Their focus on streamlined, "simple" games that are churned out like clockwork with heavy focus on multiplayer components has not done the industry any favors. I don't work for either company, but if reports I've read online (we know how reliable they can be) EA can be a nightmare to work for. Bottom line - they care about money. Not fans. Not good stories. Not even good games. They care how many copies they can push. They are certainly to blame.

Haters are absolutely part of the problem. The amount of people that have bashed this game everywhere from Facebook, to gaming article comments to blogs to.. frankly, everywhere and have NOT EVEN PLAYED THE GAME is astonishing. Many of these people either jumped on the bandwagon of hate or they are simply bitter still over the ME3 endings and quick to jump on anything that hates Mass Effect. There are plenty of people who enjoy the game, myself included, who are drowned out by the people who scream from the roof tops that they hate the game, many of whom only watched a video on Youtube or saw a meme.


However, all that being said, there wouldn't be a negative pushback, even by the mass of haters out there, for no reason if the game was solid at launch. Despite my love for this title, I must say that the blame for ME being put on the shelf, if the reports are true, can't be placed anywhere other than the developer who created it. EA's crunch time might be overkill. Maybe they gave no quarter to Bioware for extra time to fix the problems. However, Bioware dropped the ball with the release of a buggy, poorly animated game to people both overly hyped for the game and eager for any scrape to see them fail. Unfortunately, I have to be objective. The initial launch was awful. I don't think pushback would have been nearly as bad if the game had launched with patch 1.05 to fix the animations... or even if they had just animated the game in-house... or even CHECKED to see if it was properly animated. However, that's in the past. They launched it like they did and the blame for that falls at their feet.

first is Bioware for creating a game only for sjw's and then EA for the game not selling enough to please those greedy fucks