Mass Effect Andromeda has sold millions under sales projections

It should be noted that first week sales were expected to be something, and they didn't hit that.

Even if the game is 3.5 million, the real question is EA satisfied with the numbers? We have mixed messages on that, with EA saying they are, but simultaneously supposedly putting the series on a small hiatus for a while (which was going to happen I think anyway, but if the stuff regarding Montreal is true, it's certain now.)

Technically...the video is not wrong that the game under-performed. That being said it didn't underperform by much. It's not a box office bomb like some of the Assassins Creed games have been.

Because as I said, what was expected by EA was not matched in the timetable they wanted.

We can only go on what EA has said since then, which is again, mixed messages.

I know through deduction like that. As for now, we shall see what happens. 

Everyone keeps calling it "Bioware".

It stopped being Bioware when they sold out to EA years ago. Muzyka and Zeschuk bailed on BW shortly after they sold out.  It's NOT BW anymore.

The last true BW titles were ME2 and DA:O.

Everything since then has been an EA product.

There wasn't a lawsuit for Mass Effect 3 there was talk, but as far as I can tell it never saw a courtroom.

Is this a fairly recent video? If so, I do find it interesting that some people are still pointing out the games perceived failures and shortcomings. It has been a few months since release, and I would think those who don't like the game have moved on.

The problem is I have seen two different numbers for projected lifetime five million by Aaryn Flynn and the six to nine million from that investor's call.  So what is the real number EA was really expecting.

Aaryn Flynn's Comments

That is the overall problem I am having with speculation around the game is we don't even really know what the projections internally were for all we know is that EA was giving the best case scenario to their investors and it was more inline with what Aaryn Flynn said at the beginning of March.  Or it could be they adjusted internally after that investor's call to five million since I think the six million statement was made in 2016, but I could be wrong.

People are still making videos about Mass Effect 3, so a couple of months is nothing.

EA wants a mega hit,they seek big sales number's,so doing OK is NOT good enough for EA,they don't make games to simply cover costs and make do with minimal profits.

Mass Effect's ship has sailed and EA will now focus on the far more important up and coming titles like Battlefront 2.

Right, but neither of those happened beyond that.

The BBB was only a blog posting which I don't think the BBB has any legal weight for that was just that one person's opinion like an opinion piece at Polygon.

The FTC complaint as far as I can find never went beyond that initial complaint by a player, I am not even sure if EA even was required to respond to it.  Unless you have something more recent all the articles I can find are reporting on the person filing the report.

Well, at the least it calls for strategy meeting. By people who probably never played a game in their lives, but who are looking at what their shareholders are expecting and stock ratings. That's what I'm getting from the EA statements on the matter.

I don't want to ruin anyone's illusions and I don't want to ruin my own. I liked the game, note that I didn't say love, and I would like it to be expanded and polished to it's true potential. I'm not seeing it however. I may be wrong, but I don't see it based on what they say.

If EA was expecting sales figures to be equal to or better than any previous BW game (which is more or less what the vid in the OP suggests) then they probably shouldn't have given the game to the B-Team which had never executed a major release all on their own before.

If we take the estimates from the vid of 3.5 million units sold, that is a very strong showing for a Bioware game, particularly from a studio doing its first full game release. That puts MEA on par with ME2 sales wise (the vid said ME2 was around 3.8m). In any event MEA certainly made them money.

Personally I don't think EA really cares about MEA. BW games in general aren't mega-chart toppers in the way video games like GTA, Call of Duty, and EA's various sports titles are. That is what EA is looking for from BW and why they are being pushed out of the RPG genre with Dylan into a Destiny/Halo type format to chase those big sales numbers. To EA, ME is a drop in the bucket and more of a concern from a cash flow perspective to fund Dylan development than something they are counting on to crush sales numbers and make huge bank.

Either way ME and DA aren't going to determine BW's future. Everything rides on Dylan at this point. If that game bombs or meets the same reception MEA did that will be very bad for Bioware, maybe the end of it.

I don't think you really understand how publishers work. Of course Biowares games are part of EAs products, but EA doesn't make the game. Blame EA all you want, but they're not the issue and I actually see them as the scapegoat in this case. Should I just blame activision for bungies failures? Microsoft for 343s? There's a line between developer and publisher......


Im sticking to calling them Bioware.