Mass Effect Andromeda has sold millions under sales projections

I was just grateful I liked the combat more than Inquisition's.

It's not how other publishers work at all. Bioware is an EA division by now. They own them and in some fashion they're calling the shots. As in granting the budget and doing the bean counting leading up to the publications. Bioware certainly isn't blameless, but the big business decisions are made by EA, owner of Bioware, not being only their publisher.

In that sense the game turned out to be all right. I'm not a hater. I've sunk more than a couple of hundred hours into it, but I also see potential that hasn't been delivered on it's promise. I'd call MEA slightly worse than DAI, keeping in mind that DAI only rose to it's full potential by publishing it's DLCs. If that's gonna happen with MEA remains to be seen. It's anyone's guess. And I remain sceptical, based on the information we got.

Yeah, you can stop right at the bolded part.  If that's your gripe, I'm not taking you seriously. On the same lines as someone was saying when DAI came out, that collecting meat for the refugees was a socialist agenda.

Not how other publishers work? Have you looked at other publishers and their relationship with a developer? 343 is a subsidiary of Microsoft made for the sole purpose of making and only making halo games. Bungie (the previous developer before 343 came to be)broke a contract with them previously because they had a desire to make a different game besides halo, Microsoft said no and eventually bungie ended the contract. Shall I go into Ubisoft? Or blizzard? I know how publishers work, some work differently than others. EA isn't anything special from the others out there, and much of Biowares games ME1-present wouldn't really exist without EAs intervention. It's simple, most developers can't support themselves on their own, a publisher is needed whether one likes it or not, that includes the devs themselves if they have to give up their freedom to co-exist with a publisher.

Not sure what the projections are (heard something about 3-6 mill over the life span), but according to vgchartz, the game sold fine.

www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=Mass+effect%3A+andromeda&publisher=&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

1.45m physical copies accounted for till now. To get to total sells (including digital) you can multiply that by 2 to 4 times. This site for example says digital sales have reached a share of 74% in the US. www.playstationlifestyle.net/2017/04/19/esa-video-game-sales-figures-show-74-percent-of-sales-are-digital/

So a guesstimate: 2.9-5.8 mill already sold.

I'm sticking with decaf's agenda.  It all rides on Dylan now, and EA doesn't give much of a shit about ME or DA.   They've liquified BioWare from a stable producer of money into a meat market for new talent that they wanna produce.  

See it happen all the time in corporate America.

I've been wondering this too.

That's why I said 2 to 4 times and guesstimate. Multiplied by 2 means a 50% share of digital sales - you know.

Anyways: sales only interest me in so far in what it means for future ME games and DLCs. 

Good selling games don't have to go on sale. That's why Zelda is so high on the chart. It's almost like you didn't even watch the vid and just started foaming at the mouth when you saw my post.

Enjoy your multiplayer map pack DLC!

I like this game enough to play it.

But some diehards are silly like pacquiao fans after he got his azz beat by Mayweather.

They're in denial that this game has some huge flaws and is far from the best.

Oh jeezus.  Not this ridiculous thing again.  Not everything you disagree with is because of some SJW super conspiracy.  My gosh.