Mass Effect Andromeda has sold millions under sales projections

So, if you haven't bought it, what entitles you to judge it? You obviously haven't played it, unless you pirated it. The game has a host of problems, but it's enjoyable. Gameplay is better than in previous games. Story isn't worse. In my opinion, the only thing really being worse are the companions and their interactions. Everything else is down to bugs.

Because if it fails, then they'll be forced to put more effort into the next Mass Effect (if there is one).  Just like what happened with Inquisition as a result of DA:2.

Game = shit = fails = better effort and result next time.  It's not difficult to comprehend.

I have these things called friends bro. They're these innovative creations of human social dynamics, and are pretty useful for borrowing stuff, like games for instance.

The gameplay is worse. Open world tends to be a synonym for boring (in this case it is), and the gunplay is massively worse than ME3's or even 2's (it has a bland sniper meta where all other weapons are pointless, and lacks basic features aimed at skilled players, such as reload cancelling). The jumpacks are pretty much a gimmick that comes at the cost of bad map design.

The plot, setting and characters are more down to preference, but none of it really grabbed me. The new lore additions (kett, angara, remnant etc.) were derivative and thus bored me, and came at the cost of established lore that was IMO far superior.

Personally, playing the game only amplified my criticisms of it. I wanted to like it, but if it didn't have Mass Effect written on it, I wouldn't have bothered playing it for more than maybe an hour on features alone.

It's pretty easy for me to see why it's selling worse than previous installments: it isn't nearly as good. That's not to say its a dumpster fire, just.....dull.

Not a bad video, with some at least intelligent speculation, but he doesn't mention that the NPD numbers don't include digital sales, only physical. EA, in their Q4 financial report, even states that 61% of their net sales were digital sales. That's a lot of sales that EA won't release numbers for.

Also, EA pretty much guaranteed Andromeda's release would be March by making it the only AAA game release of Q4. With the money from pre-order's not being counted on the books until the game had been released Andromeda had to go to market by the end of March.

So while I don't doubt, at least much, his sales estimates through April he doesn't know what Andromeda brought in through digital sales channels. No one does. If the game hadn't met sales expectations it would have been brought up in the investor call. Which it wasn't.

Jorgensen actually says that MEA will be mentioned/discussed in Q1 2018.

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!

Because if it fails, then they'll be forced to put more effort into the next Mass Effect (if there is one).  Just like what happened with Inquisition as a result of DA:2.

Game = shit = fails = better effort and result next time.  It's not difficult to comprehend.

I have the same feelings over both games. The only difference being that the characters in DAI were so much better in my opinion.

I never got that feeling of wanting to avoid them. Most obvious with Gil, whose conversations leave me in a rigid stage of boredom - outside the Kallo banters. Now compare that to Dorian. I guess there's no real contest between the two.

Gil and Suvi got pretty fucked over in the development and character personality department, definitely. An ironic step down from Cortez and Traynor, that's for sure.

DA's team doesn't really care about 'appealing to dude bros' and if anything, enjoys pissing them off even more, while ME's team clearly still has that 'gotta appeal to the dudebros' thing going on. Fuck dudebros. They aren't the biggest demographic in the market and games that are pushing the 'fuck dudebros' boundary even more are the games that are doing SO MUCH BETTER.

Now now, passive aggressive put downs like that will get you banned - Ryder's snarkiness shouldn't carry over into your forum posts.