This game should've never released / should pretend it never happened

Instead I'm going to pretend this thread never happened.

To be honest,Bioware's writing team could literary come up with any old stinking pile of shit excuse to explain away the Mass Effect 3 ending and fans would be happy if it meant the return of earth,Shepard and Co.

I know,I know,everyone hates the idea of returning to earth but deep down you know you really want to.

Although the game has a few issues/bugs, I still like the game and I enjoyed my 80+ hours playthrough. I'm also looking forward to any possible DLC. So the answer is: NO.

The Ryder Twins are actually great. There are some issues with MEA but the main protagonists aren't it. The explorers were never meant to behave like soldiers. That said, the loss of the relays is more problematic to me. Would have loved to see this same set of characters, potentially even a very similar storyline, take place in the Milky Way. Only they might encounter the angara and kett after traveling through a previously inactive relay. As we know, it's illegal in Council space to activate inactive relays because last time that happened the rachni were unleashed. Post-war there might be different views. Possibly when the Reapers arrived they activated all the relays for their own convenience and then we have the Alliance/Council investigating what's on the other side of them, if only to know what threats might come through at any time.

Yes, I know this means problems stemming from the end of ME3, but I'd still have rather been in the MW than Andromeda.

In the end, I'll mostly take what I can get when it comes to Mass Effect and Dragon Age. However, that's not the same as getting what I want. Even if they decided to just go head on and say "No this is what happened", I'd very much prefer we move on from the old cast. At some point, a new perspective is kind of necessary. 

Losing your edge, Dutch.

If you round 28 to 30 and 91 to 90, that's about 1/3.

For context, I voted "no'.  I'm simply looking at the numbers in the poll.

This person knows what's up. I haven't voted myself and don't intend to, but the fact that rougly 1/3 of the people on a ME fan forum vote yes is both troubling and dissapointing. There are probably a few trolls in there but it's still way too high. Imagine what the results could look like in other social media. Therefore, I think the game is more divisive than some people here want to admit. And no, I do not take fun or pride in knowing/admitting that, but there is simply a quite substantial group of fans which are dissapointed with the state of the game. (Myself included.) Should they get all the attention? No. Should they be treated fairly because they too are part of this fanbase? Yes. The obvious trolls, like Dutch, can- and should be disregared but I see people defending this game till the death against others merely voicing their dissapointment in a calm and rational way or stating objectively bad things. (Like the Asari clones debacle. It's perfectly possible that you simply don't care about this but how can you actually defend Bioware in this case?) Same goes for the state of the animations at release. Perfectly fine that you don't bother or that you don't have that many graphical bugs but take a look around on the internet, is that footage fine for an AAA game which has been in development for 5 years? Bad decisions have been made, whether you personally find those important or not. Giving insights on how to stop these from happening in the future is vital for a possible ME:A2. Throwing memes to counter negative people like 'bait for the bait god' around is nice 'n all, but the debate completely grinds to a halt and it turns into a personal discussion. We should not give Bioware the feeling that they hit every mark right with the release of ME:A, even though it isn't an unplayable or terrible game.

Tl;dr: 1/3 isn't a majority but it is way too high for a fan-forum. We should identify the issues the game has for some of the fans here and treat them seriously. Even though Bioware doesn't have to follow up on them in a new game, it can still be very interesting to learn why there is still a fairly big group of people dissapointed. Even though some people don't voice their concerns nicely, a grain of truth can still be found in their comments.