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

I pretty much have the same stance as you....but I do feel that old school Mass Effect set up a perfect environment that facilitates just about anything......soldier,agent,bounty hunter,sex slave,aliens (new and ancient),different factions,agenda's etc......it all works........seems a waste to leave/abandon a perfectly good playground........in contrast Andromeda seems quite sterile in comparison.

Pretty good idea except that what made Mass Effect great was more than just Shepard.

I've always wondered why the relay system can't be used to simply reverse the green ending????

I'm sorry but I didn't base my post on what the poll looked like at the moment of writing but purely on the information Ozzie posted before me. I don't know what the poll actually looked like before my own post so there is no way for me to say of the poll ever resembled a 1/3th difference or not. At the moment of writing this post 39 people voted yes and 115 voted no, so the percentage is 25.3 percent. This is, of course, less than 1/3 so I will glady rectify my previous post if it makes any difference to you and the other people around here. But the question now is: does this difference even matter? I honestly don't think that it actually does. It is less than before but the fact that a quarter of the people on a Bioware fan forum think that the game should have never been made is pretty harsh and would still be pretty alarming for me if I was in charge of Bioware.

 Of course, people can reply with 'Oh and WHEN does it stop being alarming Henkie? You're overreacting!'. Might be true but I work in a sector where every dissapointed customer is one too many. You'll only get to the top when you take complaints seriously. silly or not. It is of course impossible to get a 100% satisfied base of customers but maximising the amount of happy customers is still extremely important. So therefore it is key that Bioware (and this forum) understand that ME:A, even though it isn't a bad or terrible game (can't stress this enough), isn't perfect. There is still room for improvement. And I believe that we can actually help Bioware by creating a place for fruitful discussions here, on this board, to get closer to a 9/10 or 10/10. As long as people disregard criticism and praise the game to death on one side and, on the other side, troll and torment the game endlessy for every flaw it has, I unfortunately don't see this happen.

The sample size is way to small to make any serious conclusions and gets way to skewed by just a handful of trolls. At most we can say that the large majority of those who answer the poll believes that the game should have beeen released.

Anyway, Biowares patching of the game suggests, at least to me, that they take our complaints seriously.

They should just redo ME1, but with added realism.

Basically, you lose the game in the first hour because of a crushing defeat by an armada of invading giant mecha space cthulhu's. The rest of the game is an artistic interpretation of what it's like to be preserved in Reaper form.

Art.

Agreed. Just to clarify, I never stated that this poll is in any way representative of the entire customer base and it shouldn't be treated as such. The results of this poll still bother me, however, because this place is supposed to be a gathering of Bioware fans. People are here because they like/love these games, not because they want to see the studio burned to the ground. Still we have a solid 25% of the people saying the game shouldn't exist. Makes you wonder how a poll like this would be received on other platforms. We simply don't have the overview Bioware has, you've said it yourself. But it doesn't always look good through the tidbits of information we do get. Now, it isn't all bad because there are a lot of people who really like the game. But I do hope Bioware's next game is les divisive than ME:A is now.

We're very much going over the same ground as @dutch's thread.
Moving this in there.

MEA has been released? I thought it was still in early access...

OMG I forgot about that conversation!... Garrus' favourite places for shoot outs.   LOL.

There's no indication that it is in any way divisive. This is the internet and not the real world. People are creating accounts to voice their displeasure while you don't hear anything from the player base at large.

That's not to say, the game was a tremendous success either. It's not for us to know and a simplistic poll on a single forum, won't provide the answer. We don't know how the reception was with the general player base, we don't know to what extent company expectations have been met. We only hear the ones crying out the loudest, drowning out valid ciriticism with partly absurd claims and conspiracy theories about different agendas.

The game hasn't been a total trainwreck. Not even in it's bugged state at release. So someone saying, as one of the poll options says, this game should have never been released, is absurd. There were games falling into that category and there will be such games in the future. This however isn't one of them.

Kind of like your posts