Mass Effect in Thedas.

Many of us were mistaken. We wrongly believed MEA was inquisition in space....As it turns out Inquisitions team as well as the new IP were lifting ideas from MEA and using them in their own games. (Kotaku article.)

Astrariums = Remnant vaults.

Corypheus = Archon.

These are two good examples of similar themes crossing over into Mass Effect. But how much of this was taken by the DA team? How much content what eventually wound up in DA was originally created by the Mass Effect team? And how much of Andromeda now makes up the new IP?

This game might well have been picked apart by internal rivalries with even allegations of sabotage and theft levelled in the kotaku article.

Sabotage makes sense to me. Its actually something you'd dismiss off the bat until you look closer and ask: What the hell were they thinking with that one?

Mass Effect may have been sacrificed to ensure the success of the new IP and ensure DA couldn't fail. The failure of DA would have meant no new IP, no Mass Effect, no DA, no BioWare.

Mass Effect in Thedas was made to stave off the destruction of the company altogether. Andromeda was simply the poor chump they were willing to feed to the lions in order to satisfy the crowds of the internet colloseum.

Eaten alive its eviscerated corpse now lies surrounded by its most devoted fans.

Who pray for miracles.

My apologies to Mac Walters, it takes real skill to steer train wreck off a cliff and not lose your job in the process.

Hella ballsy, too.