So no DLC for Andromeda?

Meanwhile Horizon, a highly praised game that came out the same month as MEA now has its first DLC announced.

m.ign.com/articles/2017/06/13/e3-2017-horizon-zero-dawn-dlc-the-frozen-wilds-announced

More or less. Some of the content which was supposed to be on DLC was used as a inspiration for DA:I, but many other things were totally deleted or rethinked.

From what I understand, it might have been much darker if they went with their original ideas, since there was going to be a death or at least some deaths of major characters (possibly Varric being among them).

Pretty much this. Therefore if they scrap the DLC now you cannot be sure that they are going to tie up the same lose endings in a future sequel. And even if they do maybe that many things will end up being very different from how they were initially planned.

Well, I'm neither fanboy nor hater. So why shouldn't we agree on something.

What does Zelda being an Nintendo exclusive have to do with the game being highly praised and getting DLC announced?

Well for one sales data cannot be fairly compared. On top of it being a completely different type of game.

No the point is you looking for any excuse to bury ME.

First, because it's not comparable to a multiplatform game. It's geared at a smaller market holding a particular piece of hardware. Secondly because it's a niche game, intended for people who like the cartoonesque style.

That's not to downgrade the game. It's just that in my opinion you can only compare games aimed at the same market segment. If one is to discard comparisons to DAII, then one can savely discard comparisons to a single platform game. It's not intended to reach the same market and so expectations are different.

Actually if you remember at the old BSN, I was a big MEA cheerleader way back in 2015 and was always against DAI.

Furthermore, if you hung around the non spoiler thread here prior to release, you would have seen that I was very much excited for MEA and didnt want the story spoiled for me.

So what happened, well, I played MEA. Thats what happened.

Well, yes. What's to argue over that? If you don't own Nintendo gear you're out. So niche, as compared to gamers at large.

Should I bring up pillars of Enternity? PC exclusive and not to everyone's tastes because of isometric environments? Equally unfair.