Why MEA did not work for me

Incorrect, because you played Witcher series. You do you.

Only reason I don't think it was a huge success is because they didn't mention it on their earnings calls.  I help prepare our quarterly earnings, and I help with the B & F.  We don't touch on every individual release, we just give high level numbers because that's really all the people on the call care about.  Retention, attrition, percentage of margin, bookings, recurring revenue, quarter over quarter growth.  Then we highlight some of the things that contributed to the numbers.  If we don't highlight something, it usually wasn't worth highlighting, especially if it was released during that quarter.  So I found no mention of the game, especially being the only major release of the quarter strange.  When DA:I came out, on the call they were proud to say it was the biggest release of a Bioware game to date.  

Takd your own advice. Dude takes the time to post his thoughts in a non-confrontational way, and The White Knight brigade has definitely come flying in.

I ignored the starman thread; dude loved the game, and I am not gonna shit on people loving the game anymore, it is tired.

How did the OP quote you, in the OP, when your post is second? So confused.

I am tired of being so special

I will keep this short, I am tired of being the "center of the universe" type of character who solves everything. Yes, I know this is the formula for Bioware but in a lot of ways, it is very archaic, especially the way Bioware does it. This is what I like about TW3 and even RDR in that they were more focused personal stories. Geralt was simply searching for his daughter. He could careless about the state of the world because of who he was, (A witcher) it really does not matter. When he made decisions, it was regarding what is the best benefit for HIM, not the world. Same with Marston in RDR. He was just a former bandit trying to do right with his life.....not save the world and make it a better place for everyone. Okay, we saved (or destroyed) the galaxy in the Mass Effect trilogy with Shepard, so can we take a different approach now? I look forward to the day where I can play a character in the ME universe (Milky Way or Andromeda) that is more like John Marston or Geralt in terms of seeking their own agenda's and not being some special snowflake trying to rid the world/cluster/galaxy of evil. How about a MEA2 game where we play as a former outcast who is trying to get back at those who wronged him/her? We can still scrounge up party members, have romances, and all that jazz, but the story would be more focused on YOU and what you are doing for YOU....not the galaxy. At the end of the game the Helius Cluster will be in the same state as it was in from the beginning, but that does not matter because you exacted your revenge on those who wronged you and thats all that matters. The DLC could then explore other objectives for the new protagonist to take on in the same way Blood and Wine, and Heart of Stone did for Geralt in TW3. But something is telling me that Bioware will never do this because that is not their style of games. Bioware likes the hero who is at the center of the universe type stories and again, perhaps in 2002 that was the special thing but videogame stories have become more mature, more advance and complex than the simple and safe style stories that Bioware likes to tell. 

Only reason I don't think it was a huge success is because they didn't mention it on their earnings calls.  I help prepare our quarterly earnings, and I help with the B & F.  We don't touch on every individual release, we just give high level numbers because that's really all the people on the call care about.  Retention, attrition, percentage of margin, bookings, recurring revenue, quarter over quarter growth.  Then we highlight some of the things that contributed to the numbers.  If we don't highlight something, it usually wasn't worth highlighting, especially if it was released during that quarter.  So I found no mention of the game, especially being the only major release of the quarter strange.  When DA:I came out, on the call they were proud to say it was the biggest release of a Bioware game to date.  

Heh, yah., well, that's changed more than Carter has little fart pills.

Here's a word, childish.

Which is why I don't think it was runaway success. They also didn't mention on the call that it had held back earnings, which they would have. The big earners did show up on their Q4 reports; BF1, FIFA 17 and SIMs.

The one mention of ME:A that's made in the report is $53 million in ME:A premium editions that would be captured in Q1.

yeah I agree I find MEA a great game and I like it a lot and I can see myself doing a lot of playthrough's of it just like I have all the other ME and DA games. The only thing for me that I have issues with ar the rather bad bugs and unstable nature of the game in the fact it does tend to crash on me which are slowly but surely being ironed out I think by Bioware so hopefully eventually it can run nice and smooth.

The one mention of ME:A that's made in the report is $53 million in ME:A premium editions that would be captured in Q1.

I always found that number surprising. What percentage of sales are premium edition sakes?