Article: Mass Effect fans feel abandoned by BIoWare after Anthem reveal

The bigger question is why you feel you're representative of everyone who happens to have hated ME:A?  Just because you say you didn't set out to hate doesn't mean that someone else could not possibly have set out to hate it.  Are you saying that the hate others dumped on this game in no way affected your opinion of it? Or, in no way caused you any apprehension that would not have been there if the game had been positively received?  Were you blissfully uninfluenced at all by all the memes as you sat down to play the game for the first time?  Is your "opinion" of the game formed in some sort completely objective vacuum... because I was influenced.  I was made far more apprehensive about buying the game and,as I sat down to play it the first time, I was not really anticipating loving it the way I had anticipated loving TW3 (which had such positive reviews from a whole lot of people).  For me, as it turned out, I wound up hating TW3 and enjoying ME:A... because different people can like different things about a game.  I'm glad I put my apprehensions aside and bought ME:A in spite of everything I had been reading here.

Could Bioware have produced a better game if they had applied even more resources to it... probably yes.  Would the public have received it well and gone wow?  I don't think so... not even if they game they had of delivered was damned near perfect.  Why do I say that... because most of them couldn't find anything good to say about ME:A despite it being not so bad a game and it does have many positives to it.  While you may not enjoy it as much as I do... It's still a better game than it was made out to be by many of the previews, the metascores, and many of the reviews.

The only Co-op I have ever been interested is the type that has my sister's ass in the seat next to me. Not with strangers thousands miles away telling me how they slept with my mom, or that I need to go back into the kitchen and make em a sandwich.

I do RPGS, I do stories, and PVE, and plots and quests. I do not do raids and PVP and cash-cow micro transactions.

Not really. I'm a female who plays co-op/multiplayer games and I've never been harassed by anyone. At least not because of my gender.

It's unfortunate there are people like that, but that's why there's a mute feature in most games and honestly online play is very fun and it's positives outweigh the negatives unless one really isn't a multiplayer gamer, but hey, that's why there's options in games.

Three fairly safe bets regarding Anthem.

1) it will NOT look as nice as the trailer
2) it will NOT play as nice as "inferred" in the trailer
3) it will rely on grinding for gear... period!

Looks like a promising game but I'm absolutely sure that it will be more like MEA combat with flight suits mixed with Destiny... I do NOT believe the story part of this game will be any more robust than Andromeda... and possibly less.

The only Co-op I have ever been interested is the type that has my sister's ass in the seat next to me. Not with strangers thousands miles away telling me how they slept with my mom, or that I need to go back into the kitchen and make em a sandwich.

I do RPGS, I do stories, and PVE, and plots and quests. I do not do raids and PVP and cash-cow micro transactions.