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

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I meant no disrespect towards anyone that doesn't like multiplayer. Just didn't expect so many to disregard the game because it's multiplayer.

I think it more about how ME got the "c" team with no direction and experience to make it over Bioware A or B team. I'm fine with them promoting their new IP but I can't help but wonder what could have been with MEA.

Why?  If MP holds no interest for a person - as is the case for me - why would I go play it?  I didn't play MP in ME3 or MEA.  I have avoided MMO games for as long as they've been out.  Don't play SW:TOR, despite being a huge KOTOR fan.  Didn't play Elder Scrolls Online, despite loving that franchise.  Why should I do differently here? 

Even if I were interested, I have such a shitty internet connection (drops at random, can be incredibly slow at times) that it would work against me.  Also, from the very little experience I've had with online gaming, I've found that people can be such assholes that I have little interest in playing games alongside them.  So, yeah, I'm rejecting MP.

No Kotaku link? Sorry, not legit.

There never was a relationship other than between them and your wallet. Maybe I'm the exception but I can like or dislike something without dragging it kicking and screaming to a personal level. I never rooted for some sports team or star, I like certain directors because they usually produce decent movies, I like certain game studios because they usually produce decent games. But that's it. If they're catering now to a different demographic it's because of economics. I certainly don't bash them for that and I certainly don't be up in tears because of relationship issues.

Talking about relationships. I would say there's much more between companies kickstarting their games and their players than with so called AAA titles that are funded by even larger companies expecting x amount of revenue. But still, even then it's a business relationship and not a personal one. The only difference being that prospective players are funding the games and not some big publisher.

A Univision product. I'm in Texas (North Democratic Mexico, to some) and most of their news is "colorful?" I like watching their news because nobody puts that kind of breast exposure on TV. The Housewives of (where ever, my wife loves this garbage) don't have hips and breasts like their top anchors or meteorologists. Univision tries to be serious and it has scooped stories from other media outlets, but most of the time, they're parrots with big breasts that are about to show some nipple. Yeah, I sound like a creepy ogre, but that's the truth.

Well, you can feel that way if you wish.  But I think it's obvious from about every post on the forums that people form personal connections to games like this.

Video games, especially ones with deep stories, romance options, companions, etc are art.  People are going to feel emotionally attached to those characters, because that's how they are written.  It's like an interactive novel.  So for games like this, it's more than just a "They produce the product, I buy the product, end of relationship" type of relationship.  This isn't FIFA or Madden '17 or whatever.  These are characters and settings that we've grown to love, because they were written to induce an emotional response.  And Bioware wasn't a AAA studio when they created the Mass Effect universe, either.  There used to be a lot of back and forth between the fans and the devs in those early days.  Less now, but still some.  

The point is, your feelings about Mass Effect will obviously be different from buying a TV, toaster, car, etc, because of the medium.  It's not all just producing company and customer.  There's an interplay.  

Anyway, you can feel emotionally detached from the series, all games, and everything.  That doesn't really matter.  What matters is that millions of people do feel emotionally attached, and with good reason.  However, those attachments, and the anonymity of the internet, allowed them to go to far with things like death threats, hate mail, etc.  Those are all terrible ways to express oneself, but that's what happened.  And from interviews we know that the fan response, especially to ME3, caused psychological harm to those working on the game.  They said they needed counseling after.  So there's obviously some kind of relationship, and I don't begrudge them for wanting to have left Bioware RPG fans behind because the people making the game got harassed for every little thing.  I want more Mass Effect.  I enjoyed MEA.  But I can see why they'd want to move on to something fresh, something without people screaming "SJW's!!" at them on Twitter every 2 minutes.

 No I nailed the point in head. By focusing on Anthem and treating ME like a second rate game, they gave the middle finger to those fans (without "") that all in all actually enjoyed their previous experiences and tried to defend the good in them against the haters.

Love it or hate it, it's bad PR to trot out this hi tech title and wave it in our faces after the debacle that happened only 3 months previously with MEA.

It's shitty PR. With so many of us wondering where Mass Effect is headed at this point and they reveal the next gen in gaming that's just a clone of Destiny. One guy said, oh well I didn't know Destiny 3 would be coming out so fast

So, ultimately, I think Anthem would have gone over better if their PR was better. Come clean with us EA/Bioware. What are your plans for MEA past patching the game? I really, really don't want what amounts to a thumb in the eye while you show off next year's model or whatever. Showing off the missing depth of world that could have, indeed should have been in MEA. We have three nearly identical deserts, and they are apparently capable of lush *gasp* foliage! Wow, whoulda thunk? In MEA we got to race in the Nomad through the only green area of the game, Meridian and not a chance of actually exploring it? Hm.

So, no, not really liking the impression that comes with seeing Anthem Dylan get what we all hope to see in Mass Effect.

Sure, but those actual fans that enjoyed their games didn't stop all the baseless criticism that sent them to counseling. Sometimes you just have to look out for your own mental and emotional well-being.

You are suggesting that they should have just stuck it out through death threats and angry tweets and online petitions that sent them to COUNSELING because of the people who enjoyed it rather than moving on to something else where they could be actually happy? That's pretty selfish.

Whoa. You're right. And it's interesting in the web scroll they have DAI second and MEA third...

Even more curious is the site describing Anthem as an action RPG when Andrew Wilson said it wasn't an RPG but an action adventure.

Very interesting....