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

Abandoned? HA! When MEA was first starting out and they were sharing teasers with us, people were shitting on it, shitting on Ryder and acting salty over ME3's ending still. Now they want more MEA after all the trashing it before it was even playable? Game fans.

The only reason MEA was doomed from the start was because it had the name "Mass Effect" in the title and people wanted blood.

Anthem will be the current new focus with fans who will actually respect and enjoy it.

I call it deserved karma to the ME fans who wanted their cake and to eat it too.

Different studios is what I mean - the (less experienced) Montreal team was tasked with creating Andromeda whilst the other (more proven) teams worked on other stuff. And sure the game had a big budget and long development, but time and money alone don't make a great game. I'm just not sure MEA got the attention it needed.

Yeah, how dare people not like ME3's ending!

Or not appreciate MEA being half-*ssed!

 There is no way Bioware simply f*cked up!   Must be those darned fans...

*the views here are not expressed by a Mass Effect fan, and who doesn't care if another Mass Effect game is ever made or not, but simply wants Bioware to start writing good  SP RPGs again, regardless of setting*

*watches everyone who replies and sees they are all users who have bashed MEA repeatedly here for months*

Hell, I've been bashing ME3 for five years, where's my credit for that!?

Such a simple concept it's a shame that more people don't do it.
I don't like The Witcher video games, the DCEU movies, and Michel Bay's Transformers movies, I don't buy game, tickets, watch them and I don't waste my money and time on garbage that I don't like. NO ONE has ever held a gun to my head and forced to be pre-ordered and/or buy ANY game (or any other form of media for that) that I didn't want to buy. I made the choice to buy ME:A on my Xbox One and PS4 and I don't regret it.

Yeah even with the best critics and reviews and ignoring hype culture it's always a gamble that it's not going to be something that you like. You roll the dice and sometimes you get get gold and sometimes you get shit.

I bought Man of Steel and that abortion so god damn awful that it killed off my dream of seeing a Superman/Batman team up movie that I wanted to see since 1989
I bought The Witcher 2 on the Xbox 360 and didn't like it so I sold it and I don't regret buying it or reselling it.

Don't like Mass Effect franchise then don't support it, shut the fuck up, and go away.

So true! Well said!

Well, some people saw this disaster coming from a long time. 

I don't think they intended for their $40m, 5-year-long-production videogame to achieve a 71-77 Metacritic score, but it happened.

Ultimately, the game wasn't as good as it could have been. The problem wasn't time, nor was it money. So it must have been something else. Lack of vision? Direction? Talent? The loss of the trilogy's core development team?

Respect for all those posts 
Didn't usually agree, but they were consistent, intelligent and articulate. +1

Yes, it happened. But that's not Anthems fault. It may have been a bad business decision to hand it over to Montreal that only worked on supporting content so far, but the cold hard truth is, we don't know if Edmonton would have come up with something more exciting. They tried a whole new concept here. I wouldn't have expected them to take the same approach as in DAI with open spaces to explore. I rather expected them to stay on the linear path the OT had. That obviously was a chore for them to develop without managing to come up with a convincincing result.

I did the same, but I knew they'd patch it up and now it's a new experience, with new cutscenes, and new animations. They even scrapped the Tempest intro we used to tease about.