If Bioware scraps the Quarian Ark DLC will you boycott Anthem?

Anthem has the more experienced team, Andromeda got rookies pretty much, before Andromeda their resume was ME3 multiplayer and the omega DLC and that was it. Compare a rookie team to an experienced team and watch the differences on how they make a game, one will look better than the other single handedly. 

Anthems budget is unknown so far as I'm aware and it's an entirely different studio working on it, people can get butt hurt (hotheaded) over it, but they need to look into how resources are actually being taken away if they're to make that claim. Why does bioware not get away with it when various other studios have multiple franchises out in shorter time? I don't recall ever hearing Fallout taking resources away from elder scrolls, or elder scrolls from wilfenstein, or wolfenstein from DOOM. It's counter productive to have various studios only to then have them take from each other, it makes no sense, and that is the case here if people want to assume bioware is doing that with Andromeda. What's really happening is rather than blaming the exact studio that made the gane, they'd rather target another group that didn't do anything and still get no results. Not like the Anthem team(Edmonton) is going to drop everything to fix what Montreal hasn't.

why do people think EA turned bioware away from making "great games"? EA has owned bioware since the start of mass effect and Dragon AGE. Knowing these forums many thinknthose are the best franchises out there, so are they really not making great games if I'm seeing comments how ME and DA is all specific people would play? Quite honestly, I think EA as a publisher have turned up oodgames. The battlefield franchise isn't so bad, I love the DA/ME franchises (I don't consider them top tier "great" games though), and their sports games still pull in millions. 

Destiny's budget is at $140 mil, and even if you account for the marketing portion of that budget, you'd have to think Anthem is playing with a comparable amount of money if EA wants it to be a Destiny-killer. I like your analogies but Fallout and Skyrim are very different games. Anthem was sci fi- on some exotic world, with a player character that used futuristic tech and weapons. There would have been no backlash if Anthem was a completely different game or genre. But it looked and felt like it was what Andromeda should have been. I may take a more pragmatic approach on this but its not hard to see how people could draw those conclusions. Nobody in this forum has the facts on this topic, we are talking about people's perceptions, its subjective.

And I think BW fans are 'far removed' from what the old-time BW fans used to be. People change and people grow, you know, and so do the studios.  Nothing wrong with that. 
I consider myself pretty much the 'old-time' one, had been around since before NWN. I loved what I've seen or heard about Anthem so far, things may or may not change as they give us more details. 

Anyway, I don't see how those two (DLC and Anthem) are connected. It's like not buying an ice cream if they don't bake you a cake.

Can I boycott something I already had no intentions of buying? Ah what the heck, we'll just say I am.

Or it proves that the average person doesn't have some psychotic grudge against BioWare just because you didn't like one of their games.

Yeah, that's me who is enjoying the game.  This avatar is one offered by the forum in general, so anyone can pick it.  I get confused myself sometimes. 

I don't find this story cliche at all and am quite intrigued by Bioware's take on current environmental issues for one thing.  There are just so many different little bits and pieces of our IRL society imbedded in this story that I just don't see the why people are accusing it of being like other games out there.  Most of the other games I've seen recently are about ghouls and the undead and magic and set in medieval times.  People begged for a story about colonization... but now they are demanding insta-cities and back to the same old "war-torn" city ghetto setting we see in so many other games.  To me, this story is unique and it's the people really just wanting more of the same old fodder they get from other games that is making this one unpopular.  Well, I don't care what others think... this story is popular with me.

As I said above, I'm certainly not going to boycott Anthem if they don't release a DLC for this game.  IMO, it's childish to prevent a studio from expanding into other areas.  Such threats don't send a positive message to the developer and will not encourage them to make a DLC for ME:A.  I don't know yet whether Anthem will interest me at all, but I'll wait to see what it's actually like before I make a decision whether or not to buy it.

While I'd be disappointed at the lack of closure for the Quarian Ark, I'd never boycott another game over that.

I can't boycott what i'm not interested in.

Picking a game with EA online service when we have Destiny 2 on the Blizzard app is kinda stupid. EA Netcode takes like 2-3 years to fix itself even with mayor Titles like Battlefield series. Sure Blizzard has problems in the beginning sometimes. But you can bet your ass it will be fixed in time and be playable for years to come if you wish it. Go online and try play Diablo 2 online today (17 year old game) that still gets updates. I trust Bioware and EA to kill their game in time. Blizzard/Activision are greedy shit of a company but they at least keep their games alive.

Actually, no we do not know that. We know that Edmonton wanted to make something new, instead of doing the same thing over and over (that is how bad games like AC Unity get made, developers stop caring about the product, because it is always the same things). You are basing this on the Kotaku article I presume? Just FYI, even that clickbait did not mention that Edmonton has been sabotaging Montreal in any way, just that they were getting miffed about Montreal not having any clue as to what to make with the game (they spent 3/5 of the time on making highly conceptual stuff that was not even fun)



Anthem has gathered several thousands of fans already, just from a 7 minute video that did not really show anything.



There literally are no indications that EA or BioWare are completely abandoning Mass Effect franchise. However, there are several important EA people who claim on record that despite Andromeda underperforming, they are still happy with how it did and how BW handled it and hope for more stuff in the franchise.

Anthem is not being boycotted because they disliked MEA; try improving your reading comprehension. Anthem is boycotted because they threw MEA under the bus for it.





I didn't dislike MEA, dumbass. I liked it to the point where Bioware pissed me off enough by sacrificing its further development for the sake of chasing their Destiny knock off.

I heard all the same things before with my friends and pen-and-paper group. There were pessimists saying that BioWare is going to fail at it because of a multitude of reasons. Everyone in my group now agrees Mass Effect 1 is the standard bearer of space opera RPGs. So, yeah... heard all that before. The same was said about Dragon Age 2. The same was said about Mass Effect 3. The same was said about Inquisition heading to a more open-world environment. I hear it all the time now with Andromeda. It doesn't change my mind.