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

So what info do you have for Anthem taking away from mass effect?

If Anthem can avoid the mistakes that The Division made, and continues to make to be honest, I'll be all over it.

Anthem is aimed at The Division's playerbase (TPS) more than it is Destiny's (FPS).

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Is that really a good enough excuse though? Multiple developers have multiple studios for this purpose, to make multiple games. If Anthem isn't taking budget away (doubtful when it's a multi-million dollar publisher supporting them) from Andromeda then I don't really see it as one taking away from the other. Andromedas own failures will be on the mass effect team, not others who had no involvement and are busy with other projects. Furthermore, what's to say they didn't move some of Edmonton to Montreal because of their experience with the mass effect franchise? Aaron Flynn is still there, mike gamble is still around, max Walters is still around, etc etc.

i may have been disappointed with Andromeda, but I will not be of the belief that it's Anthems fault or that team B being inexperienced is why when everyone else goes through the same thing.

You're right, but you have no idea of how much dysfunction was in place prior to Montreal's acquisition of Andromeda or during the development process. To me, it all sounds like bad luck, bad hires, bad decisions to keep at an experiment that ultimately failed, bad leadership and bad PR and HR. If anything, Montreal and Walters (yeah, I know... ) got a lot of the game done in as much time as DA2 and still pulled out a very good game (after patch 1.05). Everyone has made bad decisions, bad hires, had inept HR and PR, bad luck and bad leadership at one point or another. The fact that the developers clenched their teeth and worked through all of that garbage that wasn't related to their pay grade says a lot about those individuals. Those that stayed put their pride on display and gutted it out. Those that quit didn't help. Those that got fired didn't help. What was their ultimate reward: memes, YouTube videos and an incredible, damaging hit to BioWare's reputation. Not to mention, posters like me losing their mind because the game kept breaking on the PS4. So, Suikoden... whatever your beef is, forgive and forget. Criticism is necessary because let's face it, if you're only listening to sycophants you're not learning how to improve. However, ragging on them and taking delight in their embarrassment or struggles with Frostbite is totally unfair. I like to point my finger and sometimes I'm just so damn exasperated that I come off sounding like a jerk. Is it right? No. Being snarky once in a while... it's okay, but expect gifs or just as snarky responses. Also, I've appropriated the victory dance. When the DLC hits (whenever it hits), it's mine! Stay salty my friend, but stay classy. A lesson I am learning myself.

What's Anthem?

Sorry, quotes from the devs aren't exactly inspiring me to preorder my copy of Anthem. I'm not boycotting, just not interested.

However, boycotting a video game is senseless. Some people don't care about the politics. They just want to be entertained.

It's easier to boycott things like abortion clinics or sexist movies because of controlled distribution, but a video game? You can't protest it. You can't stand outside of GameStop on release day and stop a significant group of people from buying a game. Personally, if you tried to convince me to buy into this boycott, I'd probably just walk away, go home and buy it online...then again, most of my game purchases are done online anyway.

Indeed, it's almost like not everyone had nervous breakdown over the ending post-EC DLC and the DLCs were actually very good, with one of them arguarbly being the best one of the entire franchise.

But hey, only real fans whined about the ending and fought the good fight with DLC, right?

I'm not sure what's worse, Anthem succeeding or flopping horribly.

The person who wishes failure upon someone a lot of people put a lot of work into and a lot of people are very eager for, simply because it's not exactly what that person wants.