BioWare should have delayed MEA till N7 Day 2017

EA needed a game for Q4 Fiscal year so it went out unready...boom

No can do, EA are releasing Battlefront 2 on November.

Yes, because the people who used edited GIFs and whining about how Peebee isn't a sex object to justify their pathetic vendetta against the game surely wouldn't have done that if the game was released a few months later.

Is an 8 really that much better then a 7? That's why I hate numbered reviews. That's like the equivalent (in golf) of the difference between shooting an 80 or a 79. It's not going too change the opinion of how good the game is.

The only thing that I believe would have changes is the animations, so the majority of the other complaints would have still been in the game.

If my favourite sports team has a horrible year thanks to terrible management and coaching - as a fan, I'm going to voice my complaints. I'm not just going to switch teams.

They would have trashed it the same way people trashed DAI after release but they wouldn't have had the arsenal of memes, GIFs and YouTube vids prior to release. EA was pretty tonedeaf to release it in its unfinished state but I'm sure thry didn't care much as long as the financial boxes were checked

No one gives a crap about the people who can't stand the fact that DA:I was a major success and hugely popular. Or that ME:A is exactly the same.

And no, the same people would have edited GIFs and spouted complete lies just as they had, and don't pretend otherwise.

The same people who whine about edited GIFs don't give a crap when Witcher 3 is a glitch-riddled mess on release. Don't pretend that the game was "unfinished" and that's why the developers deserved the harassment and slander they and their game received.

Oh look, a single frame taken out of context makes the character look weird. Which applies to every single game ever made, but other games just don't have a bunch of people who take screenshots just to make the game look bad just to justify threatening and harassing people who made and enjoyed the game.

Just imagine how much time they've had to waste just because a bunch of people shamelessly misrepresented their game. A bunch of losers flat-out lied about the animations and visuals by posting out-of-context single frames and blatantly-edited GIFs.

It's just an example, but was something that permeated throughout the game. I can name numerous instances where the facial expressions can be janked enough to take me out of the scene in the game's original version. Even as one who loves MEA and will defend it to the death, my eyes still work.

Well, I'm not sure about November, but Q1 '17 instead of Q4 '16 would probably have helped. It would have allowed for more polish, meaning the promotional material would have been better (facial animations, backwards gun, bad AI in fiend, etc), so less memes and whatnot, and maybe a more traditional advertising campaign.

I do think that the hate generated by the ME3 endings, the lack of Shep, the move to the Milky Way, and Manveir Heir would still have stuck around and been almost as loud, but in having a good game with good polish, those complaints get drowned out by praise. TW3 launched with some game-breaking, save-corrupting bugs, but was still praised because the basics of animation, gameplay, etc were all working as expected. Given until the end of Q1 '17, MEA would have been in a very similar state, having the good animations we see now, most glitches eliminated, and the Jaal male romance incorporated.

Nah, Witcher 3 got praised because the same pandering hacks who kissed the backsides of the anti-BioWare trolldom also pandered to Witcher 3 fanboys who would have harassed and threatened any reviewer who was rightfully critical of the pile of glitch-riddled poorly-written garbage CDPR shoved out.