BioWare should have delayed MEA till N7 Day 2017

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I'm not sure about that there were a fair bit of animation problems at lauch for the witcher 3

To be honest it's not much different from the rants I read about me a.

Try saying you loved me a in another forum. You'll probably get called autistic.

 Where is this scene supposed to be in? I don't ever recall getting that face at launch. 

Do understand why fluffy is so hostile though. Way too much ridicule and hate towards me a and it's fans. Can't even do a YouTube search about the game without coming across a rant video how it sucked and only biodrones would like it. Like I said it does feel good to fight back but don't defend to what some detractors did a few months ago.

The animation is not the main problem of MEA.
MEA ist the first ME Game where i dislike the story and also any of the companions. I had to force myself to do the loyalty mission because i really want to put all of them back to cryio.
But thats only my opinion

Pretty much this.  IMO, If everything (or at least most things) beside the animations had been stellar at launch, the memes would probably have been largely forgotten after the positive reviews came out. 

Truth. BioWare's not going to change the mind of anyone who's mantra after ME:A's release was "bring back Shepard and go back to the Milky Way" or "remaster the OT."  Even if the game had been polished to a mirror sheen all that would have been seen was a bump up in critical reviews.

To be fair, there was a lot going on besides just animations. Yes, animations and bugs were the most obvious which resulted in the slew of memes and gifs, but there are other problems with MEA such as the open-world execution as an example. But yeah, this new free trial is a move by EA to sort of make things right. Only problem is, you only get 1 chance to make a first impression and unfortunately for EA, a lot of gamers have already moved on and their impression of MEA will always be that of the March version, not today's version. However, I would believe that they have brought some people back, but I doubt they brought them back in large numbers to bring the sales up to what EA originally predicted. But again, unfortunately for EA, the bulk of a game's sales comes in the days/weeks after launch. Unless your game has the name "Grand Theft Auto" in it's title, naturally ALL games no matter the quality will always see a slight drop off in sales the further it is from release. With MEA, it's golden spot for sales has already come and passed and I doubt you will see a surge of 1+ million in new sales or anything like that just because of these patches. The only way I see that happening (long shot) is if EA does a surge of MEA online and TV marketing like they did leading up to launch to advertise the "new look" Andromeda, but agian, I doubt EA will pour millions of dollars into marketing a game that has already launched and received the review scores. But yeah, that would be the only possibility I can see MEA coming back and making large sales. Also, I doubt these patches will change the discussion in terms of putting MEA in the GOTY discussion which is something that EA/Bioware would like as they can use it as a PR push that MEA was nominated for X amount of awards and/or won X amount of awards. In the end, the reputation of MEA is what it is. I mean, goto Youtube and type "Mass Effect Andromeda" into the search and tell me what pops up for you. 

Also as the OP suggested, releasing right in the middle of Horizon and Zelda did not help either. The only silver lining is that hopefully, the Dragon Age 4 team can learn from what went wrong with MEA and combine that with what went right with DAI and hopefully DA4 will come out as a solid product. Now the only scare with DA4 is that it might run into the same release window as Cyberpunk 2077....

1) Yes, I agree, there will be loads of people who will pick MEA today and for them, this version will be the first impression, not the March version and in that case, that is good news for Bioware. The bad news, is that these people will be far and few as like I said before, it is only natural that a large percentage of sales/money is made during the first few days and weeks after launch, after that, sales always fall off. With MEA, we are ~16+ post launch which is a spot where new sales will be very modest and probably would not be mentioned too much in the next earnings call unless EA doesn't have any other major products that were released. If the content of this 1.09 patch was the first patch released for the game, then yeah, EA would have been able to stop the bleeding but it dragged on too far and for too long.

2) I would suspect that EA was very bullish on MEA and felt confident that it could compete with those games. I mean, afterall, they were exclusive to just one console whereas MEA released on 3 platforms. However what they didn't predict was the overwhelming positive reception those games would get in addition to the overwhelming negative reception MEA got. Not to change the subject, but I said the same thing about DAI. If CDPR stuck to the original November 2014 release for Witcher 3, I doubt DAI would have gotten GOTY and sold so well. Considering how both Cyberpunk 2077 and DA4 are looking to be 2019 releases, it would be bad news moreso for Bioware if DA4 releases near Cyberpunk 2077. But that is for another discussion for another time.