BioWare should have delayed MEA till N7 Day 2017

Very true.

this is the most reasonable post I've read on the bsn in a long time.

1. Would not have helped the FaceFX stuff that so many have complained about -don't count myself among them -Bioware outsourced this.
2. It would not have mattered if the game came out a year later -people would still have found something to complain about -harshly or otherwise.
3. Yes -That would have been good -lots of holidays around that time more buying.
4. Indeed N7 day would have been a good idea... or actually a bad idea for those expecting a MET clone.
5. Nothing is ever granted as non-competition - AAA games release year round -Fall usually sees Assassins' Creed, COD, NFS and something from Bethesda.

EA said what they said basically so all the heat over the game would go to Biowares' doorstep and not theirs: EA -A plan that has failed -again.

I doubt that a further delay would have done them that much good, let alone an entire year.

After 18 months of soul destroying crunch time they probably just needed to ship what they had. A human can only function so long under that amount of stress and duress, before the physical and mental strain leads to a state where more bugs are produced than progress is made. I've had that experience myself, though not for a game. At some point, your mind is no longer in a state that allows you to create functional code in an acceptable time.

18 months of crunch time is a horror, and wishing them to do even more of that is a pretty mean thing to do. The fault lies entirely with the management that allowed the situation to escalate like this. With good project management, that incredible crunch time might not have happened, and maybe the facial animations would not have required an outsourcing either.

The actual devs are unsung heroes in my book.

What really burried the game was the totally failed Origin Access promotion. That opened the doors to youtube hell. Every wayward vid maker suddenly saw a chance to cash in by producing an Andromeda movie - way before serious reviewers had a chance to look at the game.

I daresay, this game wouldn't have been received as well as ME2 or 3 in any case. Too many story elements and squad interactions are missing to make it a great game, but it wouldn't have been subject to that level of ridicule either, if they had avoided early access.

yeah both games would have suffered from it MEA more so than Battlefront I think so it needed to get out earlier if it was going to have a good window. To be fair it probably only needed a couple moer months added t oit's development cycle to iron out the problems it had at launch so really should have had a May/June release date not a March one. It would stil have had it's window but at the same time it would have been a more polished game.

They could've moved Titanfall 2 to March and saved Andromeda for early summer or early fall, problem solved. The decision makers over at EA can't be very smart.

They would have avoided the bulk of it simply by not running their Origin Access promotion on the back of MEA. Before any serious reviewer got a chance to lay their hands on a copy. So they had to deal with the youtube crowd and the ensuing memes.

I don' t think so really it would have just taken them longer to get hold of it because it was just as bad in terms of shape on the 21st of March when the full game launched as it was on the 16th when the early aceess began. The real significant improvements only came in the last 2/3 patches

1.05 already went a long way towards erasing the worst of it. Point is, if the shitstorm was inevitable it would have broken lose two or three days after release. After intial sales and close to the first patch being released.