Just a theory on DLC and the current state of ME:A financing

I'm not disagreeing with you, it just felt like you were pointing out the obvious.

Micro transactions? Through what, multiplayer? I find that highly unlikely. Even if MEAMP were as successful as ME3MP, and I don't think it is judging by the MP part of the forum, it would have needed to pull in multi-million's of dollars in just four months, which means they would only now start working on DLC.

Not unless you want to.

...and I would have included it if it had any relevance to the point you initially made. I wasn't suggesting you had missed or denied that any improvements had been made, I was challenging your assertion that the presence of free trials means the game sold poorly. 

Summarising or partial quotes aren't exactly a new thing and assuming you're not senile, I don't really understand what the issue is.

Not surprised, tbh. CS is basically the opposite of a BioWare game. To each their own and all that jazz.

Not the way the OP thinks. Still, it isn't crazy for one part of a bundle to subsidize another. In a sense, SP is a marketing service for MP in a shooter though I don't think ME:A's budgets are structured that way.

Like I said upthread, my problem with the theory is that any MP microtransaction revenue was already baked into the plan, so it can't just show up,as magical DLC funding.

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There was a thread floating around here that had a link that posted something along the lines in how Andromeda sold well through April....i think it was like in the top 10 for that time period from March through April....somebody mentioned that they think it broke even, but i highly doubt that...the game cost 40 million to make right?......



I think i heard the game first week sales was close to 3 million?...( i know speculating!...   )...but i think most games don't make that profit until a few years after it's release. (or for the life time of the game...however that is measured). It gives dev's time to work on the next game while new gamer's slowly purchase the game here and there.



The issue for Andromeda (again speculating) becomes whether there was a huge dropoff in sales after the launch and after it received huge criticisms for it's animation and glitching issues. The free trial, as someone else mentioned could be seen as a way to reel back in disappointed gamers that initially received the game, so they can experience the game after the patches.



The game is much better now ( i always had issues with the story and characters...something that patches can't fix) but i still think DLC is coming down the pike....they are supporting this game with patches (which are NOT cheap BTW) so EA is still standing behind the franchise. I always stated that one mediorce ME game does not and should not spell the end for the franchise.

Oh, you got him. But yeah, hard to know without sales figures. We will know eventually, but I'm surprised EA hasn't talked about it like they usually do with good numbers. Still, for DLC, I think it has solid chances to happen, despite lots of evidence telling the contrary.