Parallels between Dead Space 3 and Mass Effect Andromeda

You completely misunderstand us if you think anybody wants the ME franchise dead.

We just want a good game.

I don't think people will ever see it that way. I see it happen everywhere on any game forum where criticism equates to "they want to kill the franchise". People just choose to ignore the fact that even your biggest "haters" are the biggest fans out there.

I don't remember anyone claiming MEA was supposed to be a one-off - have you got sources for those? (not saying you're lying or whatever, this is the first I've heard of it).

I'm just going to repost this here because I think it's interesting and, if true, could indicate that Mass Effect Andromeda did better than I had thought sales-wise.

I found this Reddit post collecting everything we know about Mass Effect: Andromeda's initial sales numbers if anyone's interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/6b8vw1/no_spoilers_andromeda_sales_data_thread/

TL;DR

According to this information, the financial data for Q4 seems to suggest MEA sold in the vicinity of 2.5 million units in the first week. That doesn't include 53$ million in sales recorded in Q4, but being counted in Q1 (The call specifies that these were related to "premium editions" of the game. Deluxe editions cost $70 and Super Deluxe cost $100, so dividing $53 million by 90$ price point and you get about 580,000). So it looks like MEA sold at or close to 3 million copies in the first week. That's more than Mass Effect 2 but a bit short of Mass Effect 3 (I doubt they were expecting it to beat Mass Effect 3), but that's only the first week. We don't know how sales have panned out since then.

While the critical receptions wasn't what they were hoping for, that's still quite successful, easily making back cost, so I don't see EA slapping this with the Dead Space 3 treatment. That being said, the reception might have EA rethinking their strategy.

it is not blind praise. it is stating what the game did good and  what the game did wrong compared ofcourse to the previous trilogy.
There are many who want mass effect dead, believe it or not.
Saying you did not enjoy andromeda much or not at all is constructive and acceptable.
Saying this game is crap, shitfest, cringy dialogue, laughable animations,no story, bad story, laughing stock, trash quality, trash, hot garbage etc is lies, misnformation and yeah a death wish for mass effect.

That simply isn't the case, though. I have seen plenty of perfectly reasonable and well argued criticisms of ME:A dismissed out of hand as 'haterzzz!!!'. A sensible discussion here is pretty much impossible.
But I find it amusing to try.

ιNobody said andromeda is perfect, we all have something to say. i focus on the good stuff. the stuff that make me smile, the reason why i play videogames to begin with.

Because some people feel betrayed, others let down, others feel as though their firstborn had been eaten.

Not saying all responses are healthy, or fun to read and interact with, but they are normal human response.

I don't want ME to be dead, and I think it is a more valuable franchise than DS, but I dunno.

Some people are very angry with EA, and saw this coming from the very moment BioWare was acquired. I made a post about this, then, but it would very difficult to find since it was OG BSN.

What I have seen, in steps, is the typical EA dismantling of a great company (Origin, from Lord Brittish Richard Garriot, was the first to get hung out to dry), and now the Enthusiasm is totally Annihilated.

This leaves us with a BioWare that is only a name on a company. The founders are gone, many have left, many have been shuffled, and all answer to new masters that do not have our or BioWare's best interest as top priority - their priority is to shareholders. Yay capitalism. (As long as asshat businessfolk continue maximizing rather than optimizing, this will continue... Very anti-consumer)

That BioWare doesn't get a pass anymore, and they have pinned themselves into a corner where they either make great games again, now, or they are dead to us.

If a company that I followed for 20 years is actually dying to me, I should just find something else to do with my life, right? Must be so easy. I hold out hope, but I am skeptical as hell now and just a touch bitter.

Yup. What we have is a bunch of people, acting like people, and then getting mad at each other for being people.

This is not exclusive to this forum

However, we have solved mysteries before; if we solve this one we will have proven ourselves as the Shepard of communities.

It is a tall order though.

Dude, look, the earth is flat. I was on a plane once and I saw it. I can't tell you why seasons work but that's not my job. You just need to accept it and stop believing the Babylonian Brotherhood's attempts to hoodwink you.