EA Q1 2018 Results (MEA 'significant contributor')

Nice to see that ME:A did well. Andromeda was -and still is- a flawed game for sure but it bombing would not benefit the ME series at all.

Me too.

But what I 'see', while often correct, isn't necessarily built up by strong evidence.

A DLC quickly announced then released in August would contribute to strong evidence.

And I have some doubts we'll see ME in 2020 but who knows. And I'm more prepared for 2 DLC instead of 3 but who knows.

In any case, I'm definitely not on the doom and gloom side of things. Not rah rah super positivity, but I see nothing that indicates MEA is some big failure in terms of Bioware's business. (And I never consider discounts and demos months after release as a real indicator.)


Maybe MP is dropping off more than expected. Maybe.
Maybe active gametime is lower than expected. Maybe.
Maybe sale decline is steeper than expected. Maybe.

But like, whatever man.

MEA not being a loss isn't a big surprise. I don't keep up with EA, but I'm guessing they only rarely have any flops that are in the red.

Wonder where suikoden went? In a hole maybe.

He did this in the past and now with Bioware/Mass Effect and i am sure he will do so again in the future. Unfortunately people tend to forget those kind of things.

Now if only Bioware announced DLC already, that would indeed be the last nail in his coffin.

Soooo are we going to get that DLC or nah?

The only mention I saw of really big numbers was for a full year to have five million or six million in sales and even then those might be projections and not expectations.  The six million copies projection also had a week one sales of three million estimation.  Even if they don't make those numbers its not the end of the world either, Resident Evil 7 missed its end of fiscal year projections by 500,000 copies of 4 million in sales.

As far as DLC goes who really knows outside of EA and BioWare, they normally have DLC at Day 1 and then about four months later, but if they are fighting fires they could also delay DLC such as with Mass Effect 3 when they released the extended cut they also delayed paid DLC until five (or was it six months).  Since BioWare did go back and edit game systems they might be running later with DLC for Andromeda as well.  Its all speculation of course.

Edit: Bad grammar, bad.

You just know he's going to write an article about this and how it doesn't prove him wrong. I can feel it.

But he never said it was a financial failure, or a flop, or a dead game - you're just venting your frustration, and that's understandable considering we've yet to hear anything about DLC, and until we do - it looks like Jason was right.

I...forgot. Dammit. My bad.