Were we Too harsh on Mass Effect Andreomda???

Yeah I try not to add to it. If I had a nickel for every time I stick my foot in my mouth. 😂

The average gamer plays a single player game through once and then forgets about it. Evidence of this is how frequently SP-centric games are sold back to retailers by consumers as well as basic premises of player retention.

CS:GO has an average of around half a million players playing at any given time. I highly doubt any SP game can retain anywhere near those numbers let alone for as long as CG:GO has.

I'm not saying SP-focused games have zero player retention, but they can never muster the numbers of MP-focused games. My point with that argument is that suikoden's premises that their is no DLC for ME:A yet because of player retention is... misplaced.

Also a very valid point. More ammo as to why player retention wouldn't play a part in DLC decisions for an SP-centric game.

I think it's because Mass Effect is a HUGELY popular franchise that, I think, a lot of people hold very close to their hearts, I mean love the universe more than any other science fiction. That's the reason that I could think of, it would explain why a lot of people were PISSED about ME3's ending and even after 5 years, people are still pissed about it, it would also explain why so many people were pissed/disappointed by ME:A. Granted I liked ME:A, I thought it was good, but I felt the game had a lot of problems, some minor, other times very major ones, like SAM playing too big of a role, reliance on nostalgia instead of trying to take risks with the story and universe, asari clones, cringey dialogue (This gets better over time), etc. I mean I liked the characters, but not everyone does, but that is a purely subjective issue at this point.
Granted: I can understand a bit of why people were disappointed, but that doesn't give some of them the right to send rape/death threats to developers. (Not saying you were doing this)

Doesn't sound like good value to me either, but nevertheless, some people do seem to 'consume' their games poorly...

Well, it's better to quit if you don't like the game. Or, sometimes, partial game is better than a full one. Games are awfully long nowadays, so you might have fun for a bit, than quit. The multiple replays still take a very specific category of gamers. TBH, it's easier for me to relate to  someone who plays 40 or so hours and doesn't finish, than someone who does more that two replays of a game or does a completionist run that is 50+ hours long. I'd never be able to stick around for 100 hours w/o seeing the ending like people do & enjoy it. I just don't have this kind of patience, and I would lose the beginning of the game & just stop caring by hour 40. I'd just want it to end already & stop piling up the new obstacles. A couple of months of the same story/setting/character is more than enough. I think, if I ever wanted to play one of the really long games, I'd just take it one day at a time, and I go for as long as I enjoy it, and drop it if I stopped caring, no problems, no regrets. I actually regret finishing the Inquisition, I think I would have enjoyed it more, if I ended up the game with the arrival to Skyhold. A sampling of the maps, and a few cool quests in the beginning would have actually be better than after Skyhold portion.

Yes, that's pretty much what I would expect to happen to me. I am going to buy the new AC without intending to finish it, b/c of the setting. And I'd do the same for FO4 too if I could play it. If the gaming developers won't make short, consise games, well, I'll just won't finish them, I suppose. Not really a bad compromise. Can't imagine a game that tells 100 hours of a story & doesn't get boring. It would be like watching forty movies, lol

Probably, but I cannot play it, because I get sick, and then I started reading about the ruleset, and there are some powersuits you need to build and use or something like that in addition to normal equipment, and stuff to collect, and I got scared off by all that. Just feel too exhausted right now to learn another game with a complex ruleset. Maybe later on, particularly if Anthem is no good. I got a bunch of tips on how to edit the game files to maybe stop the motion sickness, so maybe I can play it. I was not tempted to try it yet.

overall, I don't think it's a bad idea to take a chance on a game you might not end up liking, as long as you accept that there is that possibility, and just drop it if it's not your thing.

Was that a squirrel powered radio?