The general community feeling of the future game state

And we will *all* use the thing the company spent money on come Hell or high water, even if that thing is totally unsuitable for the work we are doing.

ALL HAIL REMEDY AND FROSTBITE!

I mean cmon though, MEA was the perfect shitstorm. Untested team, mismanaged development cycle, etc.

I can see the efficiencies eventually being realized in the next gen of frostbite titles, and frankly DAI was terrific in the areas MEA was lacking IMO. I can also see how that will build an advantage over other large publishers like Activision. As much as I'm disappointed by the results in MEA I actually think this plan will succeed. Also, they seem to have all hands on deck for the Star Wars stuff and have learned their lesson a little.

Companies, in general, don't learn lessons. They keep doing the same shit over and over until it hurts someones profit, then they fire almost everyone and start doing the same shit over again with only slight variations. If EA learned a lesson they would create the 'amputation' engine, which is of course the usual 'cure' for frostbite.

Agreed.  Since they own it.

Their mp track record using FB3 is a Harbinger of Doom for future releases.

Looks at Anthem.....

(Gratuitous references to non-FB titles intended)

I voted for all is lost. My biggest beef with the MP is the card system. It is even more poorly designed than many of the F2P games out there. The RNG and the reward you are getting aren't attractive at all. Other games had horrible RNG too, but at least when you do get the rewards, it feels satisfying. Not so much in MEAMP though. You unlock a new ultra rare character? 19 more cards to go to get the full potential. The worst is, unless you have so much money that you don't care about making a living. There's no way for any normal person out there to spend money to even enjoy MP. To cut the grinding time short to try different builds and weapons. Even pokemon go knows to sell premium raid pass if I want to do legendary raid more than once in a day in the hope of catching lugia and the likes. Niantic didn't just put RNG into, well you might get a premium pass or u might just get potions or pokeballs, it is all RNG. No, you actually spend money to get what you set out to buy. Bioware, if we are spending real money, we better be getting what we want. That's a lesson to learn

And as long as everyone continues to not look down at the lack of footing, we'll be fine.  Maybe.  Probably.  Nah.

Working on in house game engines isn't all it's cracked up to be. Why do you think Squaresoft dropped their in house Luminous Engine and went back to Unreal Engine 4 for Kingdom Heats 3? Because developing and maintaining an in house game engine is of course going to be eating into actual game development time.

There biggest f*** ups though have largely been how they released like 5000 cards in 1.09 over inflating the loot pool to the point were all incentive to play if your new is dead, and any incentive to purchase Andromeda Points is dead.

Honestly variants should have not existed, all weapons should have just gotten a third mod slot BY DEFAULT, and variants should have came in the form of a weapon mod that is universal (only adding 30 new cards instead of like 2300...) veteran ranks should have been tied to resetting character level or just through gaining experience not through cards. (That addition made all UR's characters useless for like 99% of the player base)

My biggest gripe however is how all the new weapon mods are locked behind MF's, which cannot be purchased and it would take like 8-10 months of saving them and getting the maximum possible per day to unlock them all, who thought that was a good idea??? Not only that out of all the mods added, only like 3-4 of them are worth a damn.

Aside from that I still believe we are better off now than we were at launch, diffidently beats playing/seeing nothing but Vanguards punch spamming everything or Vanquishers that's for sure.

I voted for the second option, as silly as it sounds. Bioware has to try and go back to basic really schizophrenic gameplay design features and wriggle them back to normal. Most likely, they won't do that. However, as this is hypothetical option poll, theoretically they can do it. There is no point is listing the issues again, it has been done hundreds of times since game launch to include multiple things. Myself, I would still prioritize unresponsive controls, "netcode", glitchy jetpacks, animation with interrupts/reloading, enemy design, gun design, some power design, and manifest progression. Wow, that is quite a lot.