People need to stop blaming fans for this mess

I will never blame the fans for this 'mess'. If you have an opinion where you just don't like the game, you just don't like the game. However, it is interesting how some games are considered 'the best game of all time', or game after game, have many of the same problems, or god forbid worse problems, and are considered far better games then Andromeda.

Right. That's real data, and it's free.

And that's a good reason for the game being what it is?  Plus BioWare kinda did shoot themselves in the foot a with his one. Even before the memes popped up. 

I'm pretty sure if the game did better (by EA/BioWare standards - since the game apparently sold well if not decently) they would've said SP DLC was coming. If it wasn't the plan since day one they would've announced that ages ago. So was the fan reaction exaggerated? A bit but I can't say many of them weren't justified. Giving this game's 5 year development history and the fact they want to push Anthem into the spotlight just feels kinda wrong.  

There were major problems with the Montreal development of this game. They had to use resources from both Edmonton and Austin to even get this game out as well as use a 6 month extension from EA. This would have impacted their other projects. I'm guessing they couldn't afford to take more resources from their other games to produce dlc. It sounds like MEA was a clusterf**k to produce which is why BioMontreal is no more. It's less Mass Effect was sacrificed for DA and Anthem, more the other way round. Anthem had to be delayed and the new DA hasn't been announced yet despite the last game coming out in 2014.

Of course they know. They just don't care. A game can get rave reviews but if nobody is playing it a few months down the line then no DLC. It's that simple. Our opinions are worthless. They have the data and make a decision based on that. I assume the data told them not enough people were still playing to justify DLC. No amount of youtube crap and forum discussions will ever change that.

Nope.

EAware ended up making a mediocre game. I still play it and find it enjoyable. There are elements that definitely deserve all the criticism they get. Hell, I've done share of criticizing about them, but the actual game vs. the worst of the neckbeard baby rage over things that ultimately barely matter like "voice acting sux hurdurlolol mad grrr!" and the same histrionics over facial animations justifying death threats because one facial animator over-embellished her actual role on the game, that kind of BS is where fandoms shouldn't get a free pass. 

I've played genuinely shitty games that truly failed on *all* levels for the consensus as I'm sure anyone reading this post has. The most rational critiques--even ones I disagree with--show there was some small bit of upside here. But in the end we get "meme hurdur" and "go back to MW ryder sucks lolollol"

In a way, I almost wish Bioware never would have changed the shitty ending to ME:3. The director's cut ending is what we should have had to begin with and the fact it wasn't does rest squarely on EA's shoulders, just as the broken release and some other crap in ME:A, but the neckbeard social cripple crowd feels empowered to act like slugs and get what they want. It's snowballing and I wouldn't be surprised to see Anthem take a lot of major undeserved hits from unethical game critics (you know, all of them) and the emotionally stunted crybaby crowd.

Even as someone who didn't enjoy the game a whole bunch, I'm of the opinion that the reaction to the launch of Andromeda was somewhat overblown. That said, Bioware really did waste an inordinate amount of development time in making a game that didn't present well at launch. That's on them. Such a shame.

Gamer culture is pathetic.

Quoting because this needs to be emphasized. It is so true.