EA /Bioware basically told us all to f*ck off

Perhaps, but as they say, it doesn't take a mechanic to recognize a shitty car.

Perhaps, as they say, you should try it for yourself and see instead of relying on the opinions of others.

Don't worry, I have. I forced myself to play through the game twice in an attempt to find something I liked about the story or setting, and I came up empty.

Here a link to one of the first posts naming Lost Ark as a novel title on this site from back in October 2016: bsn.boards.net/post/100186/thread

In that post you find this picture with the working titles:

I think Anthem is a gonna have a real rough time selling now that Bioware has lost the trust of so many of its fans. The ME3 ending was bad enough but after cocking up an entire game and needing 5 months to fix it then to tell fans they're canning the whole project, that's like digging your own grave. How can we expect anything different with future titles from them?

wait for a trial to come up. never heard of free play days or anything like that? but why not just watch pewdiepie play and let others think for you.

Well, pewdiepie can't give me advice on anything. I make my selection of whom I'm prepared to listen to based on my own tastes.

I guess most here did play it.

Managed 40hrs. Found out I couldn't care less about the characters or story and sold it. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't anything special either. Just bland. Then I tried DA:I (which apparently I should hate if I don't like Andromeda) and it's now my favourite DA game. Very similar in structure (quests and various areas to unlock) but light years apart in terms of story, characters and dialogue.
It's like they read about DA:I and tried to copy it but never actually played it.

You, like me, are a millennial, but barely. 

And I had exactly the opposite experience, as my DAI experience ranged from bored out of my mind to enraged with game's direction to the point of swearing off the franchise, while Andromeda was love, love, love.

I played both games back to back for the first time.
In both cases I loved the preceding titles to bits and also just freshly played it for the first/second time - I spent late 2016 early 2017 catching up on ME/DA

They are not light years away. It simply depends on which one appeals to you personally. I am still suppressing impulses to write rambling posts about Inquisition, but it boils down to the simple fact that I did not like its story and characters.

i accept that it could be a game that tons of people love, but I hate to the point of screaming, and that I don't like it doesn't mean it's "bad writing". If anything, character characterization is more nuanced in Andromeda, the chars being more real and conflicted for me, while Inquisition reuses the same cliched fantasy tropes without an ounce of "real" behind it to the point of reusing the weirdo speech pattern on Cole and Sera to make character more distinct from the era before voicing set characters apart. And even then, i have troubles recognizing during banters which character speaks in Inquisition they are all so generic and boring.

DAI is a decent, though very flawed game.

The thing is, MEA took all the facets of DAI I didn't like and went "Hold my beer"