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

Lol

Considering you can speed run it in about 2.5 hours I'm inclined to believe you.


www.speedrun.com/masseffectandromeda

Just to clarify their statement: when they said "early in development" they meant like well before the first gameplay trailer "early", right? Not post-launch early? Cause somehow I find that hard to believe that this was all planned so "early on", because they could have saved a lot of headache (for them and the fanbase)later by just announcing that there won't be any dlc early on in promotion of the game. Not have this ambiguous six months of uncertainty from it's fanbase. Also, it seems rather convenient that they say it now if they were so sure they would have said before hand not after the fact and six months later; which all they were trying to do (from my perspective at least) really was a cash grab instead of being honest with the fanbase.

Maybe early on meant early in the actual game we got, the one that took 18 months to make. I wonder if they got to the point where they basically panicked and knew they had to hurry and put something together and rush it to market. They jettisoned all hope of DLC at that point when they worked all the partially functioning pieces into the mess we got in March. A fun mess, but ultimately a mess.

They just wanted a product to get out there as quick as possible, and in the state of panic, just didn't think DLC would be a big deal. This would be about the same time they took down the original BW forums, when they knew that this would not turn out well.

Oh, and fwiw, their PR sucks, whether they admit anything or sit it out. The real clincher is the 'you can read about it' after the tease for extra content at the game's end. Coulnd't they have patched that out?

You have my sympathies. Genuinely. 

As if it's any different than watching the news and thinking the same thing. Nice try though.

No wonder the only comic of theirs I read now is Renew Your Vows.  The Spider-Man version of MEHEM 

True, but thos is obviously EA's doing, not bioware.

Anthem will have to find a new audience. That's all there is to it. Some Bioware fans may celebrate the arrival of Anthem, but a larger part won't be interested, since it deviates further from the strengths of Bioware. They never were an online company.

I dunno. I think the fanbase overestimates how important Bioware is to EA. Mass Effect is a beloved franchise to some gamers and received very positive reviews (the trilogy anyway) and Bioware had an influence on other developers such as CDPR and Bethesda, but I bet the microtransactions of a single FIFA game reaps in more money than all Mass Effect games together. EA makes a shitload of money off their sports games.

If Bioware gets shut down as a result of bad marketing this is a loss to the fans but probably not so much a loss for EA. Bioware is one of their smaller devs even if AAA.

Maybe I'm being too cynical but I don't think Bioware is all that important to EA financially. EA has killed or ruined many devs and franchises and is still around because they have their cash cows, so they don't seem to have to care all that much about bad press.

How big is the loyal RPG fan base anyway? Bethesda hit a goldmine with Skyrim but that's one hell of an exception. RPGs never sell all that much and AAA RPGs are rare because they are expensive and high risk. It's not surprising at all EA is abandoning the nerd fanbase in favor for the casual online MP gamer.
So the question to me is: Does EA even want to keep Bioware's already fractured fanbase?