EA Boss Says Mass Effect: Andromeda Got Too Much Criticism, Franchise Could Return

Exactly these idiots hate Mass Effect because it is the "cool" thing to do. Man is society pathetic.

Wrong, It was doomed to fail because of all the bugs at launch, crap animations, poor story, poor characters and poorly written dialogue. 

That means there are more critics than praisers out there. That or the critics are much more powerful than the praisers. Those two or EA cares more about the critics than the praisers. The previous three or... you get the point.

that would be my minimum requirement as well.

Also reading this, it really sounds like the game didn't sell well at all.

"I usually don't do this, but this is one of those places where I feel like the game got criticised a little bit more than it deserved," Soderlund told GameReactor. "I think the game is actually a great game. Yes, we have to acknowledge the fact that there were some things that maybe we could have done better, absolutely, but as a whole, if you go in and you buy the game today with everything that's in it today, I believe that that's a game worth buying, personally."

No way you say the bolded if the game actually sold well. He probably should have said worth playing.  I'm shocked the man was this candid honestly.

That statement doesn't sound like they're going to continue the current story though.  It sounds more like we're starting from scratch, or going DA style with a new cast.

Hurr durr

It's just like I've said here and/or other places.  It sounds like ME:A stopped selling after the first week.   Other ME games had a steady stream of income.  This?  This had nothing after the first week. 

Sure, it made a profit, but one of those things that EA was banking on was good word of mouth.   All that this game had was bad word of mouth.   And, I believe, reasonably so.  You saw this when after three months, the game dropped to half price.  You saw this after about another month or two as the pictures from Goodwill came in and the boxes were marked with Target labels.  People here can scream all they want to about how the haters of this game because they wanted to stick it to the man!  When they should know that's not true.  But fuck it.  It feels good to have someone to pin all of your heart's digressions onto, doesn't it?

The criticism was harsh, but for EA and Bioware to listen to those damn haters and actually decide based on that to suspend the production is just a big FU to fans. Other games that were heavily criticized got DLC, DESTINY and NO MAN SKY to name a few.

The claim that BioWare haters were able to kill Andromeda is absurd. I've seen more rotten vitriol towards Blizzard in the Warcraft forums. People love to hate Blizz. Bethesda, Bungie, Capcom... people criticize them harshly. They still kept pumping out titles people crapped on.

BW is on of the few video game companies loved by its fans/customers. Them and Nintendo. Dragon Age 2 was also harshly criticized and there's a 4th game coming. It's ridiculous to claim that ME:A was killed by haters when games that were attacked more viciously survived.

Or they just found it good.

I agree with the assumption that the game likely fell well short of their sales goals. It got thrashed out of the gate; so sales likely plummeted very quickly. I also agree with his sentiment. I think you're over analyzing his words. Of course the game underperformed; but his choice of "buy" over "play" is meaningless, in this context.