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

Announcing that no more SP content would come out lead me to two questions:
1) Does Casey Hudson even want to make another ME game after the backlash of ME3's endings and now the reception of MEA? And he immediately came out with a statement how much he loves ME and that he would want to work on it again in the future.
2) Even if that is true, the second question is: can he talk EA into giving him the resources/funds he would need? Two days later an EA executive comes out and basically confirms that he will talk with Hudson about exactly that and is positive to greenlight another game.

So is that a confirmation of anything already brewing? Nope. Still the best we could hope for. Gives me some hope. All I need right now.

And there is no proof it is.

Bugs and nimations did not let Red dead redemption and skyrim from beeing sold like hot cakes though. My point is: double standards and hating Andromeda was too cool. People were laughing at peebes loyaloty on ign and when i played it i had a blast.

come on!
Me1 did that with the reapers and even me2 left that unanswered!
also ,Rachni? check!
Genophage data? check!
etc
Ofcourse some plot threads are to be resoluted in MeA2, (i hope!)
Still the quarian Ark screamed DLC from my ingame Pov hence iw as SO excited.

4/10.

I'm not sure this really works. A complex build system can make the game easier to play, depending on how obvious the system is to the player. Back on the old boards we had a thread from someone who had accidentally stumbled into a crit-focused Weapon Master build in NWN-HotU, which blows up game difficulty. The dev response -- we actually got those back then -- was that yes, it does, the ruleset made us do it, and you're just going to have to live with it. There's no way to keep that build under control without hosing other, weaker classes. Earlier TES game shave a similar problem if the player thinks about how leveling and scaling works and is willing to exploit it, plus a reverse problem if the player accidentally ends up in a class that levels from fast-increasing noncombat skills.

I hate your pessimism, but you're right.

EA abandoned Andromeda after a righteous crusade was performed by the last developers standing after all the garbage that went on during development. I also loathe saying that Schreier was right all summer long. It wasn't about delusions and unicorns. It was about using old history and the tight-lipped NDA environment that wouldn't deny the DLC. #SaveTheQuarians was dead from the start and they said nothing. They only alluded to more conversation later until the cow was milked dry per EA's expert analysis. I thought EA was cunning. Instead... they're just there to make up for their bloated salaries and exploit the talent they have. I'm cynical as f***, but I see what EA's reputation and... BioWare's as well... for what it is:

1. Don't Pre-Order for any platform. Not only are you GUARANTEED an unfinished product (see every title under EA, history is on my side. Remember that?) you will go blind looking for user-provided solutions in EA's AnswerHQ. (haha... a user submits a temporary fix. EA: Resolved!)

2. EA knows for every Uncle Cyan that won't purchase a game at launch, nine other customers are lined up with pre-orders. EA can lie hype stuff and get away with skirting BBB practices.

3. Season Passes don't guarantee more single-player content. It doesn't apply to Andromeda, but I'm still talking about EA. Six months is a good time to figure out if the price of admission is worth the time. It's not about the money EA... not for me. It's my time.

4. Word of mouth still matters. One of my smug friends of my pen-and-paper group messaged me to tell me that I was delusional for believing in BioWare when EA holds the slave-collar.

5. Word of mouth still matters. These forums prove it. Unofficial ones. EA... you're callousness is admirable. 

6. Old BioWare is dead and gone. Sure Flynn might come back so he can put his 20 in, but it's a shell of what it once was. Nostalgia be damned. I like the new BioWare, but I also love the Roman Catholic church (and that's a topic for a whole video.) so... there is admiration there, but I see the difference that I couldn't see unlike the growing malcontents that are getting fed up with the so-called AAA industry.

7. I still want to believe, but I'm too old to be patient. 

MajesticJazz, you drove me crazy all summer long. I forgive you. I also acknowledge that you called it. I wanted to be right because I believed I was standing on the high, moral ground. Nope. I was stuck in optimism valley with all the unicorns, faeries and pixies. Stay salty, but don't be so damn smug. Also, about Schreier... I'm buying the book. He called it. I'm going to get a copy for a few folks here as well. Kotaku, unlike BioWare, turned its reputation around with a few wins this summer. Unbelievable. I'm not upset about apologizing because I'm okay with admitting I'm wrong. What is not okay that I actually backed EA believing history was on my side. BioWare can't disappoint me anymore. That's a horrible thing in my opinion.

To be fair, some people did.

The confusion being deliberately sown is to use the term "fans" to describe them, as it allows the speaker to homogenize all dissenting opinion into a single convenient "other" to blame.

You could replace the labels pretty easily and the phenomenon applies to most world views entrenched in confirmation bias.

The loudest voices in any argument or discussion are going to be the angriest ones. It is easy to paint the entire discussion in the extreme (and generally incorrect) positions of these loudest and angriest voices. It's also especially convenient for "refuting without refuting."

"It's not BioWare's fault the game was released early, it's the fans' fault for anticipating the game." "It's not BioWare's fault the game has issues, it's the fanbase's fault for criticizing those issues." My favourite: "It's the critics/fans' fault that there will be no DLC."

Or, to be fair and offer opposing examples...

"Releasing the game unfinished is fraud." "Fixing exploits before bugs is proof that BioWare hates us." "BioWare didn't test their game."

And even though most of the points will fall in between the extreme examples, the loudest and angriest comments carry the furthest, and will provoke the most angry reactions (thus perpetuating the cycle.)

Some people did want ME:A to fail. If I had to guess, they were mostly represented by two groups: Some people especially angry over ME 3's ending or change in setting/story to accommodate Andromeda, and a group of people convinced there is a hive political mind at BioWare out to get "gamers." I doubt there were much more than a few hundred of them, but they were more than obsessive enough to populate just about any forum about BioWare with at least a few members ready to go off at the slightest opportunity/provocation.

But they are not to blame for whether or not there was additional content.



Guddammit I start out with such simple things to say and then just drone on and on... sorry. I will go have more coffee.

I dunno. ME:A feels like standard Bio to me. It's got some bad writing and questionable mechanics, sure, but not as much as the NWN OC.

Don't you see how annoying that is? I play games, I'm not into reading some crappy novel or comic to get my games worth. If that turns out to be the new policy with Bioware games, they shouldn't act all surprised and butthurt, if people don't appreciate where that leads. I expect to get a finished game and not something to be continued in our comics.

And the Garsson murder? Do you really think more than a hand full of people still give a shit in 5 to ten years, if it happens at all?