Is the BioWare/Mass Effect fanbase really filled with triggered snowflakes?

It seems that the real trouble with Andromeda was in the No Man's Sky generated world thing. At what point did it sink in that this was not working? Why was leadership so crappy they allowed the thing to flounder for 3 years in this bullshit zone without doing anything about it? That's the true back breaker here, and I'm guessing based on what I've picked up here and trawling through the internet news outlets etc. that they tried to piece together the game we got out of the fragments of what was left after they took out randomly generated worlds.

It is a mess, fun as the game can be. Maybe the real reason there isn't DLC, is that when they planned this, it would be so huge anyway with all the random generated planets, DLC was no longer necessary. But by the time they trimmed it down to 5 or 6 worlds, the lack of DLC is really keenly felt here. The huge house of cards made up of fragments of working alphas is probably why they don't want to introduce any more variables and have yet more broken game on their hands.

It seems there was little to no leadership for the first 3 years, and this is why the game was such a disaster at launch. Whoever was at the helm then is partially at fault. It's all our loss.

I've accused people of being snowflakes here in March when I was super spazzing out about the broken launch. 

Then self-awareness hit thanks to Faceman and Colfoley. 

I... WAS... THE... SNOWFLAKE.

Then I stopped. Got smarter and listened. Listened. Not make up my mind and ignore people. Listened. I learned... a lot.

I enjoyed Andromeda, but I love these forums. 

So, no... not snowflakes. Avid fans. Junkies like myself that know the good stuff from the weaker stuff. No snowflakes here. A lot of disappointed fans though... 

 

While there's a part of me that agrees with you, Zaud, the other part that realizes that people who did have a problem should voice it. Maybe they'll get what they want, maybe they won't. However, if it's about excluding characters or storylines based on some internal prejudice, well, no. I'm not on board with that.

Inquisition hate wasn't a big thing until TW3 made it look weak.

And here's 11 reasons why people hate EA (it's because they buy studios and destroy them - a la Bioware).

www.google.ca/amp/kotaku.com/an-updated-list-of-studios-ea-has-bought-and-then-shut-1689498614/amp

Yes to this whole post. The lack of DLC is def keenly felt. The game was very "lean." Many games that didn't need DLC (like TW3) got them, and that feels like a nice little bonus, but with this it feels like a gaping hole in the game.

Oh well. I don't care much about Andromeda in the end, but I do care about Mass Effect and BioWare and their longterm survival in a changing market. 

Thank you for pointing out the exact reason I have no interest in MP.  That bullshit pervades MP (or at least it did in the past when I tried it) and I'm not interested.  Hence, when MP becomes a BioWare focus I start losing interest.  Which sucks since I played all the old BioWare games like KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate.

Visit the Andromeda and 3MP subs, I think you'll find quite the opposite.

Like with most things in life, it's a bit of both. On one hand there are plenty of sad people who are happy(?) to just hate on something out of spite or because it's the cool thing to do - see: YouTube, metacritic. Bioware definitely attracts more than its fair share of these fans-but-not-really-fans. Fortunately there are relatively few of them on this forum. Most of the people here who dislike MEA are genuine fans of past BW games who are disappointed with the quality and/or direction of the game.

OTOH, BW shot themselves in the foot by moving away from the core of their most loved games: engaging characters and stories. I don't hate these aspects of Andromeda the way some do, but they definitely lacked the depth of past releases and it's clear that they took a backseat to combat and open world design during development. I suspect that this change, having gradually crept into BW games over the last 7 years or so before coming to a head with MEA, has everything to do with becoming part of the EAmpire.

I have no doubt that BW's fan base would have been far more forgiving of glitches and poor animations if they could see that real passion had gone into the creation of MEA's world and stories.

Also, proc gen planets... WTF were they thinking?!?

The fanbase is clearly not a bunch of SJW snowflakes. The current devs on the other hand...not so sure. I've no doubt the issues Bioware tackled in their early years would be avoided now.

Pfft calling someone a snowflake has become to main stream and popular. Next time I insult someone I am going to be a rebel on not call them a snowflake. I am going to live on the edge.