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

They closed the forums problaby because they knew their product was subpar and would be heavily criticized.

Twitter's only good for circlejerking, which I assume is what Bioware wants rather than actual detailed feedback. It's been a very long time since I've seen Bioware actually eagerly embrace feedback from the fans, their recent past is filled with them only reluctantly doing so.

Whenever I hear or read the phrase "this game is shit". I automatically dismiss any so called "opinions" that person has. If they can't express it more maturely than that they don't deserve to be heard.

The game is shit.

Hurr durr hurr durr

So, basically you're admitting that all this internet bitching people are doing lately isn't having any sort of positive effect with any of the developers in the industry because all evidence points to the products they are producing getting steadily worse.  If all this internet kerfuffle was working... things would be improving rather than getting worse and worse... Therefore, I rest my case.  The "triggered snowflakes" should change their tactics simply because they're proven to be ineffective... even counter productive.

Yes you are

The over the the top negativity and tantrum like mentality in the gaming community has always been a problem, it's a shame because it's does take attention away from the rational discussions that do go on. Fortunately the gaming devs are used to this and are capable of filtering it out to get to proper feedback...........it's still a shame though, as it's beyond annoying and quite frankly embarrassing as a gamer.

I found MEA decidedly average. I'm one of those ME fans who don't like the new open world (of sorts) format. The whole exploration and busy works seems more like a chore then enjoyment, but that's a "Me" thing rather then the game format being "Bad". I think the issue is nowadays allot of gamers believe if something doesn't coincide with their preference it's bad, and if someone disagree's then they're wrong, and them shouting at game dev's over the internet is them giving devs feedback as a customer. All that results is a bunch of noise that's impossible at times to wade through.

Personally I hope Bioware continue doing what they're doing. I've loved playing all their games and MEA was the only one that fell short for me. I just hope we don't have to wait another decade for a ME game.

No

wow... i thought the bar for actual discussion was set a bit higher than this. Must have come from the swtor forums...

People wanted open worlds which means more focus is being put on those areas and designing quest elements for those areas, so less time to develop characters unless you think people can easily handle everything you want.  The character creator was at the very least no more limited then the prior games.  People wanted the Paragon/Renegade system to go away because they felt that Shepard was bipoloar and wanted it to be improved, just because you don't like the implementation doesn't mean it wasn't done because people wanted it.

Funny Mass Effect 2 was a mess at launch too, I remember the wall clipping bugs that still exist to this day and the spot on the Normandy that even existed into Mass Effect 3 were you would get stuck.  Bugs are a major problem with open world games take a look at any of them and you will see massive bug lists, but I guess BioWare isn't allowed to have problems in their games like any other developer.

Edit to add: The procedural generated planets were a fan request as well, they were going to be part of a system for the UNC planets only along side the planets we got in the final game which is what people were asking for they wanted minor planets with a couple of quests introduced back into the games and raised issues that it wasn't in Mass Effect 2 or 3.