Will EA and Bioware actually use MEA as a learning lesson?

I blame management for the lion's share of problems.  Just think about how MEA would have turned out if the majority of development time wasn't squandered.  We could have had a complete masterpiece.  

A typical day at the office for EA is a bunch of dudes in a board room dipping their balls in cocaine.  

The people on the Citadel were too stupid to recognize a geth unit wandering the wards. Doubtful that a mobility assistance mech would fare any worse. 

I liked him too, after some getting used to. The only problem I had with him was where the hell did you come from? I'm not into their comics, so I didn't know the first thing about him. Still don't. To this day I don't know how he got to know Shepard.

Yeah I liked him. That "boxing match was hilarious as was the reaction when it was shown in a trailer with femshep. "He hit a girl" was spouted many times.

I mean that was a clear case of suspension of disbelief coming from the writers

I don't think so but I hope they do learn from their screw-ups. It would be stupid of them not to learn from their mistakes, and you would think that they would do better and improve from their mistakes, but unfortunately they refuse to and NOT listening to fans and ignoring criticism is what got them in trouble in the first place.

Both far better characters than any in Andromeda for sure. James was better than both Liam and Jacob. Kaidan was always the ''normal guy'' with barely any development but i'd even take his character in ME3 over Liam's nonsensical drivel. Words cannot even describe how bad the companions were in Andromeda and how disapointed I was with them. So bad that even a small studio with a small budget and a terribly polished game was able to make more likable companions than Andromeda. Amelia Reach and Andrew from The Technomancer were x10 better than Liam or......damn I forgot the biotic chicks name lol. Haven't thought of Andromeda for a while.

And no anyone saying Andromeda is better than ME1 needs to take the Andromeda goggles off. The only thing it has over the original is combat. Everything else it trails far behind. The villain sucks, the companions suck even more. There is not a single exchange of dialogue in the game that even begins to compare with that of conversations with Harbinger or Saren. The ability to customize companions, gone completely. Still couldn't manage to outdo the original citadel after all these years. What was the plot exactly? Tali alone in ME1 has more development than the entirety of the cast in Andromeda. Yeah sure, there were lots of reused assets in the mako missions. And? Andromeda literally gave us multiple empty locations with just a slight alteration in terrain but overall same damn outcome. They did say they wanted to recapture the magic of ME1 and congratulations to them, they recreated the Mako missions and changed....very little lol.

Just how did Tali develop at all during ME1?... You get precisely one conversation with her on the Normandy telling you about her dad.  The rest is a Quarian culture infodump completely devoid of any character development.  Then you get a short conversation telling you she wants the geth data and final conversation thanking you for bringing her along.  That, FYI, is NOT character development.  It's similar with Wrex (althrough he does have some reaction to acquiring his family's armor and to the genophage cure on Virmire that might be considered some minor character development).  It's similar with Garrus, who has a first conversation complaining to you about his dad and C-Sec rules... largely an info-dump on C-Sec, a second that just tells you about Dr. Saleon, and a third thanking you (which is where his character development ends).

Anyone who say ME1 is so great for character development really needs to take their blinders off.  There is very little character development that goes on during that game... simply because there are very few conversations in the game that are not just info-dumps.  For the characters that do make into ME2... that is where their character development takes place.  When comparing just ME:A to just ME1... ME:A has more character development for any of the squad than ME1 does for any of the squad... including the two main squad mates Ashley and Kaidan (one of which dies and ceases character development).

For example... Drack changes his whole perspective on his aging process, reshapes his relationship with his grand-daughter Kesh to include a grandson-in-law and later - great-grandchildren.  Jaal adapts to living within an alien culture and reassess his position in the resistance and reshapes the whole foundation of his "religious" beliefs in the process.  Kallo reassess his whole outlook on adapting the Tempest to its new environment and learns to work with a co-worker who operates in a manner very different from his own.  Vetra reshapes her whole relationship with her sister... becoming less of a "mother" figure in the process, giving Sid more freedom and finding more freedom for herself as well.  You can also shape that relationship a little differently by selecting different options and/or by just not doing her LM.  There are lots of place where ME:A undeniably has more character development going on than ME1.

You really want Cora and Liam to give you an info dump about human culture on Earth?  Your statement was precisely about character development and now you're backtracking talking about the relative "interest" of info dumps.  What interests you vs. I is merely a difference of opinion.

You also stated that the comparative character development of Tali in ME1 was equal to ALL the character development in ME:A combined (not just Liam and Cora) and now you're effectively backtracking as well.  I countered your claim... there is more character development in MEA than Tali has in ME1... That is undeniable and you're the one who needs to take the blinders off and stop introducing false strawmen just to support your personal dislike for ME:A.  You can dislike ME:A, I don't care whether you do or don't.  What you're claiming to support/justify that is blatantly false. Fin.

So now companions is restricted to squad mates... and no, I did not have to bring in Kallo to disprove your statement regarding Tali's character development vs. every companion in ME:A combined since Drack alone exceeds her character development in ME1.  Tali had 0 character development in ME1.  Her entire suite of dialogue amounts to an encyclopedia of quarian culture... any of which is easily replaced by a codex entry.  Her character in no way changes during the entire ME1 game.  Her character development occurs in ME2.  Liara's character development also occurs in ME2... and it's even only in a DLC.  ME:A is only the first game.  It has more character development than ME1 and much more potential for further development in future games... without totally upheaving and throwing away their old character (as what was really done with Liara in ME2... and that, my friend, was a very common BSN complaint about the writing of Liara... so it's not just me who has said that.)