This is why there's no DLC

Has never stopped me. Hi I'm Glenn Ortman, and I say whatever the fuck I want to on the internet because I say whatever the fuck I want to in real life.

Some of you are just gigantic wimps.

OMG, Net Promoter Scores, if I never hear this term again.

They hang all over these things at my company, every road map meeting we're spending a chunk of time going over these things. Account executives get bonuses based of what percentage of their clients they get to return these.

However, at the end of the day they don't determine whether or not we create or don't create modules for certain products, or whether we continue supporting certain versions. If something isn't selling you don't need a survey to tell you to cut your loses and move on or take your winning and get up from the table. If EA killed DLC for Andromeda it's because the market wasn't there to make if profitable.

There may yet be discussion here worth having. But if people don't chill and push the line into personal attacks or worse, it'll be the lock. Everyone breathe, and come at the topic rationally.

Was DA2 really received that badly? I recall there being enough hate to be wary, but there was an avid fan following for its various characters and some rather amusing [positive] memes. Arishok no kicks the shit out of Sten no. Some of the biggest fan favorites tend to be out of 2's cast. 

Looking back, if there was one Bio game I'd love to stuff with fresh assets (insert Isabela remark), it'd definitely be DA2. 

In a way it is. A development cycle of one year and quite probably less budget and lower expectations. How that translates into DLCs being produced as opposed to not being produced is anyone's guess.

From an economic standpoint, MEA and DA2 seem to be very different products.

I'll echo that the magnitude of the criticism towards DA2 was nowhere near as bad as MEA, and rightfully so. The game was a step in the wrong direction and has some problems like repeat maps etc. but was nowhere near as bad of a game through and through like MEA was.

I bought DA2 way late when it was on sale for $5. I quite enjoyed it, although it definitely wasn't a proper sequel to origins and I probably would have been more upset if I was expecting that. But the point is, it's just nowhere near as bad as MEA was.

Mind you, that quality and reception gap made me believe that MEA would get little to no support despite DA2 getting dlc. Turned out right.

I'm glad I didn't. 10 hours was too much for a 4/10 game.

I agree and this is what I was trying to preach back in May, June, and July. But all the Jason S/Kotaku deniers still insited on pointing to DA2 as proof that a game with bad reception could still get DLC.

Now all of a sudden those same people are now wanting to claim that in fact, using DA2 isnt a fair example/comparison
Funny how the argument changes in your to fit a narrative.

Says one guy trying to prove himself the most...

Someone else's opinion on an online forum shouldn't deny you from enjoying something. That's just sad.

Sorry, friend, I'm fresh out of Kit Kat Bars.  Also, I'm not sure where in my profile it says "Speaker for all deniers", so I don't give a f*** what other people said about DA2.  What I'm saying, and what is the truth, is the games are different, came out at different times, and suffered different pitfalls.  

You can use something as an example, but it doesn't mean that the two are the same or that every time something occurs as it does in the example that the result will be the same.  Using a game where there was negative backlash but still got DLC as an example is fine.  It's saying in this situation a certain outcome still occurred, so the same outcome is possible.  However, then saying that "Well why did this game not get DLC when a comparable game did not?" gets the answer that the two games, while being comparable, are not the same.  

So for MEA, you don't know what might have made it different than DA2 in terms of getting DLC.  You don't know if there were different contractual obligations.  You don't know if for DA2 DLC was already in development at launch, while it wasn't with MEA.  You don't know if the people working on MEA were needed to finish up other EA/Bioware projects, but that wasn't the case for DA2.  Basically, "You know nothing, Jon Snow."

In the future, don't mistake a comparison for equivalence.