If ME:A had gotten quality Quarian Ark DLC would you have forgiven EA/Bioware for the botched launch

In one or two DLC's BioWare would have told the stories of Quarian an drell Arks, improved the world and also tell more about the Benefactor and Jien Garson's case. That would have helped the developers to focus on the big deal, Jaardan, in an future installment. That would have been my plan. That would have made the players to come back to Andromeda after the starting mess (including me). But this idea never crossed the Biowares and EA's superiors minds and it makes me deeply sad. I have never been so upset of a game this much, not even after the original ending in ME3, which was also fixed a bit. In finnish we have a saying, throw a towel in a ring (like a boxing ring or arena). That means to give up completely, and it worries me, because this is not the Bioware I used to know.

Why? One has nothing to do with the other. Releasing DLC for Andromeda would've meant EA thought it was a game worth supporting. Clearly, that's not the case, at least not anymore.

No, because I don't give a shit about "Quarian Ark" DLC. In fact, I find the entire concept emblematic of the major problems with Andromeda. The game is too backwards looking. However, if you simply mean a "quality piece of DLC content," well then that's a different story. I don't know if I could forgive the base game of Andromeda but a quality piece of DLC would have given me some confidence in the ability and talent of the Montreal studio and hope for the future of the franchise.

I'm letting it slide anyway because it is just a game.

Very true.

The animations and other bugs never bugged me in the first place. Most games have issues at launch.

Reads thread. Usual suspects actually claim launch wasn't botched.

It gets tiresome... Denial overriding common knowledge just leaves stupidity as the excuse.

No.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

Thing is, I found far more bugs and glitchy animations and broken quests and crashes and freezes and just frankly weird stuff going wrong in every single Bethesda game I've played. I not too long ago played roughly 4 hours of Fallout 4 with everyone holding and shooting invisible guns! Completely immersion breaking and so shoddy but also quite funny! I had companions randomly die, or glitch through walls/the floor. Quests break forcing me to reload a previous save and lose hours of progress. Oblivion was terrible for it. So was Skyrim. A million times worse than anything in Andromeda, and yet - the fans loved and supported the Elder Scrolls and Fallout games despite the bugs! My point is, Andromeda really was not a bad game, and in no way deserved the harsh criticism it got. Other games regularly release in similar states with regards to bugs and animation issues, and didn't get trashed, the only difference is the vicious fan base Bioware have.

I work in video game retail and I have personally heard so many gamers admit they intended to buy it but then didn't touch Andromeda because they heard it was shit. They can tell you all about YouTube videos slating the game, and quote "my face is tired", but 99% of them genuinely never even played it or gave it a chance, purely because of negativity put out by fans, and that IS solely on our heads for choosing to criticise and blame and complain rather than support. There was an awful lot of fantastic game there to enjoy, and many people did, myself included. Sadly the people criticising were the loudest

You honestly think Andromeda lacked beautiful environments? I truly don't see that at all. I think it's beautiful environments were one aspect they really nailed. Skyrim was beautiful and desolate and stunning (completed the original release and the remaster) but the entirety of it was snow, snow and more snow, the lack of variety for me made it the lesser game environment wise to Oblivion. Maybe even Morrowind. Andromeda had lovely varied planets and weather - snowstorms and ice lakes, colourful dense jungle, volcanic rock mountains with sulfurous lakes, the views from Aya etc. Not to mention the stunning starscapes you see while traversing the galaxy map, with planet rings and comet clusters and black holes and moons etc all spectacular. I genuinely loved how Andromeda looked!