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

Skyrim is probably less than 1/4 covered with snow, under 1/6 if you discount  the mountain tops with a wide variety of biomes, deciduous forests in the South East near riften, Evergreen forests near Falkreath, scrub tundra around Whiterun, vast swamplands round Morthal and the rugged valleys of the reach near Markarth.. really too many to list.   The only snowy towns are Windhelm, Winterhold and Dawnstar (which has a light dusting and some ice). 

Probably, yes. I'm also a lot less invested in Mass Effect, so it didn't bother me quite as much as it might have were it Dragon Age.

That's like saying you bought a galaxy note 7 that didn't explode.

I'm really tired of hearing this narrative that "Andromeda was hampered by EA to chase after Destiny money," when literally everything points to the opposite. BioWare Montreal were given FIVE WHOLE YEARS to develop Mass Effect: Andromeda and, in the end, needed the help and support of EVERY BioWare studio in order to get the game to ship. This is something that Aaryn Flynn specifically stated was NOT the original plan when it came to development of Andromeda. FFS they had to take Mac Walters off of working on Anthem to put him in charge of Andromeda just to get the game to ship. I've already detailed all of this in my video documenting the rise and fall of BioWare Montreal. Still, the facts are clear. EA gave Montreal plenty of time and resources to finish Andromeda, they simply bungled the job due to their inexperience.

I still don't forgive them for closing down the official forums the cowards. BioWare knowingly sent Mass Effect up the river in one last cash-grab to help fund the bob dylan of destiny clones. Fuck pity paid DLC and fuck Anthem on principle. Following the example of their benevolent overseers my ongoing financial support of BioWare has been placed on indefinite hiatus until either a Dragon Age or Mass Effect game attains a meta-critic average above 85 such is my distrust of them at this point.

The fact that they're pulling support for the game is more damning in my eyes than releasing the game in the state it was in. If they're not going to stand by their product and fix their mistakes why do they deserve any faith in any future products? It sets a precedent, and a bad one at that.

What exactly does this mean? You aren't entitled to DLC to ANY game, you are entitled to a complete product that is free of most bugs. They've given you a complete game filled with at least 80 hours worth of content. And, at this point they've patched most of the serious bugs. I may not actually like the finished product but I can't deny that I was given a full game that was supported with appropriate patches. They have no obligation to release further DLC for the game. DLC is developed and released with the idea that fans want more and will purchase more additional content. Now, while you and other die-hards will buy any DLC up that doesn't not extend to the general gaming public that purchased the game and were ultimately disappointed. And, that's to say nothing of BW Montreal who EA likely had no further trust in by the end of Montreal's development.

TL;DR They fixed the majority of the game and gave you a complete product. They've done their job.

It'd be nice to cure that stupid guy that got bitten on Kadara though. Thanks EAware. You done killed that poor slob. 

Just sayin anthem is funded regardless of ME:A. It would be colossally stupid to start a project like Anthem without securing funds first. In addition releasing a bad/underwhelming game would have hurt anthem more than the cash would have helped. 

First off it wasn't botched. Second only thing to forgive is not getting dlc.

So my point was that EA gave the game to an inexperienced studio rather than the studio who made the Trilogy because that studio was making Anthem. They also released it in an unfinished state and then closed the studio (a move I imagine was planned before the game was released). No DLC can be made for this game because Montreal is gone and Edmonton is busy (with Anthem). 

I never argued that the people who developed Andromeda are not to blame for the product we got but Anthem was prioritised over this game, it is also prioritised over fixing this game. The facts as you said, are clear. 

If BioWare Montreal didn't develop Andromeda then there would have been no fourth Mass Effect. You act as though the Edmonton studio was forced to make Anthem when that is far from the truth. They had all just come off of the trilogy and were ready to do something new, to create something they had never done before. The OG Mass Effect team has no desire to work on another Mass Effect game which is why Montreal was given a chance to develop the next entry in the franchise. EA gave Montreal 5+ years to develop a single-player RPG for a series that has never been a mega seller. By the end, EA had to use the resources of every BioWare studio to get the product out the door. Thus, this refutes the idea that "Anthem was prioritized over Andromeda." Andromeda had plenty of time and resources, Montreal were just too inexperienced and ineffectually led to get the job done on their own. And, EA is under no obligation to keep losing money developing a game that will never turn a profit. Andromeda released in a state that was more than playable, yes it was janky, but the original Mass Effect was and still is a jankfest. Yet, nobody complains too much about it because everything else about it was so good. Andromeda didn't fail because it had poor animations and noticeable jankiness, it failed because it had a crappy story, with crappy characters, with crappy fetch quests, and repetitive gameplay. That's not something that can be "fixed" with a few extra months of development.

And, at the end of the day, EA supported Andromeda with plenty of patches post-launch to fix most of those bugs and jankiness including improved facial animations. But, like I said, the problem with Andromeda aren't the bugs. You can't patch a shit story supported by crappy quests. The reason Anthem looks so good is because it's made by a team of experienced vets that know what the fuck they are doing. It's also the reason Dragon Age: Inquisition was so well received and is a better game than Andromeda which came out two years later.