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

If we got everything from the start of the game, what would there be to look forward to?
Content implementation has to be released in instalments, otherwise the entire game could be played through and there would be nothing left to do but replays.

And I assume we'd see more species as time went on.
The ones who created the Jaardan for example, we never got to meet them.
Maybe the Kett themselves have superiors or were created by another species, we'll never know.

I think MEA was just the starter game, it sets up the premise, then we get another two main installments where it takes off.
What if the quality of the Mass Effect main series was assessed just by the first game alone without considering anything about 2 and 3?

I don't know how they were planning to implement the content additions, but based on the information released, the next major instalments would have been in the form of very large DLC patching the original game.
I think the idea was so there is no clear dilination between the games, the story just continues in the same playthrough with added explorable areas, missions, etc.

No choice/consequence?

In terms of gameplay, the only better thing ME1 had was the Mako road tank.
The Hammerhead wasn't nearly as fun.
I will always remember with glee the strategy I used when the Mako had to fight two Geth Colossi,
Park on one, use the heavy cannon to shoot the other one.

ME2 was my favorite out of all three.

ME3 suffered from what I call Trilogy syndrome.
Short version, 1st iteration great, 2nd one better, 3rd one lackluster.
My theory is that by the time the production team gets around to number 3, they're bored with their product and therefore, just want to finish the job quickly so they can move onto the next project.
So they don't put as much effort into the 3rd item because effort takes extra time they don't want to allocate.

To me, it did feel like ME3 was just running on a single plot track, that the choices made don't affect the outcome.
For example, I went through all 4 iterations of the Legion-Tali-Rannoch scene trying to find an solution where Legion does not die.
He dies anyway,

By the way, saving the Rachni Queen does make a difference, albeit a small one.
If the Queen is still alive, the Rachni who are assigned to constructing the Crucible take the project to completion.
If the Reaper Queen substitute is in charge, she allows the Rachni to start work, but then they all abandon work enmasse, slowing down the construction at a critical completion phase.
And probably taking all the information about the Crucible directly to the Reapers.

No.

Not one priority mission in MEA outdoes anything in the MET. Adding Quarian DLC wouldn't have changed that.

Why fight the colossi when you can toss em on the Mako’s back and take them for a ride? Then you stop short of a lava pit and watch it drop in. Good times. 

The more I think about the rachni queen the worse it gets. The reaper clone could have killed everyone working on the Crucible, dooming the war to failure. I honestly would’ve loved if this decision effectively made every other decision utterly meaningless, but I’m silly like that.  

But really, I think that mission shouldn’t have existed if the original queen was killed. 

I'd have actually bought the game if they'd have shown a commitment to supporting and improving it instead of pulling the plug when things were looking rocky (thus all but confirming Andromeda was a shameless cash in).

Them canning the DLC directly lost my sale.

I already forgiven them. They were patching up, new romance, MP had a lot of add-on kits to try out for the long term while waiting on DLC. I was satisfied, not GOTY material but...

MP got repetitive. I wasn't too keen on a lot of kits so the packages were often things I didn't want. The new models of old guns diluted the RNG pool. The guns with add on powers were neat though. Overall, MP kept me around while waiting for DLC.

SP wasn't really that bad. IMO, some of it was eye rolling as far as dialogue but it never turned me away. The animations weren't top notch, but I play games like Pillars, ROTK, NA, ect so it doesn't really pop out at me. If I was expecting better going in, I would have been
disappointed. For the most part, I enjoyed the campaign but maybe they can do semi-open world?

I've recently traded it in.. I've never done that with a Bioware game. When they announced no DLC, I was bummed. I was going to buy some Andromeda points and DLC.. it would have been time well spent. Then when the next DLC dropped, do the same. I would play MP in between/during multiple PTs. Ah well. Good game, overall. I look forward to DA4, but maybe no preorder this time..maybe.


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Why are there extractions in MP? I found it odd that they didn't have the last wave could have strong with major boss and have the players in a victory stance/positions at a default spot on the map. (Like poses for different kits, ect) Maybe to show they cleared the area. The reaper war made sense with extractions.

I didn't vote because the launch didn't botch for me. I would of approved for DLC though.

If I like the game enough overall after its various patches, then I would probably get over its initial problems, otherwise, a couple hours of add-on content that I have to pay for is not going to suddenly change my perception of everything before it. Aside from that, knowing that there's no DLC in the works would just color up my perception of it even more. I wonder what the poll would've looked like before the announcement. 

I think if it was released in 2017 with just 4K graphics and nothing else changed, people still will hate it because of the negatives you listed. They are going to ignore the amazing story and choices, but will focus on the clunky combat, the empty worlds (which is how real exploration has to be), as well as the massive amount of side quests that were pretty much the same........ Also, the bugs, Bioware left some annoying bugs in there. Finally, the couple of seconds of the textures to fully load after loading a save will be its death sentence. Gamers are merciless this day and age and they look at only the negative in a game, at least most of the vocal once.

If it was touted and released as AAA title with all the bells and whistles? If they lied about the graphics quality?  Maybe. Otherwise it would almost certainly be very well received. 'Rough around the edges, needs work but a very solid start to a franchise' is the kind of review I would expect. But I won't further interrupt your 'THE HATERZ DID IT!!!' line of reasoning, however deluded.