Was the trial a mistake?

You really don't read do you?  This is not even really worth responding to at this point.

No I'm not. The simple fact Andromeda exists proves my point.

But that's not what people say most of time.  A lot of posts say yeah the game had issues, but they follow it with they were exaggerated, they were overblown, or something along those lines when in truth a lot of people just had legitimate issues with the game.  They weren't exaggerating anything, or blowing anything out of proportion, they just didn't like it.   

I have no problem. I liked the game enough to do a full play through actually. Just tired of the same BS of blaming everything but the game for its poor reception. I have no hang ups at all buddy.

Lets do it this way...

We know from extrapolation (based on other games) that ME:A did somewhere in the 3.5mil range for sales. We can assume that most of these sales were from pre-orders based on yours (and others) arguments that the meme machine caused it to have worse sales than it should have. The problem with this is we can also assume that ME3's ending couldn't have hurt sales that bad based off of the 3.5mil figure which is pretty damn good but nothing close to the 6-9mil that was projected.

ME3 and the memes had very little to do with ME:A's downfall. You can lay that blame on both/either EA and Bioware.

Yet he keeps making the same tired tripe of blaming the fans per the bold.

The person to which Endless was replying has said it numerous times... as have I... as has colfoley... as have a host of others here.  The memes WERE overblown... the eye problems artificially exaggerated in many of them.  The game was heavily metabombed with 0's minutes after the site opened... that's not a logical or measured reaction to it... that is internet sensationalism.  It did occur... denying that it happened is no more logical than anyone saying the game is perfect... so, stop trying to pretend that it is.  The game was being attacked for it's premise long before release in the media and on the old BSN.  That's a fact.  Many people on the old BSN did indicate that the game would have to be nearly perfect to meet a good reception... they were right... and the game was not perfect.  It's not a conspiracy... it's not "blaming" the fans... it's acknowledging that all of that had an impact... that it was Bioware's need to overcome... and they didn't/couldn't.  Part of the reason why is that they did not take the "right" steps to overcome it.  They showed the media in the invitational preview session a product that would not even run flawlessly on Bioware's own systems... after that mistake, it was all downhill.

Since you're using my name and you're too damn lazy to look back a couple post I'll do it for you...





Yeah...

He's just being passive/aggressive. You can look back at the vast majority of his post to see who he blames for ME:A's situation.

I really think people throw around the term conspiracy theory to delegitimize opposing arguments...

probably. But the issue becomes different things matter to different people.

Exactly, so no matter how someone tries to explain saying people exaggerated things, or things were overblown, at the end of the day it boils down to someone telling someone else how much something should have bothered them or affected their ability to enjoy the game.  That's why I have an issue with those types of statements.

What do you say is the purpose of a meme that puts googly eyes over the actual eyes in the game if not to exaggerate the issue?  What would you say the purpose of saying the CC is lacking by making a video generating the most hideous of characters if not to overblow the actual issue?  Come on - the issues were sensationalized by the media... overblown, exaggerated.  It's what they do.  It's not balanced reporting or merely presenting facts.

That's called making fun of something, like if I made a meme out of the Krogan fight scene.  I'm sure people that liked the game made fun of some of the stuff.  Exaggerating things would be someone taking something that didn't really bother them and making a huge deal out of it just for the sake of complaining.   So whenever someone makes a blanket statement about how things were overblown, exaggerated, etc, you're telling people who had legitimate complaints about things that really bothered them they fall into this category. 

Bioware felt the need to fix the animations so pretty easily not overblown. Check

If a quest is bugged BEFORE the fix then it can't be overblown (If you still consider it a problem AFTER the fix then sure but nobody is) . Self Explanatory. Check

Wanting it to fail...We both know where this is going. Your buddy UpUpAwayRedux2 may not see it but we both know...Check