Was the trial a mistake?

Can you even comprehend what I stated above? I clearly stated that Bioware felt the need to fix said animations. Your first sentence goes way the fuck out in left field.
EVERY game gets flak for letting bugs through QC. The Technomancer got even more shit for the same bugs as Andromeda. Just let it go already. The fans didn't kill the game. Bioware and EA did.

NO, you would be stating an opinion. What you consider exaggerated or overblown can be vastly different from others. This is pretty much 2nd grade level shit. What's so hard to understand?

No, I'm stating a fact... Do the googly eye videos show the eyes as they actually are in the game or are they exaggerated?  Do videos that cherry pick the only the worst looking eyes showing the true extent of the issue or are they exaggerting it?  Are the videos that artificially "blow up" the eye area (just like they balloon tits and things) showing what's really there or are they exaggerating it?  They are exaggerating it... statement of fact.  What's so hard to understand?  The only way they would not be exaggerating it is to only show it exactly as it appears in the game and show it only in appropriate numbers to match the actual ratio of occurrences of it in the game.

I mis read.

Don't bother. I'm done.

Lets be honest about this and just squash it all together. Have you or have you not blamed the fans based off the ME3 ending hate or currently for ME:A not doing that well. Me and you have been talking about this since early August and I'd rather not have to go back and pull up these discussions.

Would it be a little more fair to say that it was a bigger portion than a mere part?

Either way I appreciate the answer and I'll leave it alone in the future.

Two things:
One. Its the height of irony that people are blowing the arguments out of proportion in a discussion on if the criticisms of Andromeda were blown out of proportion.

Two: the main frustration for us MEAs fans come from the idea that, while yes MEA had its issues, things like bugs and graphical issues are present in the games of other companies (like CDPR) and yet they get away Scott free. The only difference is 'because EA'

You can Google Witcher 3 bugs, you'll find plenty of videos of people making fun of the bugs in the game, forums threads about game breaking bugs, etc  Andromeda was not singled out.  Did Andromeda have some unique material like the my face is tired, yes.  But it's not the first game to have its bugs and glitches made fun of or complained about.

The difference is that once people got down to the nuts and bolts, bread and butter of the Witcher 3 or other games they liked what they saw, and people are more willing to overlook things when they enjoy something overall.  It all comes back to the whole animations and bugs aren't what caused the game to fail.  A large number of people not liking the core aspects of the game caused the game to fail.  You make a list of pros and cons, if the pros vastly outweigh the cons, someone will probably be more willing to overlook the cons.  If something has too many cons, people will be less likely to overlook them.

Just look on this site.  There are three different polls asking pretty much the same question, would you like a direct sequel or something else.  In every one, some with hundreds of votes, around 40% of people want something other than a direct sequel.  On what is pretty much a fan forum, 4 out of 10 people don't want more of what they got, so imagine what the numbers would be if they just asked everyone who bought the game.  For some people the good things about the game weren't enough to overcome its flaws and shortcomings so they put it aside.  The cons outweighed the pros, and everyone has their own list based on their time playing the game.  

Every IP has it fanatics, just like every time a COD game comes out you have the same group of people crying about how they're rolling out the same thing over and over again and they need to change things.  But those people can't cause a game to fail, the only way one of those games would fail is if a large chunk of the normal players rejected the game.  The ones that don't really go in forums, or looking for vids on youtube, just the everyday players said they didn't like it and moved on to something else.  Which is apparently what happened with ME:A, to the point where the market wasn't there to keep supporting the game with additional content just five months after it came out.

The Witcher 3 is a far superior game, thus the justified praise. Its bugs were occasional and mildly funny, rather than all-encompassing and ever-present. I love Mass Effect, and enjoy MEA quite a bit. I've likely invested more time in playing this franchise than anyone here other than themikefest . As a dedicated fan of Mass Effect, I can say with absolute honesty that TW3 is superior in nearly every way to MEA. Its bugs were few and far between, and were fixed. I play MEA daily, and daily have to shutdown and restart the game because of bugs. I miss dialogue because of bugs. I endure lag and glitchy gameplay because of bugs. All of this is present in the final version of MEA. It's frustrating. I don't think comparing MEA to TW3 is going to take the debate in the direction you desire.

Yes, some people were waiting to attack MEA. The thing is, they'd not have had much of an audience if MEA weren't a train wreck at release. The fault, if it must be laid, is on BioWare. They are the ones who botched the development process and had to release an unfinished game after 5 years. It's a damn fun game with many great features, in my opinion. It's also a buggy mess even now, and it will ever remain such. People are entitled to hate it. They're even entitled to make disingenuous memes and spew hate in Internet forums. (To be clear, I've not seen that in the parts of this thread that I've read.)

I seem to stand in the middle ground with this game. I really like it and play it constantly. I also daily complain to my non-gamer wife about its unfinished, unpolished state. I tell her, "I'm going to go play my buggy game," and she knows which that is. It's okay to complain; and it's okay to let people who hate the game hate it. They are not hurting anyone. They are not even hurting the IP, at this point. That ship has sailed.

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i just disagree. The Witcher 3 is not the far superior game. On the contrary i think MEA is. On my last PT of MEA i experienced no Major bugs. While my last of witcher i experienced three major bugs. And that's not even talking about the other aspects of the game because frankly only area TW3 Beats MEA on is side quests.

Which is quite frustrating because TW3 was one of my favorite games on launch but honestly it seems CDPR broke more then it fixed with its patches.