Everything Wrong With Mass Effect: Andromeda

Part 2 is hilarious.

"Oh, you know Pathfinder, we have everything, we have all the resources, but we can't do it because... we don't have a Pathfinder. But the rebels and krogan are just fine without them, they must have some great technology", hahahaha

It's like they don't care about their game, and it's no wonder that the franchise is put on hold and the studio has been shutdown, because of their lack of passion, ambition, and they're very incompetent. Shame really.

That is NO excuse. And lack of revenue is highly unlikely because of EA is filthy rich, they just have inexperienced designers who don't know what the hell they're doing.

Exactly. I bought the whole trilogy from Gamestop a few weeks ago and spent all the money getting all the DLCs (because there still isn't a collected edition that combines all of it with eveything, why not EA?). The total abandonment of MEA is *bizarre*

So your putting a portion of $7 in their pocket 5 years after the fact arbitrarily translates to "extremely profitable... to this very day?"  That's ego for you... better try a little harder to find some overall ongoing sales stats before you make that claim.  It still takes more numbers because if you're the only one who did that this year, it's not very profitable for them at all and you know it.  It doesn't matter how little bandwidth it takes, even a large portion of $7 once in awhile won't pay someone's salary month over month.

Addressing other posts here - The heads of a corporation wanting profits in order to be able to pay their employees more than a 3rd World salary... that does not arbitrarily translate to people employed by that corporation not caring about their work or being incompetent, etc.  As I've said before... getting flack and even harassment from their fan base at every turn no matter what they try to do contributes more to sapping their enthusiasm for their work than their company wanting to be profitable.  Also, given a chance, inexperienced employees can be nurtured a bit and eventually become very competent ones... but the "fans" of this franchise are insufferably intolerant and seem rue to offer any sort of encouragement to new people or entire new divisions of the company for that matter.  BSN Prime was shut down because staff members of Bioware did not want to interact on that site anymore.  They found it to stressful and they were taking too much flack still for ME3's endings 4 years after the fact.  That the flack was ramping up for ME:A and the game was still a long ways from release made it evident to them that the site was not going to get  less stressful for the employees to visit... so it was such down and Bioware stated as much.

Prove it... you can't.  It's an assumption you're deriving straight from your cloaca.  None of the employees have given any indication to us that they even get shareholder=-value based bonuses let alone indicated that it's a concern for them that overrides their interest in their  work.  Salary costs in Canada are generally high to offset a higher cost of living.  Expected social benefits also cost employers money (health care, employment insurance and pension plans) in addition to amounts deducted from employee cheques.  That it's cheaper to employ people elsewhere is one reason why things like customer service in so many countries have been farmed out to employees in other countries... like India.

Spoken like a person who has never done IT work before.   You don't know how easy it is to keep a site up and running.  Might take about fifteen minutes out of your eight hour day.  As to the hard sales numbers, even professional reviewers/critics don't have access to that.  The Know only has access to the sales numbers that come from retail stores and SteamSpy which they have to guess at the numbers at.  

*shrug*  But I don't care.  I'm certainly not gonna look at a corporation as smart as EA and tell them that I know better.

But whatever, you do you man.   

Are you seriously gonna double down on the fact that you, as omnipresent as you are, are brighter than a team of hundreds (if not thousands) of accountants, hundreds (if not thousands) of businessmen, and hundreds (if not thousands) of programmers?

I mean, that's gotta take some huge size man balls.

Uh-huh. And now you're tripling down on that. Wow. Rhino nuts.

That's a strawman if I ever saw one... we're talking market saturation, declining sales... not the spread of perks between execs and employees.    I agree that execs taking huge bonuses is a problem in busness generally. It doesn't mean that specifically Bioware's GM makes that much more than the employees of Bioware though.  For all we know, Bioware itself could have a much lower than average spread between the execs and the employees.  So, even that is an assumption on your part.

WTF are you talking about market saturation? Market saturation only occurs when everybody and their brother has one. If a company hasn't figured out how to minimize costs looooooooooooooooong before then, then they don't deserve to be in business.

And that's beautiful.  You've been shut down at every turn, yet you still claim you're the victor.   smh   Whatever.

I'm having trouble tracking the argument here. goishen, how much money do you guess EA's actually going to make off of MET DLCs this year? $20K? More?

And how'd we even get onto this? What does it have to do with anything? cloud9 was being silly about lack of money upthread, but what does MET DLC revenue have to do with Bio production planning?