Fate of the Quarian Ark, through Comics and Novels??

Yes, and it's GOTY as well, BioWare must be cheering with that award. Well deserved.

Patching is connect to revenue. You fix a game because if you don't then it less likely people will buy it.

Sure. Sales jumped the very day they announced the fixes included in 1.10, and Internet was full of rejoicing that Andromeda team has released something awesome. It immediately stopped the reposting of the regurgitated old flaws, and the bashing campaign. Yep. That's what happened. I remember it like it happened only yesterday. Why, the patch completely served its purpose, and turned the tide. Totally much better than producing more content for those who always liked the game & would have paid for the DLC what they now charge for the game (actually, it's now being offered for free on Origin with Access). These extra sales were critical in Andromeda's resounding success. Internet is such a reasonable, easy to please community! It felt quietly satisfied at incorporation of their ever so constructive and polite criticism over six months period at the expense of the DLC. That patching was like feeding swine off the gold platters. Pointless.

I'm amazed at the amount of effort some are still putting into these arguments.

It's like they forgot which game was critically acclaimed and which one wasn't.

Oh Metacritic... I am so sorry... NOT.
Is Metacritic supposed to be impartial or unbiased?
Not even close... furthermore how can it be seeing as Metacritic is owned by CBS Interactive.
The website is already biased toward certain games and in this case praising ME2 while ignoring everything else.

Which is why I don't like to play games with boss fights.
I hate them -especially if there are multiple -it just checkpoints the game -looses immersion.
Beat boss fight move on to the next and the next then on to the next boss fight...oh wait that was the last one whoops -game over.
Repetitious, boring and annoying... the worst offender though is not ME2 but Beyond Good & Evil.

I did not say that people don't have enough ammo I said it works against plot and lore.
A clever implementation by Bioware into lore -that I will give credence too.
I have more than enough ammo clips by the way -though modding gets around that so not complaining.
It just gets immersion breaking and plot deviating to include ammo clips.
Mass Effect 1 was designed with the heat system -something that the Mass Effect universe apart adding uniqueness.
Then Bioware copt to the FPS/TPS standard model of heat sink crap for ME2-ME3.
Thus removing the uniqueness from the Mass Effect Universe as far as weapons and going back to dull TPS.
Having ammo system can also be plot questioning:
All that ammo lying around and no one not even once thought collect it and have a coup against Aria?
And you say Seriously?

Also to the Suicide Run is not in my opinion the best mission in a Bioware game.
For that you must go way back to the planet Kashyyyk in KOTOR.

Again in my opinion any mission that is designed as a long walk down an alleyway with one or two small room outcrops is a rushed and horrible mission design.
If you are going to design a mission where you are going to be walking give it versatility not just "go this one and only way".
I like to explore -not be confined.
That is the purpose of an RPG to let me explore to the far edges of an expansive map.
The purpose of a TPS is basically to go shooting forever onward while in a ravine or plateau without freedom to move to either side of ravine or plateau.

*Observe a building the distance off to the left.
Repeating sounds coming from the direction.*
TPS:
Its a shooter what do I care if there is something over there -I must stay in the ravine and work forward.
RPG:
Something over there in the distance.
Time to go investigate.
Oh.
Its a weapons factory all weapons now upgraded.

As to who invented the rule: linear and move forward.
I don't know personally I just see it more and more in many games:

Again though that definition is quite vague I grant you.
Let me illiterate that I mean games where the maps are like:

There are no secondary or tertiary paths to take just one long, drawn out, annoying and boring long corridor. 
The most annoying thing is most times you head down this path moving forward you can't go back.
This is what I mean by being linear -a straight line and moving forward meaning to be moving forward down the corridor, tunnel whatever.

Dragon Age series does handle it better than ME2 did and ME3 "tried" and did succeed some with breaking from it -still...
This is the most annoy thing ever in ME2 -many side quests and planets maps in ME2 were done this way...
Even the Citadel in ME2 was way smaller in comparison to the one in ME1 and can give this claustrophobic feel eventually.

Again I say ME1 was a true RPG.
ME2 was mainly a TPS.
ME2 should have remained a RPG.

Granted.
It is probably quicker to program corridors like this than many alternate paths.
Considering ME2's shorter development cycle I can see why this was done -still it is annoying after the 20th time.

Best characters ever?
ME2?
Pfft.
KOTOR & Jade Empire had better ones -even if villains still better than ME2 by far.
Sure a few of ME2 were good:
Garrus Vakarian, Jeff Manrau, Kasumi Goto, Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, Thane Krios, Samara & Mordin Solus.
Others were just par for the course -perfectionist prick Miranda.
While yet others were horribly under used -Legion look at you.

Also crouching relates to the RPG again... in a true RPG you have full range of abilities -which usually includes some form innate stealth ability.
TPS usually don't have that innate and has to be earned.
Not saying it is that way with all but it is more common.

Also ME2 is not without other abominations:
 

Nah... you're the one still doing the hating... by mocking people.  The level of your denial about that outstrips anything anyone else on this site could possibly generate about the game itself.

Oh, so saying "haters gonna hate" isn't "mocking" as well? Ooooh, so much hate, you should go to the church and pray. (See, that's mocking, but not hate, they are two CLEARLY different things) 

Guys, arguing about this pointless and mute at this point.

Not arguing with him... just stating my personal observations/opinions about him.  People who like the game are not arbitrarily in denial about what this game is and isn't and the state of it's possible future... although several people here like to accuse them of that.  They simply like something that these others don't.  I enjoyed playing ME:A and would certainly still prefer to see this story progressed further in a sequel game; but if the company isn't prepared to make that game there is really nothing anyone can do about it.  I would have liked to had the opportunity to buy some DLC for this game, but that's not happening.  If all they are offering are books, it matters not what their reasons are for making that choice.  My only remaining choice is simply whether or not I want to read the books to see how they complete the story... or make up an ending to the story of my own.  There is absolutely no need to mock people over this... he's out of line and you know it.

You really need to be quite a hipster try-hard to think ME2 is a bad game, or worse than Andromeda. Automatically, you are wrong. But sure, keep trying to reach the clouds to defend mediocrity that did close to nothing for the time it released.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_Mass_Effect_2

Let me hear what a random angry BSN poster has to say against the many that critically judged these games.