Everything that was wrong with Andromeda. A video that sums it up well.

Are you sure it flopped? My understanding is that a flop will have done really poorly and probably lost money.  

It wasn't a flop but I can't see how it was anything but a disappointment. Only because Bioware has been hunting the 10 million sale figure for about a decade now, which is why they've been chasing popular trends. AAA game development seems to be demanding higher and higher sale numbers

The problem with side quests including the squadmate missions wasn't the relevance of the objective but the IMPLEMENTATION that was quite frankly the most rage inducing abomination of a system I have ever encountered.

More than anything else in the game, more than the meh storytelling, it was the quest design that had me almost quit several times.

I skipped 90% of the Tasks, OK. I thought that would improve the experience. But nope. Almost every quest felt like a waste of time fetch quest. It was all so TEDIOUS. The worst were those quests where the game leads you around in circles on a planet looking for stuff that oops wasn't where you thought it would be so you gotta keep looking. Oops, wrong place again! Ah sorry, next time for surrre.... It was INSULTING.

The quest design was a disgusting waste of everyone's time. I would actually much rather do a one minute fetch quest than having to jump through a million hoops for the smallest reward.

Few quests felt like they were worth the trouble. THAT was the problem for me. Little to no payoff for putting up with a million loading screens on those oh so wonderful multiple stage quests. F*CK THAT SHIT!

Really makes you wonder if the devs actually played any quests before unleashing such boring nonsense gameplay on the players. Because it is NOT my understanding of a good time.

(Sorry, this still makes me angry a year later.)

Only it didn't fail to meet sales numbers either.  Actually according to those that actually know it did really well. 

Well I was just using the numbers from the CFO (Sorry, I think I said CEO before).  It was pretty easy.

ME3 sold 6 million.

They expected ME:A to sell 3 million at launch, which would be 30-50% of the lifetime sales.

That puts the expectations at 6 - 10 million.

Everything I've seen about sales said that it was the second best launch, selling, whatever ME game ever.  So it didn't even meet the low end of the projections.  If it wasn't pacing ahead of ME3 early, it surely won't make up ground later seeing that ME3 had multiple DLC and a longer life.

ME3 & ME:A are the only two games to release on all three platforms at once, so there had to be a huge gap between ME3 and ME2, and Andromeda could have fallen anywhere in there.  Like I said, only EA knows how much it missed the projections by.

Perhaps this year's earning report will shed further light on the matter.  Until then - hasn't this sort of discussion circled the block enough already?

This is getting mysterious, why did they put it on ice then?

What does it mean "on ice"? There is a lot of internet speculation as for the reasons for the lack of SP DLCs but actual proof backing any of it up is severely lacking. Bioware have clearly stated that they will return to Mass Effect, They are still hiring people for the ongoing support of Mass Effect etc. For now it is clear that focus is on Anthem for Bioware and EA needed the majority of the people in the Montreal studio for whatever Motive was/is working on.

Again with the insults.  It's equally delusional to think you're going to be able to change anyone's mind after repeatedly insulting them for months and going on about this for several months without the benefit of any new data being available.

If you consider this an insult you must properly report it, since insults are not acceptable by BSN rules.

The only reason Wilson commented the last time was because of a direct question. It may happen the next time as well but most likely not because those people tend to be more interested in FIFA. Especially this year. 

Oh, did someone steal your sweet roll?