Mass Effect Andromeda failed because of Zelda and a crowded RPG release window?

I could care less about the meta messaging, it is mostly because it is an EA game and I have come to expect that they will take the piss in some regard when it comes to microtransactions and shady business practices and the only way to turn that around is for gamers to start voting with their wallets and making it clear that they have no desire to see this shit in the games they play, it is pretty clear that this whole thing was specifically designed to create controversy, to get people talking about DICE in a way that makes them look like the heroes while deflecting attention from other shadier aspects of their games, it is pretty clear that most of the design decisions made in the new Battlefield game were not made out of creative vision of the developers wanting what is best for the game but rather from the cold calculating schemes of the marketing and PR departments, and just once I would like to see the gaming community not fall for this crap.


Besides I kind of see Soderlund's "don't buy it" statement as a dare, as if he knows the gaming community's outrage is all bluster and that they will buy anything they put out like the sheep EA thinks they are, I would just like to see it backfire and see the gaming community just say "ok" and watch as EA scramble to make justifications for the poor sales figures, I know it isn't going to happen still it would be nice if it did.

It’s still funny how people are up in arms over a woman in a WW2 game.

I've never played a Battlefield game, so I guess whether there is (or should be) a problem should stem from how realistic has Battlefield been in their history?

I mean, if they try to keep a least a modicum of historical accuracy in the game, then women in, say, the French Resistance sure you might get away with that (it was rare, but they existed). Women storming Omaha Beach...yeah no.

Robotic prosthetic arms...yeah I got nothin'

Mark doesn't need to have worked on Dragon Age to say "it benefited from a tough gaming year". That's just obvious stuff.

From what we have seen so far I think it is pretty transparently obvious that is what they are trying to do, doesn't really take a genius to figure that out especially considering the current political climate and trends in the gaming industry.

If that’s true then people need to stop falling for the bait but some can’t help themselves.

Did the army shown in the demo look like it was speaking Russian?

Yeah I agree which is why I want to see gamers take Soderlund's advice and not buy the game, internet outrage in cases like this only serve to play into the hands of the media and corporate entities like EA who can easily spin the narrative to make themselves look like the good guys, the only thing EA really understands is sales figures so if you really want to make a statement then you need to hit them where it hurts.

Again, what accolades are we talking about? It certainly wouldn't have gotten game of the year if the year hadn't been such a poor showing for video games, during that year the only major competition Inquisition had for GOTY was Bayonetta 2 on Switch and the only reason it won against that game is because the judging panel was biased against Bayonetta 2 for being "too sexy".

I can't think of a single game that isn't 'deeply flawed'.

Ok, but then that game doesn't do a lot well either.