Mark Darrah discusses "Did MEA get a fair shake"

Mark is simply coping out from taking responsibility for the failure of ME:A, by displacing blame on Zelda which is clearly an Action/Adventure Nintendo Exclusive game which has nothing to do with as Mark calls it "the busiest month for RPGs".


And is not the busiest month but the fact of the matter is that Andromeda is a horrible game, because of it's poor development, indecisiveness, poor communication, inexperienced designers, and poor leadership. All those five years of development wasted, and he makes an excuse instead of admitting the fact that they messed up the game?

Bottom line is: Stop making excuses and take responsibility for your failures, by learning from mistakes and do better. Wow!! I'm beginning to wonder how BioWare is still alive.

I've already read the report long before you made the post about it. And if he admitted the game is a failure then why did he said that Andromeda didn't get a fair shot and blame it on an Nintendo game?

The failure of a AAA game is rarely down to one factor, it's multi-layered.  Andromeda was fatally flawed, and he admits that, but it did also have the misfortune of releasing in a stellar month of video game releases.  Ppl have limited budgets and can only buy so much every month.  There's no doubt many gamers chose Zelda or Horizon over MEA, so he's not wrong in that respect.

From what I've heard it's an incredible game.  But I won't tell the other mods, they might sack you.

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I've already made my point in my first comment. And if he claims that Andromeda is not a failure, then why did the Montreal Studio has been shut down, and absorbed by EA when it didn't meet their expectations on sales?

I know what he said. Is the fact that he downplayed the failure of Andromeda by saying that it didn't get a fair shot, instead of being honest about that they did get a fair shot, but it didn't because they screwed up 5 years of development. I think he knows the game was a complete failure, he just want to cover up the collateral damage.

Except it didn’t fail.

It failed for YOU but not in sales. 

You realise in the comment you quoted that I was talking about the failure of AAA games in general right?

And when a game gets it's DLC cancelled, becomes an internet meme, and the whole studio has their jobs 'relocated', it's a failure.

I assumed the message from the quarian ark at the end of the game was the taster for DLC, and I'm sure someone said they axed it and just wrote a book instead.

Saying something you personally liked was a failure isn't an attack on you.  It's simply an assessment based on the treatment the game has gotten from EA, with slashed prices early on that DAI never had, a cancelled DLC and the studio being closed.