N7 Day

Sometimes.

N7 Day is where the big info dump comes though. *knock on wood* *rubs his lucky rabbit's foot* *gets out his 4 leaf clover*

Yeah, N7 Day is just the kickoff of the marketing campaign. There'll be a steady stream of MEA info/gameplay vids/interviews/etc. right up until release.

If you feel like being overly optimistic, sure. Didn't an EA exec outright say the game was delayed to 2017?

If you wish really hard, they just might.

A dev (on this site no less) said they were still aiming for Q1 (presumably March, 5 years after ME3), by the way.

Here

Personally, I would love it if they just had one big info dump on N7 day and went into a hole somewhere and just finished the game (it won't happen but one can dream). Because we've all seen what overhype can do to a game...(*cough No Man's Sky cough*)

The Dragon Age Inquisition launch had regular additional updates each month running up to launch.

N7 Day gives a reason for a slightly larger release on the 7th, but I would expect further trailers and streams through December, January, February and March.

One of the friends i play with on MP will not read, watch or endure anyone telling her anything about MEA , haha.
She's known to switch channel on TS if we even mutter the most trivial thing about Andromeda.
She will buy the game nonetheless, she just wants the whole thing to be a complete surprise.

It's valid even though i'm the complete opposite.

It's been a while since I really went into a game blind and I wish I had the willpower to do it again. I'll never forget the first time I played through KOTOR, KOTOR2, Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age: Origins. I discovered them all at the same time and for all of them I'd never seen a trailer, didn't know anything about the plot or characters, nothing at all. And while I've enjoyed the games that have come after, I never got the same sense of wonder and anticipation as before, purely because I began to go looking for information, watch trailers, read articles etc.

I'd love to have gone into Andromeda not knowing there was a Ryder family, that there's (presumably) an asari squadmate, and whatever other information we get. It's a bit late now but I think after N7 day I'm going to try and distance myself a bit more, because I don't want to know the details. And maybe for the next Dragon Age game I can find the strength to stay away from everything completely!

For me I'm not so worried about checking to see whether the game is worthwhile buying or not. If it's an RPG with the BioWare name on it I'll be buying it, purely because they're the only gaming company I know of that makes the kind of games I want to play. (Story-driven, companion-heavy, able to play as a female!)

I completely understand where you're coming from, especially that last sentence. Bioware-style games are my favourite kind, for the reasons you stated and more, and naturally, only Bioware makes them Though I wish they weren't the only ones who did... So I'll still likely get them, just probably not immediately. ME3 (and how Bioware handled things post-launch) really broke... a lot of things. Trust that Bioware can make a satisfying game, for one. Trust that Bioware actually understands fans, for another, which is more important in the long-term. So I'm a lot more cautious now. These games are rare, though. Very rare. So that makes it harder not to get. Perhaps I'll wait for a sale. But it's hard to go dark about a game for an extended period of time after release, especially if you frequent this forum. I still don't know for sure what I'll do when it comes to ME:A.

That's why, as it gets closer to release, I want to know as much about it as I can (beforehand I had mostly apathy towards it). I need to know what I'm in store for, because even though it seems backwards, I think that will actually temper my expectations rather than inflate them. I think if I was left only to wonder about what it would be like, I'd inevitably create an image in my head that would be more ambitious, that had features that probably won't be in the game. Story is a different matter; I don't want to have spoilers. But hell, this is the first time I very tiny part of me is actually considering spoiling myself. Probably not though. Fan reviews are a must, however.

I'd love to still have confidence in them and discover everything myself. I also know how cool that can be; I did it with ME1 and DA:O as well. But I can't. Not this time

I agree. I'd love to go into a Bioware game completely blind but my curiosity always gets the better of me. But I am thinking of maybe stepping away after N7 Day. That way there would still be a lot of things to discover in the game on my own and I'd miss out on any potential leaks or devs deciding to stream the beginning of the game.

And I think that's a great approach, honestly.

It just makes me smile in a rather sad fashion, because "I knew it would be this way" rather than anything else...