Mass Effect: Andromeda release date: March 21, 2017

This is not how game development works at all. You can't arbitrarily add standards from a completely separate industry into the video game one. If the game isn't ready they shouldn't release it. I would hate for us to experience another DA2 and have a good game get buried under cut content and reused assets. If EA and Bioware feel that another 6 months would help the game then that is what they should do. 


Plus the actual release date has not been officially stated yet so we don't even actually know if the game is going to release in November or March 2017. 

This is not how game development works at all. You can't arbitrarily add standards from a completely separate industry into the video game one. If the game isn't ready they shouldn't release it. I would hate for us to experience another DA2 and have a good game get buried under cut content and reused assets. If EA and Bioware feel that another 6 months would help the game then that is what they should do. 


Plus the actual release date has not been officially stated yet so we don't even actually know if the game is going to release in November or March 2017. 

After what will be 5 years, half a decade, I'm tired of waiting for this game. Still, a delayed, well polished game is better than a botched release. BioWare cannot afford a botched release.

Do you remember what happened with Assassin's Creed Unity? Ubisoft had done all the things that they are so often criticized for not doing. They'd changed up the gameplay a bit. They'd tinkered with many mechanics. The visuals and audio were breathtakingly beautiful. Paris was absolutely lifelike. You could follow the most inconsequential background resident of Paris, from any insignificant alleyway, through a half-hour of his or her life, and be impressed by the depth of detail. The controls were silky smooth for those who don't suck at games (I can't speak for the PC controls, only console). They put their a lot into this game; and it was an epic achievement, in many ways, with some flaws, as all games have.

They decided to release it too early, though. Many of us never had a single issue. Others had one or two issues and went hysterical. Others experience game breaking bugs. Ubisoft had the game running smoothly within a week. They had the micro-transaction and app-game BS patched out of it within a short time. None of that mattered. The Internet was already full of hate. Even now, you'd think the game was terrible (it's not, it's one of the better games of the entire IP), if you read online opinions/undying hivemind hate.

BioWare cannot afford a bad release; not after all the ways their fans have been disappointed in the last 7 years. A delay would be a wise choice, if they had any doubts.

I see your point. But at the same time, I had almost no problems with Assassin's Creed: Unity, and I thought it was a fantastic game. I only had a few minor glitches that were easily and quickly resolved, nothing game-breaking.



9 times out of 10, whenever people complain about how glitchy or buggy a new AAA game is, and I purchase the game, I feel like I'm the only one who experiences almost no issues at all. Granted, it was the Xbox One version, so not as glitchy as the PC version, but regardless.

They need more time to get micro-transactions in and working properly.