Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

It's not like we have new members flooding through our doors, at this point.

There is no solid evidence that Andromeda tanked, its all speculation based on a couple of things to fit into narratives people want to tell.

Why do those things only mean the game tanked?

EA has talked positively about how Andromeda did to investors.  They invested money in altering content of the game for they went back and modified the character generator and modified the Jaal romance to fall within the M/M romance.  Even with this N7 day they spend the dev time to make a patch for the XB1 even if it was probably only a couple of hours. I just don't see a company like EA investing any money into something that tanked for they would expect it not to improve.

Everything I saw is that they had a lack of management at the studio, so they might have had the people to make the content, but nobody to lead them.

So if they budget money for something they are not allowed to reclaim that money because you claim the game tanked? Using that logic wouldn't they have also had money already set aside for DLC because normally DLC work starts before a game ships.  You are mocking my thought because you believe EA would have milked the game if it was successful, so the opposite should be just as true then if the game did tank then the money would have been reclaimed.  I have dealt with shrinking budgets in the past it happens and things get cut and the money is removed.

That example avoids everything that I was talking about.  Your example only applies if there wasn't any problem with leadership or other internal problems at BioWare Montreal and they could just continue making content without having to worry about anything else besides new content. If EA fired or had to replace a director of a game they would have been looking hard at something going wrong during development (my opinion) close to the end of development I think they would have had the studio under a microscope.  They put a whole lot of resources into the final stage of Andromeda's development by moving people from other studios and working crunch to finish the project.  If they felt that the only reason why Andromeda was successful was that additional manpower and experience it could mean they would have no faith in the remaining studio.

Imagine it this way.  Andromeda might have been successful, but EA didn't consider BioWare Montreal successful in making Andromeda.

And it doesn't change the fact that Andromeda was a poorly designed game, and it causes skepicism of BioWare and their games because of their incompetence and lack of ambition.

If they have ambition then Andromeda would've been more epic and not look like a half-asssed job.

I'll bite. How does more ambition help the ME: A design? They didn't properly realize the design vision they had.

I get that you're just here to say bad things about ME:A, but what's the case?