Bioware really needs to start showing more gameplay, this is getting ridiculous.

horizon zero dawn had full gameplay videos a year ago...

mea was announced nearly 3 years ago and still nothing of substance as of yet. 

The year is 2022 and Bioware is the new unmoral corporation in New Earth, only one group of heroes can defeat them! The Powerfull Three Ending Warriors!

Took the words from my mouth my friend.

Well so far we have stil two Briefings to go plus the gameplay video they promissed, while i do hope they show a bit more of the game i also hope that they will keep the lid on the story until the release date.

I think their doing something similar to fallout 4 that barely had any gameplay footage out for it till it dropped

Even Pillars of Eternity 2 has shown more, and that game was literally announced 10 days ago. I'm really not sure what to think after this dreadful marketing campaign and the closure of the official forums. Bioware seems to have no faith in this game.

People talk about Crestwood as if was something unique in gaming, a game that shows something and ends up not having it. Bioshock Infinite, for example, showed an entire 10 minutes long segment that wasn't even in the final game. Indeed, there was not anything in the game with that scope. Not to mention, the Crestwood gameplay was obviously very early in the game's development and it wasn't even officially released by EA. It was only available in the internet because someone filmed it.

Indeed, ME1 did that as well. There are like three ME1 games that we saw trailers of and were not the final. But ME1 didn't get the backslash (in this the correct word?) that DAI got because people liked the first Mass Effect. Same thing for The Last of Us, albeit its gameplay was much closer to the final game. This happened even with TW3.

If the final game delivers, a company will not suffer from early gameplay videos being a little bit, or even a lot, different from the final game. It's all about the quality of the final game and people reaction to it.

I cannot believe, therefore, that ME's marketing is trying to hard not to be like DAI's. Indeed, according to EA DAI had the most successful launch in Bioware history. So it stands to reason that MEA should have a very similar marketing.

It's funny...halo wars 2 is in the same boat as MEA.

It drives me NUTS.

I disagree in both of your points.

Remember how badly received DA2 was? And DAI's marketing was thorough, with many gameplay videos and stuff. The exact opposite of MEA's. And indeed, people were very hyped about DAI to the point it was the best launch in Bioware history. 

And a 5 years game can indeed be rushed. Development time alone does not say anything about a game being rushed or not because we simply cannot know how that development went. 

They're trying to copy Fallout 4's wildly successful condensed marketing campaign (it was just shy of 5 months long between announcement and release), but as usual, they're making a mess of it.

Heh, more proof that Mass Effect is the Star Wars of video games...

Actually, I've been pretty pleased with the way the games marketing has been so far. Enough to be tantalizing, not so much that plot spoilers are being seen. I'm not a fan of marketing where you know half the story before the game is actually released.