Rate The Marketing

Makes me wonder if one of the very many reasons why they closed the old BSN was because they were afraid of dealing with the backlash of their marketing campaign.

Anyway changed my vote to garbage. Having weird dreams of ark ships being attacked by space snakes while a N7 destroyer fights alien birds. My mind needs more material lol.

First post, but this resonates with me. I've felt completely disengaged by Bioware. Ever since the last DLC for inquisition released and the announcement of the old BSN closing.

That's the essentially the reason why I signed up here. I don't use reddit or twitter, so was left somewhat in the dark when the boards closed. I didn't even know ME:A had a release date until a few weeks ago.

This doesn't make much sense as written. We know what the Parhfinder's job is, don't we? What else are you looking for?

The question is WHY?  Why are we the Pathfinder?  Why are we even in Andromeda in the first place?

Why is the story happening?

Why Ryder becomes the Pathfinder is highly likely to be a plot spoiler which should not be revealed in the marketing.

As for the why of the mission, that's silly. The Andromeda Initiative videos cover this. That's what the characters know. If you're looking for reasons that wouldn't be known to the characters, any such reason would also be a plot spoiler which should not be revealed in the marketing. Well, unless it turned out to be completely irrelevant to the plot of ME:A since it doesn't matter once the mission is launched. But if the latter is the case, then there's no reason to reveal that information in marketing.

Then you're going to be disappointed. Your PC won't know of any other reason for going even if one exists. You're playing a hipster whatever happens. Haven't I been telling you to leave for years?

And we're getting a bit OT here. You don't have a problem with the marketing, you have a problem with the game.

The trailers tell you what the story is about, they don't go into spoilers because news flash spoilers isn't advertising.

Name a game that told you exactly what the story was about in details before it came out, and I'll show you a game that doesn't exist.

From what I have been reading in this thread it seems that people want what I consider old-school marketing back prior to social media, but the analytics have been showing that YouTube and Twitch personalities playing the game and commenting on what they are doing and their likes/dislikes works better. We might want to have that old method of marketing for us, but the majority of people don't see to use that anymore.

People don't trust developers and publishers nearly as much anymore and wait for word of mouth style of marketing because too many games have changed from early videos to final release, even if they are good people still complain about those changes BioShock: Infinite had that problem with their gameplay demonstrations from E3 or Alien: Colonial Marines and how the vertical slice was drastically different from the release version.

Wow is this what modern gaming has come to... Rating a games marketing...

There is no don't care option, so I can't vote...

I'm not talking about details, I mean general outline

Why are we going to Andromeda?
Why are we the Pathfinder? (especially since Alec was the original Pathfinder and Cora his second in command)
What happened to the Hyperion? (not even going to go into the Nexus or other arks, since that could legitimately be spoilers)

All we've really been told is "#Space!" and "#PrettyGoodBanging"  with a healthy side of "#Soon"

Then why even tell us we're the Pathfinder?

And yes, it needs another reason because "why not?" is a stupid one.