Hey, EA marketing departement - next time, DO YOUR JOB!

Which was a good decision, then.

Rebooting a franchise, barely a decade since it's first instalment and only 4 years since last instalment, would have been a terrible idea.

Any serious reboot needs at least a generation gap to work.

Also shinobi mentioned it on Andromeda podcast that Bioware intends to release 1 game per year, but each game has 3 years gave development minimum.

So Dragon Age, then Mass Effect and still unknown new IP. So this gave them some room to push ME:A's development to last 3-4 years.

Years ago we had to rely on monthly magazines for marketing or information, if that. We managed to cope then, I'm surprised the new generation of gamers can't seem to even though you have vastly greater amounts of information, including the capability of contacting the developers personally.

It's only a game. Don't hang your life on it. No one is forcing you to buy it.

Mass Effect is essentially an interactive comic book.  SUper powers, spandex uniforms and all.

I think the Spider-Man movies are a good reason why they shouldn't, people are tired of origin stories and that is what a reboot does it goes back and retells the whole story from the beginning again, its why Marvel has said they are not doing an origin movie for Spider-Man: Homecoming.  I want new content not a rehash of prior work that follows the same beats to appease people that want the content the way they imagine it and if it isn't that way they get upset which is what happened with Amazing Spider-Man movies for they had a great cast, but failed to make a good movie around them and those movies failed.

Except, as you said, Marvel managed to reboot Spider-Man without doing an origin story.

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Not really. The previous games' history is intact with Andromeda. The same can't be said for Spider-Man. You can't say that this is the same Spider-Man of Andrew Garlfield, even if you consider only the high school period. Civil War, and in general the whole inclusion in the MCU, made sure of that.

Just promoting it I guess.

AMEN!

I feel that if it was up to the marketing team they would have been hard pimping in early January.

The fact that all the footage we see is tagged with a "TOTALLY NOT THE FINAL PRODUCT GUYS, DON'T WORRY WE POLISHED THE FUCK OUTTA IT AND FIXED ALL THE BUGS" makes me feel like the marketing team was like "hey devs, we really need to show something" and the devs said "Well... we don't have anything. I guess there is this" and now the marketing team is stuck trying to make the best of what they've got available to them.

There isn't any other reason why it would be handled this way. I've worked in the industry and have a few soft connections to Biowares marketing team. They aren't idiots. Mix them with EA's marketing team and whatever outside agency they're using, and there is no way they would be doing things this way if they had another choice.

I think the marketing has been "intentionally bad", people are getting sick of over the top hype marketing. I think the went in the complete opposite direction with Andromeda, not sure if it was a good idea or not.