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

So ingame footage and not CGI Blur cinematics?

Did Mirrors edge catalyst even get any advertising?

What would be funny is a Character Creator trailer where they only made some derpy faces, that would show off the power of the CC and ironically poke fun at the facial animation debate,

...and actually never put me in charge of marketing anything.

What an asinine viewpoint; we can't critique things now? Did this place become Gamefaqs when I wasn't looking?

IGN being horrible at previewing every damn game they get their hands on has literally nothing to do with Bioware itself, anyway.

Before i make my.long arse post on this i would just.like to point out the IGN video IS EA doing its job. Do you really think ign just released this video on their own WITHOUT input or consent of EA?

I think it was a combination of things:

1. Destin sucked balls at demonstrating the game.
2. They edited out dialogue and cutscenes for spoiler purposes. I understand some people don't want to see spoilers, but this was a bad decision, as it removed a lot of context from the mission.
3. PeeBee is the most disliked squad member of the new batch, and once again Bioware decided to push her in marketing. They should be pushing Drak, Vetra and Jaal right now.
4. The gameplay was too hand holdy. Now obviously there are new mechanics being introduced in the gameplay here, but people who are watching the video don't know that, so it's giving the wrong impression.
5. Once again, bad facial animations. This has been the subject that has received the most criticism in the past few months. So why they showed another unpolished scene, is baffling to me.
6. The banter was a bit childlike. Which does make sense since this is Peebee we're talking about. However this is our first real exposure to uninterrupted dialogue and story footage. So it's giving a bad impression.

All in all, I think it was a poor representation of the game. They obviously did not think this one through and they paid the price for it. The one good thing to take from this is giving the amount of dislikes, and the damage control Mike Gamble and Aaron Flynn went through on twitter yesterday, they're probably going to be more careful from here on out.

Hopefully.

I mean...theoretically...

There's a sign outside of missileglitcher's cage.  It says "Please don't feed the trolls."

Nope! It was released a few days before E3 2016 and EA didn't even mention it on their press event, really? You have a stage, lots of people in the audience watching, millions of people watching the world over, how long would it take to say that Catalyst is out and show a damn trailer. So EA isn't exactly the best at marketing. 

You know, right below the sign that says: "New Unofficial Bioware Social Network"... get it? Since BW closed it to censor criticism!

...funny!

Why would I care if some company screwed up marketing campaigns?

Yeah, EA has been an odd ball. Their Titanfall 2 marketing was piss poor as well. And who in that company decided it was a great idea to release their two biggest shooters of last year, Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 within a week of each other? I guess those holiday sales goals were so important but at least the consumers got both games for $35 each within month of release.

They don't want to show much and the Mass Effect team has always been more reserved than the Dragon Age team. I'm okay with that.