Andromeda Initiatives Purpose - Why the hate?

Oh yeah, Id be fine if there were some ulterior motives but even if there arent there are a ton of people getting so pissy about how reasonable the Ai is from a public perspective. 
"How dare they explore and colonise another galaxy! We wouldnt do that unless we had some ulterior motive like universal domination or some shit!"

The way I see it has more to do with practical limitaions and the small timeframe in which the entire expedition was set up. Humanity only discovered Mass Effect tech some 30+ years prior to the trilogy. It doesn't make sense for us to be spearheading such an immense scientific effort when we've got neither the economy nor experience to support such a venture. The codex was always pretty blunt about humanity still lagging behind the other Citadel races, but the humanity is speshul narrative got the better part of Bioware once more.

If anything the Andromeda Initiative should be in development for decades or even centuries before humanity appeared on the galactic scene. Then after the Battle of the Citadel Humanity would be invited on board for their achievments and it would feel a lot less contrived.

It doesn't really make much sense to colonize Andromeda when so much of the Milky Way remains unexplored. There's not much sense in expending the effort to get to another galaxy when the primary reason for doing it are for things that there is still a lot of in the immediate area.

When you look into the details, the initiative makes so little sense that people think there has to be something else to it.

Though I don't find it a fact that I can't overcome with suspension of disbelief.

How doesn't that make sense though? Think of it like this, lets say Earth was largely unexplored but somebody gave you the opportunity to explore...Mars? Which is more enticing? It makes total sense for someone to want to explore Mars over Earth or in this case, Andromeda over the Milky Way. Its a challenge, its a once in a lifetime journey. I imagine the colonisation effort would have a similar appeal to those who want to get away from something or to experience something no one else can.

People cant sit there and tell me it makes no sense. Why? Because if I can find sense in it, and other people can find sense in it, then it clearly makes sense to SOME people, and those kinds of people would be the people who would make a trip like this.

Just how much of habitable Europe, to the best of your knowledge, was to be explored and settled in late XVth and early XVIth century? Every scrap of land in Eurasia was already a part of several empires by then.

I agree with this. When we're talking a universe in which we have still places demanding massive resources to explore (like past Omega relay) I will be disappointed if the AI isn't revealed to be a contingency plan 'in case that nutjob Shepard is right'. But Jesus, if it would be that way then there's little doubt we'll have a return of omnipotent and omnipresent Cerberus.

I like the idea of exploring for the sake of exploring - though I doubt that's the only motive of the Andromeda Initiative, yeah.

But my only real problem with it is the astronomical amount of money they must have spent on it. They basically built their own Citadel. And several smaller Citadels. Then they built the Crucible a year later. That's a bunch of colossal undertakings in a very short period. How much money and resources do people just have kicking around nowadays?

People are just going to continue to hate on it regardless of whether or not Bioware gives us any reason at all.  Let them.  In the end, it matters not... This story is going there regardless and it's the beginning of a new story that is NOT obviously connected in any way to the story that occurred in the Milky Way. (shrug)

I hope not. I'd sooner have it explained that the Andromeda Initiative was funded by the jarred brains of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Elon Musk. 

Honestly if I was to believe anyone is going to pull a Mr. House and be a shriveled husk kept alive in a tube by 2185, it'd probably be him. 

Pretty much this. Colonisation&discoveries are all good, but there is a f*inlg load of things to do&explore within the Milky Way. It's like walking 30 miles to the supermarket for a bottle of milk or an egg when you've got a farm.


It's not the same. Europe is not that big. People had been looking for more breathing room & better life. MW has plenty of places to settle down, away from the overcrowded 'capital' planets. Terra Nova, Horizon, Eden Prime, Ferros ARE THE'wild-wild-west' of MEU.

E.g. in the 'Expanse' there is nowhere to run. It's either the Belt, Mars or Earth. Sol system does not have anything else to offer. For them it makes perfect sense to jump into the unknown of the gates and get more air, more water and more sky.

Another disturbing thing - they could not sell the vey idea of 'exploration and colonization' to me. I've (mostly) seen shooting arenas. Non-combat aspect of the game is non-existent at this point (and they had even confirmed that there is no way to avoid combat with diplomacy or stealth skills).