Poll do you want that Bioware made patch/DLC which give more customization Freedom to MEA squadmates

What's wrong with paying more to get more? It's a basic principle of life!

The term pay-to-win implies unfairness but it is only unfair if it affects multi-player (and even then it's debatable). In single-player you are only competing against yourself so what's the down side?

If I'm going to pay for DLC I absolutely want things that make my character better. I have zero problems with that.

That's a management problem, not a problem for me, the customer. I expect a AAA company to walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. If you want to make excuses for them, that's your prerogative. 

Do I want it? Yes

Will we get it? Maybe...EA will charge 19.99 for it


Remember our control on the squad just got smaller and smaller through the games. He'll originally we were supposed to have as much control as we have in Dragon age including during gameplay...and look where we are now, we cant even change their goddamn weapons

No, you're giving them an out for how they practice managing their projects. I say they should keep on enough people to manage walking and chewing bubblegum during a projects release. 

Once the shield falls then what?

Shields also do not protect from radiations, the elements or direct energy weapons

I thought Bioware kinda understood this after ME2 and 3

At least in ME3 every companion (after the updates) had full SENSIBLE armor

Paying for a game mechanic is basicaly what pay to win do, and many people see something wrong in that.
If the only way to win enough war effort in mass effect would have been through paid content it would be terrible design (and we know mass effect 3 doesn't fall far on that matter)
Of course the game would still be beatable without squad weapon system but it doesn't change the fact that an "easier mod" should not be acquired through pay dlc. The game is calibrated around squadmate not having special fancy equipment so adding a new system would unbalance the game.

The man reason I don't want squadmate inventory control is because of the expansion of crafting. Micro-managing my squadmates' equipment in ME1 or ME3 was never particularly fun and it doesn't even matter in ME because they are next to useless strategically anyway. With the expansion of crafting it almost certainly means that having decent equipment is dependent on me making said equipment. I really have better things to do than spend tons of extra resources and time making equipment for 6 extra people.  Giving them adequate weapons that level with them that I don't have to worry about is just removing one more tedious micro-managing task.

*Addendum: If this is just a complaint about people wearing high heels in battle or going shirtless into the vacuum of space, that is easily solvable by just giving everybody 2 sets of clothes: casual and battle.  No need for inventory micro-management for that and I do support the whole "no catsuits in blizzards" line of logic.  

It is just taking reality into account.
If we could invest all the time necessary doing everything we want then we will only have perfect games. However those games never existed. Even with a huge staff and budget adding stuff does not make the game better. And it is not about walking and chewing but writting, animating, designing on several level. It would not be hard to add a random "equip weapon to squadmate" after all they use that exact mechanic for the character. If it was not done it is not because dev working years on a game are evil pricks not wanting to add a "basic feature" but one conscious design choice that basically consider that a customization for the sake of customization is not making the game an overall better experience and ressources are limited even for a AAA. Adding top much stuff make the overall gameplay dull. Mass effect 1 being a perfect example and so are many other games focusing on quantity rather than depth. I won't see many people arguing they prefer mass effect 1 gameplay over 2, 3 and Andromeda. The consensus is that gameplay got better.

There are field where a AAA games should concentrate their attention, animation, story writing, character design, combat. Those things being the main focus of a game we should have excpectation on them. But weapon customization (not considering all the argument explaining why it is a bad thing in term of immersion) is not what made mass effect great and for many people do not make the game great.
Try looking at the two post different posters.
You could compare those who say it is a bad design decision and those who say it is a good design decision. Those number are roughly the same (despite one side using arguments but let's not be mean). However look at those who say they don't care about that feature being present or not, those people are the vast majority. So should a functionality people doesn't really care about should be an absolute part of the game ? no it isn't.

You have a global consensus about wanting additional cosmetic armor. I do not see anyone against that idea, even bioware agree on that matter.
You have only a tiny fragment of people advocating for gameplay customisation of armors.
For weapon it is more blurred but the overall sentiment is "i do not care".
You may just point at the poll result but the question is general. Do I want more armors, of course yes. But I had no option to specify my answer outside of the comment section and the comment section is pretty clear on the subject : "Cosmetic armor sure, the rest don't care".

I say yes, but the way the title is worded the request could technically be satisfied by them just selling us alternative outfit DLC. Which I'm all but certain they were planning to do from the beginning.

I do wish they had gone with DA:I's style of companion outfits. Where they retained a unique look but you could still customize a bit.

I always thought companions should have multiple outfits and switch between them, but the game should switch or the characters should switch. Not me. Like who am I to tell a character how to dress and what weapons to use? If I told Varric to wear a dumb hat and a ridiculous piece of armour he should tell me to get lost, or Varric should only ever use sniper rifles because he loves sniper rifles. I also wish I could have a moment of being like "oh, you're wearing that? Probably not a good idea to wear sandals on a swamp planet my dude but you do you".

Aren't you the one who told me on another post that i was in the minority and that you were happy it did not represent what players wanted and BSN poster was a good way to know that ? -to be honest i'm pretty sure it's you but i could be mistaken. Also i'm just looking at what people are writting, something you pointed before. Is it bad when i do it ?
But yes, answering to none of my inquiries with one liner deflection does not really help you.


I never said you had such claim, blaming me for strawmaning is quite hypocrit when it is what you are doing here. I just said that one liner like walking and chewing are very bad analogy and are not a good way to explain gamedesign reality.
Of course a dev team can do two things at once, they can do several things at once but not everything. And being able to do several things does not mean that one of those things should be armor customization but your argumentation is limited to "they can walk and chew" (really you said it like 4 times ? and it still make no sense on a gamedesign perspective.
The game could use flight simulation and socket customization doesn't mean we should use ressource of the game to add that.