Panic at BioWare Montreal?

Underperforming sales can absolutely get EA to kill a game series, or at least put it on ice for the time being.

 EA have done it before, and it's not really Bioware that's in charge of giving a project a greenlight from investors.

Famous last words. The kind of negative and hysterical press and memes that have spread like wildfire on the Internet in the past few days, will absolutely hurt this game's sales. There's no way it won't. If Andromeda underperforms, they'll either get a 2nd chance at salvaging the series, or EA will kill it. Everyone involved with this game better pray, like their jobs depended on it, that this game gets good reviews. I would say 85 on MC is probably best case scenario at this point, but not likely.

I like to see Shepard in another game. It wouldn't be hard to do.

If MEA does poorly, what would EA/Bioware do? Release something that can make money very quickly to make up for what they were hoping MEA would bring in. They could remaster the trilogy. No idea how long it would take and how much it would cost. I'm sure if they did that a lot of people would buy it especially if the price included all dlc. I wouldn't be surprised if people that have an Xbox one would buy it.

While another company is remastering the trilogy, Bioware makes a game featuring Shepard. They do have their get-out-of-jail-for-free card. Does bringing Shepard back mean the reapers have to return? No. EA knows people like Shepard and the characters that surround Shepard. I'm sure a lot of folks would buy the game

If MEA does very well, I believe it will, they still could make another game in the Milky Way, maybe not with Shepard, but still could have another game take place in the Milky Way.

Keep the current team for continuing in Andromeda and bring in a new team to make a game in the Milky Way. I'm sure this would never happen, but who knows.

Of course the worst case scenario is no more ME if Andromeda does very poorly. I don't see that happening.

Either way, its up to Bioware what they want to do. I'm sure they already have ideas of what they want do for the next game.

Never forget: BW is trying to proof that the franchise can stand on it's own with this game - without a trilogy to back it all up. If they can't do that, that could be very well the end of the ME universe for a quite while...

Wow...

Critics are influenced by their readers, and if sentiment for a company is bad among consumers, that tends to put negative pressure on review scores from critics.  For instance, plenty of games are rated highly on release, but if the initial reaction from gamers is negative, the later critic reviews tend to reflect that and drag the score down.  Critics already know gamers have gripes about Andromeda (1) because bad animations are something that can be seen in trailers and (2) because gamers have especially hated on Bioware since the ME3 ending debacle.  Critics saw the poor user reviews for both ME3 and DA:I and they're catering to those people.

The character of Geralt is SUPPOSED to be stoic. But he expresses so much more emotion in this scene than I've EVER seen from Bioware:


THAT, ladies and gentleman, is how to display grief in a video game after a main character dies. What Andromeda did when 
died was PATHETIC! And when Sara Ryder creepily smiles when talking to Addison Foster about it... yeesh.

CD project Red should develop a traditional RPG where you create your own character and shame Bioware for their laziness.

I already acknowledged that I know Geralt is supposed to be stoic and was written from day 1 to not really express much emotion(doesn't mean he doesn't have them, just that he doesn't show it as much).

Also, there isn't much in the way of facial emotion in that scene which is what I was getting at. The facial animations in the Witcher 3 aren't anything impressive. They get the job done sure, but that's about all that can be said about them.

Would it have been better if ME:A hadn't tried to display a wider range of emotion and went with the standard instead? Probably, at least based on what we have at launch.

That's kind of what I was poking fun at, though =P

What's sad is I think they might actually believe that. 

You said that Geralt was the one that was expressing emotion. He's not. The music and the camera angles are. The fact is The Witcher 3 does't have brilliant facial animations. They barely move throughout the game so we don't notice them. Bioware have actually tried to do different emotions on faces and the slip ups are much more visable due to this. The question is, is it better to try too much and not succeed or to not try at all?

People are complaining to bioware and they are listening. The argument or at least how I see it is whether or not the stiff animations and bugs will mean it'll be a bad game