How well is MEA selling?

Not totally related to the thread, but kinda is.

I know people hate EA because they're just suits and whatever, but you can't blame a game's lack of quality entirely on them. They had 5 years, 1 confirmed delay, and I remember people speculating about a second that was probably in there. At some point the game has to come out.

Like, if a band hit the recording studio wanted a year studio time to record the album, and then another year to produce, you couldn't really blame the label if they said "no fuck that. We're not paying for two years worth of studio time and people who work on it. You said you could do it in 6 months, max we'll give you is 9" is entirely reasonable.

The money you're given needs to be paid back at some point.

Point the fingers at Bioware internally. They were likely the ones who initially said "We can hit Q3 of the fiscal year for sure" that set the fiscal expectation, ok'd and directed a lot of the design decisions, literally lied about features, didn't say "No, we literally cannot do this" etc. I doubt it was EA that led to writers and producers leaving mid-production.