How well is MEA selling?

Yep.

If this game flops, EA's lesson isn't going to be ''well, we must give Bioware the time, funding and freedom to do the RPGs that they used to do!!''

It's going to be ''Why are we funding this RPG studio again, when we could make more money with more mobile games, free-to-plays, shooters and EA Sports? Be very, very careful what you wish for.

Not that I think Andromeda is going to significantly flop (albeit it probably won't sell above expectations) or that EA will jettison Bioware in the event it does. But executives and investors don't think like fans, they don't want games to be ''back to the glory days'' or whatever. They want money for their investment, and that's it.

Except when DA2 was a gigantic failure, as a direct result of EA's unreasonable demands, they doubled the budget and gave the DA team 5 years, instead of 18 months. EA does not treat Bioware like they've treated past developers like Maxis, Westwood etc. They have consistently given Bioware a second chance after a "bad" game. 

Except when DA2 was a gigantic failure, as a direct result of EA's unreasonable demands, they doubled the budget and gave the DA team 5 years, instead of 18 months. EA does not treat Bioware like they've treated past developers like Maxis, Westwood etc. They have consistently given Bioware a second chance after a "bad" game. 

Because their games aren't really failures in the end.

That, and the fact that BioWare is too valuable as a brand to let go at this point. 

Yes, and they created DAI, probably the most boring RPG they have ever created, besides Andromeda. The problem is EA itself. They refuse to pay enough money or allow enough freedom for BioWare to advance. It is no secret that the first ME was the game which BioWare finally started to evolve itself from its past design template, which had become completely stale. For the first time characters felt like real characters, not like info drones. But when EA took over the series started becoming more and more action and less RPG, resulting in Andromeda. Q

There are many changes that need to be done for BioWare to even compete with CD Projekt. Osbidian and PoE are generally boring old school rpgs, they show no advancement in writing, dialogue, etc. So, using them, is certainly not the way forward.

Maxis is still around, last I checked.

Maxis in Emeryville is not.

Might just see the same thing. BioWare is not going anywhere, but BioWare Montreal...

DA2 wasn't actually a failure sales wise and sold more than Origins. Actually, none of Bioware's games have been a flop in sales so far despite what the internet will tell you. Inquisition was their best selling game ever even.

Maxis is still around, last I checked.

Maxis in Emeryville is not.

Might just see the same thing. BioWare is not going anywhere, but BioWare Montreal...

This is a checklist game, but not an EA checklist, but a fan checklist.  Look at all the features in the game and those are things that people have been saying are needed in a Mass Effect game. People wanted large worlds to roam with a rover, a lot of interactions with your squad, fluid combat, crafting system, and more.

DA2 wasn't actually a failure sales wise and sold more than Origins.

Did you see who gave it negative reviews?

Seriously can we stop sucking the **** of reviewers who give a biased opinion?

It's funny to me how before this the internet was shouting how reviews don't matter, and now they're God's gift to man.

It would have a much higher metacritic review if "gamesbeat, and the daily dot"(never heard of her), hadn't given it a 50.

Every other review is 70-95, which means it would be sitting at a decent 80 average.

IGN gave MEA a 7,7 out of 10. When IGN gives your game anything less than 9 you know you're in trouble.