How well is MEA selling?

I will write a much more detailed critique on what worked and what not in my eyes when I will have the time. The loudest feedback and the one EA and Bioware now hear most is the wallet. For the record, the bugs and the animations didn't bother me much, there are issues here in the writing, the RPG mechanics, and the general direction of the game.

A bit of good news.

www.psu.com/news/32588/mass-effect-andromeda-sales-bioware-new

Considering more may have gone digital, this gives some hope that if these physical copies are selling this well, maybe digital even better.

Honestly, I like the game enough that I want the sequel. They released a 9 out of 10 game that is seriously undermined by bugs. If the bugs were not there, and the faces a bit more refined, this should have been a game that hit it out of the park. Some of the critics seems to have been on the rag or something, or just not in the mood for a space RPG. Yeah, the bugs suck, but I'm guessing most will be squashed and we will all wish they could have a 'do over' for the reviews.

And with all due respect, I think that behavior will just encourage folks who believe they can tell multi million dollar companies what to do or how to create their IP's. You don't have to like what is made. Or buy it. But fans don't have the right to tell creators what to create and then get mad and abusive when they don't. This stuff seems to happen more with Bioware than other companies.

Not exclusive to just bioware, there's various devs that grey told to do this or that. 

I agree on your point. If I'm going into game development I'm not going in with the mindset "oh boy! Can't wait for the people to tell me how I should make "MY" creation." There's a reason there are various genres and sub genres of games as well as multiple groups doing a specific genre. Bioware isn't the only one doing action RPGs, 343 isn't the only one doing fps, LoL isn't the only moba game. There's options for people to pick and choose what appeals to them, it's wrong for a dev to really make changes just cuz someone's upset in their direction, cuz if I were a dev, "go find a different game that appeals to you" would be my own response. Game development is about people using their creativity and their own work to make a project that can appeal to people, if it doesn't, then I guess they fail and move on. I can't stand so many game devs following trends or catering to people rather than just sticking to their own direction. I didn't approve of ME2 and 3 going to a linear corridor style over the openness ME1 had, but I never demanded bioware to fix it or harp on them about it, if it bothered me that much i can easily look at other games that do what I want, it's why there are options, which people don't understand. 

we can help "guide" or give advice but ultimately it's the devs decision to pick where they go, and rightfully so, they're the creator.

Please tell me you are also done with Bethesda and Zenimax games as well. They are extremely buggy too. People think game crashing bugs in Elder Scrolls and Fallout games are just "cute" now because they​ happen so often. Please tell me you are boycotting them.

Hah. Good. I hope this game makes tons of money and Bio makes more for me to scoop up.

Welcome to the age of "let's find any excuse to bitch."

It'll sell at least decent I imagine. Planet exploration is an attractive selling point to a lot of gamers. I don't see it breaking any records, but they'll probably turn a profit.

I think it will sell a lot. Ignore the bad reviews and hate train because there's a huge portion of players who stay off the forums.

I wish I could give you a thousand likes for this.  

Fans can say whatever the fuck they want, and back it up with their wallets. Which, in effect, DOES tell creators what to create.