EA, let me help you, here is how you save the Mass Effect franchise.

Exactly.

I mean, if you add up digital sales, that might change something, but nothing major. We definitely should compare Andromeda with the other games of the franchise. And we can clearly see it's not doing well. Assuming MEA did not have a smaller budget than either ME2 and ME3, which is an extremely safe assumption, it took more time than both combined to develop. Not to mention, ME2 had both critic and fan praise, ME3 had the critics and MEA has neither. 

By the way, I don't think they should drop Andromeda supoprt. Quite the contrary. They have to fix the game and I expect a few SP DLCs and MP DLCs. Something like DA2 with the former and DAI or better with the latter.

It's really weird how much you want this game to fail.

Really? Cause there's people on here who can attest to me wanting this game to succeed leading up to release. Also I don't want this game to fail. I want Mass Effect to continue. But I want it to continue the right way, and not stay the course that's damaging the brand name. 

No you don't. You have no way of knowing. At all. You are literally making stuff up.

I want to know where he got his Origin sale data from. EA would be interested too I suspect.

Yea, I have to agree, the retail copy statistic is not really helpful, when comparing sales between 2012 and 2017. Regardless of what you think of the game itself, there is no information there.

Are digital sales a thing for consoles?  Honestly, I don't know, my last console was a PS2.

I mean, digital sales could be significant for PC sales, of course.  But enough to greatly alter overall sales numbers?  

I'm saying I know that digital sales could significantly affect PC sales.  But I don't know if they can significantly affect XBox or PS4 sales.

Yes. I bought the trilogy (and several other games) as a digital download from PlaystationNetwork; I don't own it on disk.

Come to think of it - I own more games that I've downloaded on PS3 than disks overall.

The point is, it doesn't even matter that much if you are just comparing ME:A to ME3 and want to make the point that there were less ME:A copies sold. As I said before, comparing retail sales between 2012 and 2017 does not make much sense to me.

Now, I can't tell if ME:A is doing well or not, I don't think anyone outside of EA can. Personally, given all the hype there was but also all the negative perception during the trial, I think it could go either way. It's always important to remember that 99% of customers don't know anything about the game they are buying and don't really care. Very likely, marketing, big advertisements and maybe even a nice box art have more impact than all the bitching on the internet combined.

So even if we knew how well ME:A did, even then, it would only give us a minimal amount if information about the quality of the game. So I am not sure if there is even a point to be made in this discussion.

i still like physical copies, and wouldve bought one if i could.