Andromeda cost 40 million, TW3 cost 32 million... What went wrong?

Bioware do not have the talent to develop a top tier RPG anymore, simple as that.

Dude, give it a fucking rest yourself.

Your opinion is just as valuable as everyone else's here.... but most other people's opinions don't have the voice of a total douche.

Think of it this way:

1) I've been a longtime fan of Team Bioware.  But lately, they've been signing a lot of fringe players, management is a mess, and ownership isn't spending money to put a good team on the field.

2) I still love Team Bioware, but I hate how awful the product has become for these reasons.

3) Now, unfortunately there's also fans of the team that don't care about the on-field product, and they keep buying season tickets, even though the team has no chance of making the playoffs. Sure, there's still some talent there, but overall, the team is nowhere near where it was during its glory years.

4) These same fans are pissed that I'm actually angry at the on-field product and would prefer I just go find another favorite team.

5) I'd rather voice my opinion and hope that enough of the fan-base uses their wallets to send management and ownership a message - fix your shit.



And you know what?  They're starting to listen.


"To everyone who has provided feedback...We are listening. Thanks for sticking with us. We are so lucky to have you."
- Michael Gamble - Producer for Andromeda

It wouldn't matter if MEA had a budget of 1 million. A bad game is a bad game. And we can all agree, without exception, that MEA is objectively a bad game with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. There is not a single person in existence or who will come to exist who finds any enjoyment in this game. Of this I am 100% certain.

Made me chuckle... they also can't do video game sex right.

Moreso a zero sum game if you ask me.

War...... War never changes.

This kind of bickering, on both sides, is below even for children in kindergarten, judging by either intelligence or emotional maturity.
There are far too many variables that contribute to cost of production for every title and money is only one thing that contributes to it's success...strong vision, team cooperation come ahead of it.

This has to be false. They were doing quote-unquote "Crazy-crunch" throughout the entire final stretch of 2014 and early 2015 because they were struggling to polishing the game and get all the assets to live up to the insane target render they had created. A disgruntled employee posted something to that effect on NeoGAF when people started pointing out the downgraded graphics and the officially released screenshots showed changing character models for Yennefer until very late.

Allegedly the game went through drastic overhauls in just the last 3 months. It is said that the delay from Feburary to May before it came out was when all the random towns, treasures and loot were added to the map since the open world was too empty and didn't playtest well. The ending of the game is also very rushed, which apparently nobody, not even fans pick up on, but what can you do?

Well... Destiny did cost 500 millions and it was meh at best....