Mass Effect: Andromeda – The Journey Ahead (The Real Big News)

Oh, btw - how's that ME3's score?

* Shrugs *

Sorry, I didn't want to hit a nerve.

Not really.  critics gave ME3 a 90, so I KNOW it's unreliable.

But I'm just pointing out that loudly complaining about some aspect of the game ruining their experience, no matter how trivial the fanbois seem to think it, predates MEA by a few years 

But such complaints only seem to be selectively okay. 

Yeah, but she was 1/2 the options. LOL!

Now male Ryder can romance 2 Asari, 2 human men, 1 Angara (sorta), 1 Turian, and 1 human woman (off the top of my head). Like I said, I'm not in the "We need Suvi" camp as I'm happy with Cora but it's a bit odd how underrepresented the human m/f relationships are.

This is rich!
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Ian Frazier addressed it on Twitter:


As for the update, I love it. Yes, this should mostly have been in the game but Bioware/EA was in no way obligated to fix the issues after the release beyond some PR bs.

Likely more butt and chest, less fade to black.

Or at least use a generic face to copy across the non-crew asari with different markings so that Lexi looks unique.

I don't think this makes much sense. The writers and cutscene designers can't work on most of the actual bugs. Of the things you can say you've set them to working on improving, what would you pick? A bunch of diffuse stuff, or a distinct feature with a specific fanbase? 

I don't think that this is the actual reason for them even mentioning it in their patch notes... this specific point - taken together with the "Adjustments to conversations with Hainly Abrams" point - makes it more then obvious that the bad media coverage they received is a much bigger motivation there then anything their fans have criticized. I mean, sure, people complained about the lacking m/m romances, but I didn't see nearly as many complain about Hainly Abrams... but you know who complained about that? Kotaku, and a couple of other outlets. Make no mistake, this quick patching action is not done "for the fans", it's done for the press... just as the big announcement of the announcement was, I mean, why have only one article about upcoming patches when you can have two, right?

Call me a cynic, but I'm married to a marketing major, and she laughed her ass of when she got wind of that...

@petroshenko: The EC was no change, becuase it didn't actually fix any of the complaints the "retakers" had - ie. representation of the decisions they took throughout the whole trilogy. They just elaborated on their flawed, last minute twist ending, nothing more...

On the second point: Straight sex sells, gay sex does not... well, talking about it in marketing does, but actually showing it doesn't. Just the world we life in... virtue signaling is a great way to get social browny points, but actually following through with it would require something corporate EA BioWare no longer has: Guts.

I'd say Bioware should have spent more money on Addison's tired face than Peebee's O-face.  Or Cora's butt.

But that's just me.