So what exactly did Mass Effect Andromeda's huge budget get spent on?

If it could ensure that the final product will be a game of the amazing quality and as spectacular as TW3, why not to move the studio to Poland then? Or even better, why not to gift the franchise all together to CD Projekt RED so to make sure customers won't end up with another Mess Effect on a future iteration?

After the fetch quest festival and pretty but empty world that was DAI and now with MEA and its horrid writing, unfinished animations, dull and forgettable characters and more of the same DAI fetch questing fest (x1,000), plus its glitches and bugs nightmare, it seems clear that Bioware is far from being up to the task of developing good +AAA. 

It's clear that something major happened during development that caused this game to lose staff and have so many downgrades.

I never said $80m, did I - nor have I every done so as far as I am aware.
I don't really give a toss about the witcher 3 or its budget, but it annoys me when people like you - who only seem to be on this forum to complain - bring it up as an example when it is clearly wrong to do so.

Is there any source for this 40 mi budget?

If the $40 million budget is accurate that's not all that much for a AAA game this size. It's on the low side, actually. Considering this franchise it should have been more, if that number is correct.

So... what you're saying, is that it's okay to say TW3 had a budget of $80m when it only had a budget of $32m?

So when people lie, go along with it?


How is it clearly "wrong" to correct this lie? GTFO.  The sole reason people bring up $80m for TW3 over and over and over again, is to put Andromeda in a better light, so it doesn't look like Bioware fucked up, bigly.


These facts regarding TW3's budget are literally the only truths we know about either game's production.  EA/Bioware has NOWHERE come out and said Andromeda cost $40m.  People are basing this off of ME3.  Prove me wrong.

That is why he's here... to troll.

Big corporation usually spends a lot on corporate bs.

40mil is a very small budget for an experienced studio but for the Montreal team, it is a rather huge budget because of their experience and profile. They are paid to learn on the job.

Oh, if it were a BioWARE's game, it would have been "atrociously bad combat, that is awful, and it's better to spend your time watching seniors' ping-pong match..." etc, etc, etc. That Polish Game can't do no wrong, obviously. You just have to get used to the way they do things, and change your attitude. By whatever reason the same courtesy is not extended to BioWARE.

One review gave the game 1/10 because they hate the gay and female romances. That's all you need to know about gamers reviewing MEA. Meanwhile Witcher has bad combat,  a blind protagonist and was as buggy as a Bethesda game on  PlayStation but it's considered one of the greatest games ever.

But the 98% completionism against your better judgment is not enjoying the game at your own pace. It is deliberately trying to do every mission, and a lot of those missions are a sprinkle of stuff to be done at whim. The ideal PT are the main missions, the companions stuff & Ryder's personal story, the planetray missions with the Vaults, and whatever sidequests that strike your fancy and are enjoyable. That's how I played it, and that's how I think the game is the best, and the main achievement of the game that it provides you with content to do it. It's very well balanced at the start, it will take you to all planets, and it has a very logical flow, and which lead to follow where.

It's not like Inquisition, where you have to look it up on the internet that you can skip 6/10 areas, and it's fine. There is nothing interesting there anyway.
It's not like DA2, which will make you run around in circles around the same neighborhood, hoping that you love Hawke enough to just get another story about Hawke
It's not like ME2, when after diligently recruiting a gigantic team and getting to know them, you will do one mission where you send them on submissions.
It's not like in ME3, where you'd sit through Shepard's Fade to Gray Dreams and follow the story through the checkpoints to the Mother of All Checkpoints.

It has it all, and nothing to an overwhelming degree. Well, at least I am guessing that for a true devotee of the OW, the sidemissions are about just as fairly light compared to something like Inquisition as the romantic component is light compared to the romances of the Origins' magnitude.

Each component is sufficient, but NOT over the top overwhelming everything ELSE.