Bioware - awesome work on ME:A. Thank you

I like to say thanks to the Bioware employees for signing the collectors edition guidebook. Very cool. I recognize some of them. Barrett, Jos and a few others. Didn't count how many signatures I saw.

You should tweet them, or like them on Facebook, as that is where they like to get their feedback.

Most developers don't release AAA bugfests on this level in the first place... This is probably the 2nd buggiest AAA game released in the past decade (after AC: Unity).

There are definitely things I'd like see done differently. There are bugs, and glitches, and other issues. Anything other than the technical issues, however, like characters, story, quality of quests, environments, all of these are subjective. You didn't like the game. Fine. I have no issue with that. Saying that it's a half ass game and Bioware is taking a shit on gamers is, well...the gif says it all.

The Witcher 3 was, by all accounts, a worse mess technically when it first released. T-pose enemies that are being blasted in ME:A?



Remember the horse glitch?



How about this doozy?



Added to those: quite a few of the Witcher's side quests were boring as hell fetch or kill monster quests....oh wait, ME:A is the same in that regard too!

And yet, TW3 is highly praised as the bar upon which all other "open world" rpgs should be measured. I'm not here to bash on TW3. It's a great game. But it had as many birthing issues as ME:A does. But gets WAAAAAAAAY less hate.

I don't deny the issues with ME:A. Some pretty crappy writing at points (OT had it's share of "WTF?" writing too, though) definite glitches and quest bugs, and others. But I prefer ME:A over TW3, even though objectively I can see that TW3 is a very very good game in its own right, and rightly deserves the praise it gets. I just don't think that ME:A is nearly bad enough for the hate it gets.

and one of my.favorite quests in the game was broken on PS 4 to where it was unplayable. As far as i know it's still broken. That hasn't happened in MEA.

careful you might start a fight with a plucky Scotsman.

And they wonder why the official forums were axed.... and it is a huge reason I'm getting pissed. Manage to post something positive and you are mocked and dismissed. About to give up on this forum and the immaturity that followed after the official forums died.

There's really nothing disappointed fans hate hearing more than other fans actually liking the thing they were looking forward to.

To be honest this thread is a breath of fresh air.

Something I never understood is what people say that they hate how Devs these days release games and then patch them later. Some people have even accused MEA of being early access. I played plenty of buggy, glitchy games during previous gens and these issues never got fixed because there was no way to fix them.  At least these days a devs can listen to player feedback and realise a patch to fix things or implement changes to improve a players experience, back in the day we just had to suffer through it.