Don't compare ME:A with Witcher 3

Please go read up on Duke Nukem Forever. You might change your mind on there being no point where it's publish or perish.

You get more time the longer you hold off on announcing it. But once you announce it, you put a clock on when people will care enough about the game to get the costs back out of it.

Without knowing how many times EA gave Bioware a deadline extension it's impossible to say who has the most blame for the faults not being gone at launch. It's probably a mixture. Bioware for not utilizing time well (took too long to realize the No Man's Sky route wasn't going to pan out) and EA for not giving enough time on the deadline extensions (underestimating how long it would take to fix bugs, didn't factor in the employees leaving, etc).

Using United isn't really a proper example as it is comparing an entertainment product you have a choice to buy or not buy to being forceably removed from a plane against your will along with getting badly injured.

EA have shown vast improvements in the last 6 months, Titanfall 2 has no Season pass and tons of free DLC.  Star Wars Battlefront 2 is shaping up to be the game that the first one should have been which shows they are listening to the fans (plus the Season Pas may be left out here as well).  EA has released tons of free games and DLC overthe past year but no one talks about it because they keep talking about what happenned 2-3 even 5 years ago.  Which enforces the negative trope despite the fact that they are doing some positive decisions.

The On the House Program they have has given out plenty of free games and DLC with no need to buy anything.

The Origin/EA Access program has actually turned into a rather affordable program to get access to a lot of games ($30 for the year (when I got it) is honestly a really good deal for the amount of content that is offered.  Hell many people are upset with Sony that they didn't agree to offer the program and other companies are looking into emulating it.

Hell look at things with the patches for Andromeda.  People are shitting on them because the patches weren't out 2 days ago but if they rush the patch out it could cause other problems which then people will just be "why the hell did you rush the patch?" despite the fact that is what the fans wanted them to do.


and people are being cautious with some decisions that CDPR and GOG have been making that past few months.  Many people are not happy with the GOG Galaxy Client as it may lead them to introduce a form of DRM (there were some instances were games could only be downloaded or updated in Galaxy, some people may have over-reacted but it is something to think about) this is not my thoughts on Galaxy as you do need some form of client for the Multi player components of some games.

I myself am seeing people treating CDPR the way they treated Valve.  they just looked the other way when Valve started doing some questionable decisions and attacked people who tried to criticize and now we have a company that open teaes there fan base with a game that will never see the light of day and an online store that is overflowing with poor quality games and asset flips for quick money and an economy based selling and reselling digital items like hats and cards and trying to turn player created content into a paid service that publishers can profit on while the fan's do all the work.


Also I don't follow people on social media as it is easy for someone to react without thinking, there have been many a time where someone hit that send button and then instantly regretted it.  we are human and humans can do stupid things, social media just unfairly amplifies that.

are you just insecure to comparisons between the two games?  Its perfectly valid to compare BioWare's games with other flagship series that offer similar experiences.

There is a difference between a game that took 15 years to finish and was remade  with multiple engine and a creator that went crazy over things, and take two did not own 3d realms like EA owns Bioware. So if EA wants the project to be finished they can go ahead and tell their employees to quick it up. They don,t have to sue 3d realms like take two had to do, these situations are completely different.  MEA did have a troubled production but not to that point. 


Andromeda would have just needed a few more months before it would have been significantly better, hell 2 weeks and a half after that and this controversy with facial animation would have been much less big if the patch 1.05 was included from the beginning. And Ea could have easily taked that time.

By the way announcment can be delayed, just like andromeda was at first announced for the end of 2016, it could have easily been delayed again, just like blizzard game did for years of pushing back the release date of their games. So no that,s certainly not a clock like you say it is.

And from everything I know, EA only gave them ONE delay for MEA, it would have just needed one more and the game would not have been overshadowed by controversy. That is 100% EA decision to release it in this state, they are the publisher and the owner.

Andromeda would have just needed a few more months before it would have been significantly better

And where did you see that EA actually offer bioware more time?

By the way EA's words does not mean shit, even if they say they did it, they are known liars and the words of liars are not to be trusted.

They said they were sorry for Sim city 2013, that they would not do this again, but what happen at the end of the same year 2013? oh yeah battlefield 4 happen and the release was a mess. Its not because a company say something that it is actually true.