No wonder Casey Hudson left. This game is missing them sc-fi feels.

TIM and Javik are good characters. The others you mentioned?  Harbinger is a much better character

My solution: I'm Catholic. I pray. Bioware isn't Christ. They're the best storytellers and avante-garde developers in all mediums. They're artists, musicians, writers, actors and programmers, payroll clerks, HR, PR and they're better for it. However, EA is meddled with horribly. HORRIBLY. No one from the old guard is there. STUPID. Competitors are fapping for their attention. However, new Bioware has their back against the wall and that's not fair. So, yeah... praying for comfort for the little guys who were stuck in finaling mode and getting 1.05 patch out in such a short time. Yeah, 1.05 created new problems, but remember they're cutting their teeth on Frostbite and I'll bet money DICE is not very helpful for specific ideas like that pip-boy knockoff. KEEP TO THE ORIGINAL VISION! 

Here you go boy wonder, on what you disparagingly refer to as the "so called ending debacle";


www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/04/01/so-what-did-mass-effect-andromeda-learn-from-the-mass-effect-3-ending-debacle/#7102bcf6728d


Address to fans about the endings and a promise to fix them by the co- founder of Bioware, Ray Muzyka;

blog.bioware.com/2012/03/21/4108/


And the real reason for calling it a debacle, the dropping of EA stock from 17.27 per share on ME3 release date 12 March 2012, to 14.70 six weeks later on 23 April, a 15% or so drop.  With a market cap of about 6 billion then, this means that EA lost near 1 billion following the release of ME3, when my guess is they were probable expecting a stock price rise following the release of the capstone in their AAA trilogy.


finance.yahoo.com/quote/EA/history?period1=1331535600&period2=1335164400&interval=1d&filter=history&frequency=1d

www.wikinvest.com/stock/ELECTRONIC_ARTS_(EA)/Data/Market_Capitalization/2012

With all of that, I am not surprised Casey left, but am amazed Mac stayed.

No, the tragedy was that the dynamic duo of Casey and Mac came up with the ME3 endings in the first place.

This tragedy was then compounded by placing one of them, Mac, in charge of Andromeda.

And we know now how that turned out.  Unsurprisingly.

The real talent, people like Chris L'Etoile and Drew Karpyshyn, left after ME2, which probably helps explain ME3.

So, EA didn't force him out or did he really just quit? I pictured an offer letter on his desk from Microsoft to help steer one of their franchises. If the blowup was over the ending, then why didn't EA allow more time to salvage it and shut down the bad kharma, press and reputation-killing ending? Are you saying that EA decided it was best to move on and decided to compromise the legacy than throw money at it? Money they would've recouped with much, much higher preorder sales. That's so short-sighted. Unbelievable. 

Yeah, I am not going to do that, nor watch the video. I still don't give a fuck about him. Don't get me wrong, I am glad he is enjoying his new job, but he doesn't need to come back just because some fans want him too.

You are right. I won't, but I am not worried about it because it won't effect me that much when I already enjoy MEA. My mind is already made up on the issue. I do wish you though the best of luck in finding a new or old game for you to enjoy.

People are funny, I find. When it was announced that George Lucas left Star Wars, everyone cheered. Said that Star Wars can now be great again. Then The Force Awakens finally dropped, and I can't help but laugh.


People are funny, I find. When it was announced that Casey Hudson left BioWAre, everyone cheered. Said that Mass Effect can now be great again. Then Andromeda finally dropped, and I can't help but laugh.

Isn't it easier to move onto something better? I mean, after The Force Awakens no way I was going to pay to see another Disney Wars movie again. Because that's how things get better or worse, you talk with your money. Meanwhile your money is also spent on better entertainment. Win, win.

Man, that video was cringe-worthy - "Speculations for everyone!". "Chris Wynn" and "Casey Hudson" are obviously prophets...or something. Mac and Casey were rightfully criticized for the ending of ME3 and for why Mac was retained, who knows? He appears to be a better salesman than a lead writer/project head but he's obviously a survivor.

If EA wanted to start dismantling BioWare, they could have done so right after Dragon Age 2 was poorly received and had it's "Exalted Marches" expansion cancelled. Instead, BioWare and EA committed to investing more resources into creating a more realized Dragon Age universe, even delaying it a year from 2013 to 2014 to allow time for developing different playable races. One drawback was they were in the transition period between console generations so some content had to left out or simplified to attempt to unify the playing experience between Xbox 360/PS3 and Xbox One/PS4 users. The result was the biggest release in BioWare's history. So, instead of BioWare going away, they have the Mass Effect IP, the Dragon Age IP, the TOR MMO in Austin that is still churning out content, a new Secret IP that is due in March 2018, and a a supposed Star Wars related release that may or may not be a re-imagining of KOTOR (depending on where you read). It will be interesting to see if EA is willing to give the Mass Effect universe the same commitment it gave the Dragon Age universe back in 2012 and it will be telling if the patch and story DLC content is minimal. In terms of Mass Effect Andromeda, it appears that it suffered from the same adjustment to Frostbite 3 that Inquisition suffered from as they were given a new "playground" and appeared a bit unsure how to utilize it efficiently. Even with its faults, I still enjoyed ME:A but there are a lot of "take-aways" outside of animation in regards to UI, story pacing and side content. I think the biggest indicator of the the respective Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises will be with the new releases as they will have had a few years to work with Frostbite 3, will have souped up PS4 Pro and XBox Scorpio 4K possibilities to work with without a new console on the horizon (possibly a PS competitor to Scorpio?), and should have a more defined narrative vision of where they want to take the franchises. ME:A still has the Quarian Ark, the "Benefactor", Ellen in Cryo, the Scourge, the Jardaan, the Kett Primus and its empire, and Meridian plus the remnant. Still a lot to unpack...