If only EA/BioWare was as classy as Capcom

Evil EA again? They fixed eyes and worst cases of animation in two weeks after release. Tell me more how they didn't have time for it during five years.
If they released game one month later, we'd simply get normal eyes one month and two weeks later.

It will be praiseworthy if the product does get released eventually, and is indeed noteworthy. Until then, it is a PR wording to cover up missed deadlines, neither of which is a commendable business practice per se.

They definitely need to delay any Andromeda DLC.

Delay it for a year, delay it for ten.

Delay it until the sun goes nova and consumes us all.

Longer can only mean better.

If you're (not you specifically ) incompetent to do any better, then no.
Andromeda already had 5 years development cycle and this is the result.

Just to play devil's advocate for a moment.

ME:A was already delayed once, how long did the developer's need.

Also, just from an accounting perspective they really didn't have a choice. You get to make one budget a year, no changes allowed once it's submitted. They had the launch of ME:A in last years budget with I assume ended 3/31/2017. They delayed the 3rd quarter release, and pushed it back as far as they could to still get the launch week sales into the fiscal year. There was no way they were going to push into the next fiscal year, seeing that they had probably already made the budget for this year, and didn't include the launch.

You can't compare pushing back a DLC in the same fiscal year to pushing the release of a game across fiscal years.

Yeah, I was upset the game got released in the state it was in. Maybe the initial deadline didn't line up with where they were at the time, who knows. But they're a public company and they have responsibilities.

Um this has shades of GTA V all over it. Rockstar released several statements just like this for story dlc and 5 years later.... nada.
I'll take a company (Bioware) who actually listens and responds to fan concerns (extended cut, Citadel dlc) over this bs any day.

Just like how Street Fighter 5 was delayed for quality issues.

*cough*

Seems legit. They're willing to do so over free content (this particular case anyways, cause capcom really doesn't have a great reputation) when bioware can't even do it when people are willing to pay for it. Much better fan service.

Also (since I saw the post), long dev cycles don't always guarantee a good product, believe it or not, but there is such things as spending to much time on a game. I find 5 years for Andromeda is more than enough, it's more than most games these days even get.

Tell that to the Street Fighter Franchise!

I love ya Link, but like any other publisher that isn't Bioware, f*** em'. However, EA can learn from this... if they had a soul... if they understood a video game isn't just a f***ing video game.

It's an amalgamation of art, music, writing, scripting and controls that completely surpasses all other mediums. Why? Because once it's done right, you're not done after three hours in a theater, it's not over when the album (CD, MP3 Playlist, etc) is finished, it doesn't take a break every 12 minutes for commercials... you are interacting with the canvas. You are given the keys to be your action hero/heroine. For me, I rank the Mass Effect and Dragon Age experience (and Fallout and Brother in Arms) higher than any other medium because it's a collaboration of teams that put it all together. Bioware, set the standard. CDPR, arguably (even though I can't personally enjoy Geralt) took that mantle. Someone here on the forums mentioned once that it was like working with one arm behind your back with EA. Yet, they're still moving forward in a positive direction with Frostbite. I just want Bioware to stop taking shortcuts that are going to undermine their reputation. That is all. I don't care who is at Bioware now, they have the franchises and they have my loyalty, but I ain't no cash cow. 

I suspect something similar. Might explain why a lot of the narratives feel a little undercooked, especially on Elaaden. Also why some of the dialogue feels like first draft not a sixth draft.

You're other points, though, relate to the business environment. It's difficult to compare BioWare and EA, in a business sense, to CDPR, which has its own independent revenue stream and is not financialised, and Naughty Dog, which is a second party dev house nurtured by Sony itself (Sony also being a film studio...).

I think it says more about financiers and money men. While they fund the film industry and are clearly after a profit, film financiers also know they are funding artworks. Film producers might be total shits but they do seem to get some of that at least. The money markets seems to treat games more like software. IE: engineering, not art.

There's also a strange kind of cognitive dissonance in part of the tech industry where even some game devs might think what they are doing is engineering rather than art.

It's also worth noting economic trends in general. Mass Effect came out in 2007, just before the financial crisis hit. BioWare was bought by EA in 2009(?). Probably not a coincidence. Game development also more vulnerable to the gig economy/precariat issues. That does seem to have affected ME:A with all the outsourcing of animation. This deprofessionalising trend is effecting many sectors, but the low unionisation of tech and game devs makes them even more susceptible (in a similar way to SFX houses).

One other point, though. I personally think Mac Walters gets too much responsibility for the outcomes. A game's creative director is not equivalent to a film director, and in this case, it seems Mac Walters was brought back from the new IP to get ME:A back on track.

We don't know because the game industry is not as transparent as the film industry and we never find out what goes on behind the scenes. And after the ME3 ending controversy, GG, and NMS, I doubt we ever will.