We need cut EA and Bioware some slack

From the critics? I'd say not really. It has a 70 score on Metacritic, and that's fair for Andromeda. Some reviewers very nicely detailed the problems with Andromeda.

The fan reaction was huge because expectations were big and Bioware/EA already carrya lot of bad press. So it became a huge joke because of its problem which cannot be overlook but also because of that. 

I think the criticism was well deserved coming from someone who suffered from a large amount of bugs and technical issues that directly affected my enjoyment of the game. I can take a game that is finished and polished but has some bugs. However, this game clearly was not finished and not ready to be released. If I'm paying $60 or more for a game, I expect more.

As an accountant, I understand that they had this in their budget for last fiscal year, and come hell or high water they were going to release it last fiscal year. But any blowback they received from that decision was well deserved IMHO. I stopped pre-ordering DA games after DA2, so it's almost a certainty that future DLC and an eventual ME:A 2 I will take a wait and see approach on.

No they weren't. Games always have bugs and it's not true that they were ignored. A day one patch was released and most issues fixed within days. Might want to recheck what ignore means.

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Ummmm go look at the EA help thread and see how many game breaking, critical bugs have still not been addressed.  Or, like, even noted.

I think they've been given far too much slack tbh

I agree, but it's unlikely on this forum...at least from some.

I love Bioware and love Mass Effect, but the criticism was well deserved. I waited 5 years for a broken game. I have literally never played anything as buggy as MEA was at launch.

If ME3 is anything to go by, I'd say... oh, never.


Did we play the same game?


Yup. Voted with their wallets. And their mouths. Prepare for utterly crap story with nothing new, because hey, we don't seem to want the new!


You need to broaden your horizons.

Not counting the facial animations I really only had a couple of side quest bugs however on my second PT as a new game+ i have seen all kinds of bugs, glitches, crashes that put this game on par with Fallout New Vegas bug fest release. I could live with it if BW was better at putting out patches which they are certainly not. I heard they (or someone else) released some modding tools so if that is true then at least we can look forward to the modding community fixing a lot of things although I will believe that when I see it, BW has never been mod friendly.

Don't expect modders to fix anything. Modding is very limited. Check what mods are available for DAI and you will get an idea on what kind of mods you can expect for MEA. Also, expect your mods to break with every patch and to most likely not work with DLC.

EA nor Bioware deserve any slack.  Is MEA the buggiest game I have encountered?  Nope, but it's the buggiest ME game I have encountered.  Games that have been in production for 4+ yrs and release in the state MEA released are typically that way because of studio mismanagement.  There are always exceptions, but most times it's mismanagement.  A relative that has been working in the gaming industry for 16+ yrs as a software engineer is where I got that bit of information from.