I'm totaly agree with your post, except the faact that Andromeda sold millions of copies (we dont know how many millions 🙂) but you nailed it in the begining
@LocoShep wrote:
The funny thing is, most peeps who says it was a bad game probably only played it for an hour/didn't even play it!
A lot of people that are talking * about Andromeda like you said didn't give it a real chance and others didn't even played it. I saw a vidoe of MEA on YT and one of the most liked and commented comment (sorry bad english ahaha) was of some one who said "* this game is * never gonna buy it" and as i said one of the most liked and with comments under that agree with him. Now how can you say a game is * if you didn't even bought/played it? This people just saw some youtuber talking bad about it, some people on forums talking * and they just jumped on the hate train.
Then there are people who say "oh after a few hours in i stoped playing" We all can agree that the first part of the game when you do secondary quests running arround on a pretty much empty map that had so much missed potential with encounters and outposts can be a little borring especially when the quests aren't to interesting (not all but a lot are just to simple go there kill that) but when you start really getting into the main quests and discovering all the great things about the new species,and about your crew the game starts to be really great and enjoyable, except te main villain i really didn't like him.
Plus like you said it depends on the person who is playing it, i have a friend who really likes mmo and he enjoyed the first part with all the quests, but also said like we all know thay have wasted a lot of potential with outposts and maps in general.
I just hope EA/BioWare don't give to much attention to all the haters, critics to the game can only improve current Andromeda and the next one but straight up hate and sh..t talking don't help anyone. It is not a perfect game but Andromeda is really a good game and maybe it served as a lesson to EA/BioWare so they wont make the same mistakes not only with the next Mass Effect game but with all their games in general.
To finish, i got almost all i was looking from a ME game, story, characters and hundreds of hours of fun, just want a great DLC that will shut up a lot of haters arround.